04-17-2017, 11:33 PM
I have strip mined 6 stacks of diamonds in part of a day around a beacon with haste II where I take EVERYTHING away from y==5 to y==15. If I put in 8+ hours in and really went at it, I could see bringing in way more. In my case, diamonds are a side effect of wanting a large open underground base.
I figured out that if I mark each diamond find, then I know which chunks have not had a diamond vein. So I could avoid clearing the entire chunk once I found the diamond vein. Each chunk can have only 1 diamond vein or none if a cave or lava is generated where it was. Potentially this would be the fastest way (the least stone removal) to find all diamonds in chunks around a Haste II beacon (101 x 101 block area).
I figured out that if I mark each diamond find, then I know which chunks have not had a diamond vein. So I could avoid clearing the entire chunk once I found the diamond vein. Each chunk can have only 1 diamond vein or none if a cave or lava is generated where it was. Potentially this would be the fastest way (the least stone removal) to find all diamonds in chunks around a Haste II beacon (101 x 101 block area).
/Rowebot