Diamonds have a .085% chance to appear in a group of 1-9 ore blocks from 16 down.
My preferred strategy to finding them is to just wander on the surface looking for caves and to just head straight down into them looking for areas at or under that limit, then being vigilant. Having a Fortune 3 pick helps as well.
Every game has pixels. Minecraft just uses less pixels per square inch so that your computer can actually handle it.
correction, minecraft uses more pixels per square inch, that's why you can see each and every pixel
fail, you were right less not more per square inch
No, you're both still wrong. PPI (pixels per square inch) is used to measure monitor resolution, not detail of textures. No matter how detailed the texture being used is, the PPI of it will be whatever your monitor's is.
The fact Minecraft has completely ridiculous hardware requirements, compared to what it actually looks like, is not a good thing. Nor does it have anything to do with the randomly generated landscape.
I'm not sure if you're saying that its ridiculous because it requires a lot, or the opposite. A 6 year old processor, a 8 year old graphics card, and a tiny bit of RAM (the game will only use 512 MB by default anyways) seems pretty low end.
It has to do with the game not being coded all that well.
You really have zero basis for saying this. Notch being "indie" doesn't mean he was a random guy who decided to make a game. He has been coding since he was eight and has worked professionally in the field for years. Not to mention the game has been refined and optimized for 3 years now to make it run as well as it does. If you can point out a single place in the engine where you can make a major improvement in the game's speed, I'd like to see it.
The fact Minecraft has completely ridiculous hardware requirements, compared to what it actually looks like, is not a good thing. Nor does it have anything to do with the randomly generated landscape.
Well Java is a processor and RAM intensive ******* at times. The only reason it runs on the xbox is because it was rewritten from the ground up, probably in some variation of C.
Tunnel mining like that isn't very fast. It's a lot faster to just find caves and explore downwards, than once you're at >17 keep a sharp eye out for diamonds.
I said its the fastest safe way it is faster to go in caves but it's dangerous unless you play on peaceful which you may as well just go creative.
Yup, if you want to find a fast way to find diamonds, just find a cave. Or, if you're lucky, one of those giant chasms. Either one works. Just head down as low as you can and search. If you're lucky, you can dig and find one, but for me, I always seem to find them near lava pools.
I personally think that digging for them is actually sort of a waste of time, resources, and inventory space. It just takes too much effort on my part. :P
i have yet to find a single diamond in a cave, keep in mind i'm playing the xbox version, and my brother has only found 2 diamond ore and i haven't found any
i have yet to find a single diamond in a cave, keep in mind i'm playing the xbox version, and my brother has only found 2 diamond ore and i haven't found any
Perhaps you're just bad at looking. I've never had any problems whatsoever finding diamond. Maybe the Xbox version is different but I doubt it. (Why would you play it on the Xbox anyways...)
we have two computers, one is windows XP, which isn't compatable with minecraft and with the windows 7 we are forbidden to put games on it, especially one as big and consuming as minecraft
minecraft isn't a very consuming game is it? I thought the rather simplified graphics and only so many chucks loaded at one time helped in perform well, i mean i have minecraft on my flash drive.
we are forbidden to put games on it, especially one as big and consuming as minecraft
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*facepalm*
Minecraft takes up practically no space...A game like CoD probably takes up over 20x the amount Minecraft does. Actually, a whole lot more than 20x more. RAM is not hard drive space >.<
Seriously, Microsoft Office takes more space multiple times over. That's like saying you have a limit of 10 gallons of water a day, taking a shower every day and then freaking out when someone spills a teaspoon.
RAM is not hard drive space; it relies on a different 'space' than what's in your hard drive (I think)
RAM is active memory basically, it's how much your computer is doing at once. Hard Drive space is, well, how much space your computer requires to store that particular thing.
Even if it doesn't take up much space, it still uses a lot of RAM, probably more than a number of games.
Yes, but that wasn't the reason he gave for not being allowed to install it, nor would it be a valid reason anyways.
This is what he said, "we are forbidden to put games on it, especially one as big and consuming as minecraft" which would mean they are disallowing him to have a game that takes up less space than a medium sized document with a few pictures.
Oh, and, Minecraft -still- uses a lot less RAM than most games today.
