Diamonds are vanilla items, dropped when Diamond Ore is mined. They can only be found at layer 1-16 in a map. They are considered extremely valuable as they have 1562 uses opposed to iron, which only has 251. Diamonds can also be obtained through Macerating Nether Diamond Ore. Doing this will give you 2 diamonds, as opposed to smelting it, which will only give one.
Industrial Diamond[]
Diamonds can be created using Compressed Coal Balls. More about this process can be found on the Industrial Diamond page
Recipes[]
Note: If you like to use Equivalent Exchange, compressing a coal chunk is a little less efficient; the ingredients add up to 8260 EMC when a diamond is only 8192 EMC.
Usage[]
Or when you have RedPower2 installed
Note: The Obsidian and Dark Matter can be switched around.
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