Ice Spikes

Ice Spikes

Features	Ice spike Ice Patch
Blocks	Packed Ice Snow Block Snow Dirt Ice Spruce Log Spruce Leaves
Climate
Temperature	0.0
Downfall	0.5‌[Java Edition only] 1.0‌[Bedrock Edition only]
Precipitation	Yes
Colors
Grass color	#80B497
Foliage color	#60A17B
Water color	#3F76E4‌[JE only]  #14559B‌[BE only]

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The ice spikes is a variant of the snowy plains, featuring ice spikes made of packed ice and other special features.

Description

The ice spikes features large numbers of ice spikes and ice patches dotted across its landscape. No surface structures generate in this biome. Instead of grass blocks, snow blocks cover the ground. Vegetation is extraordinarily scarce, as it can only appear in locations where the underlying dirt was exposed during terrain generation. Spruce trees, sugar cane, poppies, dandelions, and short grass can appear under such an occasion. Like in typical biomes, lava lakes and ruined portals generate. Because the whole biome experiences snowfall, lightning typically doesn't (that is, without using a Channeling trident or summon command) strike within it. The spikes are an excellent source of packed ice, which can be used for faster transportation, e.g. an unmeltable ice track for boats.

The sky uses a unique gray/blue color with Vibrant Visuals. Slightly stronger volumetric fog and changed lighting effects make the biome look more faded and gray in general.

Generated in high weirdness values, ice spikes are most commonly separated from snowy plains by frozen rivers, and might border plains, snowy slopes, snowy beaches, stony shores, windswept gravelly hills, frozen oceans and rarely a cherry grove biome. Besides weirdness, ice spikes also require low temperatures as well as low humidity values during world generation.

Survival in ice spikes is more challenging than in most biomes, comparable to the difficulty of deserts, due to the absence of trees and villages. Food is also scarce, with farm animals not spawning in the biome and the only proper food sources being the timid rabbit and the rare mount of a chicken jockey. When under direct sky access and not warmed by high block light values, water freezes, making above-ground farming and fishing more problematic. Finally, strays spawn on the surface at night alongside the usual hostile mobs, and the slippery landscape can make evasion difficult.

Mobs

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100⁄515	4
Slime[note 1]	100⁄515	4
Spider	100⁄515	4
Zombie	95⁄515	4
Stray	80⁄515	4
Skeleton	20⁄515	4
Enderman	10⁄515	1–4
Witch	5⁄515	1
Zombie Villager	5⁄515	1
Creature category
Rabbit	10⁄11	2–3
Polar Bear[note 2]	1⁄11	1–2
Underground water creature category
Glow Squid	1	4–6
Ambient category
Bat	1	8

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In Bedrock Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Creeper	100	1
Slime[note 1]	100	1
Spider	100	1
Stray	96	1–2
Zombie	95	2–4
Skeleton	24	1–2
Enderman	10	1–2
Witch	5	1
Zombie Villager	5	2–4
Creature category
Glow Squid	10	2–4
Rabbit	4	2–3
Polar Bear	1	1–2

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Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Translation key
Ice spikes	ice_spikes	biome.minecraft.ice_spikes

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID
[No displayed name]	ice_plains_spikes	140

Achievements

Icon		Achievement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)	Gamerscore earned	Trophy type (PS)
PS4	Other
		Adventuring Time	Discover 17 biomes.	Visit any 17 biomes. Does not have to be in a single world.	40	Silver

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Adventuring Time	Discover every biome	Visit all of these 54 biomes: Badlands Bamboo Jungle Beach Birch Forest Cherry Grove Cold Ocean Dark Forest Deep Cold Ocean Deep Dark Deep Frozen Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Deep Ocean Desert Dripstone Caves Eroded Badlands Flower Forest Forest Frozen Ocean Frozen Peaks Frozen River Grove Ice Spikes Jagged Peaks Jungle Lukewarm Ocean Lush Caves Mangrove Swamp Meadow Mushroom Fields Ocean Old Growth Birch Forest Old Growth Pine Taiga Old Growth Spruce Taiga Pale Garden Plains River Savanna Savanna Plateau Snowy Beach Snowy Plains Snowy Slopes Snowy Taiga Sparse Jungle Stony Peaks Stony Shore Sunflower Plains Swamp Taiga Warm Ocean Windswept Forest Windswept Gravelly Hills Windswept Hills Windswept Savanna Wooded Badlands The advancement is only for Overworld biomes. Other biomes may also be visited, but are ignored for this advancement.

Video

History

Data history

Issues

Issues relating to "Ice Spikes" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Ice spikes that generate under overhangs can create "icefalls", such as this in an amplified world.
• 
  An ice spikes biome.
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  A narrow ice spikes biome in a mountain valley surrounded by snowy slopes.
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  Snowfall in ice spikes.
• 
  A village reaching into an ice spikes biome during snowfall.
• 
  Shattered terrain in an ice spikes biome.
• 
  The sky in ice spikes with Vibrant Visuals.
• 
  An ice spikes biome surrounded by a large frozen lake.
• 
  Ice spikes on a mountain.
• 
  Narrator in an ice spike biome.
• 
  A mountain surrounded by ice spikes.

Historical screenshots

• 
  Survival in the ice spikes biome was more difficult due to the steep terrain before 1.18.
• 
  Another view of ice spikes.
• 
  An ice spikes single biome world before 1.18.
• 
  Ice spikes with ray tracing.
• 
  A rare occurence of ice spikes bordering eroded badlands.
• 
  Ice spikes in the Far Lands.

See also

• Snowy Plains
• Snowy Taiga
• Frozen Ocean
• Windswept Hills
• Tundra
• Ice Desert

External links

• "Around the Block: Ice Spikes" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, July 29, 2021.

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