Snowball
Material Stack: 16 Since Alpha v1.0.5
Quick answer: Shovel snow layers for 1-8 snowballs, or break snow blocks for 4.
How to get it
- Shovel snow layers for 1-8 snowballs, or break snow blocks for 4
- Build a snow golem over a hopper: its snow trail is an infinite snowball farm
- In Bedrock, even a Silk Touch shovel collects snowballs from layers
Uses
- Throw to knock back mobs - and they actually damage blazes, 3 per hit
- Craft snow blocks for building and snow golems for base defense
- Load dispensers for snowball turrets that keep mobs at bay
- Anger the whole server: snowball fights cost nothing and stack to 16
Renewability
Renewable: snow golem farms are infinite snowballs.
Java vs Bedrock
In Bedrock a Silk Touch shovel still collects snowballs from layers; in Java it does not.