Blue Ice

Blue Ice

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	2.8
Hardness	2.8
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Blue ice is a solid block similar to packed ice and ice, but much more slippery.

Obtaining

Blue ice can be obtained using any tool enchanted with Silk Touch, though a pickaxe is the fastest. Breaking the block without Silk Touch drops nothing.

Block	Blue Ice
Hardness	2.8
Tool
Breaking time
Default	4.2
Wooden	2.1
Stone	1.05
Iron	0.7
Diamond	0.55
Netherite	0.5
Golden	0.35

Natural generation

Blue ice naturally generates on the bottom of icebergs and as large arching structures in frozen ocean biomes. It also generates in some snowy tundra village houses, and in ancient cities.

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition
Blue Ice	Village	Snowy house chest	1	9.9%
Bedrock Edition
Blue Ice	Village	Snowy house chest	1	9.9%

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Packed Ice

It takes 81 regular ice made into packed ice to create a single blue ice block.

Trading

Wandering traders have ¹⁄₆ chance to sell blue ice for 6 emeralds.

Usage

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.

In Java Edition, 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 which is above soul soil and next to blue ice, basalt is formed. Effectively a "basalt generator" when repeatedly produced.

Blue ice is not a storage block, as it cannot be crafted back into packed ice.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.glass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.glass.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.glass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.glass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.glass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
?	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.glass	?	0.8
?	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.glass	?	?
?	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.glass	?	0.5
?	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.glass	?	?
?	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.glass	?	?
?	Blocks	Walking on the block	step.glass	?	?
?	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.glass	?	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Blue Ice	blue_ice	Block & Item	ice mineable/pickaxe geode_invalid_blocks	block.minecraft.blue_ice

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	Translation key
Blue Ice	blue_ice	266	Block & Giveable Item	Identical	tile.blue_ice.name

History

Java Edition
1.13		18w15a			Added blue ice.
					Blue ice generates on the bottom of icebergs in frozen ocean biomes.
		18w16a			Blue ice is now less slippery.[more information needed]
		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 as part of some houses in the newly added snowy tundra villages.
					Blue ice can now be found in chests in snowy village houses.
		19w05a			Added wandering traders, which sell blue ice.
1.16		20w13a			When blue ice is placed next to lava on soul soil it now generates basalt.
1.17		21w11a			Changed lighting.
1.18		21w39a			The default brightness has been changed from "Moody" to 50.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.19		22w13a			Blue ice now generates in ancient cities.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.2.14.2			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.
1.10.0		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			Blue ice no longer emits light.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added blue ice.
Education Edition
1.4.0					Added blue ice.
					Blue ice can give off a light level of 4.
1.17.31					Blue ice no longer emits light.

Issues

Issues relating to "Blue Ice" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

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  Naturally generated blue ice in an iceberg.

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  Naturally generated blue ice in an arch.

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  Naturally generated blue ice as seen in a snowy iceberg.

Bedrock Edition

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  Blue ice used to emit a light level of 4 prior to the 1.17.10 update.