Do I Need diamond to break obsidian?

Obsidian requires a diamond pickaxe or better to harvest, otherwise, it will drop nothing.
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Can you break obsidian without diamond?

Obsidian is the only block that must be mined using a diamond pickaxe. Any lesser tool will destroy the obsidian if you try to mine it. Diamonds have a lot of importance in Minecraft because they help to make the most durable and efficient tools.
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Can you break obsidian with an iron pickaxe?

You can mine obsidian with an iron pick axe but you will be unable to collect it. With and iron pickaxe it will just break the obsidian and not drop anything.
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Can obsidian be broken easily?

In reality, obsidian is easily broken by human action and can also be worn down by the weather. This would make it a terrible substance from which to build a fortress. While obsidian is not used to build indestructible walls or portals, it is used to make surgical tools.
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What is the easiest way to break obsidian?

The fastest way to mine obsidian is to mine it with a netherite pickaxe, or a diamond pickaxe, otherwise it drops nothing, but, personally, I prefer netherite pickaxes, as it is faster by a second.
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How To Mine Obsidian In Minecraft



Is it possible to break obsidian with TNT?

Obsidian is a dark purple and black block, known for its high blast resistance (meaning it can only blow up by Withers, or if 562 blocks of TNT is surrounding the obsidian).
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Can you break obsidian with a diamond shovel?

To collect obsidian, a diamond pickaxe or better must be used. It takes 250 seconds to break an obsidian block by hand, and 21.85-125 seconds to break it with a pickaxe weaker than diamond or netherite, although neither will yield any obsidian.
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How fragile is obsidian?

Obsidian is brittle, and cannot be carved, but when chipped the broken edge can be sharper than surgical steel, although easily broken. Both because of its wonderful properties as a blade and its unusual shiny black color, it was much valued through the end of the stone age.
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Does obsidian shatter like glass?

Like all glass and some other types of naturally occurring rocks, obsidian breaks with a characteristic "conchoidal" fracture. This smooth, curved type of fracture surface occurs because of the near-absence of mineral crystals in the glass. The intersections of conchoidal fracture surfaces can be sharper than a razor.
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How long does Breaking obsidian by hand take?

In minecraft, it takes 250 seconds to break an obsidian block by hand.
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What item can break obsidian?

Obsidian is the hardest material in Minecraft. It can be collected only with a DIAMOND PICKAXE. Sadly it takes roughly 10 seconds to mine out. Any other pickaxe will simply break the block after about a minute of mining.
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Can Ender Dragons break obsidian?

The Ender Dragon swoops at a player, destroying any blocks she passes through, with the exception of blocks that naturally generate on the central End island (such as End Stone, obsidian, bedrock, and Iron Bars) and indestructible blocks such as Crying Obsidian and Respawn Anchors.
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Can crying obsidian make a portal?

In survival mode, crying obsidian can only be mined with a diamond or netherite pickaxe, so be careful about that. Crying obsidian can't be used to make a nether portal.
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How do you mine obsidian without diamonds?

Without a diamond pickaxe, there is no way for a player to mine obsidian and have it drop an obsidian block.
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Where to find diamond in Minecraft?

The ultimate endgame resource, diamond ore is one of the most valuable and hard-to-locate blocks in Minecraft. It's found right at the bottom of the world, below Y-level 16, in veins of one to ten blocks that give experience when you mine them.
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How to find diamond in Minecraft?

To find diamonds in Minecraft, you'll need to dig down to at least layer 15 with an iron pickaxe or better. You can see what layer you're on by opening the debug menu or by changing your settings. Diamonds can be used to craft some of the best weapons and armor in all of Minecraft.
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Is obsidian harder than a diamond?

The hardest mineral on the scale, diamond, is given a hardness rating of 10. Since obsidian is rated at 5-6 on Moh's Hardness Scale, it is not stronger than a diamond; it's softer than a diamond. The diamond is one of the hardest natural substances known to scientists.
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How much is obsidian worth?

Moreover, the price of the Obsidian ranges between ₹100 per carat to ₹ 500 per carat .
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What is the rarest color of obsidian?

Green, blue, and reddish stones (transparent) are very rare. Iridescence noted: gold, silver, blue, violet, green, and combinations of these colors, due to inclusions of minute bubbles that reflect light.
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Why don t surgeons use obsidian?

But there has been little academic research into the efficacy of obsidian blades compared with steel scalpels, and they do have disadvantages: Obsidian scalpels are not Food and Drug Administration-approved, and they are extremely brittle and prone to breaking if lateral forces are applied, meaning they are unlikely to ...
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Can obsidian cut diamond?

Can an obsidian cut through a diamond? No. On the Moh's Scale of hardness diamond is the hardest at a value of 10, while obsidian only has a hardness of 5. Although it is a volcanic glass, it is not quite as hard as glass (5.5 on the scale).
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Can obsidian cut bone?

Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass. It is a hard wearing material and can cut through materials such as marble and bone.
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Can netherite tools break obsidian?

The only one thing that can break obsidian is diamond pickaxe and netherite pickaxe.
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Can TNT break netherite?

Unlike every other block in the Nether, ancient debris is blast resistant. This means that the block will not be destroyed when TNT explodes near it.
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What blocks Cannot be broken by TNT?

Obsidian, Ancient Debris, Barriers, and Bedrock are completely resistant to the explosion, and cannot be destroyed normally. If the TNT is in water, any nearby blocks won't be destroyed but any mobs nearby will still receive damage.
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