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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 
allow for quickly obtaining a large amount of 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 
, and therefore snow blocks Snow Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 1 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Snowball (4) Data value dec: 80 hex: 50 bin: 1010000 Name snow See the full block. For the 
and snow layers Snow (layer) Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Snowball (2–9) (one per level, plus one) Data value dec: 78 hex: 4E bin: 1001110 Name snow_layer Snow, or top 
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Why?
Why would someone want ridiculous quantities of snow?
- Combine with a pumpkin farm to construct a huge army of snow golems for some reason.
- Snow blocks are a decent building material as long as they don`t have to resist explosions; contrary to all logic, they don`t melt. Thus an easy-to-build snow farm (and material to make lots of shovels) can avoid the need to haul many stacks of cobblestone or other material to a build site for constructing large farms.
- Hostile mobs cannot spawn on snow layers stacked 2 or more deep, if light sources aren`t desired for a build.
- Endermen Enderman Health points 40 ( × 20) Attack strength Easy: 4 () Normal: 7 () Hard: 10 () Size Height: 2.9 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Spawn In the Overworld, the Nether or the End in
cannot teleport onto snow layers stacked 10 or more deep. - To get a cheap source for projectiles to take down blazes for their blaze rods.
Videos
Material
Building the farm requires:
- Two snow blocks Snow Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 1 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Snowball (4) Data value dec: 80 hex: 50 bin: 1010000 Name snow See the full block. For the
- One pumpkin Pumpkin Transparency Partial (blocks light) Luminance No Blast resistance 5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 86 hex: 56 bin: 1010110 Name pumpkin See the pumpkin block. For
- One block that is not broken quickly with a shovel and which can have snow layers Snow (layer) Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Snowball (2–9) (one per level, plus one) Data value dec: 78 hex: 4E bin: 1001110 Name snow_layer Snow, or top placed on it, such as stone Stone Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 30 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Cobblestone (1) Data value dec: 01 hex: 1 bin: 1 Name stone See the block called stone. For or cobblestone Cobblestone Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 30 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Experience Smelted: 0.1 Drops Itself Data value dec: 4 hex: 4 bin: 100 Name cobblestone Cobblestone is a common block, obtained from .
- Additional blocks to confine the golem and protect it from rain, depending on the farm location.
To operate the farm, the player will need one or more shovels and inventory space sufficient to collect a lot of snowballs. Note that snowballs only stack to 16, although they can be crafted into snow blocks that stack to 64 without needing a crafting table.
Location
The farm must be built in a location where a snow golem can survive and generate snow. Thus, the farm cannot be built in the Nether, deserts (all variants), mesas (all variants), or savannas (except variants listed below), and must be built above certain altitudes in some other biomes due to temperature decrease with altitude:
- Above Y≈64 in plains, sunflower plains, swamps (including M), and beaches
- Above Y≈124 in mushroom islands and shore
- Above Y≈154 in jungles and variants
- Above Y≈184 in savanna plateau and savanna plateau M
- Above Y≈244 in savanna M
Note that farms may be built at any level in extreme hills and in river biomes, which are reasonably easy to find even in areas full of deserts, savannas, and mesas. If you are near an ocean, your farm will work on an island, even if it is next to a desert or other hot biome.
Build
The general idea is to construct a snow golem trapped in a 1ℂₗ1 space, standing on a block that can support snow layers and isn`t quickly destroyed by shovels, where the player can easily target said block.
- Place the floor block, where the golem will stand. Typically this is one level above where the player will stand, i.e. the player can and must jump to be able to stand on the block.
- Place the two snow blocks, one on top of the other, on top of the floor block.
- Place blocks around the upper snow block to keep the golem from leaving the farm. Full blocks will likely work better than fences, as they constrain the golem`s movement to a smaller area.
- Place the pumpkin on top of the upper snow block, which will spawn the golem in place of the snow blocks.
- If the golem is in a position where it might be exposed to rain A view of hills during rain. Rain is a type of weather that occurs occasionally in Minecraft. Contents 1 Behavior 2 Effects 2.1 Rain particles 3 History 4 Issues 5 Trivia 6 References Behavior edit , place a block above it to prevent this.
Enhancements might include hoppers Hopper Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Partial (does not block light, mob spawning possible) Luminance No Blast resistance 24 Hardness 3 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See History Drops 
to collect snowballs and feed them into chests when the player`s inventory is full, a hopper minecart Minecart with Hopper Type Vehicles Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No Internal ID PC: 46 PE: 96 Network ID PC: 10 Entity ID hopper_minecart Drops 1 Minecart 1 Hopper plus contents Health points 6 () 
under the floor block for the same purpose, and a mechanism to dispense more shovels into the player`s hand as existing shovels break.
Video tutorials
| A basic tutorial Video (view on YouTube) |
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| Docm77`s snow factory tutorial Video (view on YouTube) |
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Operation
Simply stand next to the golem`s floor block, equip a shovel, aim at the snow layer on top of that block without hitting the golem itself, and hold the dig control.
Note that durability on the shovel will go down very quickly: a new stone shovel (without Unbreaking "Flame" redirects here. For the non-solid damage-dealing block, see Fire. “ How does enchanting work in Minecraft? Well, you open a magical book and pick a random spell, not quite sure knowing what it will 
) will break in about 13 seconds after producing 16.5 stacks of snowballs (enough to make 66 snow blocks), and an iron shovel will break in about 25 seconds after producing 31.375 stacks of snowballs (enough to make 125 snow blocks with 2 snowballs left over).
Note that the mobGriefing gamerule Contents 1 Usage 1.1 Tilde notation 1.2 Target selectors 1.2.1 Target selector variables 1.2.2 Target selector arguments 1.3 Data tags 1.4 Raw JSON text 1.5 Block/item names 2 Summary of commands 3 List of commands must be enabled, otherwise the golem will be unable to create snow.
