Materials & resources
Diamond
Diamond is a mineral used for high-tier tools and armor, enchanting tables, jukeboxes, diamond blocks and several specialist recipes. In survival, its main renewable-free source is mining diamond ore or deepslate diamond ore with an iron-tier or better pickaxe.
Diamond- Item ID
- minecraft:diamond
- Numeric ID
- 926
- Stack size
- 64
- Edition
- Java
- Recipe relationships
- 33
How to obtain Diamond
- Mine diamond ore or deepslate diamond ore with an iron, diamond or netherite pickaxe. The ore normally drops one diamond before Fortune is applied.
- Diamonds also appear in selected structure loot chests; exact loot chances depend on structure and version.
- Craft nine diamonds out of one block of diamond.
Crafting and processing relationships
- Block of Diamond Recipe — 2 current variants
- Bolt Armor Trim Recipe — 2 current variants
- Coast Armor Trim Recipe — 1 current variant
- Diamond Recipe — 6 current variants
- Diamond Axe Recipe — 2 current variants
- Diamond Boots Recipe — 2 current variants
- Diamond Chestplate Recipe — 2 current variants
- Diamond Helmet Recipe — 2 current variants
- Diamond Hoe Recipe — 2 current variants
- Diamond Leggings Recipe — 2 current variants
- Diamond Pickaxe Recipe — 2 current variants
- Diamond Shovel Recipe — 2 current variants
Uses, durability and repair
- Craft diamond tools, weapons and armor.
- Craft an enchanting table, jukebox, firework star or block of diamond.
- Use diamond equipment as the base when upgrading to netherite equipment at a smithing table.
A full inventory slot holds 64 items; 27 slots hold 1728, and a double chest holds 3456.
Command
/give @p minecraft:diamond 64/give- Gives an item to the selected target.
@p- The nearest player to where the command runs.
minecraft:diamond- The namespaced identifier for Diamond.
64- The number of items to give.
Component syntax can change between releases. This identifier is pinned to the current Java 26.2 registry used by this page.