magustorrent Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I am running a tekkit server on my home computer. I have been mining all day (8 hrs) and have not seen any diamonds. I am wondering if there is a mod or setting in the current tekkit build (not classic, not lite, plain ol tekkit), that could result in them not showing up. Thank you for your help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weirleader Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I assume you're mining between layers 5 and 12, yes? Sometimes it just amounts to a lot of bad luck. There's no diamond setting that I know of that should be causing problems. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
magustorrent Posted January 15, 2014 Author Share Posted January 15, 2014 I've been farming on layer about 2hrs between 5 and 12 and the the rest of the time on 13 because a friend told me the percentage was higher. but I'll move back to between the two and hopefully come up with something, thank you =D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushinator Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I had the same problem on my just recently started server. I mined on levels 8 and 10 which apparently have the "highest concentration" and it still took a few hours. I had to go into MC-edit and turn on view-ores-only mode just to confirm that there were even diamonds in the world. Main point: It's just bad luck. If you've played tekkit classic recently, you may be expecting diamonds to be more plentiful because diamonds in tekkit classic came very, very easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teraku Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 I had the same problem here, I had to use WorldEdit's count command to make sure Diamond Ore even spawned. It does, we were just having bad luck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phazeonphoenix Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Diamonds can potentially spawn all the way down to Y:0. The only reason most say y:5 - y:12 is because bedrock starts randomly appearing at depths lower than y:5. But tekkit has flat bedrock at Y:0... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neowulf Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Diamonds spawn from levels 1-16. The 5-12 suggestion comes from not only the random bedrock, but also the fact that's 50% of the spawn range and all completely within pick range from a flat floor. The average distribution is 2 ores per chunk I believe, but that means across the whole world, not that every chunk will have 2 diamonds. I personally dig a shaft straight down and clean out the entire 1-16 layer range, cobble and all. And sometimes I do find my standard 48x48 (3x3 chunks)artificial cavern is completely devoid of diamonds and I have to branch out into more chunks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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