It should mine the speed the stone pick does but have the same capabilities as a diamond. Last a long time, between iron and diamond. Not better that diamond.
It should have the durability of the iron pick but mine like a stone pick. Definitely blaze rods instead of sticks. I have used mods with this and they are bad@$$.
how about obsidian can not be enchanted, and it takes all effects away from blocks (prevents silverfish from spawning, or certain gravel blocks from exploding, or special wood blocks from rotting when mined) ..
Obsidian was actually used to make full blown tools unlike diamond. Especially by the Mexicans. The portal and explosive proof kinda is only a few purposes of it.
That is a purpose of diamond too. You are missing the point. If this were added, four of the six types of tools would be realistic. Diamond and gold are not. Good luck making a diamond sword in real life.
I found a picture of an obsidian sword that had nothing to do with Minecraft. When I looked up diamond sword, all I saw was Minecraft Minecraft Minecraft. That is a scary looking sword too. I would be scared if I saw that in real life.
Thats a dagger, obsidian found in a big enough piece to make a sword is incredibly rare if possible. Obsidian is incredibly sharp though but would break quickly. Possibly have high mining speed but durability slightly lower than iron? As its effective but only for a short time. But the game developers can do whatever they want as it is a game
Actually obsidian is stronger than steel but more brittle. Also, it would be harder to do that with diamond as you can melt obsidian into the wanted shape, as diamond would vaporize.Also, the community should have just as much say in what their copy of the game has, but nope, that is too much to ask for.
That is a purpose of diamond too. You are missing the point. If this were added, four of the six types of tools would be realistic. Diamond and gold are not. Good luck making a diamond sword in real life.
I found a picture of an obsidian sword that had nothing to do with Minecraft. When I looked up diamond sword, all I saw was Minecraft Minecraft Minecraft. That is a scary looking sword too. I would be scared if I saw that in real life.
That is pretty cool.
I've been thinking, a lot, and I think this could be added. Mining faster than iron but slightly slower than diamond, but weak durability (about 50-75 more than wood), and blaze rods for a handle would make this nicely balanced. I'm just going to get rid of my other post. Support.
Are you guys sure that you want more speed and low durability? I kinda want it the other way but then again I have soooo much obsidian and blaze rods that I can just bring a bunch. Actually, it would be better the other way, because diamond swords are the only swords that can be used throughout a whole night. At least make something that can be used for at least three nights picturing that you kill 30-50 mobs a night. The sword should be powerful, but enchantments would be more expensive for it. You know, just because it is obsidian, the sharpest thing on the frigging planet.
No support. Obsidian is infinite, HARDER THAN DIAMOND, so infinite OP tools.
No way Mojang/4J will add this. Obsidian is created when water touches lava source.
How much lava is in one map?
Start counting.
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The block obsidian is harder than diamond. The tools would be in between iron and diamond in durability and around stone in mining speed, but diamond in capabilities. Can mine everything a diamond can but with less durability and slower. Also it is well balanced because the handle is made of blaze rods. The whole tool is dangerous to obtain. Obsidian is dangerous to mine for because there is almost always lava under it and blaze rods are hard to get because the only way to obtain them is to kill the most hostile and dangerous mob in the game. Blazes shoot fire charges from afar, they ambush you around hallways and they deal a ton of melee damage. Unless for this, I would not go near those things. It is people like you that make me want to switch to PC. Oh, 4J will never add this crap. We should be allowed to have all the crap we want in our game without 4J implementing it in the form of mods. PC has mods, Xbox doesn't. For me, mods is the deciding factor. Also, we Xbox users have to deal with Microsoft's crap. Limited file size which prevents us from having infinite worlds, not ram like people think of it as, I will only use my PC for games like Minecraft but I am not gonna deal with things like DRM with the rest of the games.
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I am in complete support with everything you have said in this topic. But I believe the easiest way to change the downers mind would to let them use the obsidian tools as a mod on the PC. I also agree with who ever said about how each tier gets better in power and durability, the exception being gold. I think it would be cool to have more tools based on gold, not the low durability but having the idea of some tools mine faster or have a longer durability or having enhanced enchantments. More tools with an upside and a downside basically
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I found a picture of an obsidian sword that had nothing to do with Minecraft. When I looked up diamond sword, all I saw was Minecraft Minecraft Minecraft. That is a scary looking sword too. I would be scared if I saw that in real life.
I've been thinking, a lot, and I think this could be added. Mining faster than iron but slightly slower than diamond, but weak durability (about 50-75 more than wood), and blaze rods for a handle would make this nicely balanced. I'm just going to get rid of my other post. Support.
No way Mojang/4J will add this. Obsidian is created when water touches lava source.
How much lava is in one map?
Start counting.
1,2,3...
I am in complete support with everything you have said in this topic. But I believe the easiest way to change the downers mind would to let them use the obsidian tools as a mod on the PC. I also agree with who ever said about how each tier gets better in power and durability, the exception being gold. I think it would be cool to have more tools based on gold, not the low durability but having the idea of some tools mine faster or have a longer durability or having enhanced enchantments. More tools with an upside and a downside basically