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Brittle Ice

Pickaxe
4Block states
1Properties
YesItem form
1Drops

Brittle Ice is a block in Minecraft that passes through several stages as it grows.

Players mine it with a pickaxe. When broken, it drops itself, so it can be collected and kept.

Texture file: block/brittle_ice_0.png · browse every texture in the game

Contents (8)
  1. Obtaining
  2. Data values
  3. Sounds
  4. Block states
  5. Natural generation
  6. History
  7. Tags
  8. See also

Obtaining

What this block gives you when it breaks, read from loot_table/blocks/brittle_ice.json.

DropsWhenAmount
Brittle IceMined with Silk TouchOne

Data values

Read from reports/blocks.json of Minecraft 26.4-snapshot-7.

Identifierminecraft:brittle_ice
Numeric default state ID17651
Block states4
State properties1
Item formYes

Sounds

Sound events named after this block. Blocks that share a generic sound group are not listed, because the game keeps those groupings in code rather than in its data files.

WhenSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
Broken——block.brittle_ice.break—
Cracks——block.brittle_ice.crack—
Fallen on——block.brittle_ice.fall—
Hit while mining——block.brittle_ice.hit—
Placed——block.brittle_ice.place—
Walked on——block.brittle_ice.step—

Block states

1 property combine into 4 distinct states.

PropertyDefaultAllowed valuesMeaning
age00 1 2 3Growth stage.

Natural generation

Biomes whose own feature list places this block, followed from worldgen/biome through placed_feature to feature. Blocks that the terrain itself is made of (stone, dirt, deepslate) come from the surface rules instead and are not listed here.

Placed by the worldgen feature ice_crevasse.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
26.4-snapshot-413 October 2026Added.

Tags

See also