How do you get Obsidian in Minecraft?

Obsidian is obtained through mining. No crafting grid makes Obsidian, and 3 recipes take it as an ingredient.

What is Obsidian used for?

Obsidian is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Beacon, Enchanting Table, and Ender Chest.

When was Obsidian added to Minecraft?

Obsidian was added in the early Alpha development period.

Where do you find Obsidian in chests?

Obsidian is chest loot in ruined portal chests (about 46%, 1 to 2 at a time), bastion chests (about 24%, 4 to 6 at a time), village weaponsmith chests (about 23%, 3 to 7 at a time), and nether fortress chests (roughly 1 in 13, 2 to 4 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.

How many Obsidian can you stack?

Obsidian at 64 a slot, and Beacon takes 3 per craft, so a full slot is 21 Beacon with nothing left over. A shulker box of Obsidian comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

How long does Obsidian take to break?

Obsidian has hardness 50, and it has blast resistance 1200. A resistance on Obsidian that far above the hardness on it is why people wall with it. Diamond is the minimum tier that actually collects Obsidian. Java 26.2 holds Obsidian at exactly those figures, timing on it aside.

Utility Blocks

Obsidian

An extremely blast-resistant block formed when water flows over a lava source. It is required to build nether portals, enchanting tables and beacons.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Obsidian at a glance

Mining gives you Obsidian, a block filed under Utility Blocks. Stack Obsidian 64 high: 576 across a hotbar, 1728 in a shulker box, and 3456 in a double chest.

Keep Obsidian around: 3 recipes here call for it, which makes it worth a slot in the storage room rather than something you gather per project. On the hardness scale Obsidian sits at 50. Blast resistance is a different story at 1200: creepers and TNT leave it standing. Diamond is the minimum tier that actually collects Obsidian. Of the 4 kinds of generated chest that can hold Obsidian, ruined portal chests are the best bet at about 46% per chest. It sits between Oak Trapdoor and Ominous Banner in Utility Blocks, number 225 of 340 there.

Used to craft

3 recipes call for Obsidian, from Beacon to Ender Chest, and Utility Blocks takes 3 of them. Every name in the list has a page of its own, grid included, with Obsidian in it.

How to obtain

Mining

Notes

Requires a diamond or netherite pickaxe to mine, taking about 9.4 seconds. Created by placing water on a lava source block.

Frequently asked questions about Obsidian

How do you get Obsidian in Minecraft?
Obsidian is obtained through mining. No crafting grid makes Obsidian, and 3 recipes take it as an ingredient.
What is Obsidian used for?
Obsidian is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Beacon, Enchanting Table, and Ender Chest.
When was Obsidian added to Minecraft?
Obsidian was added in the early Alpha development period.
Where do you find Obsidian in chests?
Obsidian is chest loot in ruined portal chests (about 46%, 1 to 2 at a time), bastion chests (about 24%, 4 to 6 at a time), village weaponsmith chests (about 23%, 3 to 7 at a time), and nether fortress chests (roughly 1 in 13, 2 to 4 at a time). Those odds are per chest, and Luck does not move them.
How many Obsidian can you stack?
Obsidian at 64 a slot, and Beacon takes 3 per craft, so a full slot is 21 Beacon with nothing left over. A shulker box of Obsidian comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.
How long does Obsidian take to break?
Obsidian has hardness 50, and it has blast resistance 1200. A resistance on Obsidian that far above the hardness on it is why people wall with it. Diamond is the minimum tier that actually collects Obsidian. Java 26.2 holds Obsidian at exactly those figures, timing on it aside.

Building with it

Obsidian forms where water meets a lava source, and only a diamond or netherite pickaxe brings it home. It is the portal frame, the enchanting table ingredient and the ender chest material, and at 1200 blast resistance it is the block players build around a base they expect to be attacked.

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