Frosted Ice

Frosted ice is a translucent solid block created by the Frost Walker enchantment.

Obtaining[]

In Java Edition, frosted ice cannot be obtained as an item, and can be placed only using commands such as /setblock and /fill, but in Bedrock Edition, it can obtained using /give. It can be placed with commands in Bedrock Edition.

Breaking[]

Frosted ice does not have a preferred tool, meaning it breaks at the same speed regardless of the tool used to mine it.^[1] Breaking it with Silk Touch drops nothing, while breaking in any other manner produces water in the same way ice does.

Block	Frosted Ice
Hardness	0.5
Breaking time (secs)
Default	0.75

Post-genereation[]

Frosted ice is generated by players or mobs walking near water while wearing boots with the Frost Walker enchantment. Frost Walker II creates a larger area of frosted ice. It can also be created by armor stands equipped with Frost Walker boots if they are pushed near water.

Usage[]

Frosted ice behaves in most ways like ice: it is slightly slippery, causing entities to slide, including items.

Frosted ice naturally melts fairly quickly. The block is created with an age of 0, and is ticked every 1–2 seconds. If a ¹⁄₃ chance succeeds or the block has fewer than 4 frosted ice blocks in the 6 blocks surrounding it, and the light level (including light from the sun) at the block would be greater than 11 minus the age, the age is incremented. When the age reaches 4, the block turns into water and all adjacent blocks have their age incremented (but if these blocks melt also, the effect does not continue to cascade). This does mean that in places with low light levels, such as inside caves or at night, it never melts naturally.

The melting speed of frosted ice is only semi-affected by the randomTickSpeed game rule: setting the value to 0 results in frosted ice melting at the same speed as default, while setting it to higher than default does increase the melting speed.^[2]

When a frosted ice block melts or is broken, any adjacent frosted ice block immediately melts if it has fewer than 2 frosted ice blocks remaining in the 6 blocks surrounding it.

Sugar cane and other crops do not break when frosted ice is formed, and frosted ice does not form on water occupied by another entity.

Sounds[]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.glass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.glass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.glass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	None[sound 1]	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.glass.fall	None[sound 1]	0.5	0.75	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.glass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	random.glass	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.4	0.6
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Data values[]

ID[]

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Frosted Ice	frosted_ice	Block	ice	block.minecraft.frosted_ice

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Frosted Ice	frosted_ice	207	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.frosted_ice.name

Block states[]

Java Edition：

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
age	0	0	Freshly generated ice.
		1 2 3	Ice with spreading cracks.

Bedrock Edition：

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	Description
age	0x1 0x2	0	0	0	Freshly generated ice.
			1 2 3	1 2 3	Ice with spreading cracks.
			4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	Unsupported	Unused

Achievements[]

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS4)
PS4	Other
		Let It Go!	Using the Frost Walker boots, walk on at least 1 block on frozen water on a deep ocean	—	20G	Bronze

History[]

Java Edition
1.9		15w42a			Added frosted ice.
		16w05a			Boats now travel extremely fast on frosted ice.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 212.
1.14		18w43a			The texture of frosted ice has been changed. As a result, new frosted ice now looks slightly different from ice.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Added frosted ice.
Bedrock Edition
1.2.0		beta 1.2.0.2			Frosted ice is now transparent.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			The texture of frosted ice has been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13	1.0.1	Added frosted ice.
PlayStation 4 Edition
1.90					The texture of frosted ice has been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.9.19					Added frosted ice.

Frosted ice "item"[]

The following content is transcluded from Technical blocks/Frosted Ice.

Bedrock Edition
?					Frosted ice exists as an item.
Legacy Console Edition
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13	1.0.1	Frosted ice exists as an item.
					Frosted ice can be obtained with Silk Touch.[3]
TU48	CU38	1.41	Patch 17		Frosted ice can no longer be obtained with Silk Touch.

Names[]

Bedrock Edition

• ? - ?: tile.frosted_ice.name

Issues[]

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

Gallery[]

• 

  Dinnerbone shows a picture of frosted ice.^[4]

References[]