Igloo

For the sub dungeon in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Igloo.
Igloo
Igloo top.png: Infobox image for Igloo the structure in Minecraft
Igloo bottom.png: Infobox image for Igloo the structure in Minecraft
Biomes
Mobs

Villager
Zombie Villager

Consists of

An igloo is a structure sometimes generated in snowy taigas, snowy plains, or snowy slopes and built mainly of snow blocks.

Generation

Igloos generates in snowy taigas, snowy plains, and snowy slopes.

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Structure

Main article: /Structure

An igloo is shaped like a small dwelling made of snow blocks. It has an entrance without a door and a carpeted interior containing a bed, furnace, and crafting table. There are two windows made of ice blocks‌/packed ice‌[1] and one redstone torch as a light source.

Half of all igloos have an oak trapdoor under the third carpet from the doorway, leading down a long ladder shaft to a basement. This passageway and the basement are built from stone bricks, some of which are infested blocks with silverfish. To the left from the ladder is a table made of stairs blocks, with a brewing stand containing one splash potion of weakness and a flower pot holding a cactus. Beside the table is a cauldron two-thirds full of water. To the right is a chest that contains a golden apple. Beyond the far wall, behind iron bars in two different cages, are a villager and a zombie villager.[2]

Igloos that generate without a basement have a snow block in place of the trapdoor. The villagers, the brewing stand, and the chest are absent in this case.

If an igloo with a basement forms partially above open-air, the shaft with the ladder still generates.

Mobs

Villager Zombie villager

In Java Edition, the generated villager is always unemployed and is a plains biome type.[3] The villager cannot pathfind to the brewing stand or cauldron to take on a profession unless some of the blocks confining them are broken. The generated zombie villager always has the profession of cleric and becomes unemployed if cured.

In Bedrock Edition, the villager is the snowy type with a random profession while the zombie villager is unemployed; although it can change its profession to cleric or leatherworker after being cured, due to the presence of the brewing stand and cauldron.

One may access the individual structures of an igloo by using structure blocks to manually load them from the /data/minecraft/structures/igloo folder in version.jar. To do so, set a structure block to Load mode, enter igloo/structure name, and press [LOAD]. The individual structures are bottom, middle, top.

Structure name Description Consists of Images
igloo/top The above-ground room of the igloo, made of snow blocks.

94 Snow Block
9 White Carpet
3 Light Gray Carpet
2 Ice

2 Packed Ice
1 Crafting Table
1 Furnace
1 Oak Trapdoor
1 Red Bed
1 Redstone Torch

igloo/middle The stone tunnel that connects the room above with the basement.

12 Stone Bricks
3 Ladder

igloo/bottom The basement, made of various stone blocks and infested stone blocks, containing a villager and a zombie villager.

104 Stone Bricks
17 Mossy Stone Bricks
11 Stone
8 Cracked Stone Bricks
7 Chiseled Stone Bricks
6 Infested Stone Bricks
4 Iron Bars
4 Ladder
3 Torch
2 Infested Chiseled Stone Bricks
2 Red Carpet
2 Spruce Stairs
1 Infested Mossy Stone Bricks
1 Polished Andesite
1 Cauldron
1 Chest (1 Golden Apple)
1 Cobweb
1 Potted Cactus
1 Oak Sign
1 Spruce Slab
1 Brewing Stand with a Splash Potion of Weakness
1 Villager
1 Zombie Villager

Loot

See also: Chest loot

In Java Edition and Bedrock Edition, each igloo chest contains items drawn from 2 pools, with the following distribution:

Item Stack Size [A] Weight [B] Chance [C] Avg.
per chest
[D]
Avg. # chests
to search
[E]
2–8× 2–8×
Golden Apple 111100.0%1.0001.0
Coal 1–4156370.4%2.9761.4
Apple 1–3156370.4%2.3811.4
Wheat 2–3106355.3%1.9841.8
Gold Nugget 1–3106355.3%1.5871.8
Rotten Flesh 1106355.3%0.7941.8
Stone Axe 126314.7%0.1596.8
Emerald 11637.6%0.07913.1
  1. The size of stacks (or for unstackable items, number) of this item on any given roll.
  2. The weight of this item relative to other items in the pool.
  3. The odds of finding any of this item in a single chest.
  4. The number of items expected per chest, averaged over a large number of chests.
  5. The average number of chests the player should expect to search to find any of this item.

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Structure typeIdentifier
EnvSprite igloo.png: Sprite image for igloo in Minecraft Iglooigloo
StructureIdentifier
EnvSprite igloo.png: Sprite image for igloo in Minecraft Iglooigloo

Bedrock Edition:

StructureIdentifierTranslation key
EnvSprite igloo.png: Sprite image for igloo in Minecraft Templetemplefeature.temple

Config

Java Edition:

  • [NBT Compound / JSON Object] Structure configuration
    • [String] type: minecraft:igloo
    • Fields common to all structures see Template:Nbt inherit/structure/template

History

Java Edition
1.9October 20, 2015Michael Stoyke reveals he is working on a new structure to showcase the new 'loot table' feature.
15w43aAdded igloos. Igloos may be found in a few snow-covered biomes.
15w43bGolden apples in the igloo chests now have a 100% chance of appearing, where previously they would often not appear – it was moved from the structure file to the loot table.
Golden apples originally would always be found in the central slot when they were found at all; now they can be found in any slot.
15w43cThe glass bottle has been removed from the igloo’s brewing stand.
Cobweb is now found in the basement.
Sign in the basement previously read:
--->
<---
and now reads:
××××- ×××--
 --×× ×-×
 ×-×× -××
--××× ×××--
15w44aThe red carpet in the basement now hides a block of polished andesite.
Sign in the basement is tweaked, near to old form:
<----
---->
1.1318w20aIn the structure block's data folder for the igloo the names of the parts of the structure igloo_bottom, igloo_middle and igloo_top have been changed to bottom, middle and top.
1.1720w45aDue to the empty and water cauldrons being split into different blocks, cauldrons no longer generate in igloos, with water cauldrons taking their place.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1Added igloos.
1.1.0alpha 1.1.0.0Igloos generated in ice plains now have a white bed instead of a red bed and those generated in cold taiga have a brown bed.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Igloos now generate with a red bed.
Legacy Console Edition
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TU43CU331.361.361.36Patch 131.0.1Added igloos.
TU46CU361.381.381.38Patch 15Due to the addition of the new zombie villager skins the zombie villager in the basement is now a cleric rather than getting a random profession when cured.

Issues

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

Trivia

  • In Java Edition, if a number of items in the igloo furnace are smelted, the light generated melts the igloo window, turning the ice into a water source block.[4] If the igloo has a basement, this can reveal the trapdoor leading to it.
  • An igloo with a basement qualifies as a village in Bedrock Edition due to having a villager, a bed, a brewing stand, and a cauldron, with the last 2 blocks counting as job sites. In Java Edition, however, the villager (or the zombie villager, if cured) must have a path to access either job site, which must be claimed in order for the igloo to register as a village. This means a raid can be triggered in an igloo.
  • An igloo can sometimes generate on a cliff, on a mountain, over a cave, or on a floating island, causing its basement to be exposed.
  • Igloos can generate deep down due to generation bugs, causing the basement ladder to lead to the void, without generating a proper basement.

Gallery

Screenshots

Mojang screenshots

External links

References

  1. MCPE-146636 — Igloos spawn with packed ice
  2. MCPE-146636
  3. MC-150296 — resolved as "Works As Intended".
  4. MC-100036 — resolved as "Works As Intended".

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