Crying Obsidian

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Crying obsidian is a luminous variant of obsidian that can be used to craft respawn anchors. Purple particles drip from its faces. Like obsidian, It has high hardness and blast resistance, making it immune to normal explosions. It can be obtained by mining it with a diamond or netherite pickaxe, and it cannot be crafted.

There is no way to convert normal obsidian into crying obsidian. It can be obtained only via the methods listed below.

The suitable tool to break crying obsidian is pickaxe. Crying obsidian needs to be broken using a diamond pickaxe or better, otherwise the breaking time will increase and the block drops nothing.

Crying obsidian drops itself when it's destroyed.

Crying obsidian generates as part of some ruined portals. Each obsidian has a 15% chance to generate as crying obsidian.

{ "item": "Crying Obsidian", "stacksize": "1–5", "chance": 0.22793887963348602, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Hoglin stable chest" }

{ "item": "Crying Obsidian", "stacksize": "3–5", "chance": 0.33668648071940255, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Treasure chest" }

{ "item": "Crying Obsidian", "stacksize": "1–5", "chance": 0.18999999999999995, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Generic chest" }

{ "item": "Crying Obsidian", "stacksize": "3–8", "chance": 0.11242603550295849, "structure": "Bastion Remnant", "container": "Bridge chest" }

Piglins have a ~8.53% chance (⁴⁰⁄₄₆₉) to barter 1–3 crying obsidian when given a gold ingot. This is both the most reliable way to obtain crying obsidian, and also the only renewable source of it.

Much like obsidian, crying obsidian is a resilient building block. It has a blast resistance of 1,200 and cannot be destroyed by the ender dragon. However, crying obsidian cannot be used to create a nether portal frame,^[1] and the End crystal is unable to be placed on it.^[2]

When placed, crying obsidian occasionally produces purple dripping particles, which are purely decorative.

Particles emitted from crying obsidian can pass through certain non-solid blocks, such as glow lichen and sculk veins.

Crying obsidian gives off a light level of 10, which does not melt snow or ice. Its blast resistance distinguishes it from other light-emitting blocks.

Crying obsidian cannot be pushed by pistons, and cannot be pulled by sticky pistons.

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Issues relating to "Crying Obsidian" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• When it was originally going to be added in Beta 1.3, it was going to act as a way to reset the player’s spawn point and would be crafted using lapis lazuli.^{[citation needed]} When beds were added, they took this role instead. In 1.16, the respawn anchor was added, which is crafted with crying obsidian.
• According to Brandon Pearce, crying obsidian was added when they wanted to have cracked obsidian for the ruined nether portals. They decided to add it as crying obsidian instead because it was more unique and due to high player demand.^{[citation needed]}
• The team considered having crying obsidian be obtained by throwing obsidian through a nether portal, or by having regular obsidian be struck by lightning. However, they chose bartering with piglins as a way to make bartering useful.^[8]
• The earliest known instance of a developer referring to the original crying obsidian texture as "crying obsidian"^[9] significantly postdates the name's general adoption by the community. The earliest known usages of the name "crying obsidian"^[10][11] are from about two months earlier. As it had no given name, it was first referred to as a "mystery block" with crying obsidian being given as one potential name among others, such as "bleeding obsidian".^{[12][13][14][15]}

• 👁 A crying obsidian “crying”.
  
  A crying obsidian “crying”.

• 👁 A comparison between glowing obsidian (left), crying obsidian (middle), and regular obsidian (right)
  
  A comparison between glowing obsidian (left), crying obsidian (middle), and regular obsidian (right)
• 👁 A bunch of crying obsidian placed in the Nether.
  
  A bunch of crying obsidian placed in the Nether.
• 👁 Obsidian and crying obsidian, as they appear in the Programmer Art resource pack. Note how it still produces purple particles.
  
  Obsidian and crying obsidian, as they appear in the Programmer Art resource pack. Note how it still produces purple particles.
• 👁 A picture of crying obsidian part of a ruined portal.
  
  A picture of crying obsidian part of a ruined portal.
• 👁 Crying obsidian in the overworld.
  
  Crying obsidian in the overworld.
• 👁 Crying obsidian with programmer art textures.
  
  Crying obsidian with programmer art textures.

• 👁 Artwork of crying obsidian used in Block of the Week
  
  Artwork of crying obsidian used in Block of the Week
• 👁 Efe pointing at Kai's castle made of crying obsidian
  
  Efe pointing at Kai's castle made of crying obsidian

• 👁 Image
  Glowing Obsidian
• 👁 Image
  Obsidian

• "Block of the Week: Crying Obsidian" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 29, 2020.