my friend that goes by the name Endmxn wants to know why enchanting tables take a shorter amount of time to break if there are 4 pieces of obsidian in it and only one piece of obsidian takes longer
My only guess is that is that enchanting tables are mostly player created interactive items, and despite comprising of obsidian, would serve little real purpose to take a really long time to break. Imagine wanting to move it and having to spend all that time. It's also "just" a table as opposed to a full block, and is probably 3/5 of the Obsidian content that an actual block is (Wiki says it's 3/4 of a block height-wise as far as the game is concerned, but depending on how much room they take up, the Red covering and the diamond corners may reduce that a bit more, so I'm roughly saying it's 3/5 the content of a full block). So, despite needing 4 of it for material cost and to make sense in the crafting grid, it's less in the finished product. Why? No idea. You'd have to have 1 Obsidian block break down into 4 "lesser" types of blocks (think logs into planks) to have it make sense but that'd serve little real game-play purpose. It just needs 4 blocks for the cost and to make sense in the grid.
Similarly, the Ender Dragon can break this block, despite it being made of Obsidian. Minecraft is nonsensical like that.
my friend that goes by the name Endmxn wants to know why enchanting tables take a shorter amount of time to break if there are 4 pieces of obsidian in it and only one piece of obsidian takes longer
My only guess is that is that enchanting tables are mostly player created interactive items, and despite comprising of obsidian, would serve little real purpose to take a really long time to break. Imagine wanting to move it and having to spend all that time. It's also "just" a table as opposed to a full block, and is probably 3/5 of the Obsidian content that an actual block is (Wiki says it's 3/4 of a block height-wise as far as the game is concerned, but depending on how much room they take up, the Red covering and the diamond corners may reduce that a bit more, so I'm roughly saying it's 3/5 the content of a full block). So, despite needing 4 of it for material cost and to make sense in the crafting grid, it's less in the finished product. Why? No idea. You'd have to have 1 Obsidian block break down into 4 "lesser" types of blocks (think logs into planks) to have it make sense but that'd serve little real game-play purpose. It just needs 4 blocks for the cost and to make sense in the grid.
Similarly, the Ender Dragon can break this block, despite it being made of Obsidian. Minecraft is nonsensical like that.
The enchanting table is magic and briefly gives you haste 5 while you mine it