BLUE ICE

1 trade involving this item across 1 trader.

Last checked: 11 August 2026
Java Edition: 26.2, 1 of 1 row found
Bedrock Edition: 1.26.30.5, 1 of 1 matching
Edition differences: none, both editions match

Blue Ice in Minecraft trading

Blue Ice is a Wandering Trader exclusive: no job villager buys or sells it at all, so the roaming merchant with the two llamas is the only source, at 6 emeralds each.

Blue Ice is prized for transport: an ice corridor lets a boat travel far faster than walking, and packed and blue variants do not melt near light sources. Harvesting it yourself needs a Silk Touch pick, which is exactly why buying it can be worth the emeralds. A crafting grid makes one from 9 × packed ice. Breaking a placed one back out needs Silk Touch.

The Wandering Trader sells Blue Ice(you give emeralds, get Blue Ice)

Trader	Stock	Price	Amount	Java 26.2	Bedrock 1.26.30.5	Notes
Wandering Trader	rare			verified	verified

The 1 trade on this item was read out of the trade files Minecraft Java 26.2 ships in its own data, checked on 11 August 2026 against the item, both amounts and the use limit. Bedrock 1.26.30.5 is read as well, and where it disagrees the row says how. Which files, and what is not checked.

Your odds of finding Blue Ice

A villager only shows part of its trade table, so knowing who trades blue ice is not the same as getting it. The friendliest roll here is the wandering trader (uncommon pool): 13% of them carry it, so it takes about 7.5 of them on average before one does.

Chance and daily throughput per villager for Blue Ice
Villager	Tier	Villagers with this offer	Rolls to see it	Most from one villager	After a cure
Wandering Trader	uncommon pool	13% (2 in 15)same in Bedrock	about 7.5	6 blue ice in totalhe never restocks	cannot be cured

The chance is the draw size over the pool size in the game's own trade set file for that tier. The Bedrock line under it is the same sum on Bedrock's own table, which splits a tier into groups and draws out of each one separately, so the two editions often disagree. The wandering trader has no workstation and never restocks, so his row is everything that offer will ever give you, and he has no reputation to earn, so curing does nothing for him. Counted from the game's own draw sizes. How that check works.

Who trades Blue Ice, and at what price

The Wandering Trader sells Blue Ice for 6 emeralds each (rare stock). He does not buy blue ice back: that offer runs one way.

No standard villager profession lists Blue Ice in its trade table, so the trader above is the whole market for it.

Is buying Blue Ice from the Wandering Trader worth it?

He asks 6 emeralds each, and 74 of the other 75 come cheaper. Price is the easy part: he draws a rare slot from a shared pool, so catching one that happens to be carrying blue ice is the real constraint.

Where blue ice sits in the 76 offers he can carry
	Acacia Log		1 for 8
	Gunpowder		1 for 4
	Rooted Dirt		1 for 2
	Melon Seeds		1
	Red Tulip		1
	Cactus		3
	Blue Ice		6
	Enchanted Iron Pickaxe		6

Emeralds asked per item, sampled across his whole price range. Every other row links to that item.

What 6 emeralds cost in goods

The Wandering Trader asks 6 emeralds for blue ice. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

8 emerald routes measured against Blue Ice
A full slot of	To	Emeralds	Buys
12 diamonds	expert Weaponsmith	12	2 blue ice
48 books	apprentice Librarian	12	2 blue ice
48 scutes	expert Cleric	12	2 blue ice
160 raw beef	journeyman Butcher	16	2.7 blue ice
208 raw salmon	journeyman Fisherman	16	2.7 blue ice
240 coal	apprentice Butcher	16	2.7 blue ice
384 feathers	expert Fletcher	16	2.7 blue ice
288 flint	journeyman Weaponsmith	12	2 blue ice

6 diamonds against 144 flint for the same 6 emeralds, 24 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 3.8 real minutes of shelf, gathering not counted.

How to actually get Blue Ice from the trader

The Wandering Trader is not part of any village. He arrives on his own near where you are playing, with two leashed trader llamas behind him, stays for roughly forty minutes to an hour, and then vanishes whether or not you traded with him. There is no workstation to place and no job block to break, so the usual tricks for steering a villager toward a particular offer do nothing.

He does not buy blue ice. He takes six kinds of item and this is not one of them, so the offer runs one way: emeralds out of your inventory, blue ice into it.

Each trader carries only a slice of the full stock list, so the one standing in front of you may simply not have blue ice today. If he does and you want more than one visit's worth, put a name tag on him: a named mob will not despawn, which turns a passing merchant into a permanent shop you can come back to.

Tips for trading Blue Ice

What a full stack costs: he asks 6 emeralds each, so a full stack of 64 comes to 384 emeralds.
Also on the wandering trader's list: gunpowder, podzol, potion of invisibility, acacia log, birch log, dark oak log.

Blue Ice trading FAQ

Which villager sells Blue Ice?

None of them. Only the Wandering Trader carries blue ice, at 6 emeralds each, and from his rare stock at that. There is no profession to level for it and no trading hall to build.

Can you sell Blue Ice to a villager for emeralds?

No. The trader only ever sells, and no job villager lists blue ice in its trade table either, so there is no way to turn blue ice into emeralds by trading.

Same trader, other items

The wandering trader carries these on the same visit: