In Java Edition, when a non-full block is placed on top of ice, the block has the same 'slipperiness' as the ice below it.
The player can travel even faster if they sprint and spam jump in a 2-block-high corridor with ice on the floor, allowing the player to accelerate to extremely high speeds, although this will cost them a lot of hunger. Items already travel at high speeds in water currents because they float, so ice block water streams are less necessary for item transportation.Ī player who sprints and jumps repeatedly on ice travels faster than on any other block type. This allows for increased speed of items in water currents, by placing ice blocks under the water current. Ice is slightly slippery, causing entities (excluding minecarts ) to slide, including items. The same applies to the next tier of compression, blue ice. Despite being created by a 3×3 recipe, packed ice is not a storage block, because it cannot be crafted back into ice.
