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The smp server I play on has a general "don't cheat, but feel free to exploit" rule. This means no using /give to spawn water blocks for placing in the nether. However, our admin recently installed the monsterhunt mod and made ice blocks one of the prizes for first place. So, do ice blocks placed and broken in the nether produce a water source, or do they just evaporate like using a bucket of water?

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delete this question or Notch will fix in 1.9! – Joe the Person Sep 21 '11 at 0:47
blocks of ice cannot be obtained normally; so there's not much of a reason for this to change, for balance reasons. It seems that there are lots of glitches that can't be experienced in normal play, that never get fixed (for instance, the far lands) – TokenMacGuy Sep 22 '11 at 3:21
Just a heads up, I completely turned my accepted answer around. Minecraft... has changed. It never changes. Is war. – lunboks Aug 25 '12 at 0:52

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It used to be possible to get water into the Nether with this, but as of Minecraft 1.3.1, ice blocks simply disappear when they're broken (or when they melt from a light source).

  • Ice
    • Instead of melting in the nether, it now disappears.

So no, you cannot get water into the Nether using ice blocks.

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A mod which rewards water blocks would work as well. It isn't so much water that doesn't work in the Nether as it is water buckets. – Ben Blank Sep 20 '11 at 20:08
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The Nether: Hot enough to evaporate a bucket of water, but not melt a block of ice. – fredley Sep 20 '11 at 21:56
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...or kill you for that matter. – fredley Sep 21 '11 at 9:59

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