Maybe you have not played for a while but in the latest versions of minecraft, the caves are pretty insane specifically when talking about how varied they are in both size and depth.
You can also realistically get a lot of diamonds by just caving now.
I often times end up with a stack of diamonds just from exploring a cave without the intention of finding diamond at all.
That being said...
I’m a degenerate and start new worlds building farms and trading villagers for full diamond.
Maybe you have not played for a while but in the latest versions of minecraft, the caves are pretty insane specifically when talking about how varied they are in both size and depth.
You can also realistically get a lot of diamonds by just caving now.
I often times end up with a stack of diamonds just from exploring a cave without the intention of finding diamond at all.
That being said...
I’m a degenerate and start new worlds building farms and trading villagers for full diamond.
I’m an adult Minecraft noob that’s trying to beat the game in hardcore. And I’ve learned I make way fewer dumb mistakes with this approach.