Obsidian

Obtaining and breaking Obsidian

• Any suitable tool is the recorded preferred tool for Obsidian, and the registry marks a suitable tool as required for the intended drop.
• Its recorded hardness is 50. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.

What to use Obsidian for

3 current recipe relationships are recorded for Obsidian. These links include recipes that produce the block and recipes that consume it as an ingredient.

• Ingredient for Beacon.
• Ingredient for Enchanting Table.
• Ingredient for Ender Chest.
• Obsidian is used by 3 recorded recipes, including Beacon, Enchanting Table, Ender Chest.
• One full inventory stack holds 64 Obsidian blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.

• Beacon Recipe has 2 current variants.
• Enchanting Table Recipe has 2 current variants.
• Ender Chest Recipe has 2 current variants.

Build and technical notes

• Obsidian is a natural & decorative blocks block identified as minecraft:obsidian. Its material, collision, light and recipe relationships below are the useful details for building, survival collection and commands.
• The recorded collision shape is “block”. Collision is a gameplay property, so do not infer it only from the block's visible model.
• Obsidian has 1 recorded Java block-state combination, so its base state is comparatively simple.
• Its recorded blast resistance is 1200; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.

Java and Bedrock differences

• Obsidian exists in both tracked editions. Java uses minecraft:obsidian; Bedrock uses minecraft:obsidian.
• The available hardness, blast-resistance and preferred-tool records do not show a cross-edition conflict for this block.

Command and version data

/give @p minecraft:obsidian 64

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