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[–] vaelroth 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

  • Eyes at 12 (feet at 11, as you do currently).

  • Dig a main tunnel (in both directions from where you drop your shaft! if we're going efficient, we should maximize pathing as well!)

  • Dig branches off the main shaft every 4th block, leaving 3 blocks between each branch. I generally mine each branch between 100 and 150m, depends on how I'm feeling that day. If you're really anal, you can go 160m for each branch to cover 10 chunks worth of distance.

  • This will reveal almost every diamond cluster between layers 10-13. The only ones you miss will be the 1x1 and 1x2 clusters that might spawn in between the branches of your mine.