Packed Ice - Minecraft Block Guide | Properties, Recipe & Uses (2025)

What is Packed Ice in Minecraft?

Packed ice is a solid, opaque block of ice that is much denser than regular ice. It has a slightly bluish white color and a solid, non transparent look. Its main purpose is to be a slippery block that does not melt. Unlike regular ice, which will turn into water if you place a torch nearby, packed ice will stay frozen no matter how bright the light is. This makes it an incredibly useful block for building in any biome. Players use packed ice to create super fast boat roads, slippery floors for mini games, or just as a clean, white decorative block that will not melt away.

How to get Packed Ice in Minecraft

There are two main ways to get packed ice. The first way is to find it. Packed ice generates naturally in some cold biomes. You can find it making up the huge, towering spikes in the ice spikes biome. You can also find it in some snowy taiga villages and as part of icebergs in frozen oceans. To collect it, you must mine it with a tool that has the Silk Touch enchantment. If you break it with a regular tool, it will just shatter and you will get nothing. The second way is to craft it. To do this, you will need nine regular ice blocks. You can get regular ice by mining it from a frozen lake with a Silk Touch tool. Once you have nine ice blocks, place them in a 3 by 3 square in a crafting table to get one block of packed ice.

How to use Packed Ice in Minecraft

The main use for packed ice is to create super fast boat roads. It is even more slippery than regular ice, so boats will travel incredibly fast on it. Because it does not melt, you can build these ice highways anywhere, even in the Nether, for extremely fast transportation. For builders, packed ice is a great decorative block. Its clean, solid white color is perfect for creating modern builds, ice castles, or for adding a touch of cold to a scene. You can also craft nine packed ice blocks together to create one block of blue ice, which is even more slippery and has a beautiful deep blue color. Packed ice is a fantastic and versatile block for both technical players and creative builders.

How to craft Packed Ice in Minecraft

Crafting Table

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What can Packed Ice make in Minecraft

Blue Ice

My Story

How This All Started

So basically, I was playing Minecraft one night after a long day doing deliveries, and I was trying to remember what drops what and how to craft certain things. Every website I went to was either dead slow, missing loads of stuff, or just looked terrible. I thought "bloody hell, surely I can do better than this?"

By the way, this My Story section is something new I've only just started adding things here! Most of the site was actually built before I ever wrote this part. Now that the website is live, I'm running into problems galore! So if things look a bit rough or unfinished, bear with me I'm updating and adding as I go.

That was probably a mistake.

A half finished story, oh well. I'll keep adding more as I go!

Learning the Hard Way

I knew absolutely nothing about making websites. Like, properly nothing. I didn't even know what PHP was. But I'm stubborn as anything, so I just started watching YouTube tutorials and reading random stuff online while I was on my breaks.

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The worst part is when you spend hours trying to figure out why something doesn't work, and it turns out you missed a semicolon. Or when everything works fine on your computer but looks like complete rubbish on someone else's. Fun times.

The Reality of It

Look, I'm not gonna lie this has been a right pain sometimes. I work full time doing deliveries, so most of this gets done late at night when I should probably be sleeping. I've had way too many energy drinks and definitely not enough sleep.

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Here's the thing I want this to be your go to place for everything Minecraft. Not just blocks and items, but proper guides, build tutorials, maybe even schematics you can download. Server info, community stuff, the lot.

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Why I Keep Going

Honestly? Because every time someone uses this site or gives me feedback, it reminds me why I started. I love Minecraft, I love building things (both in game and apparently websites), and I love the community.

Plus, I've learned loads doing this. Sure, I've wanted to give up more times than I can count, but seeing it slowly come together is pretty satisfying. And if it helps other people find what they're looking for without having to trawl through ten different outdated websites, then that's worth it.

So yeah, bear with me while I figure this all out. It's going to take a while, but it'll get there eventually. Thanks for checking it out, and if you spot anything broken or have suggestions, let me know. I'm still learning, but I'm determined to make this work.