Igloo

An igloo is a hostel structure sometimes generated in snowy taigas, snowy plains or snowy slopes and built mainly of snow blocks.

Structure[]

Igloos may serve as a small house and are composed primarily of snow blocks, sheltering a carpeted interior containing a bed, furnace and crafting table.

In half of all igloos, an oak trapdoor can be found under the carpet (the third white carpet straight ahead from the doorway), leading down a long ladder shaft to a basement. This passageway and the basement are built from stone bricks, some of which are infested blocks with silverfish. In this basement there is a brewing stand, a cauldron and a loot chest. Beyond the far wall, behind iron bars in two different cages, are a plains‌^{[JE only]}/snowy‌^{[BE only]} villager and a plains zombie villager.^[1] The zombie villager can be cured with a golden apple and a splash potion of Weakness, both found inside the igloo. However, this may make the zombie villager lose its profession.

The cauldron is ²⁄₃ full and the brewing stand contains a splash potion of Weakness.

Igloos that generate without a basement have a snow block in place of the trapdoor. The villagers, the brewing stand and the chest are absent in this case.

One may access the individual structures of an igloo by using structure blocks to manually load them from the /data/minecraft/structures/igloo folder in version.jar. To do so, set a structure block to Load mode, enter igloo/structure name, and press [LOAD]. The individual structures are bottom, middle, top.

Structure name	Description	Consists of
`igloo/top`	The above-ground room of the igloo, made of snow blocks.	94 Snow Block 9 White Carpet 3 Light Gray Carpet 2 Ice 1 Crafting Table 1 Furnace 1 Oak Trapdoor 1 Red Bed 1 Redstone Torch
`igloo/middle`	The stone tunnel that connects the room above with the basement.	12 Stone Bricks 3 Ladder
`igloo/bottom`	The basement, made of various stone blocks and infested stone blocks, containing a villager and a zombie villager.	104 Stone Bricks 17 Mossy Stone Bricks 11 Stone 8 Cracked Stone Bricks 7 Chiseled Stone Bricks 6 Infested Stone Bricks 4 Iron Bars 4 Ladder 3 Torch 2 Infested Chiseled Stone Bricks 2 Red Carpet 2 Spruce Stairs 1 Infested Mossy Stone Bricks 1 Polished Andesite 1 Cauldron 1 Chest (1 Golden Apple) 1 Cobweb 1 Potted Cactus 1 Oak Sign 1 Spruce Slab 1 Brewing Stand with a Splash Potion of Weakness 1 Villager 1 Zombie Villager

In Java Edition, the generated villager is always unemployed,^[2] even though there are some job site blocks like brewing stand or cauldron around. However, if the player breaks the iron bars in front of the villager, it finds one of the job site blocks and changes its profession to cleric or leatherworker. The generated zombie villager always has the profession of cleric.

In Bedrock Edition, the villager is with a random profession while the zombie villager is unemployed; although it can change its profession to cleric or leatherworker after being cured, due to the presence of the brewing stand and cauldron.

Loot[]

In Java Edition, each igloo chest contains items drawn from 2 pools, with the following distribution:

Item	Stack Size ^[A]		Weight ^[B]		Chance ^[C]	Avg. per chest ^[D]	Avg. # chests to search ^[E]
Item	2–8×	1×	2–8×	1×	Chance ^[C]	Avg. per chest ^[D]	Avg. # chests to search ^[E]
Golden Apple	—	1	—	¹⁄₁	100.0%	1.000	1.0
Coal	1–4	—	¹⁵⁄₆₃	—	70.4%	2.976	1.4
Apple	1–3	—	¹⁵⁄₆₃	—	70.4%	2.381	1.4
Wheat	2–3	—	¹⁰⁄₆₃	—	55.3%	1.984	1.8
Gold Nugget	1–3	—	¹⁰⁄₆₃	—	55.3%	1.587	1.8
Rotten Flesh	1	—	¹⁰⁄₆₃	—	55.3%	0.794	1.8
Stone Axe	1	—	²⁄₆₃	—	14.7%	0.159	6.8
Emerald	1	—	¹⁄₆₃	—	7.6%	0.079	13.1

In Bedrock Edition, each igloo chest contains items drawn from 2 pools, with the following distribution:

Item	Stack Size ^[A]		Weight ^[B]		Chance ^[C]	Avg. per chest ^[D]	Avg. # chests to search ^[E]
Item	2–8×	1×	2–8×	1×	Chance ^[C]	Avg. per chest ^[D]	Avg. # chests to search ^[E]
Golden Apple	—	1	—	¹⁄₁	100.0%	1.000	1.0
Coal	1–4	—	¹⁵⁄₆₃	—	70.4%	2.976	1.4
Apple	1–3	—	¹⁵⁄₆₃	—	70.4%	2.381	1.4
Wheat	2–3	—	¹⁰⁄₆₃	—	55.3%	1.984	1.8
Gold Nugget	1–3	—	¹⁰⁄₆₃	—	55.3%	1.587	1.8
Rotten Flesh	1	—	¹⁰⁄₆₃	—	55.3%	0.794	1.8
Stone Axe	1	—	²⁄₆₃	—	14.7%	0.159	6.8
Emerald	1	—	¹⁄₆₃	—	7.6%	0.079	13.1

↑ ^a ^b The size of stacks (or for unstackable items, number) of this item on any given roll.
↑ ^a ^b The weight of this item relative to other items in the pool.
↑ ^a ^b The odds of finding any of this item in a single chest.
↑ ^a ^b The number of items expected per chest, averaged over a large number of chests.
↑ ^a ^b The average number of chests the player should expect to search to find any of this item.

History[]

Java Edition
1.9		October 20, 2015			Michael Stoyke reveals he is working on a new structure to showcase the new 'loot table' feature.
		15w43a			Added igloos. Igloos may be found in a few snow-covered biomes.
		15w43b			Golden apples in the igloo chests now have a 100% chance of appearing, where previously they would often not appear – it was moved from the structure file to the loot table.
		15w43b			Golden apples originally would always be found in the central slot when they were found at all; now they can be found in any slot.
		15w43c			The glass bottle has been removed from the igloo’s brewing stand.
					Cobweb is now found in the basement.
					Sign in the basement previously read: ---> <--- and now reads: ××××- ×××-- --×× ×-× ×-×× -×× --××× ×××--
		15w44a			The red carpet in the basement now hides a block of polished andesite.
		15w44a			Sign in the basement is tweaked, near to old form: <---- ---->
1.13		18w20a			In the structure block's data folder for the igloo the names of the parts of the structure `igloo_bottom`, `igloo_middle` and `igloo_top` have been changed to `bottom`, `middle` and `top`.
1.17		20w45a			Due to normal and water cauldrons have been split into different blocks, cauldron no longer generate in igloo. Instead, a water cauldron will generate.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Added igloos.
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Igloos generated in ice plains now have a white bed instead of a red bed, those generated in cold taiga have a brown bed and those generated in the stripe lands have a magenta bed.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Igloos now generate with a red bed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU43	CU33	1.36	Patch 13	1.0.1	Added igloos.

Issues[]

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

Trivia[]

In Java Edition, if a number of items in the igloo furnace are smelted, the light generated melts the igloo window, turning the ice into a water source block.^[3]
Igloos are internally classified as a temple.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}
The igloo is the first structure to use signs with text on them.
As of Village and Pillage update, igloos with basements can be easily registered as villages, due to having one villager, a bed, and brewing stands and cauldrons, which count as job sites. However, the villager needs to be freed from the iron bars to claim a job site, or the zombie villager cured and freed, to be able to register as a village.
- This also means raids can be triggered on the igloo.
It is possible for an igloo to generate on a cliff or other incline, causing its secret area to be wholly or partially exposed.