How to Craft Blue Ice in Minecraft

Blue Ice in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own block model. Most slippery block in the game.

Bring 9 Packed Ice to a Crafting Table and you have Blue Ice. Done once, that is 1 Blue Ice.

Blue Ice Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Blue Ice is minecraft:blue_ice. In commands the namespace may be left off, so blue_ice works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one: /give @p blue_ice
Give a full stack of 64: /give @p blue_ice 64
Give it to a named player: /give Steve blue_ice 1

Cheats have to be on for Blue Ice to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Blue Ice is the most slippery block, making it ideal for high-speed boat highways. It does not melt. Blue Ice uses a shapeless recipe, so the ingredients can go in any cells of the grid as long as all of them are present.

How far back this one goes cannot be read out of the files: Minecraft 1.13 renamed hundreds of items and every recipe file with them, and the blue ice was one of them, so the trail stops there. The recipe itself last changed in Minecraft 1.19.3. Guides written before that release show a different set of ingredients for the blue ice, so check the grid above rather than the video.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with packed ice (craft from ice).

Stack Maths

A full stack of 64 packed ice gives 7 blue ice, across 7 crafts at 9 for 1. The box keeps 1 packed ice.

Materials Needed

Item	Amount	Where to Find
Packed Ice	9x	Craft from ice

For Blue Ice: 9x Packed Ice (craft from ice), brought to a Crafting Table.

The Full Chain

81 Ice makes 9 Packed Ice, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 81 Ice.

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819Packed Icerepeat 9x
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Blue Icethis page

Gather this first

81Ice

Step-by-Step Instructions

1
9x Packed Ice
2
Blue Ice

Minecraft crafting recipe for Blue Ice: 9 x Packed Ice in a crafting table, making 1 Blue Ice.

Tips & Notes

Cell positions do not matter here: drop Packed Ice anywhere in the grid and Blue Ice appears.
Shopping list: 9x Packed Ice. Plan the Packed Ice first: craft from ice.

Uses for Blue Ice

Most slippery block in the game
Boat highways
Basalt generation

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Blue Ice on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft Blue Ice in Minecraft?

Blue Ice asks for 9 Packed Ice, and the work happens at a Crafting Table. Any arrangement works as long as all of them are in the grid, and one craft produces one Blue Ice.

What do you need to make Blue Ice from scratch?

Counting all the way down, Blue Ice comes to 81 Ice, spread over 2 crafts.

Where do you find the materials for Blue Ice?

Blue Ice draws its parts from several different places. Packed Ice: craft from ice.

How much Blue Ice do you get from one craft?

The Blue Ice recipe makes one Blue Ice per craft.

What is the item ID for Blue Ice in Minecraft?

Blue Ice is registered as minecraft:blue_ice. Commands accept the short form blue_ice as well, and Bedrock spells it the same. Checked against Java 26.2.

What is the give command for Blue Ice?

/give @p blue_ice gives you Blue Ice. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.

Is the Blue Ice recipe the same in Java and Bedrock Edition?

It is the same recipe on both: 9 Packed Ice at a Crafting Table gives you Blue Ice, in the layout shown above, one at a time.

How many times do you repeat each step for Blue Ice?

Most steps for Blue Ice are a single craft, but Packed Ice has to be made 9 times to reach 9 Packed Ice. The chain section shows the totals per step.

Does it matter where you put the ingredients for Blue Ice?

No, Blue Ice is a shapeless recipe, so 9 Packed Ice can go in any slots you like. Only the set of ingredients is checked, not their arrangement.

What version of Minecraft added Blue Ice?

The blue ice has carried this name since Minecraft 1.13, the release that renamed hundreds of items at once, and the files cannot say how much older than that it is: anything earlier is the same thing filed under a different name. Today the game builds it from 9 Packed Ice, as shown above.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield: 9 Packed Ice in, 1 Blue Ice out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, 17 August 2026.
That Bedrock agrees: Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes: Minecraft Java 1.13 renamed it, so anything before that is the same thing under another name and cannot be tied to this page. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
When the recipe last changed: Walked forward through 50 Java releases from 1.13 onwards; 1.19.3 is the last one that altered it.
Stack size: The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock: What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum: Counted, not played: 1 Blue Ice per craft against the stack size.

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