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Ice Crystal

Pickaxe
12Block states
2Properties
YesItem form
1Drops

Ice Crystal is a block in Minecraft. It can be placed facing different directions, and it can also be waterlogged.

Players mine Ice Crystal with a pickaxe. When broken, it drops itself, so it can be collected and placed again elsewhere.

Texture file: block/ice_crystal.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/ice_crystal.json.

DropsWhenAmount
Ice CrystalSurvives the explosionOne

Data values

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

Identifierminecraft:ice_crystal
Numeric default state ID27598
Block states12
State properties2
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
Ambient——block.ice_crystal.ambient—
Broken——block.ice_crystal.break—
Fallen on——block.ice_crystal.fall—
Hit while mining——block.ice_crystal.hit—
Placed——block.ice_crystal.place—
Walked on——block.ice_crystal.step—

Block states

2 properties combine into 12 distinct states.

PropertyDefaultAllowed valuesMeaning
facingupnorth east south west up downWhich way the block faces.
waterloggedfalsetrue falseWhether the block is filled with water.

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_crystal.

History

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

VersionDateWhat the files show
26.4-snapshot-36 October 2026Added.

Tags

1 tag contain this block.

See also