Snow Block

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For the snow layer block found in Minecraft, see Snow.

Snow Blocks are blocks made from snow. They are crafted with four snowballs, allowing the user to create them through their inventory crafting window. One cannot reverse the crafting process on a crafting grid, but the block may be placed and destroyed with a shovel, yielding the four snowballs it took to create them. If broken without a shovel or a Silk Touch tool, one will not get the four snowballs back. In the second alternative, one will have a snow block.

Behavior

Snow blocks are not destroyed by forces that would realistically melt snow, such as lava, fire, and torches, and are unaffected by water. Snow blocks are an essential key component in creating the Snow Golem, where two are needed to be stacked on top of each other, with a Pumpkin being on top of them. Snow melts when there is a light source near them. For say, a torch or glowstone, snow will melt around the light source.

Crafting

Snow Block
Snowball	Snowball	None
Snowball	Snowball	None
None	None	None

Trivia

• If snow is broken without a shovel, it will not drop any snowballs.
• Unlike water, snow blocks do not melt in The Nether.
• There is a rare bug in multiplayer mode that happens when one places a bed on snow and sleeps on it. The sleeping player will have a black screen on their monitor while the other players will see the sleeping player as if they were sleeping on the snow.
• Snow blocks are described as "A compact way to store snowballs" in both the Pocket Edition crafting tooltip and console edition block descriptions.
• Snow blocks can be found naturally spawned in Ice Plains Spikes Biomes.
• Snow blocks, along with the Iron Block and Soul Sand, are one of the blocks that can be used in creating Utility mobs.

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Blocks
Natural	Air • Stone • Granite • Andesite • Diorite • Bedrock • Clay( Terracotta) • Cobblestone ( Moss) • Cobweb • Dirt • Gravel • Coarse Dirt • Bone • Ice • Monster Spawner • Sand ( Red) • Sandstone ( Red) • Obsidian • Snow • Sponge • Wet Sponge • Stone Brick ( Cracked • Moss • Chiseled) • Prismarine ( Dark • Brick) • Sea Lantern • Pumpkin • Bee Nest • Snowier Snow • Nether Grass • Nether Fungi • Nether Mushrooms • Nether Vines • Soul Soil • Basalt
Manufactured	Bookshelf • Brick • Wool ( Carpet) • Concrete( Powder) • Conduit • Dried Kelp Block • Fence • Glass ( Pane) • Stained Glass ( Pane) • Glazed Terracotta • Hay Bale • Iron Bars • Jack-O-Lantern • Ladder • Painting • Scaffolding • Slabs • Smooth Stone • Cut Sandstone • Smooth Quartz • Smooth Red Sandstone • Slime • Snow • Stairs • Walls • Wooden Planks • Bee Hive • Honey Block • Honeycomb Block • Diamond Ore • Emerald Ore • Gold Ore • Iron Ore • Lapis Lazuli Ore • Redstone Ore Nether Quartz Ore
Mineral Blocks	Block of Diamond • Block of Emerald • Block of Gold • Block of Iron • Lapis Lazuli Block • Block of Quartz • Block of Redstone • Block of Coal
Utility	Bed • Brewing Stand • Cake • Cauldron • Chest • Shulker Box • Crafting Table • Enchantment Table • Furnace • Jukebox • TNT • Anvil • Blast Furnace • Barrel • Bell • Campfire • Cartography Table • Compost • Fletching Table • Grindstone • Lantern • Lectern • Loom • Smithing Table • Smoker • Stonecutter • Dispenser • Redstone Lamp • Door • Fence Gate • Lever • Note • Piston ( Sticky) • Pressure Plate • Rail ( Powered • Detector • Activator) • Redstone ( Wire • Torch • Repeater • Comparator) • Trapdoor • Trapped Chest • Hopper • Dropper • Daylight Detector • Tripwire Hook • Observer
Plants	Cactus • Dead Bush • Chorus Plant • Flowers • Grass ( Grass • Fern) • Leaves • Lily Pad • Melon • Mushrooms ( Huge)  • Mycelium • Podzol • Nether Grass • Pumpkin • Saplings • Sugar Cane • Vines • Wheat • Log • Corals • Kelp • Sweet Berry Bush • Nether Fungi • Nether Mushrooms • Nether Vines
Liquids	Lava • Water
Non-Solid	Fire • Blue Fire • Sign • Torch • Banner
The Nether	Glowstone • Unnamed Light Block • Netherrack • Nether Grass • Nether Brick ( Fence)  • Nether Quartz • Nether Wart • Nether Fungi • Nether Mushrooms • Soul Sand • Soul Soil • Basalt • Magma Block
The End	Dragon Egg • End Stone • Purpur( Purpur Pillar) • Endstone Brick • End Rod • Dragon Head • Ender Crystal
Creative only	Barrier • Structure Block • Jigsaw
Bedrock Edition only	Stonecutter (old) • Nether Reactor
Technical	Piston Arm • Block 36 • Burning Furnace • Glowing Redstone Ore • Off-state Redstone Torch • Active Redstone Repeater • Flowing Water • Flowing Lava • Farmland • Pumpkin Stem • Melon Stem • Block 97 • Portal • End Portal Frame • End Portal
Unused	Locked Chest
Removed	Gear • Dirt Slab • Cyan Flower • Camera(PE)
Unimplemented	Crying Obsidian
Education Edition only	Element Constructor • Compound Creator • Hardened Glass • Border