Lecture Notes: World Record Diamond Mining in Minecraft

Introduction

• Speaker's goal: Beat the world record for most diamonds in Minecraft in a month.
• Strategy: Use machines instead of traditional mining.

Phase 1: Building the Machines

• Plan:
  • Use machines to mine diamonds instead of manual mining.
  • Aim to build 50 machines that can mine two stacks of diamonds per hour each.
• Material Collection:
  • Spent hours gathering materials: redstone, observers, pistons.
  • Additional challenge: Collect 150 pieces of ancient debris.

Machine Assembly

• Initial Setup:
  • Use TNT to clear space for machines.
  • Built 50 machines, worried about their functionality when scaled up.
• Operational Test:
  • Faced issues with placing a sticky piston incorrectly which almost ruined the machine.
  • Corrected the mistake and machines began working as intended.

Phase 2: Diamond Mining

• Initial Success:
  • Machines successfully mined diamonds, often yielding one to three diamond veins per operation.
  • Encountered a new problem with gravel potentially damaging machines.

Challenges

• Technical Issues:
  • PC blue screen caused all minecarts to fall off machines, needed fixing.
  • After 5 hours of mining, collected 1848 diamonds, realizing it wasn't fast enough.

Expansion

• More Machines:
  • Increased number to 70 machines, then considered building vertically.
  • Created a beacon to aid in manual clearing without TNT to avoid damage.
• Materials and Construction:
  • Extensive resource gathering continued over several days.
  • Building second layer of 70 machines encountered mistakes causing explosions.

Phase 3: Advanced Machine

• Research and Development:
  • Built 'The Big Machine 2000', a fully automatic device with 200 TNT dupers.
  • Required thousands of materials, took days to gather and assemble.

Operational Difficulties

• Machine Malfunctions:
  • Various parts of the machine kept breaking, requiring constant repairs.
  • Eventually faced major breakdowns and needed to rebuild entire sections.

Conclusion

• Outcome:
  • Decided to mine the remaining diamonds manually.
  • Successfully set a new world record after consistent manual effort over 1.5 months.
• Credits:
  • Inspired by Wombo's previous record attempt.