I thought I would ask about mining and diamonds. I wondered how people find this?

I noticed somebody made a joke on a thread on this subreddit about getting enough diamonds for full diamond armour and tools, but I am almost there.

I found mining hard at first, but once you get used to it it's not too bad. You need to spend the nights running round the surface with a bow and lots of arrows taking out any creepers, then spend the days with TNT around level 10 and soon enough you have half a stack of diamonds.

It takes a while to adjust to the change in gameplay with Extra Hard Mode, but I am really really enjoying it.

Next stop, the nether!

By the way, although I have adjusting to methods to get diamonds I still find it really really hard to get XP for enchanting!