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Some of the trademarks of a sandbox survival game are exploring, and gathering resources. InLego Fortnite, the more you upgrade your village, the harder it becomes. You’ll need resources that are more challenging to find and obtain in order to continue upgrading your village, and building the necessary workstations.
You’ll likely need to make multiple trips to obtain some of these rare resources, and Obsidian is definitely among those considered rare. You’ll need a fair amount of progress in the game before you can get Obsidian, but the game is well-organized, and with a little planning, you’ll be successful.
Where To Find Obsidian
Obsidian can be foundin the Dry Valleybiome, inside lava caves. These cavespresent a much greater challengethan those of the Grasslands biome.
Obsidian isrequired for certain machines, and village upgrades. You’llunlock even more recipesthat use Obsidian, so plan tocollect at least 60 pieces.
Make sure you haveplenty of pocket spacewhen you venture into a cave.
The caves should still look like domed shapes but with the type of rock that’s seen in the Dry Valley.
Obsidian is sometimeson the cave ceiling. Make sure tobring a torchorlight up the cave thoroughlyso you can find it. It will have ashiny texturethat should help you spot it.Grapplers will be usefulonce you have the recipe unlocked.
What You Need For Mining Obsidian
Here’s a list ofwhat you’ll needin order toget your hands on some Obsidian, including items that willhelp you navigate hazards like heator mobs:
Snowberry Shake
Epic
You’ll needa rare level, or above, pickaxein order tomine any Obsidianyou encounter. If you’ve never been to the Dry Valley before, you’ll need toget upgraded tools for gathering resourcesandupgrade your crafting bench.
In addition to the obvious pickaxe, you shouldbring quite a bit of wood for buildingover lava andreaching high places. It’s very easy in some of the caves to go through60 or more pieces of wood.
You canleave your built structures in the caveif you intend to make multiple trips. They’ll remain intact unless a mob destroys them, though you may need to place some campfires again.
If you’re planning a lengthy mining session, it’s a good idea tomake a couple of each tool. If you have unlocked enchanting, you canalso enchant the tools for your preferencesto make the trip easier.
How To Survive The Heat When Mining Obsidian
Thelava caves are quite toasty, as you would imagine. You canlose hearts quicklyif you’re not prepared tocounter the heat. Although, you might prefer the game to remind you periodically that you’re hot.
Your best options to make the heat bearable are tocraft three Cool-Headed Charms, and bring along someSnowberry Shakes. Each shake will give youten minutes of heat resistance.
If you haven’t crafted a juicer to make the Snowberry Shake,ensure to bring a lot of snow berries. The individual berriesonly give you two minutesat a time, so make sure you bring enough or a combination of the two.
Heat resistance effects don’t stack, so eating a snow berry and drinking a Snowberry Shake will give youone resistance effect time or the other, not both. In fact, if you need to replenish your hunger gauge more than the amount the Snowberry Shake gives,eat snow berries or other food first.
If you eat snow berriesafter drinking the shake, you’ll lose the remaining heat resistancetime and instead willonly get the two minutesfrom the berries.
It’s a good idea toeat a food item that temporarily increases the amount of heartsyou have in case you run out of snow berries, Snowberry Shakes, or fall in lava. Eat bonus heart foodsbefore consuming anything with heat resistanceproperties.
With a little planning and perseverance, you’ll have plenty of Obsidian to complete all those upgrades you need.
