Snowman

The Snowman is a passive mob build by players that throws snowballs at monsters and provokes them into attacking it. In Biomes with a temperature > 1.0, Snowmen take damage and die.

Creation

Snowmen are created by placing 2 snow blocks in contact to each other, building an "I" shape, and placing a carved pumpkin on top. Placing can be done by a player or a dispenser. Building can be done upright, sideways or upside-down, as long as the pumpkin the last block placed.

Behavior

A Snowman wanders around, tries to avoid water and obstacles, but does not take damage from snow.

Snowmen are damaged in contact with rain or in biomes with a temperature > 1.0, e.g. in savannas, badlands, deserts or in the Nether.

Snowmen move toward all monsters and throw snowballs in a frequency of one snowball per second at them up to 10 blocks away, regardles of wheter they attack the player. If captured, the throw snowballs up to 16 blocks away. Snowballs deal damage only to wolfes, but knock back any mob they hit. As they attack a stalker as well, they can be used in stalker farms to generate gun powder.