Ice - Items

Description:

Ice is a translucent solid block formed in snowy Biomes (formerly winter worlds) from exposed water, and is slightly slippery. Ice blocks can be obtained using any tool with the silk touch enchantment. Ice can be easily destroyed without tools, but the use of a pickaxe speeds up the process. If there is another block directly underneath the ice block, it will revert to water when broken. If not, it will shatter without producing water. Due to its transparency, ice cannot have Torches placed on it directly. However, even though ice is non-transparent in Pocket Edition, torches still cannot be placed on it. When a slab is placed on top of ice, the slab has the same "slipperiness" as the ice below it. This applies to every other block with a hit-box that is lesser than a full block. (This does not work in Pocket Edition with slabs, but does with the closed trapdoors.) Ice will also melt into water if the light level immediately next to it on any side is sufficiently high (greater than 11), from light sources other than sunlight. Conversely, a water block in a snowy biome will eventually freeze into ice if exposed to the sky from directly above, and the light level immediately adjacent to the water block on all sides is sufficiently low (less than 13). This can happen at any time of day, and in any weather condition. If the highest adjacent light level is 12, an ice block will alternately melt and re-freeze when it receives a block tick. Items and broken blocks move extremely fast when in water that is flowing over ice. This is particularly useful for transporting resources using water currents because items will keep sliding on ice blocks when they are dropped at an angle, even if water is not placed on top. However, as stated before, light melts the ice, and if there are no torches around a zombie could sit there and pick up your precious items. However, Packed Ice is melt resistant. It is non renewable, but this shouldn't be a problem since it comes in huge quantities.

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