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This article is about a feature named iceberg. For a terrain feature called iceberg, see Terrain features § Iceberg.

An iceberg is a feature composed of blue ice or packed ice. There is also a terrain feature known as an iceberg, see Terrain features#Iceberg.

Generation

Iceberg feature generates in frozen oceans and deep frozen oceans. They consist of packed ice or sometimes blue ice, and there's a probability of 30% that an iceberg feature is topped with snow blocks. In Java Edition, each chunk has an 116 chance to try to generate a packed iceberg, and has an 1200 chance to try to generate a blue iceberg. In Bedrock Edition, each chunk has an 18 chance to try to generate an iceberg, which has an 1100 chance of being a blue iceberg.

Unlike iceberg terrain feature, iceberg feature is usually small. Iceberg terrain features generate in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, ranging from small islands to giant mountain-like icebergs.

Iceberg features have two types: circle-shaped and ellipse-shaped. There's a probability of 30%‌[JE only]/20%‌[BE only] that an iceberg feature is ellipse shaped. For a circle-shaped icebergs, its radius is from 0 to 11; its max height above sea level has a 90% chance of being 3—17‌[JE only]/3—13‌[BE only] and a 10% chance of being 10—42‌[JE only]/10—34‌[BE only]; its max depth below sea level is from 3 to 18; it has a 30% chance of being carved. For an ellipse-shaped iceberg, the length of its semimajor axis is 7—11‌[JE only]/8—15‌[BE only]; the length of its semiminor axis is from 3 to 5; its max height above sea level is 6—11‌[JE only]/6—9‌[BE only]; its max depth below sea level is from 6 to 18; it has a 90% chance of being carved.

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Blue ice feature

Packed ice iceberg generates sometimes with blue ice features attached to it. A blue ice feature is a pile of blue ices generating adjacent to a packed ice and at or below the surface of water, and may replace some existing packed ice within an iceberg.

Blue ice featureBlue ice feature with an iceberg
A blue iceberg attached on an iceberg.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Configured featureIdentifier
[No displayed name]iceberg_blue
[No displayed name]iceberg_packed
[No displayed name]blue_ice

Bedrock Edition:

FeatureIdentifier
[No displayed name]blue_ice_feature
[No displayed name]iceberg_feature

which are used in:

FeatureIdentifier
[No displayed name]minecraft:legacy:ice_feature

History

Java Edition
1.1318w15aAdded icebergs.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.14.2Added icebergs.

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