Tutorials Obsidian farming

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Mining

Enchanting a pickaxe Pickaxe Type Tools Durability Wood: 60 Uses Stone: 132 Uses Iron: 251 Uses Golden: 33 Uses Diamond: 1562 Uses Renewable Yes Stackable No Data values See data values Name See data values Pickaxes are one with Efficiency "Flame" redirects here. For the non-solid damage-dealing block, see Fire. “ How does enchanting work in Minecraft? Well, you open a magical book and pick a random spell, not quite sure knowing what it will will speed up the process. Below are the mining times for each level of enchantment.

With a beacon Beacon Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency PC, CE: Yes PE: No Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 15 Hardness 3 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops , the Haste and Haste II effects can be used to reduce mining time further. Using Efficiency V without a haste effect, it takes about 2.25 seconds to mine each block, resulting in being able to mine approximately 26.7 blocks of obsidian in a minute. With Haste, this is reduced to around 1.85 seconds per block, or 32 blocks in a minute. Haste II further reduces the time to mine each block to about 1.6 seconds per block, or 38 blocks a minute.

Videos

Lava drenching

In the Overworld The Overworld, as seen in an extreme hills and a forest biome The Overworld is the dimension in which all players begin their Minecraft journey. Contents 1 Creation 1.1 Seeds 2 Environment 2.1 Biomes 2.2 lava primarily occurs deep underground, but can sometimes be found in small lakes Every specific group of blocks purposefully formed in Minecraft based on coding is part of a natural structure. Contents 1 The Overworld 1.1 Terrain 1.1.1 Mountain 1.1.2 Floating "island" 1.1.3 Hollows 1.1.4 Hill 1.1.5 Beach at or near the surface. Lava springs typically contain only a single source block, which is not particularly useful when the intention is to "farm" obsidian.

Lava is much more plentiful in the Nether A view of the Nether. The Nether is a hell-like dimension, filled with fire, lava, and dangerous mobs. Contents 1 Accessing 2 Environment 2.1 Mobs 3 Generation 3.1 Naturally generated 3.2 Naturally created 3.3 Structures , but as water cannot be placed there it is necessary to bring it back to the Overworld in buckets for conversion to obsidian.

Lava drenching is not a renewable method of farming obsidian, as lava source blocks are not a renewable resource A renewable resource (as opposed to a non-renewable, or finite, resource) is a resource that can be recreated indefinitely in survival without exploiting glitches or using commands. While running out of resources isn t likely to .

In-place drenching and mining

The simplest method for obtaining obsidian is to find a lava pool, pour water on it, and then mine it with a diamond pickaxe. Seeming natural deposits of obsidian in the Overworld were created by water falling on lava in this way.

Note that the layer of obsidian thus created will often have more lava underneath, which will frequently destroy the mined blocks before they can be collected. The solution is to mine a single block (which may be a stone or dirt block next to the obsidian slab) and place water in the hole. Then when the obsidian blocks adjacent to the hole are mined, water immediately flows into the space to drench the lava beneath before it can burn the mined block. If you are standing in the water to mine the adjacent obsidian, be careful to move the water source block periodically so it doesn`t reach its limit and push you into undrenched lava.

Casting

Obsidian structures such as Nether portals may be created in place, without the use of a diamond pickaxe, by placing a layer of lava source blocks in a mold, drenching, and then repeating for additional layers. Dirt or another easily mine-able block is typically used for the mold.

Scaffolding

A much faster form of obsidian creation for large structures can be made by building "scaffolding" to create a frame two away from the desired location of the obsidian and using this to create an artificial waterfall a square away from where Obsidian is wanted. It is then possible to "float" inside of the waterfall and create large amounts of obsidian by placing buckets of lava next to it. This has the advantages of not needing to be built up and have the water moved with every new row, and allows the maximum of 36 buckets of lava to be converted at once. Care should be taken to remain clear of the row where obsidian is being created, be that as it may, as the solid block created can hurl the player through the air and cause a large amount of fall damage.

Portal farming

Both Nether portals Nether portal Consists of Obsidian Nether Portal Can generate post-generation Yes, when the player builds an appropriate frame and lights it with flint and steel First appearances See History See the structure. and End portals End Portal Room Biome Any Overworld biome Consists of Mossy Stone Bricks Cracked Stone Bricks Stone Bricks Stone Brick Stairs Iron Bars Lava Silverfish spawner End Portal Frame End Portal Can generate post-generation No First are a renewable source of obsidian, if mined using diamond pickaxes traded All villager trades, separated by profession. The trading system is a gameplay mechanic that allows players to trade emeralds for items (and vice-versa) with villagers. Contents 1 Functionality 1.1 Brown Robed Villager 1.2 White Robed from Villager Villager Health points 20 () Size Adult: Height: 1.95 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.975 Blocks Width: 0.3 Blocks Spawn Village When a zombie villager is cured First appearances See History Drops None Experience blacksmiths or diamond pickaxes with the mending enchantment.

Nether portals

To farm obsidian using Nether portals, travel to the Nether and build a second portal at least 16 blocks away (43 on the classic and small world sizes and 22 in the medium world size in the Console Editions). Preferably, do not make the distance much more than that from the arrival portal. Using this second portal will bring you to a newly spawned portal in the Overworld just over 128 blocks away from the original portal. Mine out the new Overworld portal (or the old one, if you`d rather). When returning to the Nether, you`ll find both portals are still active and using the second will spawn another portal in the Overworld at or near the place where the mined portal had been.

A single portal may be also used: one player travels to the Nether, then the second destroys or deactivates the portal in the Overworld. The first player then uses the Nether side of the portal to return to the Overworld, which will create a new portal nearby. This could also be done by a single player using some mechanism, such as dispenser placing water or lit TNT timed to deactivate the portal just after teleportation.

Another single-portal method is to travel to the Nether, mine out the Nether side of the portal, stash the obsidian in a chest, and die. When returning to and using the Overworld side of the portal, a new portal will be created in the Nether.

In all cases, be sure to maintain a 4ℂₗ4 area of flat ground (with at least 4 blocks of air above the entire area) near the location of the destroyed portal, either by filling in the holes left by mining out the base of the portal each time or by leaving the four base blocks unmined. If this is not done, you may suddenly find the newly created portal is in a cavern underground because there is no longer any valid location for a portal to spawn on the surface. Also, be sure no other portals are within 128 blocks in the destination world or you will be taken there rather than having a new portal created. See Nether portal#Portal Search and Creation for details on the spawning algorithm.

The End platform

When using an End portal to travel to the End See the dimension. For the achievement, see Achievements#The End.. For the advancement, see Advancements#The End. A view of the central End island. The ender dragon can be seen flying around obsidian pillars, , a 5ℂₗ5 platform of obsidian is created for you to appear on. If the platform is damaged, it will be recreated. Be that as it may, getting back requires killing either the ender dragon Ender Dragon Health points 200 ( × 100) Attack strength Peaceful: 0 () Easy: 6 () Normal: 10 () Hard: 15 () Breath attack: 6 () after a half-second Exploding fireball attack: 12 () after or yourself.

End pillars

The obsidian pillars Obsidian Pillar Biome The End Consists of Obsidian Bedrock Iron Bars End Crystal Can generate post-generation Yes, while the Ender Dragon is respawning First appearances See History Obsidian pillars, also known as obsidian spikes or in the End may be mined for obsidian. This is renewable since they regenerate when the ender dragon Ender Dragon Health points 200 ( × 100) Attack strength Peaceful: 0 () Easy: 6 () Normal: 10 () Hard: 15 () Breath attack: 6 () after a half-second Exploding fireball attack: 12 () after is respawned.

Automatic Obsidian Generators

The biggest problem with obsidian mining is the mining part - even if you use the best pickaxe, it takes 2.5 seconds to mine a single block. Various methods have been used (and patched) to break obsidian blocks automatically, especially with the appearance of the wither Wither Health points 300 ( × 150) 600 ( × 300) Pocket edition only] Armor points 4 () Attack strength Easy: 5 () Normal: 8 () Hard: 12 () Size Height: 3.5 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Spawn which is capable of breaking obsidian blocks with his attacks.

One of the first designs used the wither to break portions of the 5⃗5 obsidian spawn platform in the End, and regenerating it with a sand generator that pushed sand through the end portal situated in the overworld. This method was patched however when the wither was made to shoot blue skulls that were capable of breaking any block (before that the only way for it to break blocks was through getting damaged and breaking any block in a 3⃗3⃗4 area around it, making caging it quite simple with cobblestone generators). The following video is an explanation of how this method works. WARNING: this method works only in Minecraft 12w36a 12w36a Type Snapshot Release date Sep. 6, 2012 1] Snapshot for 1.4.2 Download Client Server .exe ◄◄ 1.3.2 ◄ 12w34b 12w37a ► 1.4.4 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, see and several earlier versions.

Recently a new method of caging the wither has been discovered that once more made an automatic obsidian farm possible. Once again it uses the wither to break portions of the End platform, but the process has been streamlined to deliver 9 obsidian per second consistently; meaning that it is possible to fill up a double-chest in 6.5 minutes. This works from Minecraft version 1.5 1.5 Official name Redstone Update Release date Mar. 13, 2013 1] Development versions View all Snapshots 13w01a 13w01b 13w02a 13w02b 13w03a 13w04a 13w05a 13w05b 13w06a 13w07a 13w09a 13w09b 13w09c 13w10a 13w10b Pre-releases 1.5-pre Download Client to 13w38c 13w38c Type Snapshot Release date Sep. 20, 2013 1] Snapshot for 1.7.2 Download Client (.json) Server ◄◄ 1.6.4 ◄ 13w38b 13w39a ► 1.7.4 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, see . WARNING: due to differences between single- and multi-player, this method is only 100% safe in multiplayer worlds; if set up in a single player world, the wither has around a 50% chance of escaping within 10 hours.

There is a modern way to farm obsidian using indestructible ender crystals This guide seeks to teach the player on how to obtain an indestructible ender crystal and inform you on their uses. Contents 1 How To Obtain One 2 Uses 2.1 The Beam 2.2 The "Indestructible" to trap the wither Wither Health points 300 ( × 150) 600 ( × 300) Pocket edition only] Armor points 4 () Attack strength Easy: 5 () Normal: 8 () Hard: 12 () Size Height: 3.5 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Spawn .

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General	Achievement guide Advancement guide Colonizing Combat Complete main adventure Creating a village Dual wielding End survival Exploring caverns Furniture Horses How to find caves Mapping Measuring distance Mining Diamonds Nether hub Nether portals Nether portal Consists of Obsidian Nether Portal Can generate post-generation Yes, when the player builds an appropriate frame and lights it with flint and steel First appearances See History See the structure. Nether survival Organization Pillar jumping PvP PvP bases The Void Time-saving tips Village mechanics Minecraft in education Breaking Bedrock Wither cage Indestructible Ender Crystals Respawning The Ender Dragon With Fewer Crystals Units of measure Challenges Adventure survival Beating a challenge map Creating a challenge map Defeating an ocean monument Defeating temples Defeating an end city Hardcore mode How to survive in a single area indefinitely Infinite desert survival Nomadic experience Superflat survival Ultra hardcore survival Defeating a woodland mansion Island survival Constructions Adding beauty to constructions Airlock Architectural terms Building a metropolis Building safe homes Defense Elevators Endless circling pool Pig parking Roof types Curved roofs Roof construction guidelines Roof decorations Secret door Settlement guide Underwater home Walls and buttresses Water gate Water tram Ranches Glazed terracotta patterns
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