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Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Upgraded with a netherite ingot and the respective diamond item. Does not burn in lava, as a dropped item. Floats in lava. Tougher than diamond armor. Has higher durability and enchantability than diamond. But does not have as much enchantablity as gold. H...
Minecraft wiki entry for Hunger_management, associated text: Advantages: Can be used on servers to show how much potato farming you have done ( pun intended). No additional advantages otherwise.
Minecraft wiki entry for Henrik_Pettersson, associated text: Henrik Pettersson is the third artist hired to work on Caller’s Bane, and was hired in August 2011.[2] He developed Crown and Council, a surprise game released on Steam for free on April 22, 2016.
Minecraft wiki entry for Cocoa_bean_farming, associated text: A more compact 3x4x4 mechanism, but with 3/4 of the efficiency of the 7x7x3 model, may be made with a three-jungle-log stem. However, one side of the log stem is connected to sticky pistons with a block on the side of the middle piston. A torch is placed und...
Minecraft wiki entry for Elder_Guardian, associated text: In Java Edition, immediately after spawning and once each minute thereafter, the elder guardian searches for any player within 50 blocks to afflict with Mining Fatigue III. In Bedrock Edition the elder guardian inflicts any unafflicted player within range immedi...
Minecraft wiki entry for 1CHP, associated text: Zetta decides to do invisibility, with Rift giving her some redstone to use. She goes to work, first using some netherwart on the water bottles to make awkward potions, followed by a golden carrot to turn them into potions of night vision, followed by a fermented spider e...
Minecraft wiki entry for Vines, associated text: Vines absorb all fall damage, even without a solid surface nearby. Sneaking on vines causes the player to hang, even if the vines are not adjacent to any surface.
Minecraft wiki entry for 0x10c, associated text: Are you asking how it's implemented? The ship is loaded as static geometry and never moves. External forces like acceleration and impact will be implemented by applying the inverse force to everything inside the ship rather than by moving the actual ship hull. – Reddit, ...
Minecraft wiki entry for Lectern, associated text: Lecterns cannot hold enchanted books or normal books. Instead, right clicking the lectern with an enchanted book or a normal book does nothing and the book won't be placed.
Minecraft wiki entry for Your_first_10_minutes, associated text: If you run short on food, you can survive on rotten flesh dropped by zombies, but it is not as nutritious and can poison you with hunger for 30 seconds. If you are living on rotten flesh, it is best to wait until the hunger bar is low and then eat multipl...
Minecraft wiki entry for Galaxite, associated text: Core Wars (formerly known as Planets) is Galaxite's very own version of Bedwars but with many unique additions. 4-8 players are individually put onto their own island with a core. It is the player's job to protect their core and eliminate other player's cores. Going i...
Minecraft wiki entry for Building_a_metropolis, associated text: Flying: This will need either command blocks or an admin. Basically, have an "airport" where command blocks and/or an admin will give players spectator mode so they can fly from the new airport to another. Creative mode also gives players an ability to fl...
Minecraft wiki entry for Defeating_an_End_city, associated text: End cities are special structures found in the End. They are highly anticipated to explore, because they are inhabited by shulkers, and are the only place where you can find elytra, an extremely useful set of wings that you can use to fly. Since elytra ca...
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: No longer place their held blocks onto bedrock. This is to prevent them from placing blocks on the bedrock ceiling, allowing mobs to spawn.
Minecraft wiki entry for Healing, associated text: Natural healing can be deactivated using the command /gamerule naturalRegeneration false or from the world option.
Minecraft wiki entry for Seed_picker, associated text: Due to changes in village generation in Bedrock Edition 1.11.0, a new set of seeds appeared, which are unchanged until 1.17.40, in which some seeds were removed in preparation for Bedrock Edition 1.18.0. In 1.18.0, most of these removed worlds were restored and upd...
Minecraft wiki entry for Pulse, associated text: Variations: The "adjustable" version takes up the same space, but its output pulse can be adjusted from 1 to 3 ticks. The "flat" version can also be adjusted from 1 to 3 ticks.
Minecraft wiki entry for Strider, associated text: A baby strider on an adult strider still grows into an adult. Apart from this, adult striders riding other adult striders do not spawn naturally. Baby striders not riding on an adult follow the closest adult strider.
Minecraft wiki entry for Things_not_to_do, associated text: The most reliable way to obtain fire resistance is by brewing the correct potion. To brew any potion at all, the player must have access to blaze rods, which can be turned into blaze powder to fuel a brewing stand, so they must have fought blazes inside a Neth...
Minecraft wiki entry for Old_Customized, associated text: What the resulting world would look like if the "biome scale weight" and "biome scale offset" values were set to their maximum.
Minecraft wiki entry for Curing_a_zombie_villager, associated text: To brew a Lingering Potion of Weakness, you need: 1 fermented spider eye, which can be crafted with spider eyes, brown mushroom, and sugar 1 to 3 water bottles, which can be obtained by right-clicking a water source with glass bottles 1 gunpowder, whic...
Minecraft wiki entry for Survival_in_an_infinite_desert, associated text: Thankfully, Minecraft does not consider the need of human beings for water (perhaps all the cactus takes care of hydration). However, from Day 3, if you have not yet found a village, or earlier if you have been injured (from falling or fighting m...
Minecraft wiki entry for Wheat, associated text: 1 Obtaining 1.1 Natural generation 1.2 Farming 1.3 Crafting 1.4 Drops 2 Usage 2.1 Food 2.2 Crafting ingredient 2.3 Trading 2.4 Composting 3 Achievements 4 Advancements 5 Data values 5.1 ID 6 Video 7 History 8 Issues
Minecraft wiki entry for Glowstone, associated text: 1 Obtaining 1.1 Natural generation 1.2 Breaking 1.3 Chest loot 1.4 Crafting 1.5 Trading and drops 2 Usage 2.1 Light source 2.2 Redstone circuits 2.3 Crafting ingredient 2.4 Note blocks 2.5 Respawn anchors 2.6 Transparent block 3 Sounds 4 Data values 4.1 ID 5 Advancem...
Minecraft wiki entry for Before_Village_%26_Pillage, associated text: A house is initiated by a nearby villager. Without a villager nearby, it is not considered a "house," just some blocks and a door:
Minecraft wiki entry for Custom_world_generation, associated text: water [needs testing] conditional surface rule offset: [needs testing] surface_depth_multiplier: [needs testing] add_stone_depth: [needs testing]
Minecraft wiki entry for Daylight_cycle, associated text: The internal sky-light level increases. Eventually, the effects of sunlight return, dissipating the threat of most hostile mobs.
Minecraft wiki entry for Gravel, associated text: Gravel can be broken using any tool, but a shovel is the quickest. When broken, it has a 10% chance of dropping flint instead of the gravel itself. The flint received can be controlled with enchantments. Silk Touch removes the chance of dropping flint. Fortune increases...
Minecraft wiki entry for Flower_Pot, associated text: Original Reddit image suggesting item frames and flower pots. The first image of flower pots, released by Dinnerbone. An 14w06a example of some of the blocks that can be placed inside of flower pots, and their rendering. The same arrangement as prior in 14w06b.
Minecraft wiki entry for Structure, associated text: Small rooms, 1×1×1 basic unit, made plus-shaped by 2×2 prismarine bricks at floor and ceiling in each corner, with sea lanterns in the four corners at the middle level.
Minecraft wiki entry for Beast_Boy, associated text: "Beast Boy" was named and modeled after a character from DC Comics, most well known in franchises Beast Boy and Teen Titans.
Minecraft wiki entry for Timeline_of_events, associated text: 5 – The final two episodes of Minecraft: Story Mode are released on Netflix.[71] 11 – Bedrock: 1.8.0 released.[72] 17 – Bedrock: 1.8.1 released for Nintendo Switch.[73]
Minecraft wiki entry for Spider, associated text: A spider. Spiders are one of the most visible mobs at night due to their glowing red eyes. Spiders climbing. A view of a spider from below. Spider shot by a skeleton. A spider and its spawner in a dungeon. A spider in a 1.5×1.5 space. A spider's vision when spectating i...
Minecraft wiki entry for Cauldron, associated text: "Potions are delayed because *add to cauldron, pick up, look at tooltip, pour back into cauldron, repeat* was extremely tedious" – @jeb_ on Twitter, September 29, 2011
Minecraft wiki entry for Parity_issue_list, associated text: Have quasi-connectivity. Have generally more functionality. Can equip armor on villagers[187] and wandering traders.[188] Can place armor stands.[189] Can place carpets on tamed llamas.[190] Can place chests on tamed donkeys, llamas and mules.[191] Can place ...
Minecraft wiki entry for Kelp_farming, associated text: Kelp can be manually farmed by placing kelp underwater, waiting for it to grow, and breaking it. Usually you will want to break the block above the bottom kelp plant so as to allow continued growth. If you do not need a large amount of kelp, such as several double...
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Currently added as a feature code file, does not generate in the overworld yet, and can only be generated using add-ons. Adaptive to the environment: every type of cave generation can be a lush cave. Moss covers the floors and ceilings, along with moss car...
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Profession Possible reward items Farmer Bread Cookie Pumpkin pie Cleric Lapis lazuli Redstone Librarian Book Shepherd Wool Fisherman Raw cod Raw salmon Butcher Cooked chicken Cooked porkchop Cooked rabbit Steak Armorer Chainmail helmet Chainmail chestplate...
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Mob events can now be enabled and disabled in world templates. Animations and particles can be added without being linked to entities. Inventory, armor, and hand containers can be adapted through scripting. Sound effects can now be triggered by animation e...
Minecraft wiki entry for Ancient_City, associated text: All ancient city structures found below are located in the folder client.jar/data/minecraft/structures/ancient_city.
Minecraft wiki entry for Nether_survival, associated text: Crimson Forest: Watch out for hoglins, because they deal high damage and high knockback, and can fling you into the air. However, like pigs, they drop porkchops when killed. Piglins are formidable enemies that frequently spawn here, and they attack players who ...
Minecraft wiki entry for Panda, associated text: Entity data Additional fields for mobs that can breed[show] Tags common to all entities[show] Tags common to all mobs[show] HiddenGene: The secondary gene this panda has, that can transfer to the child. MainGene: The primary gene this panda has, that determines the beh...
Minecraft wiki entry for Minecart_with_Command_Block, associated text: A minecart with command block is an impulse‌[JE only] or repeating‌[BE & EE only] command block inside a minecart.
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: beta 1.11.0.10 beta 1.11.0.1 beta 1.11.0.3 beta 1.11.0.4 beta 1.11.0.5 beta 1.11.0.7 beta 1.11.0.8 beta 1.11.0.9 Notes and references
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Added an "Open to LAN" menu in the in-game menu, which allows players to open their world to other players. In the menu, the player can choose to turn commands on or off, and choose the game mode.
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Boats Version exclusive: Emits smoke when destroyed. Version exclusive: Crafting recipe is 5 wood planks and a wooden shovel. Larger in size. Color is dependent on the planks used. Sprite color is always the same; it doesn't change based on actual boat col...
Minecraft wiki entry for Building_a_metropolis, associated text: Farmer: Raises crops and farm animals, and sells to villagers or store owners. Farmer villagers can harvest and plant crops, though they can't take care of animals.
Minecraft wiki entry for Island_survival, associated text: Be sure you have nothing overhanging the entrance (no tree leaves, no other blocks), otherwise zombies can gather by your door during the night and be protected from sunlight when daytime comes, trapping you in your shelter. Without any overhang for protection,...
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: 20w22a is the nineteenth and final snapshot for Java Edition 1.16, released on May 29, 2020,[34] which adds a piglin dance and fixes many bugs.
Minecraft wiki entry for The_End..._Again..., associated text: Achievements#The End... Again..., an achievement by respawning an ender dragon. Advancements#The End... Again..., an advancement by summoning an ender dragon.
Minecraft wiki entry for Noise_generator, associated text: 1 Specifications 1.1 Customization 1.1.1 Old Customized worlds (1.8-1.12) 1.1.2 Custom worlds (1.16+) 2 Types of noise generators 2.1 Terrain noise generators 2.1.1 Low noise 2.1.2 High noise 2.1.3 Selector noise 2.1.4 Depth noise 2.2 Other noise generators 2.2...
Minecraft wiki entry for Infdev_20100327_to_Beta_1.7.3, associated text: 1 Lоcation 2 Structure 2.1 Edge Far Lands 2.2 Corner Far Lands 2.3 The Farther Lands 3 Effects 3.1 Gameplay 3.2 Distance effects 3.3 Intentional limits 4 Previous versions 4.1 Infdev 5 Dimensions 5.1 The Nether 5.2 Sky Dimension 6 Cause 7 History ...
Minecraft wiki entry for Chest_loot, associated text: In Java Edition 1.13 and above, the syntax has changed to e.g. /setblock ~ ~ ~ chest{LootTable:"chests/simple_dungeon"} replace
Minecraft wiki entry for RenderDragon, associated text: "From what I've seen so far, there's currently nothing in RenderDragon that indicates it is usable in the Java codebase. I'm not convinced it would be good for RenderDragon if Java Edition used it, for now it's best we don't pollute RenderDragon with Java Edition'...
Minecraft wiki entry for Guardian, associated text: This article is about the normal guardian. For its larger gray variant, see Elder Guardian. For the mob in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Guardian.
Minecraft wiki entry for The_End, associated text: All players begin their exploration of the End with the main island. Unlike Nether portals, entering the end portal instantly teleports the player to the End, giving no time to back out. Upon arrival, in the end, the player materializes on a 5×5×1 obsidian platform wit...
Minecraft wiki entry for Combination_locks, associated text: When constructing, you will probably first want to place the levers and put them into the desired positions. Next, you should place the redstone torches and repeaters. Torches go behind levers that are down and repeaters go behind levers that are up. When you...
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Fixed a bug causing game launches to stall on Linux. Fixed an error that would pop up when changing game directory in any configuration. Fixed the launcher update progress bar not working on mac. Fixed sounds not working in Minecraft versions prior to 1.6....
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Fixed an issue with teleporting 'tick_world' entities over large distances could cause them to disappear Now when teleporting an armor stand to a player, it rotates the armor stand to the player's orientation (MCPE-35979)
Minecraft wiki entry for Wither, associated text: Black wither skulls explode with a blast power of 1, the same as a ghast's fireball, and cannot break blocks with a blast resistance above 4. Blue wither skulls have the same explosion strength, but move slower and are more destructive to terrain. Blue wither skulls bre...
Minecraft wiki entry for Target_selectors, associated text: It is possible to combine selection by distance and selection by volume, in which case the command select targets only within the overlap of both regions (within a certain radius of the volume's initial point and not outside the defined volume).
Minecraft wiki entry for Tree, associated text: A tree is a common terrain feature that mainly consists of log and leaf blocks. There are eight types of trees – oak, spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, dark oak, azalea and mangrove‌[upcoming: JE 1.19]. Other structures are loosely defined as trees: the huge fungus, huge mus...
Minecraft wiki entry for Character, associated text: Chris VDK Paddy Anne Richard Stuart David Kate Michael Steven Mark Iain Thomas James Vince George Rory Tom Julie Alan Donald Chris Sidney Brian Jonathan Scott
Minecraft wiki entry for Blast_Furnace, associated text: Blast furnaces are similar to furnaces, but can smelt only raw ore, ore blocks and tools/armor made of iron, gold or chainmail. Blast furnaces serve as the counterpart to smokers, which are used mainly to cook food faster. Smelting equipment yields one iron or go...
Minecraft wiki entry for Multiplayer, associated text: "[MC-118526] Can't change language of narrator; uses system language instead of game language - Jira" – Mojira, June 10, 2017.
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Fixed another issue that was causing player skins to revert to a default Alex or Steve after relaunching the game. Platform specific skins can now be seen in the character creator. Split-screen players now see the correct player avatars in the pause menu. ...
Minecraft wiki entry for Chest, associated text: In Bedrock Edition‌[upcoming: BE 1.19], breaking a boat with chest drops the chest and matching boat separately, and any contents. In Java Edition a boat with chest drops itself instead.
Minecraft wiki entry for Roof_types, associated text: A bonneted dormer should have a rounded cross-section, like a barrel roof, but this is barely perceptible at normal Minecraft scales.
Minecraft wiki entry for ED, associated text: Entity data Tags common to all arrows[show] Tags common to all entities[show] Tags common to all projectiles[show] Note: An arrow entity is a tipped arrow if it has either the Potion or CustomPotionEffects tag. Tags common to all potion effects[show] Color: Used by the arr...
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Split into 2 different mobs. New villagers spawn in new villages. New villager behavior: Implemented some of the new villager schedule behaviors. Implemented new villager sleep behaviors. Villagers may now wander to the village outskirts. Villagers will at...
Minecraft wiki entry for Mobs, associated text: This applies only to mobs attacking the player. Mobs attacking other mobs always deal the 'Normal' damage listed, regardless of difficulty. Values for the creeper and ghast assume the player is directly adjacent to the explosion. The damage of slimes and magma cubes depen...
Minecraft wiki entry for ModJam, associated text: 1 ModJam 1.1 ModJam 1 1.1.1 Results 1.2 ModJam 2 1.2.1 Results 1.3 ModJam 3 1.3.1 Results 1.4 ModJam 4 1.4.1 Results 1.5 ModJam 5 1.5.1 Results 2 Spooky Jam 2.1 Spooky Jam 2017 2.1.1 Mods created 2.2 Spooky Jam 2018 2.2.1 Mods created 2.3 Spooky Jam 2019 2.3.1 Mods Crea...
Minecraft wiki entry for Clock, associated text: If completely filled with items, the dropper must be re-filled every 48 hours, or continually supplied with items from a hopper pipe. Two chickens constrained above a hopper can keep a dropper despawn clock supplied with eggs indefinitely.
Minecraft wiki entry for Building_a_metropolis, associated text: Dalekism There is a group of supreme players who rule and the others. The supreme's goal is to exterminate the others or convert them (optionally). The supremes are chosen by a yearly PVP battle between all the members of the server, the last 10 remaining...
Minecraft wiki entry for Obsidian_farming, associated text: By caging the wither using some clever boat placement and indestructible ender crystals, the wither is caged to trap the wither on top of the end platform. [verify]
Minecraft wiki entry for Hopper, associated text: Tip: Use named 'junk' items in the first sorter row/tile to sort out normal un-named junk items of the same type. This way you can safely use that normal junk item in all other sorter rows. Add a safety overfill detector on the storage container attached to that first s...
Minecraft wiki entry for Obsidian_farming, associated text: This can be done in single player by traveling to the Nether, breaking down the portal, storing everything in a chest, and dying. After returning to the Overworld portal, the process can be repeated.
Minecraft wiki entry for Melon_Seeds, associated text: Melon seeds can be planted only on farmland. Over time, they grow into a stem and produce a melon on any adjacent dirt, grass block, farmland, podzol or coarse dirt. If a melon is already occupying an adjacent dirt/grass or farmland spot, the stem does not grow any...
Minecraft wiki entry for Roof_types, associated text: For a half-hipped roof, you can 'switch style' at any point, producing a mostly gable roof with a very small hipped area, or mostly hipped. This half-hipped roof image shows 3 rows of gable roof and 2½ rows of hipped roof above it (including the layer of slabs at th...
Minecraft wiki entry for executedetect, associated text: Specifies the target to be the command's executor. Must be a player name or target selector. If more than one entity is selected, the command will be run once as each of them.
Minecraft wiki entry for Village_chaining, associated text: 1 Classifications 1.1 Non-Concentrical and Concentrical 1.1.1 Comparing the non-concentrical version to the concentrical version 1.2 Non-Resettable and Resettable 2 Game mechanics and mechanisms used in village chaining 2.1 Village merging priority & Border ex...
Minecraft wiki entry for Nether_hub, associated text: You will need a flat area in the nether that matches up to the overworld portals. It should be 4 blocks tall so that you will be able to sprint jump along after the final product is finished.
Minecraft wiki entry for Witch_farming, associated text: Spawn Platform two is identical to the first platform. Repeat the above process. Spawn plaform three is also identical except to leave the blocks that cover the tripwire hooks off. For spawn platform three you should cover the tripwire hooks and the row of blocks...
Minecraft wiki entry for Superflat_survival, associated text: Whenever you find a big village with an iron golem, kill it if you can. Because there are no ores in a superflat world, this is the most effective way to obtain iron, the other finding it in chests and killing zombies, which drop it rarely. Dropping sand on ...
Minecraft wiki entry for Enchanting, associated text: "Enchant" redirects here. For the command, see Commands/enchant. For the block used to enchant, see Enchanting Table. For the command NBT tag, see Tutorials/Command NBT tags § Items. For the Minecraft Dungeons mechanic, see Minecraft Dungeons:Enchanting.
Minecraft wiki entry for Realms, associated text: 1 Requirements 2 Subscriptions 3 Using Realms 4 Maps 4.1 2013-2014 4.2 2015 4.3 2016 4.4 2017 4.5 2018 4.6 2019 4.7 2020 4.8 2021 4.9 2022 5 Minigames 6 Limitations 7 Video 8 History 8.1 Realms version history 8.1.1 Java Edition 8.1.2 Bedrock Edition 8.2 Minecraft versi...
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Minecart hoppers now drop a hopper item when being destroyed by a ranged attack. (MCPE-55859) Placing a block against an interactive block while crouched no longer opens the UI. Interacting with a minecart hopper now opens the hopper screen and no longer b...
Minecraft wiki entry for 2CHP, associated text: The trio begin questioning about rescuing the "Enchanter", who is revealed to be a male. Freya mentions that she met someone resembling the supposed "Enchanter" a few weeks ago that was caring its symbol onto a wall. Freya then mentions that the enchanter's name is Nichol...
Minecraft wiki entry for Tree_farming, associated text: If you want to be able to pause your work or are just afraid of heights, you can put a block of water around the dirt blocks where tree sapings sit on. If you are working with spruce trees, increase the depth to two blocks in case leaves grow over them.
Minecraft wiki entry for Hamachi_connection_LAN, associated text: 1 Hamachi LAN 1.1 Setup 1.2 Host 1.3 Other Players 1.4 Limitations 1.5 Tutorial 1.6 Alternatives 2 LAN bug (Fixed) 2.1 Note: This bug has since been fixed. If you are experiencing this bug, follow the steps listed.
Minecraft wiki entry for Amethyst_farming, associated text: Manual farming amethyst is much more efficient than automatic, unlike with most farmable items. However, just going to each bud and mining it is fairly tedious, so here are a few methods that will help you in your Minecraft world. Please note that for all thes...
Minecraft wiki entry for Trapdoor_uses, associated text: Trapdoors can be used to create a door which cannot be entered by mobs but is convenient for the player to enter on foot or in a minecart. This is done by placing a closed trapdoor on the upper block inside a 1*2 doorway and a minecart track under it leading thro...
Minecraft wiki entry for Powered_Rail, associated text: A powered rail also drops as an item when the block beneath it is removed or a piston moves it into a space with no floor below it.
Minecraft wiki entry for Hopper_clocks, associated text: A multiplicative hopper clock uses a hopper clock to regulate the item flow of secondary stages to produce very long clock periods (the secondary stages "multiply" the clock period of the first hopper clock).
Minecraft wiki entry for Key_codes, associated text: This is a list of key codes used by Minecraft, which are used in configuration files such as the options.txt file in the Minecraft directory.
Minecraft wiki entry for Chestplate, associated text: Any "hit" from a damage source that can be blocked by armor removes one point of durability from each piece of armor worn for every 4 of incoming damage (rounded down, but never below 1). Damage taken that unenchanted armor does not protect against (such as falling ...
Minecraft wiki entry for Heads-up_display, associated text: In the Options menu, GUI scale changes the size of the HUD and GUI between "large" (3), "normal" (2) and "small" (1). The default, "auto", changes the size of the HUD and GUI depending on the size of the game window.‌[Java Edition only]
Minecraft wiki entry for Development_versions, associated text: Limits writing of chunks unless necessary. Chunks upgraded from older formats will not automatically save when loaded, but when modified (Through blocks or actors, for example) they will be marked for saving
Minecraft wiki entry for Packed_Ice, associated text: Mobs can spawn on packed ice. This can allow for compact mob farms that rely on the tendency of pushed mobs to slide off the ice in some way.
Minecraft wiki entry for Bone_meal_farming, associated text: The moss can convert stone in a 7x7 area (minus the 4 corners) up to 5 blocks below the source moss block. It can also convert blocks up to 5 blocks above the source, but only where there is a connection of non-air and non-liquid blocks between the moss block...