Snow golems (also known as Snowmen) are utility mobs that help defend against hostile mobs.
Creation
Jack o'lanterns can also be used.
To create a snow golem, the player must stack two snow blocks and then place or dispense/grow a pumpkin on the top. The building pattern can also work when arranged sideways or upside-down, as long as the pumpkin is placed last in order. Jack o'lantern can also be used in place of the pumpkin.
Endermen are capable of creating snow golems by placing the necessary blocks, although this is an extremely rare event because they do not do so deliberately.[1]
A pumpkin stem can create a snow golem if the pumpkin grows in the right place near snow blocks, and naturally-generating pumpkin patches in areas with snow blocks, such as Ice Spikes biomes, can create snow golems as the world generates.
Drops
Snow golems drop up to 15 snowballs upon death.
Behavior
Snow golems do not follow players. Snow golems have good path-finding skills; like most mobs, snow golems will not jump off cliffs, go into cactus and fire or fall into lava or water. They do not take fall damage. Snow golems can be put on leads and tied to fences.
Snow golems "melt" (take fire damage) in biomes with a temperature greater than 1.0, or dry/warm biomes (including the Nether). They also will melt when in contact with rain or water. Since snow golems take fire damage in hot biomes, a splash potion of fire resistance will allow it to survive.
Snow golems wear their pumpkin as a helmet, just like the player does: their actual head is hidden beneath it. Shearing a snow golem will remove the pumpkin, revealing its face. It will not drop the pumpkin. The pumpkin is not part of its ArmorItems; a snow golem does not display its HandItems or its ArmorItems. The player cannot give a snow golem a new pumpkin.
Uses
A group of snow golems throwing snowballs at a spider.
Snow golems move towards hostile mobs and throw snowballs at them up to 10 blocks away, provoking them.[2] Thrown snowballs will not do any damage except to blazes (In Pocket Edition can also deal damage to other mobs), but the snowballs will knock mobs backwards when they hit. With the exception of wolves, snow golems will also attack any neutral mobs regardless of whether they attacked the player or not.
Snow
As they move, they leave a trail of snow on the ground if the blocks can support it.[3] They will only produce snow in biomes with a temperature less than 0.8, which includes cold, snowy, and some medium biomes (including the End).
Data values
Snow golems have entity data associated with them that contain various properties of the mob. Their entity ID is snowman.
- Entity data
- Tags common to all entities
- Tags common to all mobs
- Pumpkin : 1 or 0 (true/false) - whether or not the Snow Golem has a pumpkin on its head.
Video
Snow Golem/video
History
| September 21, 2011 | Snow golems were first mentioned by Notch on Reddit and were stated to appear in Beta 1.9. | ||||
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| Notch originally planned to call this mob Snowmen. However, very soon after revealing the name, Reddit user Cuttleman stated he would call them Snow Golems, a name Notch approved of and made official.[4] | |||||
| December 22, 2012 | In The Story of Mojang, Notch briefly mentioned adding “snowmen that throw snowballs." | ||||
| release | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9-pre1 | Snow golems were added. | |||
| During the Beta release candidates, snow golems would attack players holding wheat. | |||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w06a | Snow golems have a new path-finding AI and will form a wall to attack mobs. | |||
| 12w07a | Snow golems now take damage in deserts, jungles, the Nether, and when in contact with rain and water. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w04a | Snow golems can be created by dispensing the pumpkin from a dispenser atop two snow blocks. | |||
| 14w05b | Snow golems' pumpkin heads are no longer visible when they have the Invisibility effect. | ||||
| 14w25a | Snow golems can now be built sideways and upside-down instead of just upright. | ||||
| 14w26c | Jack o'lanterns can no longer be used to build snow golems. | ||||
| 14w33a | Snow golems now attack creepers, provoking them. | ||||
| 1.8.1 | 1.8.1-pre1 | Jack o'lanterns can be used to build snow golems again. | |||
| 1.9 | 15w31c | Snow golems can no longer damage Ender dragons. | |||
| 15w46a | Snow golems will no longer create a trail of snow layers, if the gamerule mobGriefing is set to false. | ||||
| 15w49a | Snow golems' pumpkin can now be removed with shears. | ||||
| 15w50a | Added sounds entity.snowman.ambient, entity.snowman.hurt, and entity.snowman.death. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w32a | Snow golems now use a byte data tag Pumpkin to determine whether they have a pumpkin head, allowing sheared snow golems to save and reload in their sheared state. | |||
Changed entity ID SnowMan to snowman. | |||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Added snow golems. | |||
| build 2 | Snow golems now spawn wearing a pumpkin. | ||||
| build 3 | Snow golems' pumpkin can now be removed with shears. | ||||
| build 9 | Snow golems now leave a trail of snow in plains. | ||||
| 0.16.0 | Snow Golems can now damage mobs because snowballs now deal 2 | ||||
| pocket upcoming | |||||
| 1.1 | build 1 | The entity ID is changed from snowgolem to snow_golem. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU7 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added snow golems. | |
| TU11 | Increased the limit for snow golems in a world. | ||||
| TU12 | Snow golems have a new path-finding AI and will form a wall to attack mobs. | ||||
| Snow golems now take damage in deserts, jungles, the Nether, and when in contact with rain and water. | |||||
| TU43 | CU33 | 1.36 | Patch 13 | Added sounds for snow golems. | |
Issues
Issues relating to "Snow Golem" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- Iron golems will get agitated and attack if a snow golem accidentally hits them or a villager while aiming at another mob.
- Snow golems cannot be made by pistons because the code for generating snow golems are found in the pumpkin`s
OnBlockPlace("placed by a player") event.- Also, pumpkins and jack o'lanterns drops as an item when pushed by a piston.
Gallery
- SnowmanMob1.png
First screenshot of a snow golem, released by Notch in September 21, 2011.
- SnowGolemRide.jpg
A snow golem riding in a minecart.
References
- ↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/korjk/endermen_can_make_snow_golems/
- ↑ http://gaming.stackexchange.com/questions/54362/what-is-a-snow-golems-range
- ↑ https://twitter.com/notch/status/116449906658516992
- ↑ http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/kml6r/notchs_new_snowman_mob_is_craftable_and_throws/



