I introduced my boyfriend to MineCraft about 2 months ago.
And of course, like most people, he got addicted, even though he thought the game would be really dumb at first.
We play together quite often on my friend's server.
I have a strip mine going (just like this: http://oi56.tinypic.com/2eekfa9.jpg) and lately I've been finding diamonds like crazy.
The other day, I found diamonds like 5 times in one of my tunnels.
Hope was getting a bit jealous that I kept finding so many diamonds. Poor guy. I should share my diamonds with him!
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I heard it works best when you mine at y=12 with a gold pick and wearing a vial of rocks around your neck.
Although it is best to use a pick enchanted with fortune so you get multiple diamonds per block.