Glowing Obsidian

Glowing obsidian is an unobtainable decorative block that emits light.

Obtaining[]

Glowing obsidian drops itself only when mined with a diamond pickaxe or netherite pickaxe; otherwise, it drops nothing.

Block	Glowing Obsidian
Hardness	50
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default	250
Wooden	125
Stone	62.5
Iron	41.7
Diamond	9.4
Netherite	8.35
Golden	20.85

Usage[]

Glowing Obsidian can be used for decoration, though add-ons or inventory editors are the only ways to obtain it.

Light[]

Glowing obsidian emits a light level of 12.

Sounds[]

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.37	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
tile.glowingobsidian.name	glowingobsidian	246	Block & Ungiveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	—

History[]

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.5.0					Added glowing obsidian.
					Glowing obsidian is generated from the conversion of the blocks that make up the reactor (nether reactor core, cobblestone and gold blocks) upon activation.
					Glowing obsidian cannot be retrieved as a drop, instead regular obsidian is dropped.
					Glowing obsidian takes the same amount of time to mine as obsidian using any pickaxe.
					Glowing obsidian is a solid block that emits a light level of 12.
					Glowing obsidian emits red smoke particles within proximity to it so long as it exists.
					Glowing obsidian turns into obsidian after a short amount of time.
					Glowing obsidian has the same blast resistance as normal obsidian.
					If the nether reactor core is mined out while the nether reactor was active, the glowing obsidian won't turn into obsidian after the reactor is deactivated. This is also caused by the reactor to stop spawning items. If the gold blocks are mined out before they change to glowing obsidian, the gold blocks are preserved, and the nether reactor continues spawning items.
v0.7.1					Wooden and stone pickaxes no longer make glowing obsidian yield obsidian.
v0.7.3					Glowing obsidian now requires a diamond pickaxe to mine (iron pickaxes no longer drop glowing obsidian).
v0.8.0		build 1			Glowing obsidian no longer has a red background in the inventory due to changes with how inventory icons are generated.
v0.12.1		build 1			Glowing Obsidian can no longer be obtained, though any existing blocks remain.
Bedrock Edition
?					Glowing obsidian now drops itself when mined, instead of normal obsidian.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added glowing obsidian.

Issues[]

Glowing obsidian is an unsupported block, and as such, issues relating to them may not be fixed.

Trivia[]

• Glowing obsidian makes an appearance in Minecraft: Story Mode - Season Two, spawning around the observer when Jesse places the structure block and on the bottom of the obsidian cages Vos was in.
• Glowing obsidian has no name assigned to it, so its in-game name appears as tile.glowingobsidian.name,^[1] although it can be assigned a custom name using a resource pack with a language file.
• Glowing obsidian is 2 levels brighter than crying obsidian. However, at the time when the glowing obsidian was available, the crying obsidian was not implemented until the release of the Nether Update.

Gallery[]

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  Glowing obsidian being mined with an iron pickaxe in version 0.7.1.

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  Comparison of glowing obsidian, crying obsidian, and regular obsidian.

See also[]

• Nether Reactor
• Nether Reactor Core
• Obsidian
• Crying Obsidian

References[]