Packed Ice

Obtaining and breaking Packed Ice

• Pickaxe is the recorded preferred tool for Packed Ice; other tools may be slower or affect what is collected.
• Its recorded hardness is 0.5. Compare this with the blast resistance value when deciding whether the concern is mining time or explosion survival.
• Craft or process Packed Ice using Crafting Table.

What to use Packed Ice for

2 current recipe relationships are recorded for Packed Ice. These links include recipes that produce the block and recipes that consume it as an ingredient.

• Ingredient for Blue Ice.
• Packed Ice has 1 recorded output recipe; open the linked recipe to compare edition, station, layout and yield before crafting a batch.
• Packed Ice is used by 1 recorded recipe, including Blue Ice.
• One full inventory stack holds 64 Packed Ice blocks; 27 full stacks fill a single chest or shulker-box-sized inventory with 1728 blocks.

• Blue Ice Recipe has 2 current variants.
• Packed Ice Recipe has 2 current variants.

Build and technical notes

• Packed Ice is a natural & decorative blocks block identified as minecraft:packed_ice. Its material, collision, light and recipe relationships below are the useful details for building, survival collection and commands.
• The recorded collision shape is “block”. Collision is a gameplay property, so do not infer it only from the block's visible model.
• Packed Ice has 1 recorded Java block-state combination, so its base state is comparatively simple.
• Its recorded blast resistance is 0.5; this is separate from hardness and should be used for explosion-risk comparisons.

Java and Bedrock differences

• Packed Ice exists in both tracked editions. Java uses minecraft:packed_ice; Bedrock uses minecraft:packed_ice.
• The available hardness, blast-resistance and preferred-tool records do not show a cross-edition conflict for this block.

Command and version data

/give @p minecraft:packed_ice 64

Related content