Snowball

Snowballs are throwable combat items.

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

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

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

Ravagers
Ravagers destroy snow layers, dropping snowballs.

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. You can also kill the ender dragon with 400 snowballs.

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).