Minecraft:Snowball

A snowball is an Minecraft:item obtained by breaking snow blocks or snow layers using a Minecraft:shovel. It can be crafted into snow blocks, thrown to knock Minecraft:mobs back, fed to ghastlings and used to attract happy ghasts.

Obtaining

Mining

A Minecraft:shovel without the Minecraft:Silk Touch enchantment can get 4 snowballs by breaking a snow block, and 1–8 snowballs by breaking or blasting snow layers – one per layer. The Fortune enchantment does not affect these amounts.

Explosions

Creeper and TNT explosions leave snowballs in the resulting debris field if near snow.

Ravagers

Template:IN, Ravagers destroy snow layers, dropping snowballs.

Pistons

Template:IN, a block or piston head pushed into the position of snow layers destroys the snow layers, dropping snowballs: 1–3 layers drop 1 snowball, 4–5 layers drop 2 snowballs, 6–7 layers drop 3 snowballs, and 8 layers drop 4 snowballs.

Mob loot

Snow golems drop 0–15 snowballs upon death, unaffected by Looting. Template:Drop sources

Usage

Combat

File:Throwing a snowball on a pig.gif

Animation of throwing a snowball at a pig.

Snowballs can be thrown by Template:Control them. There is no charging time or cooldown for firing them,Template:Until meaning they can be thrown as fast as the player can click.

Like other projectiles, snowballs are affected by gravity: their range is the same as those of Minecraft:eggs and ender pearls, less than that of Minecraft:arrows fired from Minecraft:bows, and more than that of splash potions.

Snowballs deal Template:Hp each to blazes, but they deal no damage to other mobs. Mobs still receive knockback and act the same as if they were being hit by any other projectile (for example, zombified piglins who are hit by snowballs become aggressive). Players Template:In receive knockback, while players Template:In are unaffected.<ref>Template:Bug</ref>Template:Until

When fighting the ender dragon, end crystals can be destroyed by snowballs being thrown at them.

Snowballs, like other projectiles, can be used to distract the Minecraft:warden. A warden walks toward the location where the snowball lands to inspect it, giving the player time to escape. However, if snowballs are fired too frequently (at least twice in 5 seconds), the warden walks straight to the player instead.

Template:IN, snowballs thrown through fire or lava catch fire, and set fire to entities they hit.

Mob interaction

Snowballs can be fed to ghastlings to speed up their growth, in which they become a happy ghast. Whilst holding a snowball, both ghastlings and happy ghasts will be attracted towards the player.

Behavior

{{#lst:Ender Pearl|thrownball}}

Sounds

Template:Edition:
Thrown snowballs use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.

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Data values

ID

Template:Edition: Template:ID table Template:ID table

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Entity data

Snowballs have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

Template:El: Template:Main

<section begin="entity data"/>

• Template:Nbt Entity data
  • Template:Nbt inherit/entity
  • Template:Nbt inherit/projectile
  • Template:Nbt: The item to render as, may be absent.
    • Template:Nbt inherit/itemnoslot

<section end="entity data"/>

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See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Videos

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History

Trivia

• A thrown snowball faces the player in the first-person view, while it appears horizontally rotated in third-person view. This is the case for all throwable items (ender pearls, Minecraft:eggs, snowballs, and all throwable Minecraft:potions).

Gallery

Screenshots

• The particles made by a thrown snowball.
  The particles made by a thrown snowball.
• A ghastling being fed snowballs.
  A ghastling being fed snowballs.
• Alex holding a snowball.
  Alex holding a snowball.
• Ari throwing snowballs at a breeze.
  Ari throwing snowballs at a breeze.

In other media

• Sunny throwing a snowball across several biomes.
  Sunny throwing a snowball across several biomes.
• Tails throwing a snowball at Sonic.
  Tails throwing a snowball at Sonic.
• A snow golem throwing snowballs in The Super Duper Minecraft Musical.
  A snow golem throwing snowballs in The Super Duper Minecraft Musical.
• Minecraft:Efe, Makena, and Ari in a snowball fight
  Minecraft:Efe, Makena, and Ari in a snowball fight

External links

• Template:Mcnet

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