Minecraft:Icicle

An icicle is a block that generates on the ceiling of Minecraft:ice caves. Icicles naturally form Minecraft:stalactites, which melt and subsequently fall if there is enough Minecraft:light nearby. They only generate on ceilings, but can also be placed on floors.

Obtaining

Breaking

Icicles can be mined with any tool, but Minecraft:pickaxes are the quickest. Icicles break instantly when hit by a thrown Minecraft:trident; however, they cannot be broken with any other Minecraft:projectile. Icicle stalagmites also break when melting. Template:Breaking row

Natural generation

Icicles generate naturally hanging from the ceilings of Minecraft:ice caves.

Post-generation

An icicle can grow only if it is hanging directly under a Minecraft:packed ice block. It grows downward, forming a stalactite with a maximum length of 5 blocks, though it can be lengthened by placing more manually. Unlike Minecraft:pointed dripstone and Minecraft:sulfur spikes, icicles cannot grow stalagmites. Icicles cannot grow if their tip is waterlogged. Icicles cannot grow into a location where it would melt.

Icicles grow slowly, with an average time of 5 in-game days (100 minutes) for every single growth step. More precisely, every time the tip of an icicle receives a Minecraft:random tick, there is a small chance of 1.138% (Template:Frac) for it to grow one block.

Trading

A Minecraft:wandering trader may sell 2 icicles for 1 Minecraft:emerald as part of their ordinary trades, with 5 trades in stock.

Usage

Icicles come in two different forms, stalactites and stalagmites.

Melting

Upon receiving a Minecraft:random tick, an icicle melts if one of the following conditions is met. The base of an icicle (i.e. the segment attached to a full surface) never melts.

• The Minecraft:block light level at its location is 5 or higher.
• The block 1 or 2 spaces below is a Minecraft:magma block.
• The icicle is placed in Minecraft:the Nether, regardless of the light level.

Upon melting, a stalactite and all icicle segments attached below fall down as Minecraft:falling blocks, while a stalagmite and all icicle segments attached above break and drop themselves as items.

Stalactites

Stalactites are created when icicles are placed beneath a block with a full bottom surface.

If the block supporting a stalactite or any block of the stalactite is broken or melts, all of the unsupported icicle segments drop, causing damage to any player and mobs standing beneath it, similar to a falling Minecraft:anvil. When a player dies by a stalactite falling on them, the Minecraft:death message "<player> was skewered by a falling stalactite" appears.

Stalagmites

Stalagmites are created when icicles are placed on a block with a full top surface. They do not generate naturally.

Falling onto the topmost block of a stalagmite multiplies the fall distance by two to calculate the total amount of fall damage, using the formula ceil(fall_distance × 2 − 2). A Minecraft:player or Minecraft:mob gets Template:Hp damage each time they jump on top of a single stalagmite (with a normal jump height of Template:Frac blocks). The distance traveled during the last Minecraft:game tick of falling time is not included in this calculation, making it slightly off at higher distances; see Template:Slink for more information.

If a player dies from falling onto a stalagmite, the Minecraft:death message "<player> was impaled on a stalagmite" appears.

All mobs that are immune to fall damage do not take damage from falling into stalagmites; the same applies to the player if the Minecraft:game rule Template:Gmr is set to false.<ref>Template:Bug</ref><ref>Template:Bug</ref>

It is possible to climb up portions of stalagmites entirely composed of differently sized parts because of the different collision box sizes of the icicles that it composes of.

Sounds

Unique

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Data values

ID

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History

Trivia

• The icicle base block model resembles a [[Minecraft::File:Prototype of pointed dripstone.png|prototype pointed dripstone model]] created by Minecraft:Xilefian.
• The texture of the icicle's base is the same as packed ice.

Gallery

Screenshots

• An icicle hanging from the ceiling in the ice caves
  An icicle hanging from the ceiling in the ice caves
• An icicle and a connected icicle forming a column in the ice caves
  An icicle and a connected icicle forming a column in the ice caves
• A display of some of the different sizes and shapes of icicles
  A display of some of the different sizes and shapes of icicles

Mojang screenshots

• Icicles in a cave
  Icicles in a cave