Obsidian

Type	Ore – Crafting material
Use time	14 Very Fast
Rarity

Obsidian is a unique pre-Hardmode ore which is created when Water and Lava collide, at which point it forms placed blocks of Obsidian which can be mined and collected. Though Obsidian is considered an ore and is gathered similarly, it has no bar form of its own (although it is used to craft Hellstone Bars). Mining Obsidian requires a pickaxe with at least 65% pickaxe power (the Nightmare Pickaxe and its counterpart, the Deathbringer Pickaxe, are the weakest pickaxes able to do so). If the player lacks a viable pickaxe, Explosives can also be used.

Crafting[edit | edit source]

Used in[edit | edit source]

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Hellstone Bar	Obsidian Hellstone (3)	Hellforge
Obsidian Skull	Obsidian (20)	Furnace
Obsidian Brick (2) ( )	Obsidian Stone Block (2)
Obsidian Brick ( )	Obsidian (2)
Obsidian Skin Potion	Obsidian Waterleaf Fireblossom Bottled Water	Placed Bottle or Alchemy Table
Obsidian Outlaw Hat	Silk (10) Obsidian (20)	Loom
Obsidian Longcoat	Silk (10) Obsidian (20)
Obsidian Pants	Silk (10) Obsidian (20)
Obsidian Chest	Obsidian (6) Hellstone (2) Iron Bar or Lead Bar (2)	Work Bench

Desktop version and Console version only[edit | edit source]

Result	Ingredients	Crafting station
Demon Torch (3)	Obsidian Torch (3)	By Hand

Notes[edit | edit source]

Obsidian is not destroyed by Lava, despite being of White Rarity.
Obsidian is fairly rare naturally and will usually require player intervention to spawn.

Tips[edit | edit source]

A good way to rapidly acquire obsidian with little effort is to put in contact a large pocket of water with a large pocket of Lava, by digging a small conduit in the water pocket leading to the bottom of the lava pocket. Then, one can safely collect obsidian in a way lava falling on water will produce an obsidian block at the exact spot of the block that has just been collected.