What can destroy obsidian?

Obsidian can be broken with a Diamond Pickaxe or a Netherite Pickaxe. Using either of these items will break Obsidian down quickly and allow you to collect the blocks.
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What materials 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 obsidian be broken easily?

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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Can obsidian be destroyed by hand?

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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What can explode obsidian?

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 obsidian be destroyed?

Obsidian can now be destroyed with explosives by summoning a fireball with custom data.
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What is the fastest way to destroy obsidian?

Obsidian can be broken with a Diamond Pickaxe or a Netherite Pickaxe. Using either of these items will break Obsidian down quickly and allow you to collect the blocks.
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What is crying obsidian?

Crying obsidian is a luminous variant of obsidian that can be used to craft a respawn anchor and produces purple particles when placed.
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Can mobs spawn on crying obsidian?

Crying obsidian increases hostile mob spawn rates.
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How do you turn obsidian into lava?

So let's get started!
  1. Find Lava. First, you need to find lava in your Minecraft world.
  2. Use the Water Bucket on the Lava. Next, select a water bucket in your hotbar and then pour the water bucket onto the lava. ...
  3. Put the Water back in the Bucket. ...
  4. Hold a Diamond or Netherite Pickaxe. ...
  5. Mine the Obsidian. ...
  6. Pick up the Obsidian.
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Can Crying obsidian make a portal?

Crying obsidian takes four glowstone to charge fully, and therefore allows you to respawn four times in the Nether, unless you recharge it. 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 strong is obsidian?

Obsidian is rated at 5 to 5.5 on the Mohs scale of mineral hardness, with diamond rated at 10, and talc rated at 1. It has very high tensile strength, but is also very brittle due to low compressive strength.
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Can you carve obsidian?

Obsidian can be used to make extremely sharp knives, and obsidian blades are a type of glass knife made using naturally occurring obsidian instead of manufactured glass. In fact it was used even to carve stone.
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Can obsidian cut glass?

Obsidian has a conchoidal (shell-like pattern) fracture, which means that it breaks like glass and does not form any flat crystal facets. Because of its sharp edges early man used it to make cutting tools or arrowheads. Surprisingly, the edge of a piece of obsidian is superior to that of a surgeon's steel scalpel.
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What mobs can break obsidian?

Indeed, the only mob that can break obsidian is the player-created Wither. Unlike the previous two generators, there is a core problem with automatic obsidian generation: the requirement of lava source blocks.
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Can the Wither explode obsidian?

Damaging the wither will cause it to break all the blocks in its hit box, including obsidian.
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Does obsidian attract Enderman?

That being said, no, obsidian, and every other block for that matter, doesn't attract mobs.
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What are the purple blocks in Minecraft?

Crying obsidian is a decorative block that is used to create respawn anchors. They appear like purple blocks and these blocks produce purple dripping particles as if it is "crying".
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Can u craft crying obsidian?

Crying Obsidian can only be obtained by bartering with a Piglin. Piglin's can only be found throughout the Nether Realm, a dark and dangerous place in the Minecraft world. Piglin mobs also only have a 9% chance to give it to the player who gives them a gold ingot.
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Can a ghast destroy obsidian?

Can Ghasts destroy Obsidian? As discussed earlier, Ghasts cannot destroy any blocks with a blast resistance of 26 or higher and Obsidian has a blast resistance of 1,200. So, Ghasts cannot destroy Obsidian.
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What blocks can't the Wither break?

Command Block

This block is used to execute commands and is only present in the creative mode unless cheats are used. Just like any other block in this list, the Command block cannot be destroyed by the Wither.
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How do I get obsidian without a diamond?

Making Obsidian without a Diamond Pickaxe. Find a pool of lava. There is no crafting recipe for obsidian. Instead, any time flowing water hits a stationary lava "source" block, the lava turns into obsidian.
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What is the 2nd strongest material in Minecraft?

Obsidian is one of the strongest blocks in the game, coming second only to the bedrock and end frame blocks which can't be mined.
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Which block takes the longest to break in Minecraft?

According to the Wiki: Obsidian takes 250s to break with by hand. Being underwater multiplies breaking time by 5.
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How much obsidian can a diamond pickaxe mine?

Assuming a player uses a tool appropriately, the maximum durability for a Diamond tool is 1561 uses. So you will be able to mine 1561 blocks of Obsidian.
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