Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-27149960-20160705032619/@comment-28905095-20160705230527

You can survice for quite some time without using diamond tools, and use either iron (or stone) tools. But having some vital mining tools is rather high on my list of essentials.

In other words, I would prioritise finding more diamonds, and in the slightly longer run I would focus on getting one or two enchanted pickaxes enchanted with efficiency, unbreaking or fortune. Some enjoy having Silk Touch which allows for mining the actual ore. But that again calls for having multiple pickaxes.

If you have Fortune on your pickaxe it will allow for mining more than one diamond or coal, from those ores. This could be a great benefit.

So hard to recommend specifically for you, but I think I would go for a diamond pickaxe and an enchantment table. Both are usable, and things you would like in the long run, but do know that enchanting does require some sort of xp-farming.