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This article is about the block found in the Ice Spikes biome. For normal ice, see Ice. For the block created by the Frost Walker enchantment, see Frosted Ice.

Packed Ice is a solid block form of ice.

Obtaining

Packed ice can be obtained using any tool with silk touch. When broken without using a silk touch tool it drops nothing.

Block Packed Ice
Hardness 0.5
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default 0.75
Wooden 0.4
Stone 0.2
Iron 0.15
Diamond 0.1
Netherite 0.1
Golden 0.1
  1. Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Natural generation

Packed ice is found in the rare ice plains spikes biome.

Usage

Packed ice is slightly slippery, causing most entities to slide, including items. This also allows for increased speed in water currents by placing the packed ice under the water current.

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.

Mobs can spawn on packed ice, unlike normal 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 will not melt if placed near light sources.

Video

Packed Ice/video

History

release
1.7.213w36aAdded packed ice.
1.814w26cFixed efficiency on tools not speeding up the mining of packed ice.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.9.0build 1Ice Added packed ice.
0.12.1build 1Packed Ice Updated texture.
Packed ice is now available in the creative inventory.
Legacy Console Edition
TU31CU19 1.22 Patch 3Added packed ice.

Issues

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

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