Thats a good way to do if it you need something formed into pillars or shapes like that, nice. All you really need to make obsidian though is to have a lava spring, that being a block of lava that is not moving at all and is one full block, and to have water come into contact with it. You can do it the way shown in the video, or you can get buckets of lava and pour them into water, which will also make obsidian. The only hard thing is getting enough lava buckts.
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Yup. It's called 'casting' obsidian, and the main issue with it is getting the lava springs to begin with, since you can't do an infinite spring like you can w/ water.
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Hate to say it(but I bet I get ninjad), but this is kind of old, it is definently faster the mining the obsidian, but also perminently destroys a lava spring :sad.gif:
Read more of the thread, you can mine obsidian with a diamond pickaxe, but takes something like 15 seconds to mine a single block of the stuff, as for your actual question, yes, once mined, you can, actually, pick the block up
Get a stopwatch and time it. You can download stop watches on the Internet.
Everyone must remember: even if you mine your obsidian, that too must have once been lava. Unless you found a naturally frozen obsidian area, then it will always be available as lava first.
Obsidian only becomes a viable resource if you have more than five buckets, twenty wil probably being much better. The amount of steel is high, but that is only a one time expenditure (unless buckets are melted by lava later). By simply bucketing your lava up, and using ladders/stairs/boatlifts to get up, and instant drops down, you can be way faster than waiting for the blocks to break.
No one should ever use a pickaxe to obtain obsidian. TNT is the best way to break it in sieges, and lava bucketing is the best for constructing the wall in the first place.
go build that indestructible castle you ve always yearned for!
well that isnt gonna be available in SMP
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Edit: oh god, ninjad 7 times!
You must use a diamond pickaxe.
What he said, but even then it still takes 15 seconds or something iirc
An alternative would be, as inventory data must be stored somewhere, and I assume it'll be stored on the hosts computer.
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You don't need to waste lava springs at all.
No, it doesn't. Only the spring becomes obsidian.
Read more of the thread, you can mine obsidian with a diamond pickaxe, but takes something like 15 seconds to mine a single block of the stuff, as for your actual question, yes, once mined, you can, actually, pick the block up
Everyone must remember: even if you mine your obsidian, that too must have once been lava. Unless you found a naturally frozen obsidian area, then it will always be available as lava first.
Obsidian only becomes a viable resource if you have more than five buckets, twenty wil probably being much better. The amount of steel is high, but that is only a one time expenditure (unless buckets are melted by lava later). By simply bucketing your lava up, and using ladders/stairs/boatlifts to get up, and instant drops down, you can be way faster than waiting for the blocks to break.
No one should ever use a pickaxe to obtain obsidian. TNT is the best way to break it in sieges, and lava bucketing is the best for constructing the wall in the first place.
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