Powder snow is a block currently available only in the creative inventory.
Obtaining
Powder snow is currently available only from the Creative inventory via Experimental Gameplay.
Breaking
Powder snow does not drop anything when mined, even with Silk Touch, and tools do not speed up mining.[1]
| Block | Powder Snow | |
|---|---|---|
| Hardness | 0.25 | |
| Breaking time (secs) | ||
| Default | 1.25 | |
Usage
The frosty vignette when a player's head is within powder snow.
Entities fall through powder snow without taking fall damage and move much slower in it, similar to cobwebs. Despite being a full block, it does not cause suffocation damage. A player whose head is within the block sees a frosty vignette decorated with snowflakes.
Powder snow can be used to make technical farms, instead of water.
Mobs or players wearing leather boots do not fall through powder snow. In this case the snow behaves as scaffolding when the player sneaks or crouches while on the block and jumps while inside of the block.
Sounds
| Sound | Source | Description | Resource location | Volume | Pitch |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blocks | Once the block has broken | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | When the block is placed | dig | 1.0 | 0.8-1.0 | |
| Blocks | While the block is in the process of being broken | hit | 0.35 | 0.5 | |
| Players | Falling on the block with fall damage | fall | 0.4 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Walking on the block | step | 0.3 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Jumping from the block | jump | 0.12 | 1.0 | |
| Players | Falling on the block without fall damage | land | 0.22 | 1.0 |
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Powder Snow | powder_snow | ? | tile.powder_snow.name |
History
| October 3, 2020 | Powder snow was mentioned at Minecraft Live 2020, but no images were shown. | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Upcoming Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.16.200 | beta 1.16.200.52 | File:Powder Snow BE1.png Added powder snow via Experimental Gameplay. | |||
Issues
Issues relating to "Powder Snow" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- "Snowier Snow" was announced to be part of the Mountains biome in the biome vote at MINECON Live 2019. One interpretation of Vu Bui's statement in Minecraft Live 2020 implied it to be a separate feature from Powder Snow.[2] However, when "Snowier Snow" was first mentioned in the 2019 biome vote video, a block is seen functioning similarly to Powder Snow.[3] Powder Snow is often referred to as "Snowier Snow" by the community, and it's possible that Powder Snow is one of multiple parts of the promised "Snowier Snow" feature, with the other part possibly being a parity feature such as Snowlogging, or some other as-yet unknown feature.[more information needed]
References
- ↑ PE-104192
- ↑ "And speaking of snow, yes, it will be snowier. We will also have a new block called 'powder snow'" — Vu Bui on "Minecraft Live 2020 @ 48:25" – Minecraft on YouTube
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UHoz0Q-LwUU