(piano music)
- Welcome back to "What's Inside?".
I'm Lincoln, and this is Dan and today we're with
our friend Stacy, from "Stacy Plays".
- Hello
- And we have a special one for you guys today,
we have diamond ore from "Minecraft".
- What?
- This is a giant piece of diamond ore,
- What?
- In real life.
- How did you get that?
- Alright Lincoln, hold onto that.
- Ebay
- What? What?
- That is so heavy.
In order to do something on diamond ore, we thought
it would be the perfect fit to partner up with Stacy Plays,
because 1, she lives in Utah, we're kind of Utah neighbors,
which is cool.
The second reason is because she is the second most watched
female gamer in all of North America.
And the nice thing is, she does "Minecraft", and it's
family friendly, so that goes along with our channel.
- In order to get the very best tools and armor that
you can ever have in the game, you have to make them
with diamonds, but they are really really rare,
and you need a lot of them.
So, there's many many hours of searching, and it's always
really exciting when you actually come across diamond ore.
- Interesting, because in the real world, this guy
may or may not have diamonds in it, but the cool thing is,
we are going to go cut this thing open and see if this
actual diamond ore that we spent five hundred dollars on
has some actual diamonds in it.
- That's crazy.
- Yeah, you're always guaranteed a diamond when you
find one of these, but not so much that.
- I read online that it's 1 percent of diamond ore
actually has diamonds in it. (laughs)
- Are we feeling lucky, Lincoln?
- No.
- What?
(all laughing)
- I'm feeling lucky, and if you want to see something
very cool, Lincoln went and did a whole episode with Stacy
on "Stacy Plays", we'll put a link in the description.
- Yeah, we discovered what's inside "Minecraft".
We actually used x-ray vision to see through the caves.
- First, we need to take this thing and figure out
how to get inside of this twenty-five pound diamond ore,
and see if we can find some diamonds.
- [Dan] Alright, we're back here at our favorite rock store,
Rockpick Legends, back with our friend, Rick, and we've
got our diamond ore. (laughs)
- It's so big and heavy, it's crazy.
- [Dan] Is that what you call it, in the rock world,
diamond ore?
- Sure, well it's called kimberlite, it is a diamond ore.
kimberlite is a type of lava that forms
deep inside the Earth, and the diamonds are already formed,
and it picks them up and brings them to the surface.
At least a hundred miles down is where they form, and then
shoot to the surface and erupt like volcanoes.
- That's far underground.
- It is, isn't it?
- It is far, but in "Minecraft", that's where diamonds are,
in the game, they're down,
- Down deep.
- Usually next to lava.
- [Dan] This is the beast of a saw.
- (Rick laughs)
- [Dan] This is the one, huh?
- This is it.
- [Dan] Alright, check out this blade, does this happen
to be a diamond-tipped blade?
- It is a diamond-tipped blade.
- [Stacy] So we're using diamond to cut through
possible diamond?
- This big screw drives the whole thing through,
and it will cut it, it goes real slow.
This is gonna take at least forty-five minutes, to an hour.
- [Stacy] Wow, see, in "Minecraft" it usually takes only
about four hits. (everyone laughs)
- [Lincoln] That's what the diamond pick is for.
- [Dan] Yeah, so we just put it in there, turn it on,
- [Rick] Now, when you want, we can open this up if
you've got light on your camera, we can see
it doing it's thing.
- [Dan] Woo, look at that, it's starting, okay
it's been going for a while now, I don't know,
twenty-five minutes, and I just looked, it doesn't
look like it's done that much yet. I don't know
this might take longer than forty-five minutes,
it's barely getting into it.
It's probably because of all the diamonds that are in there,
I'm sure.
- We are about fifteen to twenty minutes
from being completed, you can see how far,
light coming through.
- [Dan] Oh, there it is, yep, okay.
- [Lincoln] I was just looking at the top.
- [Stacy] Diamonds, here we come, should I just
take it from here?
- Sure. You can give it a whack.
- [Stacy] Let's do it.
(music and sound of machine running)
- [Dan] Okay, I think it's done, I heard it make a noise,
and I pushed this black button as fast as I could,
because it sounded like it was broken, so,
- [Lincoln] Let's open it this way, because I can't see
- [Dan] Oh yeah, yeah.
- What, how, oh, like that.
- [Dan] Ooh
- [Lincoln] Is it done?
- [Dan] That is definitely split in half.
- [Lincoln] Oh my gosh.
- [Stacy] There's some specks in there.
- [Dan] This blade is about as long as my entire
fingers to my elbow.
It is huge, it makes this rock look tiny,
but look at it to scale to my hand,
look how big that blade is.
- [Stacy] It's such a smooth cut too
- [Dan] It is.
- [Stacy] Now diamonds in "Minecraft" are like blueish,
turquoise, what color would the diamonds you're
looking for be?
- They're gonna range from a creamy yellow to more clear,
this mine's not known for having colored diamonds,
so probably nothing like that.
All the little shiny spots you see are magnetite,
which are one of the minerals that's associated
with diamonds.
- [Dan] So, not the most promising results yet but,
we don't know for sure, so Rick, don't tell us yet
what your final verdict is, but we have these pick axes,
and we have these pick axes, so
- [Lincoln] Scary, scary.
- [Dan] I think it's time to go outside,
and give this a try.
- I'm ready
- [Dan] Real pick ax,
- Let's do this
- [Dan] Here we go, where's pick a good spot.
- [Stacy] A think maybe, here, on this big part right here.
- [Lincoln] Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, this thing
can do it, okay?
I've done it before, I broke diamonds with this.
- [Dan] Yeah, that's really gonna hit it.
- [Stacy] Yeah, I don't think so, stand back, stand back.
(hammering)
- [Lincoln] Not bad, this thing's gonna work.
- [Dan] Hey, pretty good, you've got some skills
with that pick ax.
- Thank you!
- Okay, this is how we do it in the real world.
Oh, it hit me right in the face.
- [Lincoln] Are you okay?
- Yes, a chunk just hit me.
I do have glasses on, let me just not smile
so my teeth don't get knocked out.
(music and hammering)
Oh, we got a chunk, look at that, there's a little piece.
All that effort, ooh, there's a shiny piece right there
- [Stacy] It's shiny, Rick. It's shiny.
- [Rick] Let me go grab a hand lens.
- While he does that, I'm taking another stab at it.
- [Lincoln] Don't smile, Dan
- Mining is a tough job, someone's gotta do it.
- [Stacy] I'm so scared, I have like a shield.
(all laugh)
- [Dan] Okay, we're back inside, Lincoln's pick ax
is broken, Stacy has her safety goggles on still.
- I'm so nervous.
- [Dan] We got this little piece off of it,
that was the first chunk, that we hit off.
It was teamwork between Stacy and I, so alright,
we've found out nothing but bad news this whole time,
what's the verdict from this one, any chance?
- This one little piece has one little tiny
diamond fragment, right down in here.
- [Dan] What?
- No way.
- [Dan] Like actual diamond?
- Yeah, it's actual diamond, it's about, it's probably
about a millimeter and a half across, right there,
where you see the reflection.
- [Dan] Yes, I see it.
(cheering)
- [Stacy] Lincoln, we did it!
- [Dan] We didn't get completely bamboozled off the internet
- Not completely.
- How much do you think that diamond would be worth?
- Um, you'd need many, many carats of diamond like this
to make anything out of it, it's just industrial,
so it doesn't have any value at this small size.
- I see.
- [Dan] I mean, all we did was hit right here,
with the pick ax, like animals, and we got
one little piece out, this thing's a lot bigger,
if there's one little piece, there's gotta be more.
- More than likely.
- [Dan] Yes, high fives, that's awesome.
(laughing)
- Well, thank you guys so much for letting me come along,
and actually see something from "Minecraft" in real life.
- One thing that we learned is only 1 percent of kimberlite,
or diamond ore actually has diamonds in it.
- We got that 1 percent, we're part of it,
that was awesome!
(piano music)