Obtain
Obtain verb - To receive as return for effort.
Pick
Pick verb - To catch or collect (a crop or natural resource) for human use.
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Both words in one sentence
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Also, Obsidian is purple and the strongest destroy-able block in the game, takes longer to mine even with the best pick, and is the hardest to obtain in the overworld.
Source: Purple Is Powerful -
To obtain the rebirth class, one must get to level 99 and become a High Novice (thus the level reset to 1) and pick the same first and second job classes as the pre-Rebirth one.
Source: Video Game / Ragnarok Online -
In both HW1 and Cataclysm, it is possible to use your salvage units to pick up enemy ships, often ones that you can't build until later or that you can't obtain at all.
Source: Video Game / Homeworld
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