In the upcoming Halloween patch it will be used to make portal to the nexus
They traded obsidian that came from different parts of Mesoamerica.
Yes, natural obsidian can chip, crack, and break if hit by something. Aztecs used obsidian in arrow heads, and you can easily chip obsidian with a well placed hit with a rock. In other words: you can break obsidian easily.
Making a cutting tool using obsidian rock is quite easy. The cavemen used to smack pieces of obsidian with other rocks until the obsidian was thin and sharp as a knife.
Obsidian is typically mined through the use of a diamond-tipped pickaxe due to its hardness. Miners can mine obsidian by breaking the blocks with the pickaxe, but it is a slow process because obsidian takes a longer time to break than other minerals. Once mined, obsidian can be crafted into various tools and blocks for use in Minecraft.
It can be use for jewellery and stone age arrowheads, as the obsidian was much sharper when made into a specific shape. It can be sharpened to a very thin thickness. It is very shiny and is black. This is why Obsidian is common to be used in jewellery. Obsidian is igneous rock, which means that it was formed either inside (intrusive) or outside (extrusive) of the volcano. Igneous rocks are basically cooled lava, or magma.
Nothing can explode obsidian up to minecraft 1.2.5
No. Only a Diamond Pickaxe can mine obsidian.
You need a Diamond pickaxe to mine Obsidian.
In the latest Minecraft, you can.
you mine obsidian with diamond pickaxes
There's no such thing as an obsidian sword unless you have mods installed.
You need a Diamond Pick to harvest obsidian blocks.
The ID is : 49
Only with a diamond pickaxe.
No. Any explosions, no matter TNT or creeper, can destroy obsidian
No, you need a diamond pickaxe to mine obsidian.
Obsidian is usually found in caves underground where flowing water hits still lava.