Igloos are structures that are naturally generated in snowy biomes. They are round structures constructed primarily of snow blocks.
Generation
Igloos naturally generate in the Ice Plains and Cold Taiga biomes, but not in Ice Mountains, Ice Plains Spikes, Cold Taiga Hills, or other variants.
Structure
Igloos are composed of snow blocks, sheltering a carpeted interior containing a bed, furnace and crafting table.
In half of the igloos, a trapdoor can be found under the carpet, leading down a long ladder shaft to a basement. This passageway and the basement are built from stone brick, some of which are monster eggs. In this basement is a brewing stand, a cauldron, a chest, and beyond the far wall, behind iron bars in two different cages, are a villager priest and a zombie villager priest. The zombie villager can be cured with a golden apple and a splash potion of weakness, both found inside the igloo. No other types of villagers can be found.
The cauldron is 2⁄3 full, and the brewing stand contains a splash potion of weakness.
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] |
||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
| release | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 changed to: <---- ----> | |||||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Added igloos. | |
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0 | build 1 | Added igloos. | |||
| 1.1 | build 1 | Igloos spawned in ice plains now have a white bed instead of red bed and igloos spawned in cold taiga now have brown bed instead of red bed. | |||
Issues
Issues relating to "Igloo" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- If you smelt a number of items in the igloo furnace, light generated by it will melt the igloo window, turning the ice into a water source block.[Computer and Legacy Console editions only]
- In real life, the name "Igloo" comes from the Inuit word Iglu, which means "house".
- Igloos are internally classified as a temple.









