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.

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 in the Nether, and also have a chance to melt there.

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.Template:Verify

Usage

Icicles come in two different forms, stalactites and stalagmites.

Stalactites

Stalactites are created when icicles are placed beneath a block.

If the block supporting a stalactite or any block of the stalactite is broken or when exposed to enough light, they will begin to melt and subsequently fall. All of the unsupported icicles 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 the ground. 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.

History

Trivia

• The icicle base block model resembles a [[Minecraft::File:Prototype of pointed dripstone.png|prototype pointed dripstone model]] created by Minecraft:Xilefian.

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