Glowing Obsidian

This feature is exclusive to Bedrock Edition.

This article describes content that has been officially made unobtainable.

It can still be obtained using third-party software. However, this can cause unexpected behavior such as bugs and crashes.

Glowing Obsidian (known as "tile.glowingobsidian.name" ingame) 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.

Legend

↑ These durations ignore other influential factors (e.g., Mining Fatigue) and are measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Glowing obsidian can be used for decoration.

Glowing obsidian emits a light level of 12.

v t e `stone` sound type
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
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	`jump.stone`	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.stone`	0.22	1.0

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

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 has the same blast resistance as normal obsidian.
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.
v0.11.0	build 1	Glowing obsidian no longer has a name. Prior to this version, it was named "Glowing Obsidian".
v0.12.1	build 1	Glowing obsidian can no longer be obtained, though any existing blocks remain.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.13	beta 1.2.13.5	Glowing obsidian now drops itself when mined, instead of normal obsidian.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0		Added glowing obsidian.

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

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.