Snowball

Snowballs are throwable combat items that hit but do not damage most mobs on impact.

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.

$$, snowballs are dropped from snow layers even when mined with a Silk Touch shovel.

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

Ravagers
$$, Ravagers destroy snow layers, dropping snowballs.

Pistons
$$, 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.

Mob loot
Snow golems drop 0–15 snowballs upon death, unaffected by Looting.

Combat
Snowballs can be thrown by them. There is no charging time or cooldown for firing them, 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 eggs and ender pearls, less than that of arrows fired from bows, and more than that of splash potions.

Snowballs deal each to blazes but they deal no damage to other mobs. Mobs still receive knockback and act the same as if they were being damaged (for example, zombified piglins who are hit by snowballs become aggressive). Players $$ receive knockback, while players $$ are unaffected.

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

Snowball, like other projectiles, can be used to distract the warden. A warden walks towards 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.

Dispenser
Snowballs can be fired from dispensers.

Sounds
Thrown snowballs use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.



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




 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

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, eggs, snowballs, and all throwable potions).