Ice

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

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

Ice is generated by the freeze top layer in blocks with a temperature below 0.15 – the biome's snowfall height. Here, it replaces the top 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 aquifers in mountains.

Ice generates in small blobs on the surface in frozen peaks. It can also be found in igloos‌^{[Java Edition only][1][2]} as a window and in the ice box of ancient cities.

Water source blocks in a snowy biome eventually freeze into ice if exposed to the sky from directly above, the 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, and it includes diagonally adjacent blocks; however, waterlogged blocks do not count. This can happen at any time of day and in any weather condition.

Water also freezes into ice in cold biomes with a base temperature of ≤ 0.05​^{[more information needed][citation needed]}, as long as the altitude is high enough for snowfall. Ice does not form in Cold Ocean, Deep Cold Ocean, and 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 game rule randomTickSpeed.​^{[more information needed]}

When an 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.

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, blue ice.

Ice is slightly slippery, causing entities (excluding minecarts^[3]) 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 sprints and jumps repeatedly on ice travels faster than on any other block type. The player can travel even faster if they sprint and spam jump 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 hunger.

In Java Edition, when a non-full block is placed on top of ice, the block has the same "slipperiness" as the ice below it.^[4]

Like other entities, boats travel extremely quickly on ice and can reach a speed of 40 m/s, much faster than the 8 m/s speed on water.^[5] More beneficially, unlike water, ice can be placed in 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 Overworld. Furthermore, using blue ice will make the boat move 1.8 times faster than normal ice.

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

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

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

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Java Edition:

Bedrock 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 frozen ocean.
  
  A view of naturally generating at a 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.

Issues relating to "Ice" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• By 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 minecart. By replacing the 2-block ceiling with trapdoors, it's possible to travel 1000 blocks in 54 seconds, or 18.518 blocks per second. However, this drains the player's hunger bar extremely quickly at roughly 1 unit per second.
• Sugar cane can be generated next to ice, though they drop as items if updated. This can be observed at random when running through a snowy biome.
• Attempting to set ice on fire with a flint and steel causes no flames to appear, but the flint and steel's durability still decreases by 1.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} The same thing happens with glass and the sides of non-flammable blocks.
• Ice is classified as a transparent block and therefore does not conduct redstone.
• Snow layers are the only transparent block that cannot be placed on ice.
• 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.

• 👁 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.
• 👁 Chunk borders as seen in a patch of ice.[9]
  
  Chunk borders as seen in a patch of ice.^[9]
• 👁 The effect of a torch on ice exposed to the sky. Note that some blocks are at a light level that lets them alternately melt and freeze.
  
  The effect of a torch on ice exposed to the sky. Note that some blocks are at a 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.

• 👁 Ice as it appeared in Minecraft Earth.
  
  Ice as it appeared in Minecraft Earth.
• 👁 A block of ice as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.
  
  A block of ice as it appears in Minecraft Dungeons.

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

• "Block of the Week: Ice" by Marsh Davies – Minecraft.net, March 17, 2017.