When an item is within a block of powder snow for long enough, it will sfreeze the stack of items into an uncooked form. Depending on the amount of items in the stack, the powder snow has a chance of disappearing after sfreezing the stack. A stack of 64 items will always cause the powder snow to disappear.
Additionally, powder snow has been made more easily obtainable. If a snow golem is damaged within a cauldron, it has a chance of shedding some snow into the cauldron, increasing the level of powder snow.
What is sfreezing?
To sfreeze something is to unsmelt it; its name is derived by taking "smelt", and replacing the contained "melt" (to which "smelt" is etymologically related) with "freeze". Thence we get "sfreeze".
How do I add my own sfreezing recipes?
Sfreezing is implemented by creating a new recipe type, so you can add your own sfreezing recipes the way you would a normal recipe, with the JSON format of
{
"type": "sfreeze:sfreezing",
"ingredient": {
"item": "namespace:item"
},
"result": "namespace:item"
}
This is similar to how vanilla cooking recipes are defined.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as sfreeze-1.1.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 190 KB
- Download link checked 31 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
