Agentred wrote:The problem is not diamonds simply running out. Long before that, a lot of the public realms will quickly become mined on and there will be less and less nice land. More and more times you will run into other people's mines. Keep in mind this will takes flipping ages.
Anyone who thinks that the diamonds are running out, is flat out stupid, or just extremely lazy. If you think about how big the map is, and how much is touched. You will realize that there is:
BSGSamuel wrote:There are 625x625 chunks on the map. Each chunk contains one diamond ore vein. Let's say the average vein contains 4 diamonds. 625x625x4 = 1 562 500 diamonds.
And pretty much every one as Fortune III picks, so at an average of say, 2.5 diamonds per ore. That's about 3,906,250 diamonds, and probably more still left out there.