Ice

Ice is a block in the  collection. It can be obtained in a number of ways, such as bought from the Builder Merchant, or from the Winter Island.

Collection
Collecting ice increases the player's ice collection, which grants useful items and perks upon collecting certain amounts of ice.

Mining
Ice can be mined with a Pickaxe enchanted with. Mining Ice grants +0.5 experience.

Ice cannot be mined on any of the public islands except the Jerry Pond on the Jerry Island. There are currently four methods for obtaining ice for the collection.


 * Counts towards collection:
 * 1) Mining the ice on the Jerry Pond using a  Pickaxe.
 * 2) Alternatively, the player can use a Taiga Biome Stick to turn the biome into a Taiga and wait for the water to spontaneously turn into ice. It should be noted that this method is very slow. If the player has already collected enough ice to create an Ice minion, mining the ice that the minion generates is by far the most efficient way of obtaining ice.
 * 3) Killing Frozen Steve, Frosty, or a Yeti will make them drop Ice. Picking up the Ice will count towards your collection.
 * 4) You can also obtain Ice by using the Ice Rod with its 25% chance of catching Ice while fishing.


 * Does not count towards collection:
 * 1) Acquire a pair of Boots enchanted with  or, then walk over a water source or flowing water block to turn the water into ice and mine the ice with a  Pickaxe.

Trivia

 * -enchanted boots used to count towards unlocking the ice collection, but this was removed after an unknown update.
 * The ice required to make all special crafts amounts to 21,470,801. That's the total for all Ice Minion tiers, the Magical Water Bucket, the Frozen Scythe, Frozen Blaze Armor, the Auger Rod, and the Yeti Sword. It is inadvisable to manually collect the ice required to craft these items.
 * You can get 40 Enchanted Ice worth from the Builder each day.
 * While ice does not count towards the collection and does not grant Mining experience, it does count towards and can activate the  enchantment to produce Enchanted Ice. This is not a particularly fast or efficient way of producing material, but it is an option for a little bit of extra ice.