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I saw in the recently added mods list on ContentDB a mod named ice. It inspired me to think about making a frozen fractal all around, and I searched for a Mineclonia-compatible mod. I didn't find one, but I found a more mainstream mod Deku's More Ice, which has its source code published, for what it's worth.

I used the screenshots and description as a model, and wrote my own mod for Mineclonia, Ice Extra (Internal ContentDB).

There are derivatives of ice, packed ice, and blue ice: doors, walls, fences, gates, slabs, stairs, and even brick versions of some of these.

The mainstream mod also described a freezer item that appears to act as a furnace, and I have a small amount of experience hacking the mineclonia furnace node. So my freezer takes a custom set of recipes, and fuel items. It's not very efficient, but it still helps a person in survival bootstrap some cool ice blocks.

There's a vibecoded help dialog that lists the available freezing recipes. There's an API for adding more. This list gets calculated at formspec build time, so it will always be current.

The freezer itself takes a hefty amount of resources to build too, so it won't even be a day-5 activity in a survival world, sorry.