Fascinating study, thank you for making this table. I don’t know what the mining assumptions are in terms of speed. You’re right that $132,000 is nothing to thumb your nose at. It’s certainly really grindy, but extra returns can be made by investing what you don’t spend. I think I would still struggle to find myself mining every day of the week for 15 years though!

A buddy experienced the exact same issue as OP just the other day. We ran diagnostics and it turns out his computer was running deprecated DNS IPs for a popular ad-blocking DNS provider.

It was DNS.

If you’re on nearly any flavor of UNIX (Linux, MacOS, etc.), you can run rsync on a scheduled basis via crontab.

Only limit is going to be, so far as I am aware, the download is provided as a compressed file, so you’ll have to download the whole thing, uncompress it locally and then do a selective update.

Who else was thrown off by the thumbnail for a moment thinking it was an overhead image of Burning Man?

You know the pop culture reference we use for someone who has misplaced their cellphone, “have you tried calling it?”

This will sound absolutely silly, but one day a friend was looking for some trinket which wasn’t a phone, and playfully I asked, “Have you tried calling it?”

They doubled down and started actually calling it, “Trinket… trinket, where are you?”

And wouldn’t you know it, within minutes they found it, and so far this has worked about 99.9% of the time.

So like using a flashlight focuses your eyes, having someone call it out loud kind of quiets the mind, too. It’s wild.

Alright, so I got some sleep, and found a page talking about efficient mining techniques. I was right that the magnitude would probably be the same, I fed some info (https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Mining) to the LLM and got this:

From the discussion in the ingested content, it is estimated that the maximum efficiency for mining diamonds is about 1.7% of blocks mined being diamond ore. If you can mine approximately 2500 blocks per hour with a stone pickaxe, you can expect to find around 42.5 diamonds in one hour. This number can vary based on factors like mining technique and enchantments used on tools.

~$132,600 at the end of the first year. This still does not account for inefficiencies like having to stop to make torches, and other issues, but is much better.

At the end of the day, it would still be better to nab the $100,000 up front, invest it, and then you can still go and do other, more time-profitable things.

A precursor to Ow My Balls!

You’re not my dad

You can opt out if it at least.

For now.

I honestly do not know. With some research I am certain I could find some upper and lower bounds, mostly based on the average prevalence of diamond ore, block-break-time, and time spent. The magnitude is probably correct, but the actual value would probably vary greatly.

E: And we haven’t even considered opportunity cost! If we use the LLM estimate, 10 diamond per hour equates to $15/hr. Awful, and you couldn’t even rest or your average goes down.

E2: And since this is vanilla MC, you would have to spend a great portion of time mining for resources just to be able to mine, it’s kinda like the rocket fuel problem. You’d necessarily have to spend time getting wood, coal, and iron. All this drives down the per-hour earnings dramatically.