You can't pick up obsidian and just place it, you need to use lava spring block with water.
Proof of concept house.
here's how I did it:
[gold] lava
[iron] water
dirt
air
Top layer
[gold]
Bottom layer
[iron]
[iron]
You remove the soil underneath the lava spring block and obsidian appears.
This can then be used together with infinite water ( [iron] [iron] [iron] ) and taking care with the lava block, then you only need one lava block to make the biggest of creations.
Lava only turns into obsidian if it is touching a lava spring block, like this:
So basically you have to cast the structure in forms 1 layer at a time.
Kinda like you would do with concrete IRL, except with lava on top.
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I thought you'd contracted a disease that gave you the same metabolism as an oak tree - Maggarg II
It heals all of your goddamn hearts! - kittensamurai
Yeah pretty much but there is one quirk. The cast wont take on still water most of the time some the ends of walls can be tricky. Ive already cast a small 5x5x4 home using this concept at about 4 EST and I plan on bigger projects in the future.
EDIT: I forgot to mention bring lots o dirt if you hope to cast something for that tiny house alone I used over one full stack easy.
While searching for lava by building a small mine to hopefully find a Cave, I manage to find the bottom of the world. And then what's under the bottom of the world.
While searching for lava by building a small mine to hopefully find a Cave, I manage to find the bottom of the world. And then what's under the bottom of the world.
Can you break obsidian or adminium, and can you pick either one up?
bedrock (aka adminium), no.
obsidian can be broken, but it currently drops nothing. It also takes forever to mine with a pickaxe, making it an effective material for building walls (so long as the wall is at least 2 blocks thick, as per explosives research)
Once/If Notch makes it to where obsidian can be placed normally after being carved out (maybe using a diamond pickaxe?), it'll really be a viable building material.
Proof of concept house.
here's how I did it:
[gold] lava
[iron] water
dirt
air
Top layer
[gold]
Bottom layer
[iron]
[iron]
You remove the soil underneath the lava spring block and obsidian appears.
This can then be used together with infinite water ( [iron] [iron] [iron] ) and taking care with the lava block, then you only need one lava block to make the biggest of creations.
Lava only turns into obsidian if it is touching a lava spring block, like this:
[gold]
Kinda like you would do with concrete IRL, except with lava on top.
It heals all of your goddamn hearts! - kittensamurai
EDIT: I forgot to mention bring lots o dirt if you hope to cast something for that tiny house alone I used over one full stack easy.
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Especially if you are making it part by part.
and for the still water part, that's why you need the dirt underneath the lava.
It turned into a large glump of Cobble stone :C
same here. but eventually after a string of failures littered all over my beach I got something close to his, now onward to a castle!
http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a377/ ... LWUT-2.png
Direct link because big picture is big.
:shock:
... does this mean the worlds flat? or just hollow on the inside?
no more infinite lava makes mesa sad.
bedrock (aka adminium), no.
obsidian can be broken, but it currently drops nothing. It also takes forever to mine with a pickaxe, making it an effective material for building walls (so long as the wall is at least 2 blocks thick, as per explosives research)
Once/If Notch makes it to where obsidian can be placed normally after being carved out (maybe using a diamond pickaxe?), it'll really be a viable building material.