Ice Spikes

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The ice spikes or ice plains spikes biome is a variant of the snowy plains, featuring ice spikes made of packed ice and other special features.

Generated in high weirdness values, ice spikes are most commonly separated from snowy plains by frozen rivers. Besides weirdness, ice spikes also require low humidity values during world generation, meaning that they never border any forested biomes, and more commonly windswept gravelly hills. When generated near warmer biomes, they border plains and rarely cherry groves.

Near oceans, ice spikes border snowy beaches, stony shores, and frozen oceans depending on the terrain. Ice spikes can generate in flatland or hilly terrain but are replaced by snowy slopes at lower erosion, although they can rarely replace rivers in mountain valleys.

The ice spikes features large numbers of ice spikes and ice patches dotted across its landscape. Instead of grass blocks, snow blocks cover the ground. Vegetation is extraordinarily scarce, as it can only appear in locations where the underlying dirt was exposed during terrain generation. Where vegetation does generate, it is similar to regular snowy plains with an occasional spruce tree.

Because the whole biome experiences snowfall, lightning typically doesn't strike within it. Rabbits and polar bears spawn at daytime, as well as most common hostile mobs plus strays and zombie horsemen at night, the latter only on player-created grass blocks. This is unlike snowy plains in Bedrock Edition, where no mobs other than skeletons and strays can spawn.

Ice spikes have the highest snow accumulation upon generation of any biome in Bedrock Edition. On top of the terrain snow blocks, snow generates stacked in many layers which quickly adds up during snowfall.

Ice spikes have fully unique graphical settings for Vibrant Visuals. Atmospherics are gray, both at horizon and zenith, and there are barely any color changes during sunset and sunrise. Sunlight is half as bright, and tinted pale blue during the entire day. Volumetric fog effects increase these effects, and the biome has the coldest color grading temperature of all biomes.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

{ "hasNotes": true, "notes": { "Slime": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.", "Polar Bear": "Despite attempts to spawn, it cannot spawn here in Java Edition." }, "1": { "totalWeight": 515, "mobs": [ { "size": "4", "mob": "Creeper", "weight": 100 }, { "note": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.", "mob": "Slime", "weight": 100, "notename": "Slime", "size": "4" }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Spider", "weight": 100 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Zombie", "weight": 95 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Stray", "weight": 80 }, { "size": "4", "mob": "Skeleton", "weight": 20 }, { "size": "1-4", "mob": "Enderman", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Witch", "weight": 5 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Zombie Villager", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "monster" }, "2": { "totalWeight": 11, "mobs": [ { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Rabbit", "weight": 10 }, { "note": "Despite attempts to spawn, it cannot spawn here in Java Edition.", "mob": "Polar Bear", "weight": 1, "notename": "Polar Bear", "size": "1-2" } ], "category": "creature" }, "3": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "4-6", "mob": "Glow Squid", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "underground" }, "4": { "totalWeight": 10, "mobs": [ { "size": "8", "mob": "Bat", "weight": 10 } ], "category": "ambient" } }

{ "hasNotes": true, "notes": { "Slime": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.", "Zombie Horse": "Always spawns ridden by a zombie with an iron spear." }, "1": { "totalWeight": 540, "mobs": [ { "size": "1", "mob": "Creeper", "weight": 100 }, { "note": "Spawn attempt succeeds only in slime chunks.", "mob": "Slime", "weight": 100, "notename": "Slime", "size": "1" }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Spider", "weight": 100 }, { "size": "1-2", "mob": "Stray", "weight": 96 }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Zombie", "weight": 95 }, { "size": "1-2", "mob": "Skeleton", "weight": 24 }, { "size": "1-2", "mob": "Enderman", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "1", "mob": "Witch", "weight": 5 }, { "note": "Always spawns ridden by a zombie with an iron spear.", "mob": "Zombie Horse", "weight": 5, "notename": "Zombie Horse", "size": "1" }, { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Zombie Villager", "weight": 5 } ], "category": "monster" }, "2": { "totalWeight": 15, "mobs": [ { "size": "2-4", "mob": "Glow Squid", "weight": 10 }, { "size": "2-3", "mob": "Rabbit", "weight": 4 }, { "size": "1-2", "mob": "Polar Bear", "weight": 1 } ], "category": "creature" } }

These music tracks play while the player is in an ice spikes biome:

In Creative mode, the following tracks can play:

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

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

• 👁 Ice spikes that generate under overhangs can create "icefalls", such as this in an amplified world.
  
  Ice spikes that generate under overhangs can create "icefalls", such as this in an amplified world.
• 👁 An ice spikes biome
  
  An ice spikes biome
• 👁 A narrow ice spikes biome in a mountain valley surrounded by snowy slopes
  
  A narrow ice spikes biome in a mountain valley surrounded by snowy slopes
• 👁 Snowfall in ice spikes
  
  Snowfall in ice spikes
• 👁 A village reaching into an ice spikes biome during snowfall
  
  A village reaching into an ice spikes biome during snowfall
• 👁 Shattered terrain in an ice spikes biome
  
  Shattered terrain in an ice spikes biome
• 👁 The sky in ice spikes with Vibrant Visuals
  
  The sky in ice spikes with Vibrant Visuals
• 👁 A mountain surrounded by ice spikes
  
  A mountain surrounded by ice spikes
• 👁 An ice spikes single biome world
  
  An ice spikes single biome world

• 👁 Survival in the ice spikes biome was more difficult due to the steep terrain before 1.18.
  
  Survival in the ice spikes biome was more difficult due to the steep terrain before 1.18.
• 👁 Another view of old ice spikes
  
  Another view of old ice spikes
• 👁 An ice spikes single biome world before 1.18
  
  An ice spikes single biome world before 1.18
• 👁 Ice spikes with ray tracing
  
  Ice spikes with ray tracing
• 👁 A rare occurrence of ice spikes bordering eroded badlands
  
  A rare occurrence of ice spikes bordering eroded badlands
• 👁 Ice spikes in the Far Lands
  
  Ice spikes in the Far Lands

• 👁 An ice spikes biome surrounded by a large frozen lake
  
  An ice spikes biome surrounded by a large frozen lake
• 👁 Ice spikes on a mountain
  
  Ice spikes on a mountain
• 👁 Narrator in an ice spike biome
  
  Narrator in an ice spike biome

• 👁 Image
  Snowy Plains
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  Snowy Taiga
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  Frozen Ocean
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  Windswept Hills
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  Tundra
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  Ice Desert

• "Around the Block: Ice Spikes" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 29, 2021.