ICE

Ice is one of the naturally generating blocks found at water surface level in Frozen Biomes. It is also found in igloos and icebergs and ice spikes. In Snowy Biomes and Frozen Ocean Biomes, water source blocks will turn into ice as long as the sky is directly above it and one of the sides of the water source blocks is a solid block. Ice will also melt, if any block beside it has a light level greater than eleven from a source other than the sun, like a torch or glowstone.

If you break an ice block that is placed on another block, the ice will turn to a water source. You can only gather ice as a block if you use a Silk Touch pick. One nice feature: ice is a partly transparent block, and mobs other than polar bears can’t spawn on it.

See also: Icebergs, Packed Ice, Blue Ice.

Slippery When Ice

All ice block variants—ice, blue ice, and packed ice—have the slippery characteristic. When you walk on them, you’ll slide a little. If you throw an item on them, the item will glide a bit. Blue ice is the most slippery, followed by packed ice and then ice. In addition, you can place transparent blocks, like slabs, on top of an ice block, and that block will have the same slippery characteristic. This makes ice a fantastic way to get around speedily in Minecraft.

ICEBERG

Icebergs are a naturally occurring structure found in Frozen and Deep Frozen Ocean Biomes. They appear to be floating in the ocean, with some of their structure below the surface but most above. In size, they can range from small clumps to massive peaks. They’re composed mostly of packed ice, often with smaller patches of ice, blue ice, and snow at their tops.

IMPALING

Impaling is an enchantment for the trident weapon. It is similar to Sharpness for a sword, and adds extra damage when you strike (both melee and ranged) an aquatic (and not undead) mob: dolphins, guardians, fish, squid, and turtles. It doesn’t work on any other type of mob. There are five levels, and each level adds an extra 2.5 HP of damage.

See also: Trident.

KELP

Kelp is an aquatic plant growing only below the ocean’s surface. (It is also the first plant that is animated, its leaves waving back and forth in the water.) You’ll find it in Ocean, Lukewarm Ocean, and Cold Ocean Biomes and their Deep variants. It will still grow in Warm and Frozen Oceans if you plant it yourself. It can grow up to the top water block of the sea’s surface, but it doesn’t need direct access to the sky or any light. It just must be placed in water. In Bedrock Edition, you can bone meal a kelp plant to force it to grow. To harvest a kelp plant, simply break the second block from the ocean floor. All kelp blocks above it will also break, in the same way a chorus plant breaks.

Kelp Magic

Kelp has a unique quality: if it is placed in flowing water, it will turn that water into water source blocks. This means that you can fill up a large area of water by filling just the top layers with water source and flowing blocks, and then place kelp from the bottom layer up to turn all blocks into source blocks.

Kelp will grow from the sea floor all the way up to the top block of ocean water.