Obtaining
Destroying snow with a shovel yields two snowballs Snowball Type Combat Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (16) Internal ID PC: 11 PE: 81 Network ID PC: 61 Entity ID snowball First appearances See History Data value dec: 332 hex: 14C bin: 101001100 Name snowball Snowballs , plus an additional one snowball per extra layer on top (meaning a three tall layer drops four snowballs). If it is destroyed with anything other than a shovel, nothing is dropped.
Block | Snow (layer) | |
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Hardness | 0.1 | |
Tool | ||
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Hand | 0.5 | |
Wooden | 0.1 | |
Stone | 0.05 | |
Iron | 0.05 | |
Diamond | 0.05 | |
Golden | 0.05 |
- ⃢₆ₑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.
Info
Snow, or top snow in Pocket Edition Pocket Edition Author(s) Mojang AB Jens Bergensten Aron Nieminen Daniel Kaplan Tommaso Checchi Shoghi Cervantes Jason Major Daniel Wustenhoff Tomas Alaeus Mikael "Slicedlime" Hedberg @@@#@@@Microsoft(microsoft.com)###@### Studios 1] Platform(s) Written in C++ 2] Latest version 1.1.2 , is a ground cover block that is commonly caused by snowfall.
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Trivia
- Snow can be stacked to a full block beside a cactus without destroying the cactus.
- Attempting to place torches on snow will replace the snow with a torch.
- Snow on a block of soul sand makes the soul sand act like a normal block.
- Snow layers of 2 to 7 thickness prevent hostile mobs from spawning.
- In Spectator mode, If you position the player at the correct height, you can see the snowy texture of the top of grass blocks.
Natural generation
Snow naturally generates in snowy biomes ⃢₀ₓ ice plains A river bisecting a jungle biome. At the top right is a forest. A river running through a mesa biome with mesa plateaus, with a savanna biome in the bottom right. “ In case you , ice spikes, cold taiga A river bisecting a jungle biome. At the top right is a forest. A river running through a mesa biome with mesa plateaus, with a savanna biome in the bottom right. “ In case you , frozen river and cold beach ⃢₀ₓ and in the extreme hills A river bisecting a jungle biome. At the top right is a forest. A river running through a mesa biome with mesa plateaus, with a savanna biome in the bottom right. “ In case you biome above layer 95.
Snow will generate in single layers in the computer edition, and can generate in multiple layers in Pocket Edition.
Snowfall
In snowy biomes or in cold biomes at varying layers, it will snow instead of rain, and while it is snowing, snow will generate on random non-transparent blocks with a block light Light (or lighting) in Minecraft affects visibility, mob spawning, and plant growth. Contents 1 Brightness 1.1 Spread 2 Sources of light 2.1 Blocks 2.2 Other 3 Light-filtering blocks 4 Effects of light 4.1 Mobs 4.2 level of 10 or less, with the exception of packed ice Packed Ice Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops None Data value dec: 174 hex: AE bin: 10101110 Name packed_ice See the block found in the .
In Pocket Edition, multiple snow layers are built up naturally during snowfall; in the computer edition, snowfall only creates one layer.
Snow golems
Snow golems Snow Golem Health points 4 () Attack strength 0 () (only pushes mobs back) 3 () to Blaze Size Height: 1.9 Blocks Width: 0.7 Blocks Spawn Where created by the player First appearances See History generate a trail of snow in snowy, cold, and some medium biomes A river bisecting a jungle biome. At the top right is a forest. A river running through a mesa biome with mesa plateaus, with a savanna biome in the bottom right. “ In case you , or any non-dry biome in Pocket Edition.
Crafting
Usage
Cover
If the snow is on a grass block Grass Block Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 3 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Dirt (1) Data value dec: 02 hex: 2 bin: 10 Name grass See the dirt block with , podzol Podzol Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes, (64) Flammable No Availability Mega Taiga Drops Dirt (1) Data values PC edition dec: 32 hex: 32 bin: 112 Pocket edition dec: 243 hex: F3 bin: 11110011 Name or on mycelium Mycelium Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Dirt (1) Data value dec: 110 hex: 6E bin: 1101110 Name mycelium “ In Minecraft, mycelium is represented as a type , the ground cover will turn white on the top and around the sides. Snow will not damage tilled and hydrated field areas ⃢₀ₓ it cannot be placed on farmland. Gravity-affected blocks like sand Sand Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Experience Smelted: 0.1 Drops Itself Data values Sand dec: 120 hex: C0 bin: 11000 Red Sand dec: 121 hex: C1 bin: 11001 Name sand This and gravel Gravel Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 3 Tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Gravel (90%) Flint (10%) Data value dec: 13 hex: D bin: 1101 Name gravel Gravel is a block that is affected will not fall if the block below them has snow on it, but they will replace a snow layer if they fall onto it.
In Pocket Edition, top snow can occupy the same space as one-block flowers, mushrooms, and one-block ferns and tall grass, and can be layered and mined normally.
Melting
Snow will melt if there is a block light level of 12 or more. In Pocket Edition, it will also melt in dry biomes, regardless of block light or daylight level. If there are multiple layers, all layers melt at once; the snow levels do not gradually reduce in height.
Falling block
In Pocket Edition, top snow is affected by gravity and will fall if unsupported. On leaves Leaves Transparency Partial (diffuses sky light) Luminance No Blast resistance 1 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Sapling (0–1) @@@#@@@Apple(apple.com)###@### (0–1) (from oak and dark oak leaves) Data values Oak/Spruce/Birch/Jungle dec: 18 hex: 12 topped with a layer of snow, little particles Particles are special graphical effects in Minecraft. Contents 1 Behavior 2 Types of particles 3 History 4 Issues 5 Trivia 6 Gallery Behavior edit | edit source] Particles always seem to face the player and of snow appear to fall through the leaves from the snow layer.
Data values
A snow layer has the ID name minecraft:snow_layer
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Block state
- See also: Block states
Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition | Value | Description |
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layers | 1⃢₀ₔ8 | The number of layers thick. Each layer adds two pixels to the block height, and each layer after the first adds two pixels to the collision box. |
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Issues
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