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Diamond - Every Way to Craft, Find, and Use It in Minecraft

Diamond is a rare material item in Minecraft 1.21.4 with 3 known crafting recipes.

What is Diamond?

Diamond is a Minecraft Material with rarity Rare. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot and is craftable. It belongs to the Diamond material tier.

Namespaced identifier: minecraft:diamond. Command: /give @p minecraft:diamond 1.

How to obtain Diamond

Mined from blocks

Diamond crafting recipes

There are 1 unique ways to craft Diamond (after removing 2 duplicate entries):

Recipe 1 (shapeless)

Ingredients:

Yields 9 × Diamond per craft.

What Diamond is used to craft

Diamond is an ingredient in 18 other Minecraft recipes:

Smelting & cooking recipes for Diamond

Diamond can be produced by cooking or smelting through one of these paths:

  • Deepslate Diamond Ore in a Blast Furnace for 5s → 1× Diamond (1 XP)
  • Diamond Ore in a Blast Furnace for 5s → 1× Diamond (1 XP)
  • Deepslate Diamond Ore in a Furnace for 10s → 1× Diamond (1 XP)
  • Diamond Ore in a Furnace for 10s → 1× Diamond (1 XP)

Wiki-verified item facts

  • Renewable: No — finite in a given world
  • Stack size: 64

Sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Diamond (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.

Tags

  • Material
  • Rare
  • Craftable
  • Crafting Material
  • Diamond Tier

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:diamond
  • Category: Material
  • Rarity: Rare
  • Material tier: Diamond
  • Stack size: 64
  • Craftable: Yes
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:diamond 1

Overview

Diamond is a material item in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers its stack size, crafting recipe, and every recipe that uses it as an ingredient.

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. Gather the ingredients shown in the crafting recipe below and open a crafting table.
  2. Match the ingredient layout exactly - shaped recipes only work when items sit in the correct grid slots.
  3. Stock up early - this item is a dependency for 18 other recipes.

Common mistakes to avoid

  • Use /give @p minecraft:diamond 1 in a test world to check builds without farming it first.
  • Craft in batches at once to avoid re-opening the crafting menu repeatedly.

Pro tips

  • This item belongs to the Material category - related items in that category may share similar crafting paths.

Difficulty and time commitment

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Estimated time per run: 5-15 min

Frequently Asked Questions

How do I craft Diamond?

Diamond can be crafted at a crafting table. This page lists 3 known recipes - match the ingredient layout shown in the crafting grid exactly.

What is the stack size of Diamond?

Diamond stacks up to 64 per inventory slot, the standard maximum stack size.

What can I craft with Diamond?

Diamond is used as an ingredient in 18 other recipes. See the "Used In Crafting" section on this page for the full list.

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Diamond?

The namespaced ID is minecraft:diamond, usable in commands such as /give, /clear, and loot tables.

Variants

  • No same-family material variants were detected for Diamond in the current dataset.

Obtaining

  • Crafting: Diamond has 3 known recipe variants in this dataset.
  • Mining: Diamond appears in 2 block loot sources.

Uses

  • Crafting input profile: 1 Block of Diamond -> 9 Diamond.
  • Crafting uses: this item is consumed by 18 downstream recipes.

Combat and Stats

  • No direct combat profile is mapped for Diamond; treat it as utility, progression, or crafting support.

Repairing

  • Repairing data: durability and repair mappings are not present in the current source dataset for Diamond; verify repair behavior in-game before publishing hard numbers.

Enchantments

  • No dedicated enchantment compatibility categories are currently mapped for this item.

Data Values

  • Internal namespaced ID: minecraft:diamond.
  • Category classification: Material.
  • Stack size: 64.

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