Talk:Ores/@comment-70.181.44.228-20160326110950/@comment-73.2.209.119-20170718215610

Technically, you can get diamonds in Middle Earth without going to the Overworld or cheating/Creative-ing them in as of the latest update, but they are different from normal diamonds and cannot be used to craft armour/tools/weapons at all. In fact, I don't think they have any uses besides decoration and showing off, although I think (but I do NOT know) they will be used for Ring Forging when that is added, along with all the other gems added in this update.

And, honestly, diamond stuff doesn't even make sense when you think about the physics of diamond. Sure, it's the hardest substance out there (except possibly for the wurtzite-crystal form of boron nitride) but it also is much more brittle than most metals, and fractures much easier. Mithril, Galvorn, and even Iron would make much better chestplates than Diamond. And don't even get me started on the fact that Diamond in real life is NOT bright blue (usually, there are occasional blue diamonds). Seriously, the development team at Mojang could do with a little more adhesion to the laws of physics. Just a little.