I have a question about gathering mass amounts of obsidian. Would making a portal in the over world, going to the nether and mining that one, then making another nether portal in the nether and mining the one it makes in the overworld be a viable way to gather large amounts of obsidian, and do you understand what I mean by that?
If you have the most up-to-date version of minecraft, portal farming, is your best bet. Do keep in mind, you will have to build the new one a few blocks a way, or you'll end up at the same portal. I think 16 blocks in the nether is the minimum.
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The easiest way to mine obsidian is surely to dump a bucket of water on a lava lake and start digging while standing in a water filled trench so any lava exposed while digging is turned to obsidian?
If you can find a big enough lake, maybe. With a trench of water, you risk drowning. Replacing the water doesn't always work out, for the best. Usually, the water will make a b-line for the closest hole. that limits the amount of obsidian you can mine. And digging the wrong block, you could lose the obsidian, you just mined, or get hit by lava.
Using portals you can get, essentially, infinite obsidian, using as little as 20 blocks of obsidian.
Lava lakes on the surface are rare. Searching for them, underground, is tedious and only useful if you, also, want cobblestone.
Like Volcano said, farming the end is also a viable option. However, that requires finding an end portal and defeating, the enderdragon. Who, if I remember correctly, was buffed in 1.9, making the fight much harder.
If you can find a big enough lake, maybe. With a trench of water, you risk drowning. Replacing the water doesn't always work out, for the best. Usually, the water will make a b-line for the closest hole. that limits the amount of obsidian you can mine. And digging the wrong block, you could lose the obsidian, you just mined, or get hit by lava.
Using portals you can get, essentially, infinite obsidian, using as little as 20 blocks of obsidian.
Lava lakes on the surface are rare. Searching for them, underground, is tedious and only useful if you, also, want cobblestone.
I don't think we're playing the same game, you should try mining sometime, there's lots more than cobblestone and lava down there, there's diamonds, iron, redstone, coal, lapis.
You don't risk drowning in a trench if you only have water at the bottom of it and pouring water over a lava lake gives you a flat surface, there are no holes except the one you're digging, and that's where you have the water, there's nowhere else for it to go.
It's probably easier to farm the entry platform in The End than it is to farm nether portals. Sleep in a bed next to the End Portal in a stronghold, then jump in. I assume you;ve already killed the enderdragon, but you should definitely off him first before trying this. Mine the obsidian of the entry platform, jump in the exit portal, skip the End Poem since you've read it already, reappear at your bed, jump in the End Portal, and repeat. Once 1.9 hits, you can mine out the Obsidian Pillars in the end, respawn the dragon, and then the pillars will magically re-appear to be mined once the dragon is again dead. But it's probably less of a hassle to just farm the Entry platform.
But if you've done much caving or diamond mining at near-bedrock depths, you've surely run into multiple lava lakes. Use water to obsidianize those and you can get large amounts of obsidian fairly quickly as well. And as a bonus, you remove pesky lava lakes that are in the way of your mining tunnels, and uncover hidden diamond, redstone, and other valuable ore deposits on the bottom of the lava lake, something you're not gonna find under the Entry platform in the End.
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The quickest way is the pillars in 1.9. Mining the end platform is only, what, 16 blocks of obsidian? And then you'd have to go to the exit portal and do it all over again. Lots of terrain downloading.
Or knock out all your birds in a single trip and just cave. Get your diamond for your pickaxes, lapiz for your enchants, gold for your thrones and apples, iron for your anvils and iron friends, and everything else. What are you needing that much black rock for anyway?
But I am curious, what, besides Skyblock, would make anybody want/need to farm obsidian or cobblestone?
Other than skyblock platforming material, ex nihilo makes cobblestone the start of its ore generation system. Then there's bedrockium, which is made by combining 9 cobble into a block of the next tier of compressed cobblestone...all the way up to 8x compressed cobblestone which you can smelt in a furnace (you need only compress up to 3x and 4x if you add in a diamond block).
Vanilla, cobble is pretty much a standard building material for ghastproofing the nether, being usable in its raw form or via further processing (smooth stone and stone bricks).
Other than skyblock platforming material, ex nihilo makes cobblestone the start of its ore generation system. Then there's bedrockium, which is made by combining 9 cobble into a block of the next tier of compressed cobblestone...all the way up to 8x compressed cobblestone which you can smelt in a furnace (you need only compress up to 3x and 4x if you add in a diamond block).
Vanilla, cobble is pretty much a standard building material for ghastproofing the nether, being usable in its raw form or via further processing (smooth stone and stone bricks).
Ah, you missunderstand me, I understand why people would want cobblestone and obsidian, just not why farming would be considered preferable to plain mining for such easily found materials.
Maybe that's because I enjoy mining and have no problem finding lava lakes and I'd rather just stay in one place and mine out a lava lake than run around creating new portals.
Ah, you missunderstand me, I understand why people would want cobblestone and obsidian, just not why farming would be considered preferable to plain mining for such easily found materials.
Maybe that's because I enjoy mining and have no problem finding lava lakes and I'd rather just stay in one place and mine out a lava lake than run around creating new portals.
Yes I quite agree. I think people ask because they're always looking for an easier way.
I did recently break down and make a smoothstone generator at my base because I was exhausting my supply of stone faster than I was acquiring it through mining, and I didn't want to dig a big hole for no reason. However, soon after making it, the idea of digging a big hole inspired me to envision a large open mushroom cave down in my mine. I have mostly excavated just the bottom shape and now have 3 double chests of stone, so sadly my stone generator sits idle for the foreseeable future.
I have a question about gathering mass amounts of obsidian. Would making a portal in the over world, going to the nether and mining that one, then making another nether portal in the nether and mining the one it makes in the overworld be a viable way to gather large amounts of obsidian, and do you understand what I mean by that?
Thanks!
You'd have to take the lava to the overworld to turn it to obsidian, and you'd have to go pretty far from your original portal to make a new one spawn. Otherwise you would just come out through the same portal in the overworld.
I also prefer just mining out lava lakes. I use Eff V diamond picks; with that, and a Haste II beacon, it takes about 5 seconds to mine each block of obby.
You'd have to take the lava to the overworld to turn it to obsidian, and you'd have to go pretty far from your original portal to make a new one spawn. Otherwise you would just come out through the same portal in the overworld.
They aren't talking about collecting lava but chopping down the portal to get its obsidian, and then going around again and chopping down the newly generated portal, again and again until they have all the obsidian they want.
And you only need to go 16 or so blocks in the Nether to get a new portal in the Overworld 128 blocks or so from the original.
In the Overworld, on the other hand, you need to go at least 1028 blocks to get a new portal in the Nether.
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I find that he easiest way, is to bring buckets to the nether, and filling them with lava. Then going back to the over world, and outing them in 1 block deep holes, then pour water over them. That is just my preference and there might be a better way... But I hoped this helped!
I don't like pouring water directly on a lava lake. Too much risk of getting hurt, and losing blocks that fall into the lava. So I use buckets to collect lava, instead (make sure you have enough space for all the full buckets!). I have a chest set up near my lava collection area to quickly swap full buckets for empty ones. Once the lava's collected, there are two options. One is to pour the lava into 1-block-deep pits (I made mine 4x2 blocks big, so each holds 8 buckets of lava), then dump water over them (stand on a slab or block, so the flowing water doesn't push you into another lava pit). The other option is to bring the lava buckets to your building site and turn the lava into obsidian right where you want it. Temporary frameworks made from dirt prevent the lava from spreading.
I used these methods to get a lot of obsidian to build a creeper-proof catacomb under my castle. It still takes time end effort of course, but accidentally falling into lava from time to time, and possibly losing your entire inventory of obsidian and enchanted diamond pickaxes, wastes even more time and effort!
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I have a question about gathering mass amounts of obsidian. Would making a portal in the over world, going to the nether and mining that one, then making another nether portal in the nether and mining the one it makes in the overworld be a viable way to gather large amounts of obsidian, and do you understand what I mean by that?
Thanks!
If you have the most up-to-date version of minecraft, portal farming, is your best bet. Do keep in mind, you will have to build the new one a few blocks a way, or you'll end up at the same portal. I think 16 blocks in the nether is the minimum.
If you have a version of minecraft before 1.8, there is a generator you can use:
It's the last build about 12 minutes in. THIS IS A BUG! NO LONGER USABLE IN 1.8!
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No. Once 1.9 comes out you can easily kill the Ender Dragon again and the obsidian pillars will move/regenerate.
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The easiest way to mine obsidian is surely to dump a bucket of water on a lava lake and start digging while standing in a water filled trench so any lava exposed while digging is turned to obsidian?
Just testing.
If you can find a big enough lake, maybe. With a trench of water, you risk drowning. Replacing the water doesn't always work out, for the best. Usually, the water will make a b-line for the closest hole. that limits the amount of obsidian you can mine. And digging the wrong block, you could lose the obsidian, you just mined, or get hit by lava.
Using portals you can get, essentially, infinite obsidian, using as little as 20 blocks of obsidian.
Lava lakes on the surface are rare. Searching for them, underground, is tedious and only useful if you, also, want cobblestone.
Like Volcano said, farming the end is also a viable option. However, that requires finding an end portal and defeating, the enderdragon. Who, if I remember correctly, was buffed in 1.9, making the fight much harder.
I'm pretty sure you could farm the spawn platform in the End. I believe it always regenerates whenever a player re-enters the end.
I don't think we're playing the same game, you should try mining sometime, there's lots more than cobblestone and lava down there, there's diamonds, iron, redstone, coal, lapis.
You don't risk drowning in a trench if you only have water at the bottom of it and pouring water over a lava lake gives you a flat surface, there are no holes except the one you're digging, and that's where you have the water, there's nowhere else for it to go.
Just testing.
It's probably easier to farm the entry platform in The End than it is to farm nether portals. Sleep in a bed next to the End Portal in a stronghold, then jump in. I assume you;ve already killed the enderdragon, but you should definitely off him first before trying this. Mine the obsidian of the entry platform, jump in the exit portal, skip the End Poem since you've read it already, reappear at your bed, jump in the End Portal, and repeat. Once 1.9 hits, you can mine out the Obsidian Pillars in the end, respawn the dragon, and then the pillars will magically re-appear to be mined once the dragon is again dead. But it's probably less of a hassle to just farm the Entry platform.
But if you've done much caving or diamond mining at near-bedrock depths, you've surely run into multiple lava lakes. Use water to obsidianize those and you can get large amounts of obsidian fairly quickly as well. And as a bonus, you remove pesky lava lakes that are in the way of your mining tunnels, and uncover hidden diamond, redstone, and other valuable ore deposits on the bottom of the lava lake, something you're not gonna find under the Entry platform in the End.
The quickest way is the pillars in 1.9. Mining the end platform is only, what, 16 blocks of obsidian? And then you'd have to go to the exit portal and do it all over again. Lots of terrain downloading.
Or knock out all your birds in a single trip and just cave. Get your diamond for your pickaxes, lapiz for your enchants, gold for your thrones and apples, iron for your anvils and iron friends, and everything else. What are you needing that much black rock for anyway?
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I realize and accept that people have different play styles and like/dislike doing different things.
But I am curious, what, besides Skyblock, would make anybody want/need to farm obsidian or cobblestone?
Just testing.
I was more curious when I asked, but maybe an overworld gold farm
Other than skyblock platforming material, ex nihilo makes cobblestone the start of its ore generation system. Then there's bedrockium, which is made by combining 9 cobble into a block of the next tier of compressed cobblestone...all the way up to 8x compressed cobblestone which you can smelt in a furnace (you need only compress up to 3x and 4x if you add in a diamond block).
Vanilla, cobble is pretty much a standard building material for ghastproofing the nether, being usable in its raw form or via further processing (smooth stone and stone bricks).
Ah, you missunderstand me, I understand why people would want cobblestone and obsidian, just not why farming would be considered preferable to plain mining for such easily found materials.
Maybe that's because I enjoy mining and have no problem finding lava lakes and I'd rather just stay in one place and mine out a lava lake than run around creating new portals.
Just testing.
Yes I quite agree. I think people ask because they're always looking for an easier way.
I did recently break down and make a smoothstone generator at my base because I was exhausting my supply of stone faster than I was acquiring it through mining, and I didn't want to dig a big hole for no reason. However, soon after making it, the idea of digging a big hole inspired me to envision a large open mushroom cave down in my mine. I have mostly excavated just the bottom shape and now have 3 double chests of stone, so sadly my stone generator sits idle for the foreseeable future.
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You'd have to take the lava to the overworld to turn it to obsidian, and you'd have to go pretty far from your original portal to make a new one spawn. Otherwise you would just come out through the same portal in the overworld.
I also prefer just mining out lava lakes. I use Eff V diamond picks; with that, and a Haste II beacon, it takes about 5 seconds to mine each block of obby.
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They aren't talking about collecting lava but chopping down the portal to get its obsidian, and then going around again and chopping down the newly generated portal, again and again until they have all the obsidian they want.
And you only need to go 16 or so blocks in the Nether to get a new portal in the Overworld 128 blocks or so from the original.
In the Overworld, on the other hand, you need to go at least 1028 blocks to get a new portal in the Nether.
Just testing.
I find that he easiest way, is to bring buckets to the nether, and filling them with lava. Then going back to the over world, and outing them in 1 block deep holes, then pour water over them. That is just my preference and there might be a better way... But I hoped this helped!
I don't like pouring water directly on a lava lake. Too much risk of getting hurt, and losing blocks that fall into the lava. So I use buckets to collect lava, instead (make sure you have enough space for all the full buckets!). I have a chest set up near my lava collection area to quickly swap full buckets for empty ones. Once the lava's collected, there are two options. One is to pour the lava into 1-block-deep pits (I made mine 4x2 blocks big, so each holds 8 buckets of lava), then dump water over them (stand on a slab or block, so the flowing water doesn't push you into another lava pit). The other option is to bring the lava buckets to your building site and turn the lava into obsidian right where you want it. Temporary frameworks made from dirt prevent the lava from spreading.
I used these methods to get a lot of obsidian to build a creeper-proof catacomb under my castle. It still takes time end effort of course, but accidentally falling into lava from time to time, and possibly losing your entire inventory of obsidian and enchanted diamond pickaxes, wastes even more time and effort!
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