Igloo

Igloo
Biomes	Snowy Plains; Snowy Taiga; Snowy Slopes;
Mobs	Villager; Zombie Villager; Silverfish (from infested blocks)
	All igloos: Snow Block; White Carpet; Light Gray Carpet; Ice‌[JE only]; Packed Ice‌[BE only]; Redstone Torch; Furnace; Red Bed; Crafting Table; Some igloos (50% chance): Oak Trapdoor; Ladder; Torch; Stone; Stone Bricks; Cracked Stone Bricks; Mossy Stone Bricks; Chiseled Stone Bricks; Infested Stone Bricks; Chest; Red Carpet; Polished Andesite; Cobweb; Iron Bars; Oak Wall Sign; Water Cauldron, 2⁄3 full; Spruce Stairs; Spruce Slab; Brewing Stand (contains a Splash Potion of Weakness); Potted Cactus;

An igloo is an uncommon structure generated in snowy taigas, snowy plains, or snowy slopes and built mainly of snow blocks. Some igloos contain hidden labs under the carpet, with resources to cure a zombie villager.

Generation

Igloos generate uncommonly in snowy taigas, snowy plains, and rarely in snowy slopes.

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Structure

An igloo is shaped like a small dwelling made of snow blocks. It has an entrance without a door and a carpeted interior containing a bed, furnace, and crafting table. There are two windows made of ice blocks‌^{[JE only]}/packed ice‌^{[BE only]}^[1] and one redstone torch as a light source.

Half of all igloos have an oak trapdoor under the third carpet from the doorway, leading down a long ladder shaft to a basement. This passageway and the basement are built from stone bricks, some of which are infested blocks with silverfish. To the left of the ladder is a table made of stairs blocks, with a brewing stand containing one splash potion of Weakness and a flower pot holding a cactus. Beside the table is a cauldron two-thirds full of water. To the right is a chest that contains a golden apple. Beyond the far wall, behind iron bars in two different cages, are a villager and a zombie villager.

Igloos that generate without a basement have a snow block in place of the trapdoor. The villagers, the brewing stand, and the chest are absent in this case.

If an igloo with a basement forms partially above open-air,^[verify] the shaft with the ladder still generates.

Mobs


Villager	Zombie villager

In Java Edition, the generated villager is always a cleric and is a plains biome type, but becomes unemployed after one tick due to not having a workstation. The villager cannot pathfind to the brewing stand or cauldron to take on a profession unless some of the blocks confining it are broken. The generated zombie villager always has the profession of cleric and becomes unemployed if cured.

In Bedrock Edition, the villager is the snowy type with a random profession. The zombie villager spawns with a random profession too.

Sometimes if igloos generate at low altitudes(-30 or lower), their basement may break bedrock allowing the player to access the void.

One may access the individual structures of an igloo by using structure blocks to manually load them from the /data/minecraft/structures/igloo folder in version.jar. To do so, set a structure block to Load mode, enter igloo/structure name, and press [LOAD]. The individual structures are bottom, middle, top.

Structure name	Description	Consists of
`igloo/top`	The above-ground room of the igloo, made of snow blocks.	94 Snow Block 9 White Carpet 3 Light Gray Carpet 2 Ice‌^{[JE only]} 2 Packed Ice‌^{[BE only]} 1 Crafting Table 1 Furnace 1 Oak Trapdoor 1 Red Bed 1 Redstone Torch
`igloo/middle`	The stone tunnel that connects the room above with the basement.	12 Stone Bricks 3 Ladder
`igloo/bottom`	The basement, made of various stone blocks and infested stone blocks, containing a villager and a zombie villager.	104 Stone Bricks 17 Mossy Stone Bricks 11 Stone 8 Cracked Stone Bricks 7 Chiseled Stone Bricks 6 Infested Stone Bricks 4 Iron Bars 4 Ladder 3 Torch 2 Infested Chiseled Stone Bricks 2 Red Carpet 2 Spruce Stairs 1 Infested Mossy Stone Bricks 1 Polished Andesite 1 Cauldron 1 Chest (1 Golden Apple) 1 Cobweb 1 Potted Cactus 1 Oak Sign 1 Spruce Slab 1 Brewing Stand with a Splash Potion of Weakness 1 Villager 1 Zombie Villager

Loot

In Java Edition and Bedrock Edition, each igloo chest contains items drawn from 2 pools, with the following distribution:

Item	Stack Size		Weight		Chance	Avg. per chest	Avg. # chests to search
Item	2–8×	1×	2–8×	1×	Chance	Avg. per chest	Avg. # chests to search
Golden Apple	—	1	—	¹⁄₁	100.0%	1.000	1.0
Coal	1–4	—	¹⁵⁄₆₃	—	70.4%	2.976	1.4
Apple	1–3	—	¹⁵⁄₆₃	—	70.4%	2.381	1.4
Wheat	2–3	—	¹⁰⁄₆₃	—	55.3%	1.984	1.8
Gold Nugget	1–3	—	¹⁰⁄₆₃	—	55.3%	1.587	1.8
Rotten Flesh	1	—	¹⁰⁄₆₃	—	55.3%	0.794	1.8
Stone Axe	1	—	²⁄₆₃	—	14.7%	0.159	6.8
Emerald	1	—	¹⁄₆₃	—	7.6%	0.079	13.1

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Structure type	Identifier
Igloo	`igloo`

Structure	Identifier
Igloo	`igloo`

Bedrock Edition:

Structure	Identifier	Translation key
Temple	`temple`	`feature.temple`

Config

Java Edition:

[NBT Compound / JSON Object] Structure configuration
- [String] type: minecraft:igloo
- Fields common to all structures see Template:Nbt inherit/structure/template

History

Reveal

October 20, 2015							Michael Stoyke reveals he is working on a new structure to showcase the new 'loot table' feature.

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.9	15w43a	Added igloos. Igloos may be found in a few snow-covered biomes.
	15w43b	Golden apples in the igloo chests now have a 100% chance of appearing, where previously they would often not appear – it was moved from the structure file to the loot table.
	15w43b	Golden apples originally would always be found in the central slot when they were found at all; now they can be found in any slot.
	15w43c	The glass bottle has been removed from the igloo’s brewing stand.
		Cobweb is now found in the basement.
		Sign in the basement previously read: ---> <--- and now reads: ××××- ×××-- --×× ×-× ×-×× -×× --××× ×××--
	15w44a	The red carpet in the basement now hides a block of polished andesite.
	15w44a	Sign in the basement is tweaked, near to old form: <---- ---->
1.13	18w06a	The structure ID of igloos have been changed from `temple` to `igloo`, allowing them to be located independently via the `/locate` command.
	18w06a	Changed generation locations of igloos.
	18w20a	In the structure block's data folder for the igloo the names of the parts of the structure `igloo_bottom`, `igloo_middle` and `igloo_top` have been changed to `bottom`, `middle` and `top`.
1.17	20w45a	Due to the empty and water cauldrons being split into different blocks, cauldrons no longer generate in igloos, with water cauldrons taking their place.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition
1.0.0	alpha 0.17.0.1	Added igloos.
1.1.0	alpha 1.1.0.0	Igloos generated in ice plains now have a white bed instead of a red bed and those generated in cold taiga have a brown bed.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0	beta 1.10.0.3	Igloos now generate with a red bed.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13	1.0.1	Added igloos.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15	1.0.1	Due to the addition of the new zombie villager skins the zombie villager in the basement is now a cleric rather than getting a random profession when cured.

Issues

Issues relating to "Igloo" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

In Java Edition, if a number of items in the igloo furnace are smelted, the light generated melts the igloo window, turning the ice into a water source block.^[2] If the igloo has a basement, this can reveal the trapdoor leading to it.
A raid happening around an igloo
An igloo with a basement qualifies as a village in Bedrock Edition due to having a villager, a bed, a brewing stand, and a cauldron, with the last 2 blocks counting as job sites. This means a raid can be triggered in an igloo.
An igloo can sometimes generate on a cliff, on a mountain, over a cave, or on a floating island, causing its basement to be exposed.