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| Other names | Compressed Ice (GB) |
|---|---|
| Renewable | Yes |
| Stackable | Yes (64) |
| Tool | π SlotSprite Pickaxe Required.png: Sprite image for Pickaxe Required in Minecraft |
| Blast resistance | 0.5 |
| Hardness | 0.5 |
| Luminous | No |
| Transparent | No |
| Flammable | No |
| Catches fire from lava |
No |
| Map color | 5 ICE |
| Note block instrument | Chime |
| Sulfur cube archetype | Fast Sliding |
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Packed ice[a] is a variant of ice that functions almost identically, but does not melt and is opaque instead of transparent. Like other types of ice, it can only be obtained using a Silk Touch tool.
Packed ice can be obtained using any tool enchanted with Silk Touch, though a pickaxe is the fastest. Without Silk Touch, breaking it drops nothing. Unlike normal ice, packed ice never turns into water when broken.
Packed ice is found in the rare ice spikes biome. It also forms icebergs found in frozen oceans. Packed ice also generates in frozen peaks and in ice patches.
Packed ice generates as windows in igloos.β[Bedrock Edition only]
Packed ice generates as piles (and in some houses or meeting points) in villages in snowy plains biome.
Packed ice also generates in ancient cities and in trial chambers surrounding stray spawners.
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition and Bedrock Edition | ||||
| π Image |
π Image Ancient City |
Ice box chest | 2β6 | 80.5%{ "item": "Packed Ice", "stacksize": "2β6", "chance": 0.8052527828203967, "structure": "Ancient City", "container": "Ice box chest" }
|
Wandering traders can occasionally sell a block of packed ice for a single emerald.
| Villager | Probability | Villager wants | Player receives | Trades in stock | Villager experience | Price multiplier | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JE | BE | |||||||
| π Image Wandering Trader | Special | 13% | 13% | 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 packed ice when killed while showing the item as trade offer, if the player holds an emerald.
Packed ice is slippery, causing most entities to slide, including items. This also allows for increased speed of items in water currents by placing the packed ice under the water current. Mobs do not travel faster in water currents on packed ice.
In Java Edition, when a non-full block of half-block or less in height is placed on top of packed ice, the block inherits the same 'slipperiness' as the ice below it for most entities, not including boats due to a bug.[1] Additionally, any non-full block inherits the 'slipperiness' for items.
Boats can travel on packed ice with a top speed of 40 m/s. Ice tracks built from blue ice, packed ice, or a combination are useful for long-range travel in all three dimensions.
Mobs can spawn on packed ice. This can allow for compact mob farms that rely on the tendency of pushed mobs to slide off the ice in some way.
Packed ice is a completely solid block, and allows placement of any objects on top.
Unlike normal ice, packed ice does not melt if placed near light sources.
Packed ice is not a storage block, as it cannot be crafted back into 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 packed-ice.png: Sprite image for packed-ice in Minecraft Packed Ice | packed_ice | Block & Item | icemineable/pickaxegeode_invalid_blocks |
block.minecraft.packed_ice |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Form | Item ID[i 1] | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| π BlockSprite packed-ice.png: Sprite image for packed-ice in Minecraft Packed Ice | packed_ice | 174 | Block & Giveable Item[i 2] | Identical[i 3] | tile.packed_ice.name |
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | π Image Added packed ice. | |||||
| The ice plains spikes biome is currently the only source of packed ice. | |||||||
| 1.8 | 14w26c | Efficiency on tools not speeding up the mining of packed ice has been fixed. | |||||
| 1.9 | 16w05a | Boats now travel extremely fast on ice and packed ice. | |||||
| 1.12 | 17w17a | Packed ice can now be used to play the chime if they are under note blocks. | |||||
| 1.13 | 18w15a | Packed ice can now be used to craft blue ice. | |||||
| Added icebergs to frozen oceans, which contain packed ice. | |||||||
| pre2 | Packed ice can now be crafted from 9 ice, making it renewable. | ||||||
| 1.14 | 18w43a | π Image The texture of packed ice has been changed. | |||||
| 18w49a | Packed ice now generate in the updated villages in snowy tundra biomes. | ||||||
| 19w05a | Added wandering traders, which sell packed ice. | ||||||
| 1.15 | 19w41a | Packed 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.[2] | |||||
| 1.19 | 22w13a | Packed ice now generate as part of ancient cities. | |||||
| Packed ice may now be found in ancient city chests. | |||||||
| 1.20.3 Experiment | 23w45a | Packed ice can now generate in trial chambers. | |||||
| 26.2 | snap1 | Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb packed ice, providing the hockey puck/fast sliding effect to the mob. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v0.9.0 | build 1 | π Image Added packed ice. | |||||
| v0.12.1 | build 1 | π Image The texture of packed ice has been changed. | |||||
| Packed ice is now available in the Creative inventory. | |||||||
| build 11 | Packed ice is now obtainable by mining it with a Silk Touch-enchanted tool. | ||||||
| Pocket Edition | |||||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Packed ice now generates as part of igloos. | |||||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.14.2 | Packed ice now generates naturally in icebergs. | |||||
| Packed ice is now used to craft blue ice. | |||||||
| 1.8.0 | beta 1.8.0.10 | Packed ice can now be crafted using 9 ice, making it renewable. | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Packed ice now generates in villages in snowy tundra biomes. | |||||
| Packed ice is now sold by the new wandering traders. | |||||||
| π Image The texture of packed ice has been changed. | |||||||
| 1.13.0 | beta 1.13.0.9 | Packed ice can now be used to play the chime if they are under note blocks. | |||||
| 26.20 Experiment | Preview 26.20.23 | Added sulfur cubes, which have the ability to absorb packed 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 | |
| TU31 | CU19 | 1.22 | 1.22 | 1.22 | Patch 3 | 1.0.1 | π Image Added packed ice. |
| TU46 | CU36 | 1.38 | 1.38 | 1.38 | Patch 15 | Boats now travel extremely fast on ice and packed ice. | |
| TU53 | CU43 | 1.49 | 1.50 | 1.49 | Patch 23 | 1.0.3 | Packed ice can now be used to play the chime if they are under note blocks. |
| TU69 | 1.76 | 1.76 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | Packed ice can now be used to craft blue ice. | ||
| Packed ice now generates naturally in icebergs. | |||||||
| 1.83 | Packed ice can now be crafted using 9 ice, making it renewable. | ||||||
| 1.90 | π Image The texture of packed ice has been changed. | ||||||
| 1.91 | Added wandering traders, which sell packed ice. | ||||||
| Packed ice now generates in villages in snowy tundra biomes. | |||||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0.1.0 | π Image Added packed ice. | ||||||
| Java Edition | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.8 | 14w06a | Packed ice now uses the newly-implemented model json file models/block/cube.json; previously the geometry was defined in the game code itself. | |||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 174. | |||||
Issues relating to "Packed Ice" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.