Blue Ice

Blue Ice

Transparent	No
Luminance	Yes‌[Bedrock Edition only][more information needed]
Blast resistance	14
Tool
Renewable	Yes‌[Java Edition only]
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Drops	None
Name	blue_ice

Blue ice is a solid block similar to packed ice.

Obtaining

Blue ice can be obtained using any tool enchanted with Silk Touch or by crafting it with 9 Packed Ice blocks. Breaking the block without Silk Touch drops nothing.

Block	Blue Ice
Hardness	2.8
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	4.2
Wooden	2.1
Stone	1.05
Iron	0.7
Diamond	0.55
Golden	0.35

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Packed Ice

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.‌^{[upcoming 1.14]}

Usage

Blue ice is slippery, causing most entities to slide, including items. It is even more slippery than ice or packed ice. 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.

Blue ice is a completely solid block, and allows placement of any objects on top.

Unlike normal ice, blue ice will not melt if placed near light sources.

Boats travel faster on blue ice than on either normal ice or packed ice, being able to reach a top speed of 72.4 m/s (as opposed to 39.7 m/s on packed ice).

History

Java Edition
1.13			18w15a		Added blue ice.
			18w16a		Blue ice is now slightly less slippery.
Bedrock Edition
1.4			beta 1.2.14.2		Added blue ice.
1.5			beta 1.5.0.1		Blue ice is now more slippery.
Legacy Console Edition
TU69		1.76	Patch 38		Added blue ice.

Trivia

• Blue Ice is the only ice block that produces light (at a light level of 1).

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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  A snowy iceberg generated with blue ice.

Blocks

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