I figured out an easy way to make ice.

[Arokthis]

Once you've found 4 and have a supply of water, you can make your own in infinite supply.

You have to start somewhere cold enough to give you frostbite.

Put the 4 so they surround a single square. Put something in the other 4 spaces so water can't flow out. Add water and wait for it to freeze. Pull out the new ice block and refill with water.

Repeat until you have 9 ice blocks in inventory. Grab your original 4 and go wherever you want to have your production. Just be sure it's not hot enough to melt ice automatically.

Put your 15 blocks in a 3x3 with the 4 on top. Repeat the fill / collect cycle until you can expand the base to 5x5 and the walls to 4 high. (Space used by ice is 5x5x4 total.) Put in a ramp or stairs so you can get to the top with ease and surround the whole thing with desired decorations.

1 block of water put in any of the top corners will become 9 ice in about 30 seconds.

Enjoy!

[NOBODY <AKA> General Bonkers]

easiest way is just go over to the ice fields and start grabbing it. Any machine will be slower.

[entuland]

If you're not afraid of heights, just pillar up straight above your claim and build a platform above freezing point - can't recall the exact height off the top of my head, and it varies depending on the liquid you want to freeze.

Once you've done that platform, put a teleporter there and dismantle the pillar.

To get ice it's enough that you teleport up there and drop a unit of water on the platform, it will spread a little and will get you about half a dozen ice blocks or so.

That's the easiest way I know, it doesn't involve tricky setups to automate the production with fires to keep the water sources liquid and doesn't make you lose time to go / teleport away from your home.

If you make it high enough you will not even be able to see it from the ground, and if it's small enough it will not be able to cast any meaningful shadow on your base.

Just make sure to put fences around or the alike to avoid water to spill out and make ugly ice pillars coming down from it.

[Arokthis]

@ entuland - I just edited the whole thing.

I didn't like the machines I could find and I didn't want to make a tall tower. I was bored, so I went to my "peak" and built a platform just high enough to start giving me frostbite, trapped water in ice I found nearby, then did the step I listed in the edited post.

[entuland]

Originally posted by Arokthis:

@ entuland - I just edited the whole thing.

I didn't like the machines I could find and I didn't want to make a tall tower. I was bored, so I went to my "peak" and built a platform just high enough to start giving me frostbite, trapped water in ice I found nearby, then did the step I listed in the edited post.

No problem, glad you found a solution that fits your needs!

I actually did just the same when I began playing - but then I didn't really need all that ice and I simply dismantled it.

Afterwards I've built a weird contraption way up in the sky where I used firepits to both keep the water liquid and to make it safe to stay there for a long time without freezing (the actual setup was fire pits above, then water, then a layer of ice, some space, slabs, fire pits under the slabs, and you can collect the ice from beneath, which in turn lets the water flow down and freeze automatically).

[Iroh]

You really don't need to do all this. Just go to one of the flat ice fields (frozen ocean), place water, and it will start to flow and then freeze. You'll get a bunch of ice each time with 1 water block in 2-3 seconds. If you run out of water, you're right next to the ocean. And you don't have to dig anything up either so you aren't messing up public land if that is a concern. No need to build anything.

[entuland]

Boboturk, in my case I knew it was overkill - I just built the contraption for the sake of it :P

Yep, just going to a freezing area or a high altitude will be more than enough to make ice.

[Iroh]

Originally posted by entuland:

Boboturk, in my case I knew it was overkill - I just built the contraption for the sake of it :P

Yep, just going to a freezing area or a high altitude will be more than enough to make ice.

Well, certainly nothin' wrong with that lol. Coming up with fun ideas like that is one of the best parts about games like this. I just didn't want anyone thinking they HAD to

[entuland]

Originally posted by Boboturk:

Originally posted by entuland:

Boboturk, in my case I knew it was overkill - I just built the contraption for the sake of it :P

Yep, just going to a freezing area or a high altitude will be more than enough to make ice.

Well, certainly nothin' wrong with that lol. Coming up with fun ideas like that is one of the best parts about games like this. I just didn't want anyone thinking they HAD to :lunar2019grinningpig:

Definitely :)

[Jellian]

About hotter areas...
You can actually use ice stairs and the stair corners to make ice there. With the proper setup you can even make ice on the lava layer. ;)

[54R-R1A The Ai Witch of Insanity]

Originally posted by Jellian:

About hotter areas...
You can actually use ice stairs and the stair corners to make ice there. With the proper setup you can even make ice on the lava layer. ;)

for me i just use the snow blowers on me at all time like i have a healing beacon for when in the corruption lol man that snowblower realy packs a punch even in lava layer to fully negate the heat meater when around it lol but if your not carful youll get a case of death by freezer "burn" in lava layer if you set it up right and stand on them lol
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more on topic: id say the way i make ice when i truely need it is basicly any biome practicly and have a endless source of water flowing and like 8 snowblowers pointed inwards and a switch to toggle them --- now i dont claim to be the first to have this as i seen it on workshop and went to try it out and it honestly worked and got me to learn what the snowblower could realy do lol
edit 1:shame tho that snowblower is in a recipe pack so not always everyone would have it but i do recamend it over just about all other packs for the snowblower alone and cuz ice vines are great lol
Edit2: also last time i used th snowblower like this it honestly was kinda almost instantly frozen when turned on XD

[Jellian]

Originally posted by Ai Witch of Insanity:

Originally posted by Jellian:

About hotter areas...
You can actually use ice stairs and the stair corners to make ice there. With the proper setup you can even make ice on the lava layer. ;)

for me i just use the snow blowers on me at all time like i have a healing beacon for when in the corruption lol man that snowblower realy packs a punch even in lava layer to fully negate the heat meater when around it lol but if your not carful youll get a case of death by freezer "burn" in lava layer if you set it up right and stand on them lol
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more on topic: id say the way i make ice when i truely need it is basicly any biome practicly and have a endless source of water flowing and like 8 snowblowers pointed inwards and a switch to toggle them --- now i dont claim to be the first to have this as i seen it on workshop and went to try it out and it honestly worked and got me to learn what the snowblower could realy do lol
edit 1:shame tho that snowblower is in a recipe pack so not always everyone would have it but i do recamend it over just about all other packs for the snowblower alone and cuz ice vines are great lol
Edit2: also last time i used th snowblower like this it honestly was kinda almost instantly frozen when turned on XD

Ice stairs aren't as powerful as snow blowers, but that's probably good; on lava they don't freeze you as easily if you stand on the flat side. I use them all the time to stay safe on lava. They also cause less lags (I think) and don't require buying any recipe. X)

But I love snow blowers. I use them in some of my ice maker BPs and in most of my ice builds. X)