Packed Ice

Packed Ice

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.5
Hardness	0.5
Luminant	No
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

This article is about the block found in the Ice Spikes biome and in frozen oceans. For other uses, see Ice (disambiguation).

Packed ice is an opaque solid block variant of ice. Unlike regular ice, it does not melt near bright light sources.

Obtaining

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, it does not turn into water when mined without Silk Touch, but is simply lost.

Block	Packed Ice
Hardness	0.5
Tool
Breaking time
Default	0.75
Wooden	0.4
Stone	0.2
Iron	0.15
Diamond	0.1
Netherite	0.1
Golden	0.1

Natural generation

Packed ice is found in the rare Ice Spikes biome. It also forms icebergs found in frozen oceans. Packed ice also generate in snow capped peaks biome.‌^{[upcoming: BE 1.18.0 & JE 1.18]}

Packed ice generates as windows in igloos.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Packed ice generates in snowy tundra villages.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Ice

Trading

Wandering traders have ¹⁄₆ chance to sell packed ice for 3 emeralds.

Usage

Crafting ingredient

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Blue Ice	Packed Ice

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.

When a non-full block is placed on top of packed ice, the block has the same 'slipperiness' as the ice below it; although, if packed ice is placed below soul sand, it amplifies the slowing effect of the soul sand rather than making it slippery.

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.

Note block

Packed ice can be placed under note blocks to produce chime sounds.

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	Resource location	Block tags (JE)	Form	Translation key
Packed Ice	packed_ice	ice mineable/pickaxe geode_invalid_blocks	Block & Item	block.minecraft.packed_ice

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Resource location	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Packed Ice	packed_ice	174	Block & Item	tile.packed_ice.name

History

Java Edition
1.7.2		13w36a			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		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 174.
		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			The texture of packed ice has been changed.
		18w49a			Added snowy tundra villages, where some houses are made of packed ice.
		19w05a			Added wandering traders, which sell packed ice.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0		build 1			Added packed ice.
v0.12.1		build 1			The texture of packed ice has been changed.
					Packed ice is now available in the creative inventory.
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 iceberg biomes.
					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.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Packed ice now generates in snowy tundra villages.
					Packed ice is now sold by the new wandering traders.
					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.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3	1.0.1	Added packed ice.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of packed ice has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added packed ice.

Issues

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

Gallery

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  Naturally generated packed ice in an ice spikes biome.

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  Another view of naturally generated packed ice in an ice spikes biome.

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  Naturally generated packed ice in a frozen ocean.

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  Naturally generated packed ice in a deep frozen ocean.

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  Large amounts of naturally generated packed ice in a cave system.

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  Packed ice generating in snowcapped peaks.^{[only upcoming Java Edition 1.18]}