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Frosted Ice in Minecraft | MinecraftBible

Frosted Ice is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4.

What is Frosted Ice?

Frosted Ice is a Minecraft block classified under the default material group. It has a hardness of 0.5 and a blast resistance of 0.5. It stacks up to 64 per inventory slot. It is a transparent block, meaning it doesn't fully block light or vision. Frosted Ice does not emit light. Frosted Ice filters 1 levels of light passing through it, even though it is technically transparent.

Namespaced identifier: minecraft:frosted_ice. Command: /give @p minecraft:frosted_ice 1.

How to mine Frosted Ice

Frosted Ice can be broken with any tool, or even by hand.

Break times (unenchanted, no Haste or Mining Fatigue):

  • With the correct tool: approximately 0.75 seconds
  • By hand (no tool): approximately 2.5 seconds

Using an Efficiency-enchanted tool, Haste beacons, or a Diamond/Netherite tier drastically reduces these times. Water and being airborne slow mining by 5×.

Frosted Ice drops

Frosted Ice has no drops recorded in the current dataset — it typically drops nothing, or requires Silk Touch to preserve.

Block tags & properties

  • Transparent
  • Hand-Mineable

Frosted Ice technical properties

  • Flammable: No
  • Burns from lava: No
  • Renewable: Yes
  • Emits light: No (luminance 0)

Values sourced from Minecraft Wiki: Frosted Ice (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Verified for Java Edition 1.21.4.

Technical properties

  • Namespaced ID: minecraft:frosted_ice
  • Material family: default
  • Hardness: 0.5
  • Blast resistance: 0.5
  • Stack size: 64
  • Transparent: Yes
  • Blocks light: 1
  • Emits light: 0
  • Diggable: Yes
  • Craftable: No
  • /give command: /give @p minecraft:frosted_ice 1

Overview

Frosted Ice is a block in Minecraft 1.21.4. This page covers mining requirements, real drop data, and crafting relevance.

Step-by-step walkthrough

  1. Frosted Ice can be broken by hand or with any tool, though using a tool is usually faster.
  2. With the correct tool this takes about 0.75s to break (unenchanted); by hand it's roughly 2.5s.
  3. Frosted Ice is transparent, so light passes through and adjacent blocks won't be shaded by it.

Pro tips

  • Use /give @p minecraft:frosted_ice 1 in creative mode to prototype builds before committing resources.
  • No special tool is required, so hand-mining is a valid fallback in an emergency.

Difficulty and time commitment

  • Difficulty: Easy
  • Estimated time per run: 1-5 min

Frequently Asked Questions

What tool do I need to mine Frosted Ice?

Frosted Ice can be broken by hand or with any tool - no specific tool tier is required.

What does Frosted Ice drop when mined?

Frosted Ice does not drop an item when broken in survival mode (or requires special tools like Silk Touch for a usable drop).

How hard is Frosted Ice to mine?

Frosted Ice has a hardness value of 0.5. That works out to roughly 0.75s with the correct tool or 2.5s by hand (unenchanted, no Haste/Mining Fatigue).

What is the internal Minecraft ID for Frosted Ice?

The namespaced ID is minecraft:frosted_ice, usable with /setblock, /fill, and /give.

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