The texture of packed ice has been changed.Īdded snowy tundra villages, where some houses are made of packed ice.Īdded wandering traders, which sell packed ice. Packed ice can now be crafted from 9 ice, making it renewable. Packed ice can now be used to craft blue ice.Īdded icebergs to frozen oceans, which contain packed ice. Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 174. Packed ice can now be used to play the chime if they are under note blocks. The ice plains spikes biome is currently the only source of packed ice.Įfficiency on tools not speeding up the mining of packed ice has been fixed.īoats now travel extremely fast on ice and packed ice. ↑ The block's direct item form has the same id with the block.↑ ID of block's direct item form, which is used in savegame files and addons.While the block is in the process of being broken Packed ice can be placed under note blocks to produce chime sounds. Packed ice is not a storage block, as it cannot be crafted back into ice. Unlike normal ice, packed ice does not melt if placed near light sources. Packed ice is a completely solid block, and allows placement of any objects on top. This can allow for compact mob farms that rely on the tendency of pushed mobs to slide off the ice in some way. Ice tracks built from blue ice, packed ice, or a combination are useful for long-range travel in all three dimensions. 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.īoats can travel on packed ice with a top speed of 40 m/s. Mobs do not travel faster in water currents on packed ice. This also allows for increased speed of items in water currents by placing the packed ice under the water current. Packed ice is slippery, causing most entities to slide, including items.

Ice blocks