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| Renewable | Yes |
|---|---|
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Tool | π SlotSprite Pickaxe Required.png: Sprite image for Pickaxe Required in Minecraft |
| Blast resistance | 2.8 |
| Hardness | 2.8 |
| Luminous | No |
| Transparent | No |
| Flammable | No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
| Map color | 5 ICE |
| Note block instrument | Default (Harp) |
| Sulfur cube archetype | Fast Sliding |
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Blue ice is a solid block similar to packed ice and ice, but much more slippery. It is the fastest ice type for boat riding and can be used to generate basalt in conjunction with soul soil and lava.
Blue ice can be obtained using any tool enchanted with Silk Touch, although a pickaxe is the fastest. Breaking the block without Silk Touch drops nothing.
Blue ice naturally generates on the bottom of icebergs and as large arching structures in frozen ocean biomes. It also generates as piles in some snowy plains village houses, and in ancient cities. Rarely, an iceberg generates entirely made of blue ice.
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
| π Image |
π Image Village |
Snowy house chest | 1 | 9.9%{ "item": "Blue Ice", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.0989873657501581, "structure": "Village", "container": "Snowy house chest" }
|
It takes 81 regular ice made into packed ice to create a single blue ice block.
Wandering traders occasionally sell blue ice for 6 emeralds.
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | Price multiplier | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||||||
| π Image Wandering Trader | Special | 13% | 13% | 6 Γ π Image Emerald | π Image | 6 | β | β |
In Bedrock Edition, wandering traders have a chance of 8.5% (increased by 1% per level of Looting) to drop 1 blue ice when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.
Blue ice is slippery, causing most entities to slide, including items. It is even more slippery (0.989) than ice or packed ice (0.98). This allows for increased speed of items in water currents by placing the blue ice under the water current. Mobs do not travel faster in water currents on blue ice.
Boats can travel even faster on blue ice than on either normal ice or packed ice, being able to reach a top speed of 72.73 m/s (as opposed to 40 m/s on ice and packed ice). Ice tracks built from blue ice, packed ice, or a combination are useful for long-range travel in all three dimensions.
Blue ice is a completely solid block and allows the placement of any objects on top.
Unlike normal ice, blue ice does not melt when placed near light sources.
Blue ice can be used to create basalt. When lava flows into a space above soul soil and next to blue ice, basalt is formed. This can be used in a basalt generator.
Blue ice is not a storage block, as it cannot be crafted back into packed ice.
π BlockSprite glass.png: Sprite image for glass in Minecraftglass sound type | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch | Attenuation distance |
| βBlock broken | Blocks | Once the block has broken | block.glass.break | subtitles.block.generic.breakβ | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| βBlock placed | Blocks | When the block is placed | block.glass.place | subtitles.block.generic.placeβ | 1.0 | 0.8 | 16 | |
| βBlock breaking | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | block.glass.hit | subtitles.block.generic.hitβ | 0.25 | 0.5 | 16 | |
| βSomething falls on a block | Entity-Dependent | Falling on the block with fall damage | block.glass.fall | subtitles.block.generic.fallβ | 0.5 | 0.75 | 16 | |
| βFootsteps | Entity-Dependent | Walking on the block | block.glass.step | subtitles.block.generic.footstepsβ | 0.15 | 1.0 | 16 | |
π BlockSprite glass.png: Sprite image for glass in Minecraftglass sound type | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sound | Closed captions | Source | Description | Identifier | Translation key | Volume | Pitch |
| β ? | Blocks | Once the block has broken | random.glass | β ? | 1.0 | 0.8β1.0 | |
| β ? | Blocks | When the block is placed | dig.stone | β ? | 1.0 | 0.8β1.0 | |
| β ? | Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit.stone | β ? | 0.4 | 0.6 | |
| β ? | Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall.stone | β ? | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| β ? | Players | Walking on the block | step.stone | β ? | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| β ? | Blocks | Jumping from the block | jump.stone | β ? | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| β ? | Blocks | Falling on the block without fall damage | land.stone | β ? | 0.22 | 1.0 | |
| Name | Identifier | Form | Block tags | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| π BlockSprite blue-ice.png: Sprite image for blue-ice in Minecraft Blue Ice | blue_ice | Block & Item | icemineable/pickaxegeode_invalid_blocks |
block.minecraft.blue_ice |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| π BlockSprite blue-ice.png: Sprite image for blue-ice in Minecraft Blue Ice | blue_ice | 266 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] (Numeric: -11) |
tile.blue_ice.name |
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.13 | 18w15a | π Image Added blue ice. | |||||
| Blue ice generates on the bottom of icebergs in frozen ocean biomes. | |||||||
| 18w16a | Blue ice slipperiness has been changed from 0.999 to 0.989 | ||||||
| pre2 | Blue ice is now renewable, as its crafting ingredient, packed ice, can now be crafted from normal ice. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w49a | Blue ice now generates in the updated snowy tundra villages. | |||||
| 19w05a | Added wandering traders, which sell blue ice. | ||||||
| 1.15 | 19w41a | Blue ice is now only slippery through non-full blocks that are 0.5 blocks tall or less. Previously it applied through any block that is less than 1 block tall such as grass path or farmland.[1] | |||||
| 1.16 | 20w13a | When blue ice is placed next to lava on soul soil it now generates basalt. | |||||
| 1.19 | 22w13a | Blue ice now generates in ancient cities. | |||||
| 26.2 | snap1 | Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb blue ice, providing the hockey puck/fast sliding effect to the mob. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | π Image Added blue ice. | |||||
| Blue ice can give off a light level of 4. | |||||||
| 1.5.0 | beta 1.5.0.1 | Blue ice is now more slippery. | |||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | Blue ice is now renewable, as its crafting ingredient, packed ice, can now be crafted from normal ice. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Blue ice can now be bought from wandering traders. | |||||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.1 | Blue ice can now be found in snowy tundra village house chests. | |||||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | When blue ice is placed next to lava on soul soil it now generates basalt. | |||||
| 1.17.10 | beta 1.17.10.22 | π Image Blue ice no longer emits light. | |||||
| 26.20 Experiment | Preview 26.20.23 | Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb blue ice, providing the hockey puck/fast sliding effect to the mob. | |||||
| 26.30 | Preview 26.30.20 | Implemented all features from the "Drop 2 of 2026" experiment in vanilla gameplay. | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Xbox 360 | Xbox One | PS3 | PS4 | PS Vita | Wii U | Switch | |
| TU69 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | π Image Added blue ice. | ||
| 1.83 | Blue ice is now renewable, as its crafting ingredient, packed ice, can now be crafted from normal ice. | ||||||
| 1.91 | Added wandering traders, which sell blue ice. | ||||||
| Blue ice now generates in the updated snowy tundra villages. | |||||||
| Minecraft Education | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.4.0 | π Image Added blue ice. | ||||||
| Blue ice can give off a light level of 4. | |||||||
| 1.17.31 | π Image Blue ice no longer emits light. | ||||||
Issues relating to "Blue Ice" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.