The Powder Snow blocks that you can find in the mountains of your Minecraft world can be both fun and deadly. When you take a bucket up there, you can pick it up to carry snow to other places. You can also leave a cauldron high in the mountains when it snows, filling it up. However, when you stand on the blocks of Powder Snow, you fall into them. If you stay inside these blocks for too long, you’ll take pretty heavy damage and your movement speed will be reduced.
There are a few ways to ensure you don’t take damage. The first is to put on a pair of leather boots. With the leather boots, you can jump onto blocks of Powder Snow and move over them as if they were any other block. Mostly, if you wear leather boots on your character, you won’t take any damage even if you move through the powdery snow.
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4 – Add-ons
If the options mentioned aren’t what you were looking for, this probably is. Installing add-ons can sometimes be a bit annoying, but this could help you create some pretty cool images. Check it out in action in this video.
The addon was created by jesser101 and can be downloaded here.
Cover water blocks with a slab
Since we know that exposing the block to sunlight will cause it to freeze, it is possible to prevent freezing by covering the block with a slab.
The height or size of the block doesn’t matter. In fact, in most cases, a half slab is efficient, and you can place it as high in the sky as you like. Provided the slab prevents the water from sunlight, you can rest assured that the water will not turn to ice.
How to prevent water from freezing in Minecraft
Now that you know what causes water to freeze, preventing this process is not difficult. You have to break one of the requirements and the water will never freeze because the game mechanics won’t allow it. Here are a couple of ways to keep water from freezing in Minecraft:
How does water turn to ice?
To understand how to prevent water from turning into ice, it is essential to know its mechanisms. In Minecraft, water can turn to ice for the following reasons:
- Water sources in cold biomes will turn to ice when directly exposed to the sky above the block.
- Will crash if the light level on all sides of the block is below 13.
- Will also crash if there is at least one horizontally adjacent non-water block. It means that if you have a tank full of water, it will start turning into ice from the walls to the center.