Why Don't Diamonds Feel Special Anymore?

Update: as of 25th January, Mojang added a new use for diamonds in armor trimming! Corrections: - Iron has existed as a trade for as early as 1.3, however it existed as 8 - 9 irons for 1 emerald. It was update 1.14 which reduced it to 4 irons, so technically they still made iron really good for trading in 1.14. - As pointed out by "Hmmm ok" in the comments, diamonds were also added into Ancient Cities in 1.19, I tend to forget 1.19 existed sometimes. - Players learning how to strip mine, y = 11/12 and getting better at finding diamonds also reduced their specialty. Forgot to mention this by the end. - "Iron farms were created to keep up with the DEMANDS" not the supply. I got them mixed up 🥴 - Yes, Mending affected diamonds too, Mending played a huge part in reducing the impact of diamonds since it removed any need to get more diamonds now that your equipment were permanent. A future video will be made commenting on that!

As a minecraft veteran, finding diamonds still feels like it is a reward, finding netherite feels like a chore...

When Minecraft first started, finding diamonds meant you were a professional. Now, finding diamonds means you are just getting started

The one thing that softens the netherite blow is the fact that you still need diamond gear to actually put netherite to use, the diamond gear isn't outright circumvented with the new ore.

One time in...1.16? My brother invited me onto a server with his kids. I saw their base, and its basement. About four chunks or so excavated down to the 30s. Using stone tools. Because iron was too rare. And they had a pretty terrible iron farm running. ... I built a villager trading farm and destroyed that server's economy inside a week. I learned a lot about the value of NOT building infrastructure.

I remember when gold was absolutely hated, but that was when people ignored the fact that it could be used for things other than tools and armor, and now it is very valuable for golden apples.

Remember when everyone viewed diamonds as a sign of wealth and power? Me too. Now it's just a memory in the distant past...

No new diamond recipes was a terrible negligence from Mojang, but I think the worst part was adding diamond armor and tools to villagers' trades. You don't need to go mining to make diamond stuff, just cure a bunch of zombie villagers until you can just trade them as if nothing with no limits. The same goes for enchantments from trades and how woodland mansions went worthless the trip since you can get tons of undying totems from raids. All of this is destroying what Minecraft means.

I remember when I was really young, I found diamonds in a Minecraft world of mine and flexed about it the next day. No matter how the sands of time wither their importance, they will always have a special place in my heard that neither iron, gold or netherite could ever hope to replicate.

I think something you missed is the addition of mending. Diamonds went from something you needed to repeatedly mine for to stop your gear breaking, to something you only needed to get once and let mending take care of your gear

Who else still finds diamonds valuable and gets a mini heart attack whenever they see them

I think the main reason why diamonds started to fall off was because they were never given any new uses up until smithing templates. For a long time now, they were just used for tools, enchant tables, and jukeboxes.

even if diamonds lose their value which it shouldn't, you would never replace the thrill of finding diamonds accidentally. It just feels good finding them. Veteran players (such as myself) would love this resource in the start that this would still have the thrill of finding diamonds even in later updates.

I remember playing the 30 minutes demo version of Minecraft just to repeatedly dig down to find diamonds before the 30 minutes ended.

as a veteran minecraft player, since the beginning till now, i'm so pleased and satisfied every time i get diamonds, because they are like such a treasure for me, even in these newer versions they've stayed in my mind as something of value.

It’s wild to watch this because I recently went from playing the latest version (1.20) to playing on a 1.8 server and suddenly the rush of finding diamonds came right back to me. It really does feel dependent on the version, and it was made expressly clear to me the difference when I hopped from a superflat world where I easily traded for all my diamond gear to an anarchy server where diamonds are a resource you had to protect at all costs

Playing minecreft recently I definately feel like the villagers update completely trivialized finding resources. The ideal strategy for a hardcore worlds is to find a village as soon as possible and trade for all your equipment. You don't need to even step foot in a cave or dig down until your are searicng for an end portal.

Even in the new versions I still feel that rush of dopamine when finding diamonds, more than netherite, they still hold great value to me as a player since 2012

they need to add more uses for diamond tbh, i was actually shocked to find that we havent gotten a single use for diamond since they were added

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