Strategies for "Mine 3 Types of Ice"

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closure99 messagesstarted Aug 13, 2026, 5:56 PM

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closureOP2 months ago(edited)

Might not be interesting enough to be its own #resources post, but discussing the new goal is probably a good idea at last

To start, the most consistent ways to get all 3 types quickly are frozen oceans, since Packed Ice icebergs sometimes have Blue Ice near the bottom (https://minecraft.wiki/w/Blue_Ice_(feature)). (Rarely, they are entirely made of blue ice).

Snowy Villages are second-best, since Packed Ice generates as part of houses, one of the Meeting Point types, and in piles (like Hay Bales in Plains villages), and two house types and some piles generate with Blue Ice.

Somewhat obscure ways get different ice types:

- Snowy Village chests can have Blue Ice in them (if one of the two Blue Ice house types didn't generate)
- Frosted Ice is a fourth type from Frost Walker boots
- Some biomes have snowfall past y=120/160/200, which means you can freeze water into normal ice if you're up there
- Packed ice generates at Stray Trial Spawners
- Ancient City iceboxes can generate with all 3 types of ice
- Wandering Trader has a 13% chance to trade for packed ice and 13% chance to trade for blue ice, but there are only 6 in stock

closureOP2 months ago(edited)

Silk Touch is definitely too rare to rely on but maybe viable on some seeds if there's no cold biomes anywhere? Kinda sucks that it's so hard to get

closureOP2 months ago

maybe if you have a village and cherry grove at spawn and it's goal 13

beniibobs2 months ago

silk touch gold pick from rp also can only mine 32 blocks, which won’t be enough to craft blue ice if you’re just mining regular ice

closureOP2 months ago

good point

closureOP2 months ago

packed ice from a village house or frozen peaks would be needed

closureOP2 months ago

if you have an anvil for another goal it could overlap with repairing the silk touch tool

closureOP2 months ago(edited)

imagine mining 90 ice with a golden hoe

closureOP2 months ago

lmao

SOOT2 months ago

Silk touch diamond pick isn’t that uncommon from bastion though

SOOT2 months ago

Also frosted ice counts? That’s cool

closureOP2 months ago

if it doesn't that would be really weird imo

SOOT2 months ago

I just didn’t really think of it

SOOT2 months ago

I guess it would make sense why it was called 3 ice types instead of all ice types

closureOP2 months ago

seems like a 1/6 which is worth overlapping for

SOOT2 months ago

Per bastion or per chest

SOOT2 months ago

Per bastion right?

closureOP2 months ago

oh right, the 1/6 is just per pickaxe lol

closureOP2 months ago

lets see

closureOP2 months ago

6.7% (sorry) per generic bastion loot chest

closureOP2 months ago

you need to search 14.8 on average so basically you expect to get 1 silk touch every 90 loot chests lol

closureOP2 months ago

okay yeah you're not playing for that unless it's the only goal left

spicedspaghetti2 months ago

is the goal not biome dependant

SOOT2 months ago

Yeah not playing for it but something to keep in mind

SOOT2 months ago

Like it might be worth checking an extra chest you wouldn’t otherwise need just in case

closureOP2 months ago

not sure

closureOP2 months ago

even so it's good to know alternatives because the frozen ocean could be really far away or be really small

closureOP2 months ago

and if they only filter for cold biomes it's not enough to guarantee all 3 ice types

closureOP2 months ago(edited)

Interesting to note that if you want to roll enchants, you can get either silk touch or frost walker if you only need blue ice (so if village doesn't have or you only have a frozen peaks/ice spikes)

closureOP2 months ago

so it's double the chance which is a little bit better

beniibobs2 months ago

It’s confirmed. 4 types of ice count.

SOOT2 months ago

Does any pickaxe have silk touch as first enchant?

SOOT2 months ago

Or any tool in general

beniibobs2 months ago

do u mean for lv30 enchants?

SOOT2 months ago

Is silk touch only for lvl 30?

SOOT2 months ago

Cuz doesn’t first enchant work on any book level it’s just different depending on what item and how many shelves

SOOT2 months ago

So if first enchant was always silk touch for iron pick 5 bookshelves or something that would be good tech

closureOP2 months ago

wait that's a great idea

closureOP2 months ago

maybe could be its own thread on getting silk touch

beniibobs2 months ago

it would have to be more viable than just rerolling librarian and using anvil

SparkFire_2 months ago

I think you can get from level 8 but its just aot rarer

beniibobs2 months ago

maybe if u also have use enchanting table

SOOT2 months ago

First enchant isn’t rng tho

SparkFire_2 months ago

Is first enchant in a new world alwyas the same still (for the same item)

SOOT2 months ago

Yeah

SOOT2 months ago

As long as you don’t log out

SOOT2 months ago

Aa runners use it for looting 2 on diamond swords

SparkFire_2 months ago

So someone needs to try all level 8-30 first enchants for every tool?

SparkFire_2 months ago

t-t

closureOP2 months ago

i'm sure there are existing tools that can simulate it

sugaarush2 months ago

i lowkey wish this goal was only in igloo seed types

sugaarush2 months ago

bc currently it’s just gonna be first to find frozen ocean/snowy village

SOOT2 months ago

And they’d have to open a new world for each enchant

SOOT2 months ago

Not just every tool but every material of every tool

sugaarush2 months ago

and other than igloo seeds i feel like cold biomes aren’t easy to find

closureOP2 months ago

can't you play T value?

closureOP2 months ago

idk how consistent it is tbh

SparkFire_2 months ago

Wandering trader also sells ice right?

closureOP2 months ago

yes i think so

SparkFire_2 months ago

That may be useful in some scenarios

closureOP2 months ago

ill add it to the top

closureOP2 months ago

they only have 6 in stock so you can't craft blue ice from the packed ice you trade for rip

SOOT2 months ago

Who wants to be the one to test first enchant on every level of every material of every tool?

closureOP2 months ago

here i'll make a new thread for that

SOOT2 months ago

There might be stuff on it in aa coord

SOOT2 months ago

This is for level 30 I think

closureOP2 months ago(edited)

that says it's just recommended enchants, not first enchant

SOOT2 months ago

Oh wait

SOOT2 months ago

Mb I pulled the wrong image

closureOP2 months ago

all g

nakedhippo2195872 months ago

why do you need silktouch if the mission to break the 3 type of ice no?

closureOP2 months ago

to craft packed/blue ice

nakedhippo2195872 months ago

oh when you are not near ice iceberg yeah mb

SOOT2 months ago

Found the table

SOOT2 months ago

Silk touch isn’t any first enchant

closureOP2 months ago

does it have every level?

closureOP2 months ago

or only 30

SOOT2 months ago

https://docs.google.com/document/u/0/d/19pLqCk0MrOJmcqnChcLHVVgmrS6FYCL1bgPybkuH02E/mobilebasic

An Introduction to 26.3 AA

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SOOT2 months ago

At A.5 in the appendix if you want to take a luck

SOOT2 months ago

But I don’t think it’s first enchant for anything

closureOP2 months ago

damn that sucks

closureOP2 months ago

oh but gold tools have a higher chance

closureOP2 months ago

maybe worth testing to see how often

SOOT2 months ago

Yeah ig it could be good overlap with full gold tools

closureOP2 months ago

any bastion overlap really since you can just craft a ton of shovels

SOOT2 months ago

Would picks be worth it to mine faster?

nakedhippo2195872 months ago(edited)

you can get it from level 17-29 (tier 2) but very rare

the level 3 with 30 xp level you have the biggest chance

SOOT2 months ago

Cuz mining 90 ice with shovels feels slow asl

closureOP2 months ago

probably if you don't have packed ice yeah

closureOP2 months ago

or like if you're willing to eat the timesink

SOOT2 months ago

That level of time sink just feels like a late game version of die to drowning

closureOP2 months ago

LOL maybe

xstevey2 months ago

yall mentioned silk touch, is it mine or obtain 3 types?

SparkFire_2 months ago

Its just mine

SparkFire_2 months ago

But the idea is that if there is only regular ice nearby, you could silk touch it and craft packed/blue

xstevey2 months ago

Patuator2 months ago

Notably, the Frozen Peaks and Ice Spikes biomes generate a lot of ice and packed ice, but 0 blue ice.
So going for frost walker for frosted ice, or silk touch for blue ice (from RP or Bastion) is particularly important if those are your only ice biomes

beniibobs2 months ago

assuming you have no snowy village

beniibobs2 months ago

the chance of 0 blue ice from snowy village has got to be pretty low