Blue Ice
Blue Ice — block.
Obtaining
Craft nine packed ice blocks into one blue ice block. Mining normally requires a pickaxe and drops the block only with Silk Touch; a wandering trader can also offer blue ice as a renewable trade resource.
Loot tableBlue IceDetailed drops are not published yet.| Recipe | 9 packed ice → 1 blue ice |
|---|---|
| Mining tool | Pickaxe |
| Silk Touch | Required to preserve the block |
| Renewable source | Wandering trader trade |
Breaking
| Hardness | 2.8 |
|---|---|
| Blast resistance | 2.8 |
| Tool | PickaxeTool |
Natural generation
Blue ice is generated as part of icebergs and through the dedicated blue-ice feature in cold ocean terrain. It belongs to the ice family and can appear beside packed ice in frozen landscapes.
| Main terrain | Icebergs |
|---|---|
| Feature | Blue Iceblue_ice |
| Block tag | Iceice |
Crafting
crafting grid
Result
Blue IceIngredients match the published snapshot.
Usage
The block occupies a standard full volume and is shown with an isometric preview.
Blue ice is a building block and a high-speed travel surface. Boats glide faster over it than over ordinary ice, while the high friction value also makes it useful for compact transport lanes and redstone-friendly vehicle routes.
| Shape | Full cube |
|---|---|
| Rendering | Isometric preview |
| Boat travel | Very fast |
| Surface role | Ice transport lane |
| Transparent | Partially transparent |
| Map color | Ice |
Sounds
Breaking, placing, stepping on, and landing on blue ice use the glass sound family.
| Sound family | block.glass |
|---|---|
| Surface cue | Glass-like step |
Behavior
The block uses glass-like sounds and has a friction value of 0.989. It is slightly harder than packed ice, so a long ice road should be planned with a pickaxe route rather than treated as a fragile decorative surface.
| Stack size | 64 |
|---|---|
| Solid block | Yes |
| Map color | ice |
| State count | 1 |
| Hardness | 2.8 |
| Friction | 0.989 |
| Sound family | Glass |
| Tool family | Pickaxe |
Data values
Blue ice is registered as `minecraft:blue_ice` and uses the ice map color. Its model is the same block identity used by the item form, while mining and movement read the block properties above.
| Identifier | minecraft:blue_ice |
|---|---|
| Version | Minecraft 26.2 |
| Blockstate | assets/minecraft/blockstates/blue_ice.json |
| Loot table | Blue IceLoot table |
| Map color | Ice |
| Hardness | 2.8 |
| Friction | 0.989 |
| Block tag | Iceice |
History
- 26.2Block facts were published from the verified snapshot.Provenance: 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
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See also
References
Blue ice combines the registered ice block, the dedicated worldgen feature, the blue-ice recipe and loot table, the ice behavior implementation and the wandering-trader source.
| Source | Validated DeepMine snapshot |
|---|---|
| Snapshot ID | 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5 |
| Digest | b19b3848ce59798d331b0f1ce3ba614e68b62f6c31463efb36fd613a2f3a21e5 |
| Block registration | `net/minecraft/world/level/block/Blocks.java` |
| Ice behavior | `net/minecraft/world/level/block/IceBlock.java` |
| Worldgen feature | `net/minecraft/world/level/levelgen/feature/BlueIceFeature.java` |
| Placed feature | `data/minecraft/worldgen/placed_feature/blue_ice.json` |
| Crafting recipe | `data/minecraft/recipe/blue_ice.json` |
| Block loot | `data/minecraft/loot_table/blocks/blue_ice.json` |
| Trader source | `data/minecraft/villager_trade/wandering_trader/emerald_blue_ice.json` |
Navigation
Data and provenance
minecraft:blue_ice
Snapshot digest verified.
b19b3848ce59798d331b0f1ce3ba614e68b62f6c31463efb36fd613a2f3a21e5Provenance and publication
- Readiness
- Pending
- Snapshot
- 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
- Source set
- 918feb41c87c05a6f3e94e327fb01a82543180a2376b65610c6f0521456532a5
- Entity identifier
- minecraft:blue_ice
- Digest
- b19b3848ce59798d331b0f1ce3ba614e68b62f6c31463efb36fd613a2f3a21e5
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