Snowball

Snowballs are throwable combat items.

Mining
A shovel without the 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.

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

Ravagers
Ravagers destroy snow layers, dropping snowballs.

Pistons
On Bedrock Edition, a block or piston head pushed into the position of snow layers destroys the snow layers, dropping snowballs. 1-3 layers drops 1 snowball, 4-5 layers drops 2 snowballs, 6-7 layers drops 3 snowballs and 8 layers drops 4 snowballs.

Water
On Bedrock Edition water flowing onto snow layers destroys the snow layers, dropping snowballs, in the same quantity as for pistons. Attempting to waterlog a snow layer destroys the snow layer, dropping nothing.

Mob loot
Snow golems drop 0–15 snowballs upon death.

Combat
Snowballs can be thrown by them, similar to an egg. They are affected by gravity.

They deal to blazes but they deal no damage to other mobs. Mobs still have knockback and give the same effect as if they were being damaged (for example, zombified piglins who are hit by snowballs become aggressive toward the attacker), but players are unaffected.

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

Dispenser
Snowballs can be fired from dispensers.

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

Trivia

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