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PACKED ICE

1 trade involving this item across 1 trader.

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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

Packed Ice in Minecraft trading

Packed 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 1 emerald each.

Packed 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 × ice. Breaking a placed one back out needs Silk Touch.

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

TraderStockPriceAmountJava 26.2Bedrock 1.26.30.5Notes
Wandering Traderrare1x Emeraldverifiedverified

The 1 trade on this item was read out of the trade files Minecraft Java 26.2 ships in its own data, checked on 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 Packed Ice

A villager only shows part of its trade table, so knowing who trades packed 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 Packed Ice
VillagerTierVillagers with this offerRolls to see itMost from one villagerAfter a cure
Wandering Traderuncommon pool13% (2 in 15)same in Bedrockabout 7.56 packed ice in totalhe never restockscannot 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 Packed Ice, and at what price

The Wandering Trader sells Packed Ice for 1 emerald each (rare stock). He does not buy packed ice back: that offer runs one way.

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

Is buying Packed Ice from the Wandering Trader worth it?

He asks 1 emerald each, and 37 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 packed ice is the real constraint.

Where packed ice sits in the 76 offers he can carry
Acacia Log1 for 8
Gunpowder1 for 4
Rooted Dirt1 for 2
Melon Seeds1
Packed Ice1
Red Tulip1
Cactus3
Enchanted Iron Pickaxe6
Emeralds asked per item, sampled across his whole price range. Every other row links to that item.

What 1 emerald costs in goods

The Wandering Trader asks 1 emerald for packed ice. 8 of the 72 villagers that pay emeralds, emptied out:

8 emerald routes measured against Packed Ice
A full slot ofToEmeraldsBuys
12 compassesjourneyman Cartographer1212 packed ice
48 iron ingotsapprentice Armorer1212 packed ice
64 raw rabbitnovice Butcher1616 packed ice
120 dried kelp blocksexpert Butcher1212 packed ice
224 stringjourneyman Fletcher1616 packed ice
240 raw codapprentice Fisherman1616 packed ice
320 wheatnovice Farmer1616 packed ice
288 flintjourneyman Weaponsmith1212 packed ice

a compass against 24 flint for the same 1 emerald, 24 times the carrying, and the shortest wait is the Butcher at 37.5 real seconds of shelf, gathering not counted.

How to actually get Packed 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 packed 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, packed 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 packed 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 Packed Ice

Packed Ice trading FAQ

Which villager sells Packed Ice?
None of them. Only the Wandering Trader carries packed ice, at 1 emerald 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 Packed Ice to a villager for emeralds?
No. The trader only ever sells, and no job villager lists packed ice in its trade table either, so there is no way to turn packed ice into emeralds by trading.

Same trader, other items

The wandering trader carries these on the same visit: