The Ultimate Minecraft 1.20 Mining Guide | How to Mine Diamonds, Sculk Mining, Moss Mining & More!

First ever video in 4K and the editing is a bit different, would love to hear your thoughts on it :)

I don’t know if a list like this has been done yet: Y Levels to mine at: Coal: 136, 95 Copper: 48 Iron: 15, 232 Lapis: -1 Gold: -16 Emerald: 236 Redstone: -57, -58 Diamond: -57, -58 Overall: 8, -57, -58 Strip mining tunnels: 2 or 5 blocks apart, 200x100 blocks Bring a Silk Touch Pickaxe! Moss mining: Place moss in a cave, bonemeal it so it spreads, and mine the moss Deep dark mining: Remove skulk shreikers and mine the skulk Mining under an ancient city: Set spawn point and make an escape route Fossil mining: Using Chunkbase, find fossils and mine the ores Spawn proofing in cave: Place torches 12 blocks apart Spawn proofing in strip mine: Place torches 24 blocks apart

I still remember mining diamond at level 11 and 12, time goes fast😭

17:30 a great tip with torches in your strip mine! ALWAYS place the torches on the right side. This makes your tunnels mutch more easy to navigate. Because if the torches are on the right you are going foreward and if the torches are on the left side your going back to your exit. This helps me so mutch because I always tend to stripmine in 1 long long long line so I end up running like 3k blocks back. Before I used this trick I could get distracted maybe turned around or something and I have ended up running the wrong way. Now I always place them right and when I go back I just have to keep the torches left. And its looks better!

I recently started playing Minecraft again, and your videos have been very informative and helpful. Thanks for the work you put into this

The best method that worked for me by far was water cave diving, I would bring with me a magma block or a door (For an air source). Often water caving will lead to huge caves that are filled with diamonds. I would also bring with me many potions of night vision. This is extremely helpful. Yes more mobs spawn but they are easy to avoid and if you're in a huge cave, it is easier to spot diamond blocks with the night vision than with torches.

Love the way how you made the videos so informative and interesting, the guides are unbeatable. Also ending the video with dying in game never gets boring

Mining Diamonds at -54 (instead of deeper) helps with the annoying lava lakes. This is the exact surface level of 99.9% of lava lakes so just bring a water bucket and continue as if there was no lake there at all.

thank you for referring to bedrock and the nuances with java in your videos. Most creators seem to play java despite the player numbers for bedrock being higher, and few will detail the differences. as a (now) bedrock player, this allows me to enjoy your videos and despite playing since beta you're always teaching me something new. As for the 4k,it was a nice step up, especially on the wider shots 👍

12:59 I'd suggest bringing some magma blocks as you can stand on those for air, and they allow you to mine as if on land when you're in the bubble column. :] it's how i survive deep underwater caves since it's not easy going back up for air and in bedrock doors are waterlogged lol

Ok let’s be honest. Who’s gonna go mining for copper? 😂😂😂

Just started playing Java when the 1.19 update released. Needed this!

Silk touch mining is great, and for things like Lapis, I'd highly recommend it. However, in other situations, Fortune may still be viable to bring in caves. Usually what I will do is mine up as many ores as I can and as soon as I get more than 1 stack of ore, I compress it into block form. This works with every single material type in the game except for quartz, which you wouldn't get in the overworld, obviously. In general, it may be more efficient than holding onto the silk-touched ores. For example, 64 diamond ore holds at minimum 64 diamonds, and with fortune 3 giving maximum of 4 each, thats 256 diamonds effectively held in 1 slot. However, diamond blocks hold 9 each, which is 576 potential diamonds per slot. Of course, you gotta do the compression manually, but early game this is ideal. Just food for thought. Great video!

Miner's poem, by Steve maybe: "If you are digging underground, 8 is where all ores are found. If only coal is what you seek, venture to a mountain peak: 136 above the deep, or 95 where coal you'll reap. 48 for copper's luster, 16 is sure to iron usher, and from the caves into the cliffs, 2-3-2 to get your fix. And now with you a shield to hold, un-16 to find some gold. Un-1 is where lapis hails, and to 236 to make some sales. Diamonds are the final aim; redstone too if you've a brain. If one of these you wish to claim: un-58, they're both the same."

This helped out a ton surprisingly, normally when I click on these types of videos I either get distracted cause of adhd during the vid or when doing what I saw in game. Didn't happen once during this entire video and learned a ton. I recently went to 1.19 after being 'stuck' in the 1.16 update so I didn't know much about the new things and as a result of jumping a few updates there was a ton of new things thrown at me. I will definitely check out other videos of yours.

Thank you so much. I was about to search for a video exactly like this, and you delivered with a notification in my bell. Thanks so much for the detailed video, I cant wait to go find way more gold and diamonds

The only problem I have with 1.19 is that they made mining into a form of pain, because of the new cave generation. Like the cave is so big that any ore on the roof/wall is a kick in the nuts to get. Then since there's more stone to get through, it'll be difficult to get a nice mix of most ores.

That's actually a neat touch with the coal and diamonds. Under immense pressure for years the carbon from coal can turn it into a diamond. So the fact you can get both from diamonds is nice

Thanks very much man. I’ve had so many struggles trying to mine for diamonds and I had no clue about the chunk finder. This was a very big help

once again phenomenal guides, esp coal. ever since caves and cliffs coal has been a rare resource to me while caving, even more so in 1.19 i knew it spawned higher but having the exact levels is so helpful. charcoal is great but I'd really rather use my wood for.. idk.. building? also tip to others: get coal before you go mining. grab every bit of coal you see if you're planning to go to lower y levels, maybe a couple blocks at least. i cannot count how many times ive had to stop an expedition bc i had no more torches/fuel and ran out of logs for charcoal lol