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New features for 26.4 drop

          • Packed Snow bricks 
          • Packed Snowbricks stairs and slabs and walls 
          • Chiseled Packed snow.
          • Chiseled calcite
          • Polished calcite bricks 
          • Polished calcite bricks, stairs and slabs and walls
          • New light sources: Ice Crystal torch and Ice crystal lanterns: these both will not cause the icicles to fall in ice caves

          - Ice Crystal torches are crafted with one stick and one ice Crystal. Ice 

          -Crystal lanterns are crafted the same way. Normal lanterns are, but instead of a torch it's an ice crystal torch.

          New weather type

          •  blizzard: with heavy snow and low visibility

          New sky visual effect 

          • Northern lights: Rare event that can happen at night in cold biomes 

          New structure 

          • Abandoned snowy cabin 

          - spawns in snowy planes and ice ice spikes biome.

          - inhabitants: iceolager: a new mob from Minecraft dungeons that can drop ice attacks on you.

          New mobs 

          • Iceolager 
          • Penguin

          - typically spawn on the shores of very cold biomes and on icebergs.

          - they have a unique mechanic which allows you to ride them and use them as a sled to allow you to get quickly across the cold biomes.

          Biome changes 

          • Icicles can now hang off the ice spikes

          Structure changes 

          • Village igloo buildings building material gets replaced from snow to packed snowbricks. 
          • Igloos now have a campfire in the middle of them and have a hole at the top to simulate a chimney to be realistic to how igloos are in real life.

        • Unique features 

          • Leaves turning white in snowy weather 
          • Snow layer logging
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    An improvement on the Blizzard idea as a weather addition:

    The longer a Blizzard runs for, snow layers should continue to accumulate. Every 8 turns into a snow block and if they add Snow Logging to java, then any snow logged block could become powdered snow.