The current system for crafting ice is absolutely bonkers.
You need 9 ice blocks for packed ice and then 9 packed ice for one blue ice. This makes blue ice cost 81 ice blocks per block. This is totally obscene given the difference between packed and blue isn't all that noticeable on short journeys so the reason you'd use blue ice would be long journeys requiring hundreds if not thousands of blue ice blocks. Mojang should either make blue ice craft-able from 4 packed ice blocks or increase the speed of blue ice to the fastest it can possibly go without causing performance issues - i.e something a lot closer to what it was in the 1.13 snapshots.
The current system for crafting ice is absolutely bonkers.
You need 9 ice blocks for packed ice and then 9 packed ice for one blue ice. This makes blue ice cost 81 ice blocks per block. This is totally obscene given the difference between packed and blue isn't all that noticeable on short journeys so the reason you'd use blue ice would be long journeys requiring hundreds if not thousands of blue ice blocks. Mojang should either make blue ice craft-able from 4 packed ice blocks or increase the speed of blue ice to the fastest it can possibly go without causing performance issues - i.e something a lot closer to what it was in the 1.13 snapshots.