Does kimberlite not drop ore?

[mayaknife 82]

I found some kimberlite for the first time. The wiki shows it as dropping a mineral block, with a chance of diamond, but I've mined about ten blocks of the stuff now and gotten nothing at all: no minerals, no diamonds. Is it a bug?

[Gorni 73]

Kimberlite doesent drop ore, even if the wiki says so. You can mine it and have a pretty high chance of finding a diamond, but no ore or anything similar will drop for each block. Mine on and swim in diamonds.

[mayaknife 82]

Right now I'd rather find some garnierite. I'm four ingots of nickel short of being able to create a blue steel forge. :-(

[VegasGoat 51]

Ugh hunting for garnierite sucks. The two times I've found it are tiny deposits where a bunch of single blocks are dispersed over a large area. Makes finding it with the propick impossible (you just read traces everywhere), so you have to strip mine once you find the general area, and even then you'll only get enough in a deposit for a handful of ingots. The first one had most of the ore right above or in the lava, so I had to place blocks all around each piece before I could mine it.

The amount of time and effort it took wasn't worth the payout. Too much of a grind. I did manage to make a red steel bucket, though, which was cool. Except my only use for it was to try making a sluice battery right above some nickel to try and get more. But that didn't work, I never got any. Maybe I was just unlucky, but I doubt I'll ever bother trying for nickel again. I'm perfectly happy with steel.

Nickel definitely requires a community effort. It's just too much work for solo.

[EstebanLB 183]

Right now I'd rather find some garnierite. I'm four ingots of nickel short of being able to create a blue steel forge. :-(

Five to make your first blue steel tool

[dunkleosteus 2,425]

kimberlite has 1/35 chance of dropping a diamond, with the higher level diamonds being rarer.

[mayaknife 82]

Five to make your first blue steel tool

If you're talking about the total amount of nickel to get to a blue steel tool, it's more than that. You need 14 black steel to create a black steel anvil. You need 4 more black steel to create 16 weak blue steel alloys (14 for the anvil, 2 for tools). Then you need another 15 black steel to weld with the weak blue steel to make 14 blue steel for the anvil and 1 for a tool. That's a total of 33 black steel. Each nickel gets you 4 black steel so you need a minimum of 9 nickel to get your first blue steel tool.

I'd already found a small garnierite deposit which gave me 5 nickel (5.9 actually ), so I've got four more to go.

I've resorted to branch mining any suitably deep gabbro deposits that I come across. So far this has turned up such valuable commodities as saltpeter, kimberlite and olivine, but alas no garnierite.

[Jee-Host{gm} 30]

In ,y latest world where I set myself for finding darn garnierite and succeeded I foung medium spead which gave me almos 8 ingots. There are some traces over a large area I hate to try and stripmine. However, not counting Cinnabar there were Hematite and Gold near that Garnierite so it was somewhat successful find. Only time I stumbled upon Kimberlite it was some where in deep mess of tetrahedrite, olivine and something else, spawned in depressing basalt of all things. Thus I never got to touch it up close - too much effort for just an academic interest.