Minecraft:Ice

Template:Infobox block Ice is a transparent Minecraft:block formed from frozen Minecraft:water, which it can melt into if broken or exposed to bright Minecraft:light. Its top face is slippery for most Minecraft:entities and causes ridden Minecraft:boats to move at high speeds.

Obtaining

Breaking

Ice can be easily destroyed without Minecraft:tools, but the use of a Minecraft:pickaxe speeds up the process. However, the block drops only when using a tool enchanted with Minecraft:Silk Touch. If mined without Silk Touch, the block drops nothing and instead is replaced with Minecraft:water if there is a block under the ice block. Template:Breaking row

Natural generation

Ice is generated by the freeze top layer in blocks with a temperature below 0.15 – the biome's Minecraft:snowfall height. Here, it replaces the top Minecraft:water block if exposed to the surface. This is most common in frozen oceans, frozen rivers, snowy beaches, and less commonly in lakes in any snowy biome or even exposed Minecraft:aquifers in mountains.

Ice generates in small blobs on the surface in frozen peaks. It can also be found in Minecraft:igloosTemplate:Only<ref>Template:Bug</ref><ref>Template:Bug</ref> as a window and in the ice box of ancient cities.

Post-generation

Snowy biomes

Template:See also Minecraft:Water source blocks in a snowy Minecraft:biome eventually freeze into ice if exposed to the sky from directly above, the Minecraft:block light level inside the water block is less than 10, and there is at least one horizontally adjacent non-water block. This includes non-solid blocks, even air; however, waterlogged blocks do not count Template:In but they do Template:In. This can happen at any Minecraft:time of day and in any Minecraft:weather condition.

Minecraft:Water also freezes into ice in cold biomes with a base temperature of ≤ 0.05Template:Info neededTemplate:Citation needed, as long as the Minecraft:altitude is high enough for Minecraft:snowfall. Ice does not form in Minecraft:Cold Ocean, Minecraft:Deep Cold Ocean, and Minecraft:Deep Frozen Ocean biomes.

Ice formation occurs as part of chunk ticking, so it requires a player to be nearby, similar to crop growth and grass spreading. The speed of ice formation is affected by the Minecraft:game rule randomTickSpeed.Template:Info needed

Ice bomb

When an Minecraft:ice bomb is thrown into water, it transforms the water in a 3×3×3 cube centered around the projectile into ice. This affects source water and flowing water.

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Template:Crafting usage Despite being created by a 3×3 recipe, packed ice is not a storage block, because it cannot be crafted back into ice. The same applies to the next tier of compression, Minecraft:blue ice.

Speed

Ice is slightly slippery, causing entities (excluding Minecraft:minecarts<ref>Template:Bug</ref>) to slide, including items. This allows for increased speed of items in water currents, by placing ice blocks under the water current. Items already travel at high speeds in water currents because they float, so ice block water streams are less necessary for item transportation.

A player who Minecraft:sprints and Minecraft:jumps repeatedly on ice travels faster than on any other block type. The player can travel even faster if they sprint and spam Template:Control in a 2-block-high corridor with ice on the floor, allowing the player to accelerate to extremely high speeds, although this costs a lot of Minecraft:hunger.

Template:IN, when a non-full block is placed on top of ice, the block has the same "slipperiness" as the ice below it.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>

Boat highway

Like other entities, Minecraft:boats travel extremely quickly on ice and can reach a speed of 40 m/s, much faster than the 8 m/s speed on Minecraft:water.<ref>Template:Bug</ref> More beneficially, unlike water, ice can be placed in Minecraft:the Nether, allowing players to construct boat highways made of ice or blue ice, to make use of the 1:8 distance travel ratio and travel at an equivalent speed of up to 320 m/s (720 mph or 1152 kph) between locations in the Minecraft:Overworld. Furthermore, using Minecraft:blue ice will make the boat move 1.8 times faster than normal ice.

Creating water

Ice can be used to create water either by its melting or being broken. If there is a Minecraft:movement-blocking block or any Minecraft:fluid directly underneath the ice block, the ice becomes a water source block when broken.

Ice also melts into Minecraft:water if the Minecraft:block light level immediately next to it on any side is higher than 11, even if there is no block below it. Minecraft:Sky light level is ignored, therefore ice does not melt from Minecraft:sunlight. Template:IN, ice also melts when near a Minecraft:heat block, though heat blocks do not produce light.

If ice melts or is broken in Minecraft:the Nether, no water is produced. However, unlike from using a Minecraft:water bucket, no smoke particles are produced either.

Ambient sounds

Template:In development An ice block occasionally emits ambient sounds when it is surrounded by at least 8 ice blocks in all horizontal directions (east, west, north, and south), with one Minecraft:air block above and one Minecraft:water block below.

Sounds

Data values

ID

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History

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

• Melting ice was once a common way to form floating water sources.
  Melting ice was once a common way to form floating water sources.
• A view of naturally generating at a Minecraft:frozen ocean.
  A view of naturally generating at a Minecraft:frozen ocean.
• Naturally generated ice in an older revision of a frozen ocean.
  Naturally generated ice in an older revision of a frozen ocean.
• Naturally generated ice in a legacy frozen ocean.
  Naturally generated ice in a legacy frozen ocean.

Trivia

• By Minecraft:sprinting and jumping while on ice and inside a 2-block tall tunnel, it is possible to move 16 blocks a second, twice as fast as a full-speed Minecraft:minecart. By replacing the 2-block ceiling with Minecraft:trapdoors, it's possible to travel 1000 blocks in 54 seconds, or 18.518 blocks per second. However, this drains the player's Minecraft:hunger bar extremely quickly at roughly 1 unit per second.
• Minecraft:Sugar cane can be generated next to ice, though they drop as items if updated. This can be observed at random when traveling through a snowy biome.
• When a player holds an ice block, the normals of the smaller model are flipped inside out, giving a strange effect, as if the model was flipped upside-down.Template:Verify

Gallery

Screenshots

• Naturally generated ice on a frozen ocean
  Naturally generated ice on a frozen ocean
• Naturally generated ice on a deep-frozen ocean
  Naturally generated ice on a deep-frozen ocean
• Minecraft:Chunk borders as seen in a patch of ice<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
  Minecraft:Chunk borders as seen in a patch of ice<ref>Template:Bug</ref>
• The effect of a Minecraft:torch on ice exposed to the sky. Note that some Minecraft:blocks are at a Minecraft:light level that lets them alternately melt and freeze.
  The effect of a Minecraft:torch on ice exposed to the sky. Note that some Minecraft:blocks are at a Minecraft:light level that lets them alternately melt and freeze.
• The melting pattern of a torch to ice
  The melting pattern of a torch to ice
• The melting pattern of lava to ice
  The melting pattern of lava to ice
• Ice melting because of the nearby torch animation
  Ice melting because of the nearby torch animation

In other media

• Template:MCE as it appeared in Template:MCE
  Template:MCE as it appeared in Template:MCE
• A block of ice as it appears in Template:MCD
  A block of ice as it appears in Template:MCD

See also

• Minecraft:Frosted ice
• Blue ice
• Minecraft:Ice Bomb
• Minecraft:Ice (disambiguation)
• Minecraft:Packed Ice

External links

• Template:Mcnet