Blue Ice

Blue Ice

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	2.8
Hardness	2.8
Luminant	Yes (4)‌[BE only] No‌[JE only]
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

Blue ice is a solid block similar to packed ice.

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 the icebergs in frozen ocean biomes.

Blue ice generates in some snowy tundra village houses.

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

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 also 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 travel faster on blue ice than on either normal ice or packed ice, being able to reach a top speed of 75 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.

In Bedrock and Education editions, blue ice is capable of giving off a light level of 4.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	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	Mining the block	block.glass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	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	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Breaking the block	dig.glass	?	0.8
?	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.glass	?	?
?	Mining the block	hit.glass	?	0.5
?	Jumping from the block	jump.glass	?	?
?	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.glass	?	?
?	Walking on the block	step.glass	?	?
?	Placing the block	use.glass	?	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Blue Ice	blue_ice	block.minecraft.blue_ice

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Blue Ice	blue_ice	266	tile.blue_ice.name

History

Java Edition
1.13		18w15a			Added blue ice.
		18w16a			Blue ice is now slightly less slippery.[more information needed]
1.14		19w05a			Blue ice can now be bought from wandering traders.
Upcoming Java Edition
1.16		20w13a			When blue ice is placed next to lava on soul soil it now generates basalt.
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.
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.

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 as seen in a snowy iceberg.

Bedrock Edition

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  Blue ice as seen luminous in a dark space.

Blocks

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