Q&A for How to Make Obsidian in Minecraft

Use the efficiency enchantment. The higher the efficiency, the better it will work.

First of all, you can't use an iron pickaxe to mine obsidian. If you do, the obisidian will break and it will not be given to you. So just use a diamond pickaxe.

You simply craft an iron pickaxe, dig down, and search for them! They can sometimes be found more frequently near lava.

Surface lava naturally spawns in random biomes (mainly desert), so there is no real way of finding surface lava like you could with mines, villages, etc.

No.

Yes. You will need a diamond pickaxe to mine it. Explosions will also destroy; however, obsidian has the highest possible blast resistance in survival mode (shared with anvils), at 6000.

Anything above 1.10 will work, anything below it will not. You'll need to update your PE.

You need a wooden pickaxe or better to break granite. Just hold the pickaxe in your hand and hold down the button you use to mine until it breaks.

Crying obsidian can be used to craft a respawn anchor, which sets your spawnpoint in the Nether. Additionally, it also gives off light when placed.

Just go to the Nether and walk around until you find one. They generate in any Nether biome. If you have cheats enabled in your world, you can open chat and enter '/locate fortress' to find the nearest nether fortress.

No, you cannot create obsidian using a crafting table. You have to mine it, find it in chests, or trade for it.

First, make sure you have the best weapon and armor available to you, whether that be iron, diamond, or netherite. Get some blocks and find an enderman. Build up 3 blocks high near the enderman and build a small roof thats about 2x2 or 3x3 blocks, with 2 blocks underneath. Stand under the roof and look at the enderman to aggravate it. Hit the enderman until it dies.

Crying obsidian can be obtained from ruined portals, which are structures that generate throughout the overworld and the nether.

You could practice surviving on the regular map by fighting one of your friends, and once you feel ready you could just risk it. And you may also want to take your most strong armor and sword (and pickaxe if you're going to go mining) that you have a duplicate of. Another tip is that you set it to peaceful mode.

Either place blocks around it to prevent it from flowing, or place a bucket of lava on every block in your lava pool.

Sure. On the ground, in the air, underwater, the only thing that matters is the size. The mininum size for a nether portal is 4 blocks wide by 5 blocks tall, while the maximum is 23 blocks wide by 23 blocks tall.

No, only diamond and netherite pickaxes can mine obsidian, regardless of enchantments.

I'm assuming by "unstationary" lava you mean to say "flowing" lava; the answer is, you can't. Obsidian can only be made by having water flow into a lava "source block"; if the water flows into flowing lava, it'll form cobblestone (this is how cobblestone generators work).

Yes. As of 1.16, you can find obsidian in village blacksmith house and ruined portal chests.

No. The explosion has as much power as TNT. It would be better to mine for three diamonds rather than farming wither skeleton skulls in the nether and risking your life.

There is no obsidian sword in vanilla Minecraft; you would have to download a mod to get one (and then damage would be determined by the mod).

No, the ender dragon cannot destroy obsidian.