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Igloos are structures that are naturally generated in snowy biomes. They are small round structures constructed primarily of snow blocks.
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Generation[]
Igloos naturally generate in the snowy plains, snowy taiga, and snowy slopes biomes, but not in ice spikes.
Structure[]
Igloos are composed of snow blocks, sheltering a carpeted interior containing a bed, furnace and crafting table.
In half of all igloos, an oak trapdoor can be found under the carpet (the third white carpet straight ahead from the doorway), leading down a long ladder shaft to a basement. This passageway and the basement are built from stone bricks, some of which are infested blocks. In this basement there is a brewing stand, a cauldron, and a chest. Beyond the far wall, behind iron bars in two different cages, are a plains[JE only]/snowy[BE only] villager and a plains zombie villager.[1] The zombie villager can be cured with a golden apple and a splash potion of Weakness, both found inside the igloo. However, this may make the zombie villager lose its profession.
The cauldron is 2⁄3 full, and the brewing stand contains a splash potion of Weakness.
Igloos that generate without a basement have a snow block in place of the trapdoor. The villagers, brewing stand, and chest are absent in this case.
One may access the individual structures of an igloo by using structure blocks to manually load them from the /data/minecraft/structures/igloo folder in version.jar. To do so, set a structure block to Load mode, enter igloo/structure name, and press [LOAD]. The individual structures are bottom, middle, top.
| Structure name | Description | Consists of | Images |
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igloo/top
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The above-ground room of the igloo, made of snow blocks. |
94 Snow Block |
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igloo/middle
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The stone tunnel that connects the room above with the basement. |
12 Stone Bricks |
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igloo/bottom
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The basement, made of various stone blocks and infested stone blocks, containing a villager and a zombie villager. |
104 Stone Bricks |
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Professions of villagers and zombie villagers[]
In Java Edition, the generated villager is always unemployed,[2] even though there are some job site blocks like brewing stand or cauldron around. However, if the player breaks the iron bars in front of the villager, it finds one of the job site blocks and changes its profession to cleric or leatherworker. The generated zombie villager always has the profession of cleric.
In Bedrock Edition, the villager is with a random profession while the zombie villager is unemployed; although it can change its profession to cleric or leatherworker after being cured, due to the presence of the brewing stand and cauldron.
Loot[]
In Java Edition, each igloo chest contains items drawn from 2 pools, with the following distribution:
| Item | Stack Size [A] | Weight [B] | Chance [C] | Avg. per chest [D] |
Avg. # chests to search [E] |
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| 2–8× | 1× | 2–8× | 1× | ||||
| Golden Apple | — | 1 | — | 1⁄1 | 100.0% | 1.000 | 1.0 |
| Coal | 1–4 | — | 15⁄63 | — | 70.4% | 2.976 | 1.4 |
| Apple | 1–3 | — | 15⁄63 | — | 70.4% | 2.381 | 1.4 |
| Wheat | 2–3 | — | 10⁄63 | — | 55.3% | 1.984 | 1.8 |
| Gold Nugget | 1–3 | — | 10⁄63 | — | 55.3% | 1.587 | 1.8 |
| Rotten Flesh | 1 | — | 10⁄63 | — | 55.3% | 0.794 | 1.8 |
| Stone Axe | 1 | — | 2⁄63 | — | 14.7% | 0.159 | 6.8 |
| Emerald | 1 | — | 1⁄63 | — | 7.6% | 0.079 | 13.1 |
In Bedrock Edition, each igloo chest contains items drawn from 2 pools, with the following distribution:
| Item | Stack Size [A] | Weight [B] | Chance [C] | Avg. per chest [D] |
Avg. # chests to search [E] |
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| 2–8× | 1× | 2–8× | 1× | ||||
| Golden Apple | — | 1 | — | 1⁄1 | 100.0% | 1.000 | 1.0 |
| Coal | 1–4 | — | 15⁄63 | — | 70.4% | 2.976 | 1.4 |
| Apple | 1–3 | — | 15⁄63 | — | 70.4% | 2.381 | 1.4 |
| Wheat | 2–3 | — | 10⁄63 | — | 55.3% | 1.984 | 1.8 |
| Gold Nugget | 1–3 | — | 10⁄63 | — | 55.3% | 1.587 | 1.8 |
| Rotten Flesh | 1 | — | 10⁄63 | — | 55.3% | 0.794 | 1.8 |
| Stone Axe | 1 | — | 2⁄63 | — | 14.7% | 0.159 | 6.8 |
| Emerald | 1 | — | 1⁄63 | — | 7.6% | 0.079 | 13.1 |
- ↑ a b The size of stacks (or for unstackable items, number) of this item on any given roll.
- ↑ a b The weight of this item relative to other items in the pool.
- ↑ a b The odds of finding any of this item in a single chest.
- ↑ a b The number of items expected per chest, averaged over a large number of chests.
- ↑ a b The average number of chests the player should expect to search to find any of this item.
History[]
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| 1.9 | October 20, 2015 | Searge reveals he is working on a new structure to showcase the new 'loot table' feature. | |||
| 15w43a | Added igloos. | ||||
| 15w43b | Golden apples in the igloo chests now have a 100% chance of appearing, where previously they would often not appear – it was moved from the structure file to the loot table. | ||||
| Golden apples originally would always be found in the central slot when they were found at all; now they can be found in any slot. | |||||
| 15w43c | Glass bottle was removed from brewing stand. | ||||
| Cobweb is now found in the basement. | |||||
Sign in the basement previously read: ---> <---and now reads: ××××- ×××-- --×× ×-× ×-×× -×× --××× ×××-- | |||||
| 15w44a | The red carpet in the basement now hides a block of polished andesite. | ||||
Sign in the basement is tweaked, near to old form: <---- ----> | |||||
| 1.13 | ? | In the structure block's data folder for the igloo the names of the parts of the structure igloo_bottom, igloo_middle and igloo_top have been changed to bottom, middle and top. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | alpha 0.17.0.1 | Added igloos. | |||
| 1.1.0 | alpha 1.1.0.0 | Igloos generated in ice plains now have a white bed instead of a red bed, those generated in cold taiga have a brown bed, and those generated in the stripe lands have a magenta bed. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.10.0 | beta 1.10.0.3 | Igloos now generate with a red bed. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | 1.0.1 | Added igloos. |
Issues[]
Issues relating to "Igloo" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia[]
- In Java Edition, if a number of items in the igloo furnace are smelted, the light generated melts the igloo window, turning the ice into a water source block. This is intentional.[3]
- Igloos are internally classified as a temple.[Bedrock Edition only]
- The igloo is the first structure to use signs with text on them.
- As of Village and Pillage, igloos with basements can be easily registered as villages, due to having one villager, a bed, and brewing stands and cauldrons, which count as job sites. However, the villager needs to be freed from the iron bars to claim a job site, or the zombie villager cured and freed, to be able to register as a village.
- This also means raids can be triggered on the igloo.
- It is possible for an igloo to generate on a cliff or other incline, causing its secret area to be wholly or partially exposed.
Gallery[]
The igloo from the outside.
Inside.
Inside, facing the exit.
Inside an igloo's basement.
The trapdoor revealed in an igloo; get in by taking out carpet.
An igloo generated above a river.
The igloo basement intersecting a dungeon, missing one of the jail cells.
An igloo's basement passageway in a river.
An igloo that generated inside of a cave.
An igloo on a cliff.
A naturally generated igloo in a superflat desert world.
An igloo that generated in a tree, with a trapdoor but no basement.
Igloo basement.
An igloo structure which generated in a snowy plains village.
Igloo generated on frozen river.
Igloo generated inside a hill.
An igloo with part of its bottom cut out by a water lake.
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