Black Diamonds

[Zan]

So I started my first play through with a friend and we're stuck on the stairs as we lack enough Black Diamonds. This has sparked a search for them and I of course started with google.

I found Orc camps are a great source and to farm the orcs and not the break the banners. Sadly I made that mistake of breaking the banners before knowing this but I will say I have one camp left and it has yet to net any.

I have learned the deep dark is a great place for black Diamond but every time I try to go down I get despair and I start to lose health and I don't have enough rations at least not enough to burn 10 lambis breads for the chance of black diamonds. (I heard of a cheese of using what diamonds I do have and use them to make a port stone down there but I want to avoid cheesing if I can).

We've mined most of all the rocks we can find so triggering a horde has become rather difficult. Am I screwed or is there a simple way to find some?

[Solus The Immortal]

Crystal depths yield diamonds im told

[Chaoslink]

Avoid despair by holding a torch or building platforms to get over shadow cursed areas instead of walking through.

In a story game, there's also the orc boss that yields a large amount.

[Piderman]

Originally posted by Zan:

I have learned the deep dark is a great place for black Diamond but every time I try to go down I get despair and I start to lose health and I don't have enough rations at least not enough to burn 10 lambis breads for the chance of black diamonds.

You have to be fast, Light doesnt work at all to keep despair away down there. However, how exactly do you get black Diamonds in the depths? I found two entrances, plenty of gemstone deposits, but not a single black Diamond. Do i miss something?

[PenderBloodfart]

Explore all the passages you find you'll eventually find orctown and there you can get a whole bunch

[bondKI]

usually i just try to get trolls to turn to stone, drops black diamonds pretty early and regularly

[Piderman]

Originally posted by PenderBloodfart:

Explore all the passages you find you'll eventually find orctown and there you can get a whole bunch

already cleared that one out

[Piderman]

Originally posted by bondKI:

usually i just try to get trolls to turn to stone, drops black diamonds pretty early and regularly

How, if there is no daylight at all whenever i encounter trolls?

[PenderBloodfart]

Originally posted by Piderman:

Originally posted by bondKI:

usually i just try to get trolls to turn to stone, drops black diamonds pretty early and regularly

How, if there is no daylight at all whenever i encounter trolls?

By design there should be a light source nearby probably next room

[Daliena]

Darkest Depths does sometimes yield black diamonds, though it's fairly rare. Equip a torch or the miner's helmet - the light can't completely undo the build-up of despair, but it will drastically slow it down, giving you time to mine, dart out and climb back up to recover, then return to do the depths little by little to mine them out.

[Skyve]

If you're OK with a kind of cheating, generate a new sandbox world, go there with your existing character and loot the orc chests you find. You might want to take some supplies with you to set up temporary camps.

[Piderman]

Originally posted by Skyve:

If you're OK with a kind of cheating, generate a new sandbox world, go there with your existing character and loot the orc chests you find. You might want to take some supplies with you to set up temporary camps.

What i endet up with, is even easier.
Have at least one black Diamond.
Start new Game
Get to your first Camp
Repair Fireplace
Repair Map Stone, you spend your one Diamond
Delete Map Stone, you get three Diamonds back
Rinse and repeat

Anyhow, i shouldnt be forced to do this, RNG seems to be broken, at least when it comes to Darkest Depths.

[Huatica]

Last time I checked, my bestie and I have a good 44 Black Diamonds in our chest. We raid the lower depths and kill every orc encampment and loot their chests. Raiding troll dens and their treasure piles results in tons of gems including Black diamonds! :D

[Nuggzy]

Before I fixed the lift I had 26 from destroying the banners and beating the boss. But the maps are all random, so bad seed maybe. They need to add them as a random drop to the orc patrols. Even after destroying everything they are still there so it would give you a way to farm them without exploiting game mechanics due to bad RNG.

[Juice Loosener]

I think I got at least 10 killing Azog's kin and his minions in Orc Town...

[Bulldozer]

ist there now a better way to get black diamonds without "cheating a second wolrd" I have destroyed all ork camps and chests und build a lot of fast travel points ... so now i m standing in front off the eaststairs withour any black diamonds in my inventory and i need 15 !!! what a shame