Crying Obsidian

Crying obsidian is a luminous variant of obsidian that can be used to craft a respawn anchor and produces purple particles when placed.

Obtaining
Crying obsidian can be harvested only with a diamond pickaxe or better.

Natural generation
Crying obsidian can generate as part of ruined portals.

Bartering
Piglins have a ~9.43% chance ($40/424$) to barter 1–3 crying obsidian when given a gold ingot.

Usage
Similarly to obsidian, crying obsidian is a resilient building block. It has a blast resistance of 1,200. In addition, it cannot be pushed by pistons or destroyed by the ender dragon. It is used to make respawn anchors, a block that has the function of letting players respawn in the Nether.

When placed, crying obsidian occasionally produces purple dripping particles, as if it is "crying". These droplets are purely aesthetic.

Unlike obsidian, crying obsidian cannot be used as a portal frame.

Light
Crying obsidian gives off a light level of 10, which does not melt snow or ice. Its blast resistance distinguishes it from other light-emitting blocks.

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Trivia

 * When it was originally going to be added in Beta 1.3, it was going to act as a way to reset the player’s spawnpoint and would be crafted using lapis lazuli. When beds were added, they took this role instead. In 1.16 the respawn anchor was added which is crafted with crying obsidian.
 * According to Brandon Pearce, crying obsidian was added when they wanted to have cracked obsidian for the ruined nether portals. They decided add it as crying obsidian instead because it was more unique and the community wanted it.
 * The new crying obsidian may have taken some inspiration from the unused glowing obsidian from Bedrock Edition. This is backed up with it giving off light.