Abstract
Mining has always been a vital part of the video game “Minecraft” in order to get many rare resources and materials that would otherwise be much harder to acquire (although not impossible). Minecraft version 1.14.4 will be used. In this paper, we will compare the two main mining techniques that yield effective returns on investments for time and resources spent on mining. These methods center around the fastest way to find diamonds specifically. As the variable for cost of these methods, we will use both time and blocks mined. This paper will mainly focus on time as the variable to be optimized. Diamonds spawn only so frequently, so the variable we will use for the yield of these methods is the blocks that the player can see, or the checked blocks. Variations in the tools used are also compared in this paper.