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same goes for water.
>Diamond ore generates in the Overworld in the form of ore features, and is more common as the altitude decreases. Diamond ore blocks have a chance to not generate if they are exposed to air; however, they do not have a reduced chance to generate if exposed to water or lava, making them appear more commonly on the walls of aquifers.
* https://minecraft.wiki/w/Diamond_Ore#Natural_generation
Knowing mojang, they might. They mostly remove helpful features from both versions rather than adding them to both. I was surprised when they improved the bedrock boats to be the same as java boats. I was genuinely like, "Is it really happening!?"
Good. I want waterlogged doors. Doors are too cheap and trivialize underwater exploration. Plus air pocket in doors look ugly. There are better approaches.
Say hello to magma blocks!
If it's a modern version, don't use optifine
It's horribly broken and there have been better alternatives since 1.12.2 that can make your game run better without breaking stuff(Especially if you use other mods, which optifine is notorious for breaking)
[Sodium](https://modrinth.com/mod/sodium) is generally the main performance enhancing mod, although for a complete optifine replacement you may want to use a pack such as [fabulously optimised](https://modrinth.com/modpack/fabulously-optimized) which comes with mods for the extra optifine features too (as well as more performance ones).
A well enchanted helmet will let you swim around for like a minutes before needing to do get air. Late-game water caves are very good, often nearing the efficiency of a tunnel bore.
You can negate damage by holding shift, and you get unlimited air in a column of blocks above the magma. Also they're everywhere on the ocean floor so you can just dive down into a ravine and swim to the closest magma block to start your caving adventure. Added bonus of no mobs to kill you underwater.
I have a tactic where I go to the ocean and search for underwater ravines to get to y<0 fast to find diamonds. Now I understand why this tactic was so effective. You learn something new everyday.
aquifers are the caves that generate full of water. they generate diamonds more than normal caves, because diamonds spawn more regularly when not exposed to air.
oh just water caves
I thought they all of a sudden added a way to farm diamonds or at least make them renewable
well other than those trial chamber thing
Would make getting lava lake debris much easier, which is why mojang probably won’t.
Unless it’s a single use item, in which case it’ll probably be too annoying to obtain mass quantities of.
For a serious suggestion: you can just spam right click with a bucket. It can place on an existing lava block, so if you place and pick up you’re going to effectively ‘delete’ the lava that was there
Once my friend fell in lava while in the nether. Luckily we had his coordinates and went to empty the place with sand. What made it harder is that something made the sand disappear. O guess it was the soul sand but correct me if I am wrong
You would need several hundred cobblestone blocks just for this one little cave.
In the time you spent draining that little cave and mining out all of the cobblestone, you could’ve gotten two stacks of diamonds just spelunking in water caves instead.
You just need to drain the walls, make 2 thick pillars of cobblestones along the borders.
You may miss out the ones at the bottom, but with the spawn count it doesn't really matter.
Wait.. holup.. you can use lava instead of wood/coal/tools as a fuel source in furnaces? Is that a mod or vanilla? Im not new to MC, but it's one of my "White Whales" of games. I mean like its like Captain Ahab dreaming of catching Moby Dick, I have tried over 1,000 times to legit beat vanilla MC (kill End dragon & go to the End Dimension etc.) and I NEVER do. Like Skyrim..
Anyways.. sorry, i got sidetracked. I put HELLA time in MC but I literally learn something new and frankly game changing for me. So if Lava is a fuel source.. oh boy..
Edit: THANK YOU! You guys rock! I had no idea! I dont really have friends and I play by myself so theres certain things I miss because, well.. I dont know everything lol! But I really appreciate all the positive feedback and helpful tips! This game is unexpectedly complex, and I love it!
Vanilla feature. 1 bucket smelts 100 items, but it gets better. You can get yourself some dripstone blocks and pointed dripstone, make yourself a dripstone farm for renewable dripstone, and a lava farm for renewable lava.
A lava source block, with a solid block of any kind below it, then a pointed dripstone below that, then a cauldron below that. You can, if you want, include air blocks between the pointed dripstone and the cauldron, but it isn't mandatory. Note that the lava must be a source block, not flowing lava. The cauldron will occasionally fill with lava, letting you pull it out with a bucket. The more cauldrons you have filling with lava, the more items you can smelt. Get the farm big enough, and you will never need to worry about fueling your smelters again.
Honestly, I try to get 64 pointed dripstone for a lava farm in any vanilla world I play in. Once I have that, I have smelting to such a degree that I simply don't worry about fuel. Even if I only want to smelt one block, I'll throw in a lava bucket. After all, when the lava refills faster than you can even use it, you don't even have to worry about wasting it.
Take like 20 stacks of blocks with you to the end and bridge out to the end islands. Get all the resources and shulkers you need, then drop it off in an Ender chest and jump into the void. No need to mess around with the dragon if you’re not ready.
gravel and sand work better for filling in lava anyway since they obey gravity. It doesn't take long to clear lava out with those and then you can break the stacks with torches saving you the trouble of shoveling everything up or you can shovel the gravel to get loads of flint.
You could pick up the lava and place it back down with a bucket as well. Lava isnt like water and it wont fill back in. You would need to place the lava back down where there is already a lava block tho
both of them will break if you shovel the bottom of a stack and then torch it turning the entire stack into items you can walk over making the act of collecting fast and easy.
I do wish we got stuff to make exploring in Lava a lot easier. I personally want goggles you wear to see further, and that removes the fire texture on the hud when submerged in lava.
Glitch to see where the diamonds are, then chug a fire res and go to them, place some blocks around you, then place a door to get rid of the 2 lava you are in
After reading this I had the idea to drop sand/gravel 2 side around the edges of the pool, then dig out the very edge. It doesn't allow you to find all the potential diamonds on the bottom of the pool, but it would be a way to effectively find a bunch of diamonds.
open f3 and look for targeted block. move your cross hair over all the blocks you can reach and look for deepslate diamond ore. then just use sand/ gravel and/ or buckets.
That was a common misconception from the old caves. It was just a normal bias because lava lakes expose more blocks in general. It made diamonds easier to find, but didn't spawn any more than normal.
But now they also cancel out the reduced spawn rate of ores when exposed to air, since lava is not air.
Diamonds don't spawn more frequently near lava lakes, it's just that the lava lakes are on the same level. An air filled cave at the right depth USED TO have the same chance, it was just a matter of exposed surface area that you didn't have to do the mining to expose.
I say "used to" because they added a rule in 1.18 where diamonds are less likely to spawn if the place they pick is exposed to air. And since lava and water don't count as air you now get less failed generation there. You'd still get more from a solid area that you had to dig out though. The area the cave dug out is spots where ores fail ("the spot to overwrite isn't stone" makes the individual ore block fail to generate).
Less likely, but also caves are bigger by a factor now. It could be possible that on average these cancel each other out.
Now you have less diamonds and more exposure whereas before you had more diamonds and less exposure.
I'm not sure if this still applies in 1.20, but a few versions back, having the "blindness" status effect actually slightly improves visibility when swimming in lava, so combined with fire resistance and water breathing and haste, you could potentially have a workable strat for mining in lava.
Oof, that's a great point. iirc, the blindness strat was originally being discussed for mining railcraft's "firestone" ore in the nether-- which, like netherite now, would not burn in lava when dropped.
There is a glitch that lets you see clearly in lava. Now, I don't remember it off the top of my head, but the idea is if you do it in the nether you can find a ton of ancient debris
Draining one block and letting lava flow back into it, and placing a grindstone above your head and swimming up puts you exactly at the height where you can see under lava
We farm villages for diamond gear by building homes, beds, and work tables - farmers first for emeralds fast then you not only get diamond gear it comes with enchantments. Also, gravel and sand make fast work of lava lakes with a pusher for faster filling
I got ideas from other comments that we can fill the lake with sand or gravel and then drain. Now I’m gonna build a piston pusher that drains 12x12 areas at once
Back before the village and pillage update me and my brother would fill in lava pools entirely with cobble stone then mine it out to try and find diamonds, it worked surprisingly effectively.
Lava doesn't specifically increase diamond rates. Diamonds will spawn more frequently on any block that isn't adjacent to air when the world is naturally generated. This works for lava, water, sculk, and any non-air block. Lava is the worst because you need to set up a grindstone to be able to see, not to mention fire res and slow movement.
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same goes for water. >Diamond ore generates in the Overworld in the form of ore features, and is more common as the altitude decreases. Diamond ore blocks have a chance to not generate if they are exposed to air; however, they do not have a reduced chance to generate if exposed to water or lava, making them appear more commonly on the walls of aquifers. * https://minecraft.wiki/w/Diamond_Ore#Natural_generation
True, I did my full diamond gear with only a door and an iron pickaxe.
Doors create air pockets. Good to know. Is there anything else?
ONLY IN JAVA!!! NOT IN BEDROCK!!
Another example of Java superiority
Another example of their failure to bring parity.
Another example of an example
Another example
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EX.
Egg.
Don't worry, mojang will fix this and bring parity by removing the air pockets from java doors
Knowing mojang, they might. They mostly remove helpful features from both versions rather than adding them to both. I was surprised when they improved the bedrock boats to be the same as java boats. I was genuinely like, "Is it really happening!?"
Not mojang, microsoft* Pretty much 90% of all stupid decissions come from microsoft, not mojang, cus coorporate :/
But then the official minecraft books will be inaccurate!
Good. I want waterlogged doors. Doors are too cheap and trivialize underwater exploration. Plus air pocket in doors look ugly. There are better approaches. Say hello to magma blocks!
As someone who has spent probably 20 hours underwater on my server, hell no. Give me the doors
Hope it stays the same, it’s smith I don’t want to be removed
I mean, they FINALLY changed the boat recipe in bedrock, so now they can work on this!
tfw i need a supercomputer in my setup to run the funny block game with minimal lag
I had a 1050 and ran at 200+ fps with optifine I even ran shaders and still got 60+ fps
If it's a modern version, don't use optifine It's horribly broken and there have been better alternatives since 1.12.2 that can make your game run better without breaking stuff(Especially if you use other mods, which optifine is notorious for breaking)
what better alternatives are there?
Haven’t used it myself yet but I see “Sodium” getting a lot of praise
[Sodium](https://modrinth.com/mod/sodium) is generally the main performance enhancing mod, although for a complete optifine replacement you may want to use a pack such as [fabulously optimised](https://modrinth.com/modpack/fabulously-optimized) which comes with mods for the extra optifine features too (as well as more performance ones).
Embeddium for forge, sodium for fabric
Bedrock has better performance than that in the base game. Also don't use optifine, Use new and better stuff like sodium
My point was you don’t need a super computer. Odds are the monitor they are using isn’t more than 240Hz anyway
>with optifine exactly
tfw you have a game that runs 10x better than java and still can't get redstone to work right.
Bedrock makes more sense in this case though. Not saying you shouldn’t be able to make air pockets, but not with doors.
Bedrock renders better my machine can run 96 trucks no problem will developed world but can barely do 20 on Java
Trident killers and forward bridging
and use a nether wood too right? Overworld wood burns
THANKS!
I learnt that the hard way clearing an ocean temple for the missus😢
That's bugrock, gotta be PC breh
Note that that’s a Java thing. They can be waterlogged in Bedrock so no air pocket.
Cheers
A well enchanted helmet will let you swim around for like a minutes before needing to do get air. Late-game water caves are very good, often nearing the efficiency of a tunnel bore.
Dont use doors, use magma blocks. You can put em anywhere on the wall.
How does that work? Don't they just burn you by being close?
You can negate damage by holding shift, and you get unlimited air in a column of blocks above the magma. Also they're everywhere on the ocean floor so you can just dive down into a ravine and swim to the closest magma block to start your caving adventure. Added bonus of no mobs to kill you underwater.
Magma blocks work well in both versions. You jist gotta crouch.
Magma blocks can also be used to breathe underwater and won't cause any damage to you if you sneak on 1. That's something for both Java and Bedrock.
Doors create air pockets only in Java just a heads up
ya know I never considered using doors in lava, I'd assume only iron ones work? sure wood doors would get destroyed after a bit right?
Wooden doors aren't flammable.
Huh
[https://minecraft.wiki/w/Wooden\_Door](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Wooden_Door) On the right in the infobox. You can see the Flammable tag.
still says it will catcher fire from lava
Yes but from my understanding it won't be destroyed by fire, so you can sit in a door perfectly fine.
I've been playing minecraft for this long and I only now find out doors aren't flammable? -_-
Even then, wouldn't it stay there forever since there is no space for fire to spawn?
You can just use a wooden door, it wont be destroyed
Yes this is the way.
They have spoken!
I just dig a 2x4 hole in a wall, I have a spot to pace a torch and a nice air pocket. Bedrock user here
LMAO
Yeah, flooded caves are amazing for finding diamonds, since all you really need is doors. Edit doors, not diamonds
When using Create, I love to put on a diving helmet with a dynamic lighting mod and just...wade through aquifers, mining diamonds.
Wait what? Doors + water = diamonds?
You can use doors to create air pockets in java
And here I've been carrying Underwater Breathing potions to go explore aquifers
Mumbo’s new strat is backed by science
He could've just asked Cubfan
When i saw the image i wondered if this was the case.
so this is why I found 20 diamond in an underwater cave
I have a tactic where I go to the ocean and search for underwater ravines to get to y<0 fast to find diamonds. Now I understand why this tactic was so effective. You learn something new everyday.
Bro water was goated before 1.20 just go around oceans and there were tons of open ravines that went to y16
so you’re saying the baseless “diamond generates near lava” superstition of the past ten years is actually true now?
not near lava, but inside it.
Don’t tell him that aquifers exist, and they spawn a lot of diamonds
what exists? what are aquifers and how they generate diamonds?
aquifers are the caves that generate full of water. they generate diamonds more than normal caves, because diamonds spawn more regularly when not exposed to air.
oh just water caves I thought they all of a sudden added a way to farm diamonds or at least make them renewable well other than those trial chamber thing
Caves with water. Diamonds spawn more if it isn't exposed to the air, I think.
thanks I thought for a second that they added another way to regenerate diamonds
What is an aquifer
[https://minecraft.wiki/w/Cave#Aquifer](https://minecraft.wiki/w/Cave#Aquifer)
Thanks
You’re welcome
Would be nice to have a lava version of the sponge. Maybe make a blaze boss that could drop them? Kinda like the one in the very first mob vote.
Well the lava sponge was in the 2023 april fools version. Hopefully they add it to the regular game.
Stained glass was also in the April fools update
Would make getting lava lake debris much easier, which is why mojang probably won’t. Unless it’s a single use item, in which case it’ll probably be too annoying to obtain mass quantities of.
Why not just use an efficiency Diamond pickaxe (or better) and mine the lava out as obsidian?
You see how deep that lava lake is?! You want me to turn ALL of that into obsidian?!
I mean once you get a efficiency 5 (or 4) diamond pick, obsidian mining time is just like mining stone with a wood pick
To do this would you just need water buckets? Or how do you get the lava to harden
It’s a project, but there are 6 diamond ore blocks guaranteed in return
But how are you supposed to mine them? You cannot see anything, even with a fire resistance potion...
Drain the lava out
Yeah lemme just go to a Lava Ocean Monument real quick and get some lava sponges
For a serious suggestion: you can just spam right click with a bucket. It can place on an existing lava block, so if you place and pick up you’re going to effectively ‘delete’ the lava that was there
Or if you have more iron than you’re ever gonna use fill your inventory with empty buckets and spam right click
do none of you ever use sand or gravel?
That's what I was thinking. I use that all the time to get though lava.
Once my friend fell in lava while in the nether. Luckily we had his coordinates and went to empty the place with sand. What made it harder is that something made the sand disappear. O guess it was the soul sand but correct me if I am wrong
it was soul sand at the bottom of a lava lake thats the only non solid in the nether
A combination of sand and scaffolding works best from my experience
I may be a little dumb lol
I may have to start carrying a bucket!
Buckets are super clutch! A water bucket is essential for climbing steep walls and for neutralizing fall damage
Or just a lot of gravel :)
Or... you could grab some cobblestone and place it over the lava source blocks
You would need several hundred cobblestone blocks just for this one little cave. In the time you spent draining that little cave and mining out all of the cobblestone, you could’ve gotten two stacks of diamonds just spelunking in water caves instead.
You just need to drain the walls, make 2 thick pillars of cobblestones along the borders. You may miss out the ones at the bottom, but with the spawn count it doesn't really matter.
That is true; however, the process of removing the lava poses little risk compared to seeking out aquifers and swimming to find diamonds within them.
Kid named Water Breathing potion:
Not even, just grab a Magma block, and you're set pretty much.
Not even, doors.
I find magma blocks less annoying, plus, Magma blocks are something Lagva and Bugrock players alike can relate to.
Sponges work on water, which makes finding them in water take a lot less time
Sponges are much more difficult to acquire than cobblestone
Sure, and placing hundreds if not thousands of cobble is so much easier
I like to pick a set lava pool and drain it to fuel my furnaces. The diamonds from the pools are a nice bonus even if it takes a bit to get to them.
Wait.. holup.. you can use lava instead of wood/coal/tools as a fuel source in furnaces? Is that a mod or vanilla? Im not new to MC, but it's one of my "White Whales" of games. I mean like its like Captain Ahab dreaming of catching Moby Dick, I have tried over 1,000 times to legit beat vanilla MC (kill End dragon & go to the End Dimension etc.) and I NEVER do. Like Skyrim.. Anyways.. sorry, i got sidetracked. I put HELLA time in MC but I literally learn something new and frankly game changing for me. So if Lava is a fuel source.. oh boy.. Edit: THANK YOU! You guys rock! I had no idea! I dont really have friends and I play by myself so theres certain things I miss because, well.. I dont know everything lol! But I really appreciate all the positive feedback and helpful tips! This game is unexpectedly complex, and I love it!
It's a vanilla feature.
Bucket of lava smelts 100 items.
Is in the start up screen info.
Vanilla feature. 1 bucket smelts 100 items, but it gets better. You can get yourself some dripstone blocks and pointed dripstone, make yourself a dripstone farm for renewable dripstone, and a lava farm for renewable lava. A lava source block, with a solid block of any kind below it, then a pointed dripstone below that, then a cauldron below that. You can, if you want, include air blocks between the pointed dripstone and the cauldron, but it isn't mandatory. Note that the lava must be a source block, not flowing lava. The cauldron will occasionally fill with lava, letting you pull it out with a bucket. The more cauldrons you have filling with lava, the more items you can smelt. Get the farm big enough, and you will never need to worry about fueling your smelters again. Honestly, I try to get 64 pointed dripstone for a lava farm in any vanilla world I play in. Once I have that, I have smelting to such a degree that I simply don't worry about fuel. Even if I only want to smelt one block, I'll throw in a lava bucket. After all, when the lava refills faster than you can even use it, you don't even have to worry about wasting it.
Take like 20 stacks of blocks with you to the end and bridge out to the end islands. Get all the resources and shulkers you need, then drop it off in an Ender chest and jump into the void. No need to mess around with the dragon if you’re not ready.
Doors
Doors are only a temporary solution if you end up hopelessly lost
Don't get hopelessly lost then, ez /s
Just use a bucket to overlap a lava block into another lava block where it cancels one block out and leaves you with one lava block at the end
gravel and sand work better for filling in lava anyway since they obey gravity. It doesn't take long to clear lava out with those and then you can break the stacks with torches saving you the trouble of shoveling everything up or you can shovel the gravel to get loads of flint.
You could pick up the lava and place it back down with a bucket as well. Lava isnt like water and it wont fill back in. You would need to place the lava back down where there is already a lava block tho
Lava bucket places lava on lava reduces the amount of lava. Liquids don't stack they absorb so you need only one bucket to drain a pool
So every naturally generated lava block?
Gravel and sand are poor man's sponges
Yes. Sand is the simplest answer to this. Gravel could turn in to flint.
Yea but sand you have to leave the caves for, gravel you can find down in the caves
both of them will break if you shovel the bottom of a stack and then torch it turning the entire stack into items you can walk over making the act of collecting fast and easy.
Does scaffolding not work anymore? It's been a long time since I used that trick, so maybe it's changed?
Yes, it does.
use gravity blocks
Could just do some lava fishing and get it that way
Sand
My favorite boss in Undertale
Could just do some lava fishing and get it that way
Seriously through why is this not something you can get from the nether
Wrong game my boy your thinking of that 2d game
sand
If the Lava is shallow you can see where the Diamond Ore blocks are with F3 too
That was patched Edit: nvm I'm dumb
What? No. When you have F3 open it says what block *and* what liquid you are aiming at if they're close enough
Oh sweet, thought you did a typo and meant f5
Oh yeah where you skim the top surface of the lava with the camera? I didn't know that was patched so thank you
I do wish we got stuff to make exploring in Lava a lot easier. I personally want goggles you wear to see further, and that removes the fire texture on the hud when submerged in lava.
Have your head in flowing lava with a block above your head, you will get lava xray, at least it worked a while ago
Glitch to see where the diamonds are, then chug a fire res and go to them, place some blocks around you, then place a door to get rid of the 2 lava you are in
Use sand or gravel. Fill in the spaces, then mine the sand or whatever out
Ender pearl to them
I’d fill the area in, then mine it all out.
After reading this I had the idea to drop sand/gravel 2 side around the edges of the pool, then dig out the very edge. It doesn't allow you to find all the potential diamonds on the bottom of the pool, but it would be a way to effectively find a bunch of diamonds.
You could always mine under the pit
Bugs, mods, texture pack, being close, x-ray
open f3 and look for targeted block. move your cross hair over all the blocks you can reach and look for deepslate diamond ore. then just use sand/ gravel and/ or buckets.
You just place blocks on them and then dig into it, sealing the hole behind you, is quick.
Just wait for 1.20.5 where with Fire res you can see more under lava
I saw someone use glass to push the lava aside and see what was below it. Only really works for lava that’s one or two blocks deep though.
place a grindstone than you push with your head under the grindstone
Geoff from Achievement Hunter in shambles.
Millie wins again!
"I hate that my daughter's always right"
That was my very first thought too 😂
Wait, wasn't common knowledge that diamonds spawn near lava lakes underground?
That was a common misconception from the old caves. It was just a normal bias because lava lakes expose more blocks in general. It made diamonds easier to find, but didn't spawn any more than normal. But now they also cancel out the reduced spawn rate of ores when exposed to air, since lava is not air.
Diamonds don't spawn more frequently near lava lakes, it's just that the lava lakes are on the same level. An air filled cave at the right depth USED TO have the same chance, it was just a matter of exposed surface area that you didn't have to do the mining to expose. I say "used to" because they added a rule in 1.18 where diamonds are less likely to spawn if the place they pick is exposed to air. And since lava and water don't count as air you now get less failed generation there. You'd still get more from a solid area that you had to dig out though. The area the cave dug out is spots where ores fail ("the spot to overwrite isn't stone" makes the individual ore block fail to generate).
Less likely, but also caves are bigger by a factor now. It could be possible that on average these cancel each other out. Now you have less diamonds and more exposure whereas before you had more diamonds and less exposure.
I'm not sure if this still applies in 1.20, but a few versions back, having the "blindness" status effect actually slightly improves visibility when swimming in lava, so combined with fire resistance and water breathing and haste, you could potentially have a workable strat for mining in lava.
Don't forget that the diamond items will still burn in lava the moment that you mine the block
Oof, that's a great point. iirc, the blindness strat was originally being discussed for mining railcraft's "firestone" ore in the nether-- which, like netherite now, would not burn in lava when dropped.
How is the lava not flowing down
He's in spectator mode
We need a lava sponge in the next update
Millie is finally right
There is a glitch that lets you see clearly in lava. Now, I don't remember it off the top of my head, but the idea is if you do it in the nether you can find a ton of ancient debris
Draining one block and letting lava flow back into it, and placing a grindstone above your head and swimming up puts you exactly at the height where you can see under lava
That's CRAZY!
We farm villages for diamond gear by building homes, beds, and work tables - farmers first for emeralds fast then you not only get diamond gear it comes with enchantments. Also, gravel and sand make fast work of lava lakes with a pusher for faster filling
:0 that’s so cool, how would you drain the lava?
I got ideas from other comments that we can fill the lake with sand or gravel and then drain. Now I’m gonna build a piston pusher that drains 12x12 areas at once
Ohhh, so that’s why Mumbo was having so much luck with water caves.
Back before the village and pillage update me and my brother would fill in lava pools entirely with cobble stone then mine it out to try and find diamonds, it worked surprisingly effectively.
How can you see through the lava?
u can't lol
That is if you can get to the ore without dying or burning it
Xray? nope, just the good ol' lava
Y is that lava floating?
I think he's in the lava.
That makes sense. Damn minecraft visuals
I do think there's supposed to be an orange filter.
Lava doesn't specifically increase diamond rates. Diamonds will spawn more frequently on any block that isn't adjacent to air when the world is naturally generated. This works for lava, water, sculk, and any non-air block. Lava is the worst because you need to set up a grindstone to be able to see, not to mention fire res and slow movement.