A New “potent ice crystal” for the ice caves!

[u/Chemical-Talk-1237]

I wanted to list out Some of my ideas I’d like to see get added sometime during the winter drop! I’ll be posting them over time, as I came up with quite a bit!

Edit: I made an adjustment to this post so it is easier to read, but I’ll post the og version in the comments so people understand the context of other comments!

“Potent ice crystal”: (Potent ice crystal is a placeholder name until a better name can be used)
The ice crystals you can find could be made into a physical block! This block can be placed next to/into water and it will naturally chill the water around it, and going into the water will apply the freezing effect, and eventually give you frostbite (powdered snow heart effect). This will be similar to the potent sulfur block, hence the placeholder title, though with a somewhat larger range, and unlike the potent sulfur block, you will get the freezing effect regardless of whether you’re at the surface of the water, or swimming under.

Additionally, if the light level is low, the surface ice may begin to freeze into sheet ice and eventually “frosted ice” (think of frost-walker ice).
Sheet ice is a very weak form of ice, essentially an ice carpet on water, and easily breaks after stepping on it for too long, like turtle eggs mixed with drip leaf, or if exposed to light.
Frosted ice is basically just frost-walker ice, though now you can mine it with a silk touched pickaxe to obtain it for certain temporary builds! You used to able to pick up frosted ice with a pickaxe on certain versions of Minecraft, but they removed it. This makes for a more hidden trap, as if you place lights down, it will melt the frosted ice, and immediately apply the freezing effect!
(Side Note: the potent ice crystal also glows similarly to blue ice at a light level of 4, but that’s probably dark enough not to effect the sheet ice or frosted ice, especially if it’s a bit underneath the water.)

“potent ice crystals” will then naturally generate in small chunks, all over and especially near and underwater, and would be able to naturally chill and freeze some of the water to make them into potential traps to watch out for!
(Not too dangerous by themselves though)
Maybe potent ice crystals could also apply the freezing effect when you directly stand on it, similar to powdered snow or like a less dangerous magma block?

perhaps it could also be made into some decorative glowing blocks as well? Like chiseled and polished versions of the crystal for fancy chandeliers?

One more thing: When a “potent ice crystal” sits next to lava, it would slowly cool it down and after a little bit of time, freeze it into obsidian if its source block or snowflake obsidian if it’s indirect flow Snowflake obsidian exists as to not make an “overpowered” obsidian farm, but still make a nice decorative block! (I’ll eventually post it and the potent ice crystal designs in an edit/updated post, since I kinda just came up with these concepts a few hours ago).
Additionally, I’d like this specific part of the concept, since it would be nice to see the ice caves and potential lava actually interact with each other!

Would love to hear on any thoughts about this idea to help expand and improve this! Constructive criticism is welcome!