"An igloo was always kind of a bucket-list item ... homemade igloos showed him magical creations made of multicolored ice, and so he used food dye to color his first batch of 80 blocks.

The food coloring Niko Murrell used in building his igloo slowed the freezing process, so after his initial 80 blocks of multicolored ice, he switched to clear ice to finish his bucket-list project.