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

Ice blocks can now be legitimately obtained in survival mode by harvesting them with a Silk Touch enchanted pickaxe. However, the ability for ice to create water in the Nether was removed.

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, 2011 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, 2011 at 21:56
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    ...or kill you for that matter.
    – fredley
    Sep 21, 2011 at 9:59
  • Water items no longer exist as of 1.7
    – pppery
    Sep 1, 2018 at 19:43
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No, they don't. When you place ice in the Nether, it will just evaporate. But if you place it in the Overworld, it stays there until a light source melts it. the sun does not work.

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  • actually no ice stays in the nether until a light source melts it or when you break it
    – LFM
    Apr 6, 2014 at 14:02

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