Snowball

Snowballs are throwable items.

Snow blocks
Snowballs can be obtained by breaking snow blocks (4 snowballs) when using a shovel without silk touch and by breaking snow layers using a shovel (1-8 snowballs, one per layer).

Snow Golems
Snow Golems drop 0-15 snowballs upon death.

Combat
Snowballs can be thrown by them. They are affected by gravity.

They deal to blazes. In the Pocket Edition, they can deal to all other mobs, but in the Computer Edition, they deal no damage to other mobs, but mobs will still have knockback and give the same effect as if they were being damaged. In both versions, they can still damage armor.

When fighting the Ender Dragon, snowballs can be thrown at End Crystals to destroy them, as an alternative to arrows.

Dispenser
Snowballs can be fired from dispensers.

Data values
Snowballs have entity data which define various properties of the entity. Their entity ID is.

Issues
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