How to Make a Diamond in Minecraft

Use this simple recipe to make a Diamond in Minecraft. You can see the exact ingredients, recipe layout, and workstation below.

Diamond recipe

Follow the recipe below. The pattern must use the correct slots when the recipe is shaped.

Place 1 Diamond Block in a Crafting Table to make 9 Diamonds.

Shapeless recipe with 1 ingredient: the order does not matter and it also fits in your 2 × 2 inventory grid.
Each craft uses 1 ingredient item and produces 9 Diamonds. A full stack of 64 takes 8 crafts and 8 ingredient items in total.

Output: 9 Diamonds

Process 1 Deepslate Diamond Ore in a Blast Furnace to make 1 Diamond.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +1 XP

Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 64 XP in total.

Output: 1 Diamond

Process 1 Diamond Ore in a Blast Furnace to make 1 Diamond.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +1 XP

Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 64 XP in total.

Output: 1 Diamond

Process 1 Deepslate Diamond Ore in a Furnace to make 1 Diamond.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +1 XP

Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 64 XP in total.

Output: 1 Diamond

Process 1 Diamond Ore in a Furnace to make 1 Diamond.

Cooking time: 10s Experience: +1 XP

Cooking one item takes 10 seconds, so a full stack of 64 takes 10 min 40 s and gives 64 XP in total.

Output: 1 Diamond

This page shows the vanilla recipe for Diamond. It includes the exact ingredients, recipe layout, required workstation, and amount produced.

The data comes from Minecraft Java 26.3. Recipes can change in later game versions, so check the version you play before crafting.