HomeJavaResourcepacksExpensive Diamonds
Expensive Diamonds
ResourcepacksJava

Expensive Diamonds

by ScotsMiser · on Modrinth

Which build do you need?

This mod ships a separate file for every mod loader and every version of the game. Pick both, then download — the wrong build installs fine and then does nothing in the game.

Mod loader

Minecraft version

⬇ Download for 1.20–26.1 · Data pack⬇ Download for 1.20–26.1 · Resource pack
I don't know my version or loader
Open the Minecraft launcher and look at the profile you play on — it names both, like fabric-loader-1.21.4. The version also shows in the bottom-right corner of the game's main menu.
No loader in the profile name? Then it's plain Minecraft, and these mods won't run — you need Fabric or NeoForge installed first.
Expensive Diamonds — screenshot 1Expensive Diamonds — screenshot 2Expensive Diamonds — screenshot 3

Makes diamonds renewable via a two step process:

In the first step, a Basilisk Egg [a renamed & retextured chicken_spawn_egg] is crafted from a block of coal surounded by eight blocks of iron.
In the second step, the Basilisk Egg is blasted [smelted in a Blast Furnace] to produce a diamond – this takes 13 minutes.

The Basilisk Egg can still be thrown to produce a chicken, but the cost is intended to be high enough compared to a series of standard survial eggs that the item not be disruptive.

The Basilisk Egg texture and renaming require the Expensive Diamonds RESOURCEpack.
N.B. Unfortunately, spawn eggs were not given individual textures until 1.21.5, so the new Basilisk Egg sprite will not appear when used in earlier versions. The pack functions properly (including the renaming), but shows the vanilla chicken_spawn_egg.
List of languages in which renaming has been done:
English – several variants including pirate, upside-down, Anglish, & Shakespearean
French – France & Canada's versions
Latin & Scots Gaelic.

Changes to the JSON format that were made in 1.17 also force the separate DATApacks for 1.14-1.16 and 1.17 forward.
The same Expensive Diamonds RESOURCEpack works across all versions.

Art Note: the main artwork is reworked from an 1806 illustraion of a Basilisk by Friedrich Johann Justin Bertuch
Tech note: The process used was inspired by one of the early methods for producing lab-grown diamonds [IRL]

Quick facts

Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java resource packs walks through it step by step.

Verified by MCModsHub

These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.

Explore more