Ice Bomb

For the upcoming throwable projectile, see Ice Ball.

This page describes an education-related feature.

This feature is available only in Minecraft Education or when enabling the "Minecraft Education features" cheat setting in Bedrock Edition.

Ice Bomb

Rarity tier	Common
Use cooldown	1 second (20 ticks)
Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (16)

An ice bomb is a throwable projectile that is used to freeze water into ice.

Obtaining

Lab table

Result	Materials needed
Ice Bomb
	Sodium Acetate x4

Usage

Ice bombs can be thrown by using them, similar to an egg. They are affected by gravity.

Similar to ender pearls, there is a short cooldown before the player can throw another ice bomb. The cooldown is shown in the hotbar by a white overlay that shrinks before the player is able to use it again.

Ice bombs explode upon hitting most blocks, including non-solid blocks. They also explode upon hitting other entities, but they do not take any damage, and unlike eggs and snowballs, the impact is not considered an attack and does no damage or knockback. When exploding, any water (including flowing water, but not waterlogged blocks) in a 3×3×3 cube around the ice bomb freezes into ice. Ice bombs can be used to contain and displace mobs in ice under water.

While endermen teleport away from arrows shot at them, they can be hit by ice bombs.

Throwing an ice bomb while underwater encloses the player in ice.

In Minecraft Education, breezes are able to deflect ice bombs.

Dispensers

Ice bombs can be shot from dispensers.

Sounds

Data values

ID

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
Ice Bomb	ice_bomb	595	Item	item.ice_bomb.name

Ice Bomb	Identifier	Numeric ID	Translation key
Entity	ice_bomb	106	entity.ice_bomb.name

History

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.20.1				Added ice bombs.
1.21.0			Preview 1.21.0.21				Ice bombs now appear in the Creative inventory when the Education edition toggle is on.
1.21.100			Preview 1.21.100.20				The sprite of ice bombs, when rendered in the world, now have the correct scaling and positional offset.
							They now match Java Edition, and also match better with their collider.

Minecraft Education

Minecraft Education
1.0.27							Added ice bombs.
1.21.03			Preview 1.21.01.0				Ice bombs now appear in the Creative inventory.

Issues

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

Trivia

• In real life, mixing a sufficient amount of sodium acetate in water does solidify it, but creates hot ice (sodium acetate trihydrate) instead of normal ice.