Minecraft:Snowball

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

Obtaining

Mining

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

Explosions

Creeper and TNT Minecraft: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

Minecraft:Snow golems drop 0–15 snowballs upon death, unaffected by Minecraft: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 Minecraft:ender pearls, less than that of Minecraft:arrows fired from Minecraft:bows, and more than that of Minecraft:splash potions.

Snowballs deal Template:Hp each to Minecraft: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, Minecraft: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 Minecraft:ender dragon, Minecraft: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 Minecraft:ghastlings to speed up their growth, in which they become a Minecraft:happy ghast. Whilst holding a snowball, both ghastlings and happy ghasts will be attracted towards the player.

Behavior

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Sounds

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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 (Minecraft: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.
• Minecraft:Alex holding a snowball.
  Minecraft:Alex holding a snowball.
• Minecraft:Ari throwing snowballs at a Minecraft:breeze.
  Minecraft:Ari throwing snowballs at a Minecraft:breeze.

In other media

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

External links

• Template:Mcnet