Talk:Diamond/@comment-45436731-20200409171050

The Sea Trader's path is a terrible recommendation for diamonds, that whole place is completely devoid of diamonds (as far as my 40 minute search is concerned) and "break the Shale outcrops that the Sea Treader Leviathans stomp up" is objectively a terrible description. "Stomp up" sounds like an active process, this however is doubtworthy, and the description doesn't give one any indication of how to find these Shale outcrops. I haven't even seen a single one of those leviathans, for that matter, maybe because it's also an extremely dark area by default.... All in all a terrible place to look for anything but: silver and copper! And some magnetite...

The awful description also contains the implicit assumption that apparently one should look for "Shale outcrops" which is worth mentioning on its own. The description seems mainly concerned with sounding "pretty" or whatever without having any meaning or practical value.

But I'd say nearly 100% of players are likely to come across a far better place for diamonds, even if's ultimately still insufficient, and that is in the above-water caves of the mountainous island with the alien base and cannon where one has to go relatively early for plot reasons.

This is also mentioned, but since pretty much the only alternative mentioned is the Sea Treader's path, and that is an all-around awful place one is not even likely to come across on one's own, one is pretty much left on one's own to waste one's time for this resource (the game is clearly coming apart at the seams once large amounts of diamonds become crucial).​