Talk:Ice Staff/@comment-80.197.67.126-20191208142344/@comment-34211265-20191209170534

It's a pretty good weapon. The thing is: you encountered an ice hound trap. https://dontstarve.fandom.com/wiki/Set_Piece#Ice_Staff_Trap

Up to 3 sleeping ICE hounds reside next to an ice staff. When the staff is picked up the trap is triggered. Ice hounds cannot be frozen because they are ICE hounds, in which their very power is controlled by an icy gem which they have a 20% chance to drop said gem, which is ICE making them immune to ICE attacks.