xisumavoid gives Minecraft's igloo a snow-brick renovation
A winter snapshot walkthrough joins a new way to bring his Hermitcraft music into players' own worlds.
Why this story? The channel's weekly summary: what went up this week, what is drawing views now, and where the channel stands among similar channels.
Snow Bricks, NEW Archetype & Ice Crystal Ambience | 26.4 Snapshot 6
Things we can learn from the video
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- 0:20Feeding blue ice to a Sulfur Cube makes it turn water into frosted ice.
- 2:48Snow Bricks come with slabs, stairs and walls, demonstrated in an igloo renovation.
- 4:43Mining changes and mob interactions reveal different properties of packed and brittle ice.
- 7:45Ice Crystals placed on packed ice produce new ambient chimes.
- 8:17Technical changes include automatic JVM heap allocation, presentation settings and entity tags.
xisumavoid feeds blue ice to a Sulfur Cube, watches it freeze the water beneath it, then turns his attention to a more domestic improvement: rebuilding an igloo with snow bricks.
That hands-on tour made "Snow Bricks, NEW Archetype & Ice Crystal Ambience | 26.4 Snapshot 6" the most-watched of his two uploads this week, reaching roughly 326,000 views. He crafts slabs, stairs and walls, checks their mining properties and makes an important distinction for anyone reaching into their inventory: snow isn't stone. Bring a shovel.
The building palette has given viewers plenty to sketch out in the comments. Some want existing igloos and snowy village houses updated; others are renewing their requests for calcite bricks. The cube prompts a different sort of daydream, including a suggestion for boat races across oceans without laying an ice track first.
His other upload, "Hermitcraft Music Discs - Have Them In Your Worlds! (Vanilla RP/DP)", puts his music within reach through a mod, resource pack and data pack. It currently draws the most daily views of his videos, while the older "Disc Press, Blank Disc & Pocket Jukebox | Minecraft Preview 26.70.21" keeps the musical thread running through the archive.
Across the channel, the week brought about half a million views and an unchanged subscriber total. Daily viewing is currently below its usual level. Among nearby Minecraft channels, BdoubleO100 had a growing week and al1 drew particularly substantial viewing. For xisumavoid, the week's distinctive pairing was smaller-scale: fresh building materials and something to play while using them.
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What viewers say
The hope for calcite bricks will never fade!
There's calcite in the ice caves, and we got ice and snow bricks, so surely they keep the trend, right? ...right?@Kali1357See it on YouTubeOmg... imagine putting that cube in a boat as a passenger... iceboat racing WITHOUT needing to bring a track. Could have "elytra race portal"-style boat races over oceans.
@GuusKlaasSee it on YouTubesnow bricks look like mud bricks, but cold
@MysticMarzia9See it on YouTube
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Let us PRAY they update the igloo to be made of snow bricks, hopefully starting a trend of updating old structures
@mongu72See it on YouTubeI hope they add chiseled snow bricks with the derpy sheared snow golem face on it
@DanielGrech-n9jSee it on YouTubei hope they also update the village houses that use snow
@shadowAZX1See it on YouTubeIf Snow Bricks are possible, we might finally get more brick variants for diorite, andesite, granite, and calcite
@itsaugusteSee it on YouTubeWhite and blue blocks, that's two under-represented colours getting some blocks!
@beanofknowledgeSee it on YouTube
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The videos drawing views on xisumavoid right now
- Channel
- xisumavoid
- Subscribers
- 1,880,000
- Channel views, last 7 days
- 501,803
- Videos published this week
- 2
- Video published
- October 27, 2026
- Video views so far
- 325,500
- Views on its first day
- 268,240
The numbers
Here's how the snapshot tour, music release and wider channel performed this week.
💡 Test your knowledge
Which tool does xisumavoid recommend for breaking the new snow blocks?
He identifies the shovel as the tool of choice while checking the new blocks' properties.




