Breaking ice gives ice cubes

[PaoloEmilio 53]

The title says it all. Break ice with a knife or pick to get crushed ice cubes, which can be used to cool water in a water jug (once done in the crafting slot it says Water Jug Cooled *** in light blue, and it can go down depending on ambient temperature. Ice can also be placed in vessels to help preserve foodstuff inside it, but ice cubes can melt.

[kaldskryke 27]

What good is a cooled water jug? Heat exhaustion doesn't exist yet

[EstebanLB 183]

Why would yo want to chill the water in winter??!?!??!

[PaoloEmilio 53]

Sorry, forgot to specify... Cooled water regenerates more thirst

[AllenWL 186]

and gives brain freeze.

 

But I like the idea, especially the bit about putting it in vessels to preserve the food.

Then people who live in areas with ice and snow year-round can gather ice cubes and sell them to the people in the hotter regions.

[EternalUndeath 1,208]

I like the idea of being able to get ice, but crushed ice should be a place-able 1/8th block, like charcoal. It would lower the temperature around it by a rate determined by Dunk and co, hyperbolically trending towards 0C in directly adjacent blocks. After removing X many points of temperature from adjacent blocks, it will melt into an appropriate level of water, which will likely dissipate into the ground unless you had full blocks.This could be used to create ice rooms underground, where large amounts of crushed ice can be stored in nice insulating stone chambers for the summer, when food can be stored there (since cool temperatures reduce decay).

I know in the winter, I have no problems just leaving my food on the damn countertops and it stays under 1% decay for weeksBut in the summer? Oh lawd, do I wish I had a nice cold place to tuck my horse meat into.

 

 

...that sounded dirtier than I meant it...

[munin295 18]

Believably, you should be able to just mine entire ice blocks with a saw (no need for Silk Touch enchantments or anything).

[munin295 18]

Oh, and then of course you should be able to chisel the ice blocks into any shape.

 

: )