Talk:Obsidian/@comment-24.162.123.170-20110521061314

My way is a lot more dangerous but it gets you a lot more exponentially faster. I almost always find HUGE water lakes, so I find them, and dig towards other caves, because they aren't too far apart. I make a lot of air pockets along the way, but I keep gonig down until I reach a huge lava lake. Usually by the time I've collected all the water total (and some water lost in pockets) I have enough to make 2000+ obsidian. It's all about finding big sources of water and big sources of lava. The only thing is is that it's MUCH easier with the Flipper item. This is technically slower, but because you make it at the souce faster, and you can multitask and collect ores and gems along the way and at the site, it makes it more fun and you get more don total. That's the trade off. Danger for more obsidian and other things.