Crafting a full set of diamond armor required twenty-four diamonds, and after three years of collecting, he finally had them all.
That was right: twenty-four completely identical diamonds. As for why they were completely identical, don't ask. If you did, the answer was Minecraft mechanics.
According to Zhen Hua, diamond was one of several entirely new minerals the Sun Moon Federation had discovered in recent years. These minerals were extremely peculiar and rare. Once mined, they broke apart into individual diamonds of identical size that could not even be cut.
Moreover, these metals could not be smelted or forged, nor could they be made into weapons. Zhen Hua guessed that current technology might simply be too limited to make use of them.
Honestly, when Xiao Chen saw diamonds among the tournament prizes three years ago, he felt that the Douluo Plane did not have many years left. Even a Minecraft mineral like diamond was generating in the Douluo Plane. What would appear next?
Zombies and skeletons filling the streets? Then this world would truly be hopeless.
A world where undead roamed everywhere as soon as the sun went down really was brimming with life. A little-known fact: not every creature was Steve, a player controlled by a higher-dimensional being. Everyone only had one life.
He stopped dwelling on it. Since he had gathered all the diamonds and could not stop any of this for now, he could only improve his strength as quickly as possible.
Aside from the necessary diamonds, crafting a Diamond Armor Set also required a utility block essential to every Minecraft player—the Crafting Table.
But clearly, crafting a Crafting Table in the Douluo Plane was impossible.
Although minerals like diamond had generated in the Douluo Plane under the Command Block's encroachment, logs from Minecraft had not. Without