Diamond Dust is the ground form of diamond in the Ala Industrial mod for Minecraft 26.2 (Java Edition). The Macerator produces it: one diamond ore or deepslate diamond ore grinds into two Diamond Dust, while a finished diamond yields only one. Each grind costs 300 EU and takes 150 ticks (about 7.5 seconds). The Macerator is an LV-tier machine (low voltage, up to 32 EU per tick) with an internal buffer of 800 EU, and any diamond matching the common c:gems/diamond tag can be ground — the result is always Ala Industrial dust.

Diamond Dust does not smelt. It is a non-metal dust with no furnace or blasting recipe, so the only way back to a gem is the Compressor, which presses one Diamond Dust into one diamond for 260 EU — a strictly net-zero loop that only ever spends energy. The dust is not renewable, because diamonds and diamond ore are a finite resource. Five Diamond Dust plus four electrum ingots craft three Electrum Cables, the mod's HV-tier energy wire (512 EU per packet), and three Diamond Dust upgrade an electric tool to its diamond-tip version: the Electric Drill with invar ingots and a silver gear, the Electric Chainsaw with bronze ingots and a gold gear, and the Electric Hoe with cupronickel ingots and lapis dust. The common c:dusts/diamond tag lets other tech mods consume the dust directly, the Industrialist villager buys 8 Diamond Dust for one emerald at trade tier 4, and the behavior is identical on Fabric and NeoForge.