Are Diamonds Non Renewable Resources

A non-renewable resource (every bit opposed to a renewable resource) is a resources that cannot exist obtained in indefinite quantities in Survival without exploring more terrain or using certain glitches, commands or Creative manner to create more of them. While running out of resources other than the unique dragon egg is non probable to be a factor in normal gameplay due to massive size of a Minecraft map, in principle there is a finite quantity of these resources available in each Minecraft world.

Obtaining [ ]

Non-renewable resources can exist obtained through crafting recipes that swallow other not-renewable items, plant equally naturally generated blocks, obtained from structure loot chests or as drops from certain enemies that practise not respawn (elder guardians and piglin brutes).

Some resources are non-renewable or even unobtainable if playing on Peaceful difficulty, as monsters exercise not spawn.

The degree of impact the non-renewability of a resource has on normal gameplay generally depends on how limited the resource is, just on custom maps these relationships may be changed; for example, on many Skyblock-style maps, any diamonds provided are extremely valuable, every bit no more than can be obtained.

All condition effects and enchantment-item combinations that cannot be obtained in Survival are non-renewable.

Generated structures [ ]

These non-renewable resources are constitute only every bit boodle from generated structures, the blocks the structures are composed of, or as not-renewable drops from mobs which generate with the structures, and cannot be obtained in other ways unless using certain glitches, commands or Artistic mode. This renders near of them unavailable in worlds with the "Generate Structures" choice disabled, with the exception of the items which tin can be plant in dungeons, which aren't affected by the option^[1]. These resources are mostly the about finite resource in the game, though some like cobwebs are relatively common.

Resource	Not-renewable products	Sources
Banner Pattern "Snout"	―	Institute in bastion remnant chests. Like other imprint patterns, it is not consumed when used.
Cobweb	―	Can be nerveless with shears from mineshafts, strongholds, igloos, abandoned villages, and woodland mansions.
Disc Fragment		Found in ancient city boodle chests.
Dragon Egg	―	Spawns on meridian of the exit portal when the ender dragon is defeated for the first fourth dimension. Simply ane is obtainable in each world, making it the rarest obtainable resource in the game.
Dragon Head	―	Generates on the terminate ship aslope end cities.
Echo Shard		Found in ancient metropolis loot chests.
Elytra	―	Generate in the terminate ship aslope finish cities.
Enchanted Book (Swift Sneak I-III)	(Swift Sneak I-III)	Found in ancient city loot chests.
Enchanted Golden Apple	"Thing"	Very rarely constitute in the chests of ancient cities, dungeons, desert pyramids, mineshafts, ruined portals, woodland mansions and breastwork remnants.
Gilded Blackstone	―	Generates in bastion remnants, both as a office of the structure and as chest loot.
Centre of the Sea		One can be found in every buried treasure breast, which can be found using treasure maps institute in shipwrecks or ocean ruins.
(Non-Leather) Horse Armor	―	Can be found in generated chests of dungeons, desert pyramids, end cities, jungle pyramids, nether fortresses, ruined portals, strongholds, and villages. Leather horse armor can be purchased from leatherworker villagers, or crafted with leather, a renewable resources.
Big Fern	―	Can be found in generated chests of taiga villager houses. Large ferns can be renewably created by using bone meal on ferns, but do not drop themselves when broken, fifty-fifty with Silk Touch. (Tin be infinite in world every bit blocks, only not as an item in inventory).
Music Disc "otherside"	―	Plant in dungeon and stronghold corridor chests.
Music Disc "Pigstep"	―	Found in bastion remnant chests.
Alpine Grass	―	Can exist found in generated chests of savanna villager houses. Tall grass can be renewably created by using bone meal on grass, just do non drop themselves when broken, fifty-fifty with Silk Touch. (Can exist infinite in world as blocks, but not as an particular in inventory).
Moisture Sponge		Spawn in the sponge rooms of some sea monuments. Dropped by elderberry guardians. Formed when water touches a sponge.

Enchantments on items without prior-work anvil penalty [ ]

While all enchantments obtainable in Survival other than Swift Sneak are renewable, for treasure enchantments the only renewable way to get them on about items is by using an anvil to combine the item with a renewable enchanted volume. Using an anvil in this way causes the particular to proceeds prior piece of work penalty, increasing the toll of future anvil use. Like limitations apply to some high level enchantments, which cannot be renewably obtained on items with insufficient enchantability without using an anvil.

This renders near types of items that have at to the lowest degree i of these enchantments without having whatsoever prior-piece of work penalty non-renewable. Many of these particular variants are unobtainable in Survival, simply some of them can be found in the loot chests of various generated structures.

Enchantment	Items	Sources
Curse of Binding		Diamond armor tin be found in end city and breastwork remnant chests. Golden armor can be found in bastion remnant and ruined portal chests. Iron armor can be found in end city chests. Leather armor can be found in shipwreck supply chests. Diamond and iron leggings can be found in ancient city loot chests.
Curse of Vanishing		Diamond armor, swords, pickaxes and shovels can exist institute in terminate city and bastion remnant chests. Gold armor, hoes‌^{[ BE simply ]} and axes‌^{[ JE simply ]} can be found in bastion remnant chests. Gold armor, swords and tools can be found in ruined portal chests. Atomic number 26 armor, swords, pickaxes and shovels can exist found in end urban center chests. Crossbows and fe swords‌^{[ JE only ]} tin exist found in bastion remnant chests. Leather armor tin can be establish in shipwreck supply chests. Diamond and atomic number 26 leggings and diamond hoes can be found in ancient city boodle chests.
Efficiency V		Diamond shovels and pickaxes can be institute in end city and bastion remnant chests. Diamond hoes tin exist constitute in ancient urban center loot chests
Frost Walker I-2		Diamond boots can be establish in stop metropolis and bastion remnant chests. Golden boots can be found in bastion remnant and ruined portal chests. Iron boots can be found in end metropolis chests. Leather boots can be found in shipwreck supply chests.
Mending		Diamond armor, swords, pickaxes and shovels can be found in end city and bastion remnant chests. Gold armor, hoes‌^{[ BE only ]} and axes‌^{[ JE just ]} can exist found in breastwork remnant chests. Gold armor, swords and tools tin can be found in ruined portal chests. Fe armor, swords, pickaxes and shovels can be institute in end city chests. Crossbows and iron swords‌^{[ JE only ]} tin can exist found in breastwork remnant chests. Leather armor tin be institute in shipwreck supply chests. Diamond and iron leggings and diamond hoes tin can be plant in ancient city loot chests.
Sharpness, Smite, or Bane of Arthropods I-Five	‌^{[ JE just ]}	Golden axes with Sharpness, Smite, or Bane of Arthropods can be found in ruined portal and bastion remnant‌^{[ JE only ]} chests. In Boulder Edition, aureate axes can renewably receive any of the enchantments without gaining prior-work penalty through normal enchanting.
Sharpness V		Diamond swords can exist found in end city and bastion remnant chests. Iron swords can be found in finish city and bastion remnant‌^{[ JE simply ]} chests.
Soul Speed I-III		Golden boots with Soul Speed tin be plant in bastion remnant chests.
Thorns I-3		Diamond armor tin can be found in breastwork remnant chests. Gold armor can exist found in bastion remnant and ruined portal chests. Leather armor tin can exist found in shipwreck supply chests.
Thorns Three		Diamond chestplates tin exist found in bastion remnant and rarely terminate metropolis chests. Gilt chestplates tin be found in bastion remnant and ruined portal chests. Atomic number 26 chestplates with Thorns Iii can very rarely be constitute in end urban center chests. Leather tunics tin can exist found in shipwreck supply chests.

Items in bastion remnant, ruined portal and shipwreck loot chests are limited to one enchantment, while items from cease metropolis or ancient city chests ofttimes have multiple.

Other [ ]

These non-renewable resource can be obtained from the globe outside generated structures, they are generally more abundant, only some may be hidden under other blocks, making them harder to observe. Since they generate outside structures, they can be institute fifty-fifty in worlds with the generate structures selection disabled.

Resource	Non-renewable products	Sources
Aboriginal Debris		Generates hole-and-corner in the Nether, especially at low Y-levels. Institute in bastion remnant chests.
Calcite	―	Generates as strips in the stony peaks biome and every bit the middle layer of amethyst geodes.
Cobbled Deepslate and Deepslate		Generates underground bellow Y=8. Deepslate is obtained by smelting cobbled deepslate, or past mining it using a tool enchanted with Silk Touch on.
Dead Bush	―	Tin exist nerveless with shears in badlands, desert, and giant tree taiga biomes. They can also generate in chests and potted in some desert villages.
Diamond Ores	"Trail" Firework Stars & Rockets	Generates in blobs in the Overworld, beneath Y=16. Diamonds tin likewise be found in chests of many generated structures. Diamond blocks likewise generate in "lava" and "obsidian" rooms in woodland mansions. Unlike diamonds themselves, diamond tools and armor are renewable using certain top-level villager trades.
Emerald Ores	―	Emerald ore generates underground in mountains biomes, usually in single-block blobs. Nonetheless, emeralds are renewable via trading and as a driblet from vindicators and evokers.
Nether Ores	—	Generate in medium-sized blobs in the Nether. Gold and quartz are renewable.
Ores		These ores generate hugger-mugger in all biomes of the Overworld. Coal ore also generates in fossils. The minerals themselves are renewable (primarily via mob drops), without mining the ores.
Spore Blossom	―	Generates in lush cave biomes.
Tuff	―	Generates in blobs underground.

Not obtainable in Survival [ ]

These resource are not obtainable equally items in Survival. Nonetheless, they tin can exist encountered equally blocks and some even created or manipulated in Survival.

Resource	Notes
Boulder	Bedrock can be found at the bottom 5 levels of the Overworld, the elevation and bottom 4 levels of the Under, and every bit role of end crystal structures and portals in the End, simply cannot be broken or moved in electric current versions.
Budding Amethyst	Budding amethyst generates in the innermost layer of amethyst geodes but cannot be obtained when mined even if Silk Touch is used.
Chorus Plants	Chorus plants generate on the the outer end islands but cannot be obtained when mined even if Silk Touch is used.
End Portal Frame	Can be found in strongholds, only cannot be broken or moved in electric current versions.
Farmland	Farmland may be created past tilling renewable clay, grass blocks or clay paths with a hoe, just always drops dirt when mined.
Frogspawn	Frogspawn may be created by breeding frog using renewable slimeball, then the frog volition go to the h2o to hatch the frogspawn, simply cannot be obtained when mined even if Silk Touch is used.
Infested Blocks	Infested blocks may exist generated infinitely as silverfish infest renewable cobblestone, stone and stone bricks, merely practise not drop themselves when mined even with Silk Affect is used. They besides generate naturally in strongholds, igloos, woodland mansions and in mountains.
Reinforced Deepslate	Reinforced deepslate tin be encountered in ancient cities but cannot be obtained when mined even if Silk Touch is used.
Spawners	Spawners can exist encountered in dungeons, mineshafts, strongholds, fortresses, mansions, and bastion remnants, but drop only feel if mined in current versions.

Not encountered in Survival [ ]

These resources cannot exist accessed, fifty-fifty equally blocks, without using Creative style or commands.

Resource
Barrier
Parcel
Control Blocks
Jigsaw Cake
Light
Minecart with Command Block
Petrified Oak Slab
Player Heads
Spawn Eggs
Structure Blocks

Boulder Edition [ ]

These items are non renewable in Bedrock Edition, and are not items at all in Coffee Edition.

Resource	Notes
Chemistry Products	Not encountered in Survival
Chemistry Equipment	Not encountered in Survival
All Elements and Compounds	Not encountered in Survival
Medicines	Non encountered in Survival
Potion of Decay	Not encountered in Survival. Nonetheless, arrows of disuse are renewably obtainable through trading.
Tall Seagrass	Tall seagrass can be created by applying os repast to normal seagrass. However, breaking tall seagrass with shears drops ii normal seagrass.
Technical Blocks	Technical blocks are blocks such equally portal blocks and fire, whose main functions are strictly tied to the usage of other blocks and items. Many tin be generated renewably in the world, only they cannot be caused every bit items through normal Survival gameplay.

Java Edition [ ]

These resources are not renewable in Java Edition, even though they are in the Bedrock Edition.

Resources	Non-renewable products	Reason for discrepancy
Netherrack		When under portals generate in the air, they practise non create netherrack like they practise in Bedrock Edition.
Dirt Path		Dirt paths may be created past right clicking renewable grass blocks with a shovel, but drib dirt when mined. Thus, they are obtainable only in Bedrock Edition.

These items are non renewable in Coffee Edition, and are not items at all in Bedrock Edition.

Resource	Notes
Debug Stick	Not encountered in Survival
Noesis Books	Not encountered in Survival
Unbrewable Potions	Non encountered in Survival

Peaceful difficulty [ ]

These resources are not renewable while playing in Peaceful difficulty equally their renewable methods of obtaining require the spawning of hostile mobs. (Previously mentioned not-renewable resource are removed from the products listing).

In Bedrock Edition, Piglins nonetheless spawn in Peaceful difficulty. By killing piglins, the actor can sometimes obtain golden swords, so smelt them into aureate nuggets. This makes gilt renewable, along with all items obtainable via bartering.

Going to the Stop about always requires the use of optics of ender, which are unobtainable in Peaceful difficulty, to actuate the cease portal, with the chances of requiring none being but one in a trillion for each end portal. Therefore, resources exclusive to the Terminate can as well be considered unobtainable and therefore non-renewable in Peaceful difficulty.

Resources	Non-renewable products	Remaining sources	Reason for discrepancy
Brewing fuel		Potions of Healing II and splash potions of Weakness generate in end ships and igloos, respectively. All other potions (excluding water bottles and potion of Invisibility, which are renewable) are unobtainable. Potions of Water Breathing and potions of Regeneration can be found in buried treasure.‌^{[ BE just ]} All potions and splash potions are even so obtainable as those can generate in each swamp hut cauldron simply are non-renewable.‌^{[ BE only ]} Potions of Fire Resistance can be obtained from bartering	Brewing requires blaze powder, which is unobtainable, equally blazes do not spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Bonfire Rod		End rods, and ender chests generate in finish metropolis ships, while brewing stands generate in end ships, igloo basements and village temples. Still, fire charges, potion of Fire Resistance and splash potion of Burn down Resistance can be bartered with piglins.	Blazes do non spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Chorus Flower		―	Not obtainable if the End is inaccessible.
Coal		Coal tin be obtained from coal ore or generated chests.	Wither skeletons exercise non spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Copper Ingot		Copper ingots can be obtained by smelting raw copper.	Drowned do non spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Dragon's Breath	―	―	Likewise the fact that this resources is not obtainable if the Finish is inaccessible, the ender dragon will not shoot dragon fireballs in Peaceful difficulty, preventing their drove.
Ghast Tear		Potions of regeneration can be constitute in cached treasure.‌^{[ Be merely ]} A random potion can be found in each swamp hut cauldron.‌^{[ Be but ]}	Ghasts practise not spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Mob Heads	"Creeper" and "Skull" "Creeper" and "Skull" Charge Banners "Creeper-Shaped" Firework Stars & Rockets	Skeleton skulls tin can be found in ancient cities.	These mobs do not spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Music Disc	―	thirteen and Cat can be found in dungeons and woodland mansions chests. In Bedrock Edition, Mellohi and Wait tin be found in cached treasure chests, while others are unobtainable in Peaceful difficulty.	Neither creepers nor skeletons spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Ominous Banner	―	viii ominous banners generate in every pillager outpost.	Pillager raid captains do not spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Prismarine Shard and Crystals		Prismarine crystals can be found in generated cached treasure chests. Prismarine crystals are obtained from sea lanterns. Prismarine, prismarine bricks, and sea lanterns generate in bounding main monuments, prismarine and sea lantern also generate in sea ruins or are crafted from these blocks.	Guardians do non spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Froglight	―	―	Magma Cube practise not spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Shulker Trounce		Dropped by shulkers, which withal spawn during terminate city generation in Peaceful difficulty, only cannot damage the player.	Also the fact that these resource are not obtainable if the End is inaccessible, shulkers will non shoot shulker bullets in Peaceful difficulty, preventing the generation of more shulkers.
Spider Eye		Found in certain generated chests. Splash potions of weakness generate in igloos. A random potion tin be found in each swamp hut cauldron.‌^{[ Exist only ]}	Spiders and witches do not spawn in Peaceful difficulty.
Totem of Undying	―	Dropped past evokers, which still spawn during woodland mansion generation in Peaceful difficulty, just cannot harm the player.	Raids do not occur in Peaceful difficulty. Totems of undying are also not renewable in Easy difficulty, since raids do not last long enough to spawn evokers.
Trident	―	―	Drowned do not spawn in Peaceful difficulty.

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