Ice Spikes in Minecraft

This Minecraft tutorial explains the Ice Spikes biome with screenshots.

In Minecraft, you will spawn into worlds with unique weather, animals, and plants. These regions are known as biomes. Let's explore the Ice Spikes biome in Minecraft.

Background

In Minecraft, the Ice Spikes is a biome in the Overworld. It is known for its towering blue spikes that are made out of packed ice and are surrounded by white snow.

ice spikes biome

Let's explore the characteristics of the Ice Spikes biome.

Weather

The weather in the Ice Spikes biome has average precipitation (but instead of rain drops, this biome has snow flakes).

Trees

There are no trees in the Ice Spikes biome.

Vegetation

There is no vegetation in the Ice Spikes biome.

Blocks

In this biome, you will find blocks such as packed ice, snow blocks and layers of snow:

Item Description
packed ice Packed Ice
snow Snow Block
snow layer Snow Layer

Other Standard Blocks

If you dig down far enough in the Ice Spikes biome, you will find the standard Minecraft building blocks such as stone, coal ore, iron ore, gold ore, diamond ore, redstone ore, copper ore:

stone coal ore iron ore gold ore diamond ore redstone ore copper ore

Mobs

Overworld Mobs that Spawn at Night

You will still find the usual Overworld mobs that spawn at night in the Ice Spikes biome, such as creepers, endermen, skeletons, spiders, witches and zombies:

creeper enderman skeleton spider witch zombie

Biome ID for Ice Spikes

Ice Spikes Seeds

You can use a seed to create a world where you spawn in an Ice Spikes biome: