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 Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still or water Water Transparency Partial (-2 to light) Luminance No Blast resistance 500 (Flowing) 500 (Still) Tool Renewable Yes Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Water dec: 08 hex: 8 bin: 1000 Still Water dec: 09 hex: 9 bin: 1001 . They do not take fall damage. Snow golems can be put on leads Lead Type Tools Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 420 hex: 1A4 bin: 110100100 Name lead Leads, also known as leashes, are items used to leash and lead passive mobs. and tied to fences.
Snow golems "melt" (take fire damage) in 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 with a temperature greater than 1.0, or dry/warm biomes (including the Nether A view of the Nether. The Nether is a hell-like dimension, filled with fire, lava, and dangerous mobs. Contents 1 Accessing 2 Environment 2.1 Mobs 3 Generation 3.1 Naturally generated 3.2 Naturally created 3.3 Structures ). They also will melt when in contact with 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 or water. Since snow golems take fire damage in hot biomes, a splash potion of fire resistance Splash Potion Type Potions Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No First appearances See History Data value dec: 438 hex: 1B6 bin: 110110110 Name splash_potion See the throwable potions. For the throwable potions that leave a 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 Shears Type Tools Durability 238 Renewable Yes Stackable No First appearances See History Data value dec: 359 hex: 167 bin: 101100111 Name shears Shears are a tool used primarily to shear sheep and mine a few types of 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.
Info
Health points The health gauge and monitor in Minecraft is based on a single row of 10 heart icons. Each full heart contains two halves, one hit point each (full health is 20 hit points). Contents 1 | |
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Attack strength | 0 () (only pushes mobs back) |
Size | Height: 1.9 Blocks |
Spawn See the natural spawning of players and mobs. For mob spawners, see Monster Spawner. For the player, see The Player. This article needs updating. Description: Rabbits now spawn in deserts with new | Where created by the player |
First appearances | See History |
Common drops |
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Experience Experience First appearances See History Internal ID PC: 2 PE: 69 Network ID PC: none Entity ID xp_orb XP bar visible above hotbar. Experience (EXP or XP for short) can be obtained by gathering experience | 0 |
Internal ID | PC: 97 |
Entity ID | PC: snowman |
Snow golems (also known as Snowmen) are utility mobs "Monster" redirects here. For the mob called "monster" in the code, see Human. Mobs are living, moving game entities. The term "mob" is short for "mobile". 1] Contents 1 Spawning 2 Behavior 3 List of that help defend against hostile mobs.
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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.
Creation
To create a snow golem, the player must stack 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 and then place or dispense Dispenser Type Block Requirements None Physics No Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 17.5 Hardness 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No First appearances See history Drops Dispenser (1) plus contents Block entity /grow a 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 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 Jack o Lantern Transparency Partial (blocks light) Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data value dec: 91 hex: 5B bin: 1011011 Name lit_pumpkin “ Jack-o -lanterns: great looks, super powers. can also be used in place of the pumpkin.
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 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.
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 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 upon death.
Uses
Snow golems move towards hostile mobs and throw snowballs at them up to 10 blocks away, provoking them. Thrown snowballs will not do any damage except to blazes Blaze Health points 20 () Attack strength Fireball: 5 () Contact: Easy: 4 () Normal: 6 () Hard: 9 () Size Height: 1.8 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Spawn Nether Fortresses, light level of 11 or , but the snowballs will still knock back any mob that they hit. With the exception of wolves Wolf Health points Wild: 8 () Tamed: 20 () Attack strength Wild: Easy: 3 () Normal: 4 () Hard: 6 () Tamed: 4 () Size Adult: Height: 0.85 Blocks Width: 0.6 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.425 , polar bears Polar Bear Health points 30 ( × 15) Attack strength Adults only Peaceful: 0 (but still performs attack animation) Easy: 4 () Normal: 6 () Hard: 9 () Size Adult: Height: 1.4 Blocks Width: 1.3 and llamas Llama Health points 15 () to 30 ( × 15) Attack strength 1 () Size Adult: Height: 1.87 Blocks Width: 0.9 Blocks Baby: Height: 0.935 Blocks Width: 0.45 Blocks Spawn Extreme Hills, Savanna Common drops , 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 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 on the ground if the blocks can support it. 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 See the dimension. For the achievement, see Achievements#The End.. For the advancement, see Advancements#The End. A view of the central End island. The ender dragon can be seen flying around obsidian pillars, ).
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 see Template:Nbt inherit/entity/template
- Tags common to all mobs see Template:Nbt inherit/mob/template
Pumpkin: 1 or 0 (true/false) - whether it has a pumpkin on its head or not.
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History
Sep. 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. Be that as it may, very soon after revealing the name, Reddit user Cuttleman stated he would call them Snow Golems, a name Notch approved of and made official. | |||||
Dec. 22, 2012 | In The Story of Mojang, Notch briefly mentioned adding ⃢₀ₜsnowmen that throw snowballs." | ||||
Official releaseAnnounce Minecraft 1.0 Starting version 1.0.0 (Nov. 18th, 2011) Latest version 1.12 Paid Yes Website http://www.minecraft.net/ See the official release of Minecraft for the PC. For the version, see 1.0.0. For the first | |||||
1.0.0 1.0.0 Type Release Release date Nov. 18, 2011 Development versions View all Pre-releases Beta 1.9-pre1 Beta 1.9-pre2 Beta 1.9-pre3 Beta 1.9-pre4 Beta 1.9-pre5 Beta 1.9-pre6 Release candidates 1.0.0-RC1 1.0.0-RC2 Download Client (.json) Server Other editions | Beta 1.9-pre1 | Snow golems were added. | |||
During the Beta release candidates, snow golems would attack players holding wheat Wheat Type Food Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) First appearances See History Data value dec: 296 hex: 128 bin: 100101000 Name wheat See the food item. For the planted seed and the wheat . | |||||
1.2.1 1.2.1 Release date Mar. 1, 2012 1] Development versions View all Snapshots 12w03a 12w04a 12w05a 12w05b 12w06a 12w07a 12w07b 12w08a Pre-releases 1.2-pre Download Client (.json) Server Other editions of 1.2.1 Java Edition Alpha ◄◄ 1.1 | 12w06a 12w06a Type Snapshot Release date Feb. 9, 2012 1] Snapshot for 1.2.1 Download Client Server ◄◄ 1.1 ◄ 12w05b 12w07a ► 1.2.2 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, see Version | Snow golems have a new path-finding AI and will form a wall to attack mobs. | |||
12w07a 12w07a Type Snapshot Release date Feb. 15, 2012 1] Snapshot for 1.2.1 Download Client Server ◄◄ 1.1 ◄ 12w06a 12w07b ► 1.2.2 ►► See the computer edition. For other editions, see Version | Snow golems now take damage in deserts, jungles, the Nether, and when in contact with rain and water. | ||||
1.8 1.8 Official name Bountiful Update Type Release Release date Sep. 2, 2014 1] Development versions View all Snapshots 14w02a 14w02b 14w02c 14w03a 14w03b 14w04a 14w04b 14w05a 14w05b 14w06a 14w06b 14w07a 14w08a 14w10a 14w10b 14w10c 14w11a | 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. | ||||
Pocket Edition | |||||
1.1 | build 1 | The entity ID is changed from snowgolem to snow_golem . | |||
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
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Gallery
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A snow golem riding in a minecart.