After a while of playing Minecraft I had chests full of just about every block in the game. The only thing I was missing was that pesky obsidian block. It is not the easiest to get and you must have a diamond pickaxe to break it. If you don’t want to spend even longer breaking it, you enchant your pickaxe. Even with an efficiency V pickaxe, it still takes a while to break.
I grabbed my enchanted pickaxe and a bucket of water and headed to a lava lake not too far from my house. I poured the water over the lava and created a big slab of obsidian. I stood there for what seemed like days mining away, and eventually had enough obsidian make my first ender chest!
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