User blog:TwistedAlpha/Spy's School of Wizardry and Hax

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All taken on Boardscraft: Snapshot. I personally haven't been keeping track of snapshot patch notes or any kind of patch notes since 1.4, but I'm pretty sure tens of thousands of lapis lazuli and diamond ores are NOT supposed to spawn in caves.

I say Spy is just a wizard haxor.

And this stuff isn't just one layer deep, by the way; it extends up to a couple dozen blocks into the walls, ground, roof, anything. And they just keep going, too, throughout the layers of the cave, far further than the screenshots describe.

And this isn't a set up; you can see it for yourself on Boardscraft Snapshot. Just get Snapshot 14w20b, then connect to boardscraft.org. (If these directions fail you, head the last paragraph.) When you spawn, you should be in a plains biome next to a desert; if you're not, I dunno where you are. Look around for a big ugly water fountain extending into the sky; if you don't see it, wander around the plains a little, sticking to the edge near the desert.

When you find the fountain, it should be near a house made out of the new stone blocks; Diorite, Andesite and Granite, and surrounded by cacti. Or, alternatively, there should be a big hole in the ground where someone's blown it all up. But either way, from there go in the direction the farm is at relative to the house, into the desert. Keep going, after a while you should find a mostly-buried Desert Temple right on the edge of a Savanna (I think).

Go into it, down into the treasure chamber. It's already been defused and looted, by the way. Down at the bottom there should be something of a little hole leading into a somewhat steep cave. Don't worry about getting down, it's all been laddered by the gentleman featured in the screenshots above; Defooster.

At the bottom of that little drop, you'll find your first instance of the wizardry: a huge vein of lapis. From here, you have a choice. Take the right path, you wake up in your bed and forget anything ever happened. Take the left path, and see how far the rabbithole goes.

From the left path, it branches again; straight ahead down into a somewhat precarious lava-flooded tunnel, or right through a couple of blocks of sandstone. They both lead to the same eventual destination, but there's more diamonds on the middle path. And more lava. From there, it doesn't matter where you go. It's diamonds and lapis galore.

Of course, it might all be gone by the time you're there. Some scrub might have gone through and blown it all up, or mined it all, or blocked off the paths, or disguised them or whatever else.

The coordinates for the positions are in my screenshots (F3 was on) and the rough coords for the temple where we got in are about X -80 and Z 259, so hopefully that helps if you're unable to find your way there using my directions or get stuck part way along.