How To Make A Snow Block In Minecraft

This article is nearly the full block. For the thin layer, see Snow.

A snowfall cake ^[a] is a full-sized block of snowfall.

Obtaining [ ]

Breaking [ ]

If mined with a Silk Touch enchanted shovel, snowfall blocks drib themselves; without the enchantment, 4 snowballs are dropped instead. Nothing drops if mined with whatsoever other tool, even if enchanted with Silk Bear upon.

Cake	Snowfall Block
Hardness	0.2
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default	1
Wooden	0.xv
Stone	0.1
Iron	0.05
Diamond	0.05
Netherite	0.05
Golden	0.05

1. ↑ Times are for unenchanted tools equally wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Dissimilar snow layers, snowfall blocks practise non melt from higher levels of calorie-free nether normal circumstances, and are non destroyed by water.

Natural generation [ ]

Snow blocks generate on the ground in the ice spikes, grove, snowy slopes, frozen peaks and jagged peaks biomes, they form the walls of igloos and some snowy tundra village houses and can also generate on elevation of some icebergs. The snowfall weather effect generates snow layers which combine into a snow block once they attain full cake pinnacle.‌^{[ Be & EE only ]}

Chest loot [ ]

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Take a chance
Coffee Edition
Snow Block	Hamlet	Snowy house breast	i	34.five%
Boulder Edition
Snow Block	Hamlet	Snowy house chest	1	34.5%

Crafting [ ]

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Snowball

Usage [ ]

Melting [ ]

Unlike snow, snowfall blocks do not melt when a rut block‌^{[ Exist & EE only ]} or a light-emitting block is nearby, nor will they cook in dry biomes.

Snow golems [ ]

Snow Golem build configuration

Snow blocks are as well used to make snow golems by putting 2 snow blocks on top of another and a carved pumpkin, jack o'lantern or pumpkin‌^{[ Exist only ]} on the top equally the head. Notation that the carved pumpkin has to be placed last for this to work. This can exist done sideways and upside-downwards, equally well.

Crafting ingredient [ ]

Name	Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Snow	Snowfall Block	6

Sounds [ ]

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation fundamental	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation altitude
	Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	cake.snowfall.break	subtitles.cake.generic.interruption	1.0	0.8	16
	None [sound 1]	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the cake with fall harm	cake.snow.fall	None [audio 1]	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of existence cleaved	block.snow.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	When the cake is placed	cake.snowfall.place	subtitles.cake.generic.identify	i.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.snow.step	subtitles.cake.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	sixteen

1. ↑ ^{a b} MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Clarification	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.snow	i.0	0.viii-i.0
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.snow	0.4	1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.snow	0.35	0.5
	Players	Jumping from the block	spring.snow	0.12	one.0
	Players	Falling on the block without fall harm	state.snow	0.22	one.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.snowfall	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.snow	1.0	0.8-1.0

Data values [ ]

ID [ ]

Java Edition:

Proper noun	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
Snow Block	snow_block	Block & Particular	snow mineable/shovel	block.minecraft.snow_block

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation primal
Snowfall	snow	80	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.snow.proper name

1. ↑ ID of block's directly item grade, which is used in savegame files and addons.
2. ↑ Bachelor with /give control.
3. ↑ The block'south directly particular form has the same id with the block.

History [ ]

Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.5					Added snow blocks.
					Snow blocks drib half-dozen snowballs instead of 4.
v1.0.5_01					A shovel is at present required to obtain snowballs from snowfall.
					Snow blocks on top of superlative snowfall encompass no longer look unusual.
v1.0.half-dozen					Snow blocks now require only 4 snowballs to craft instead of 9. This allows for infinite amounts of snow blocks and snowballs as snowfall blocks still drib 6 snowballs instead of 4.
v1.1.one					The infinite snowball glitch has now been fixed; solid snow blocks now drop but 4 snowballs.
v1.2.0		preview			With the removal of winter mode, snow and snowfall blocks accept get temporarily non-renewable.
Java Edition Beta
1.five					With the add-on of weather, snow and snow blocks have become renewable.
i.viii		Pre-release			Snow no longer generates in cold biomes, making snowfall blocks temporarily unobtainable.
Coffee Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease			Added ice plains, making snowfall obtainable again.
					Snowfall blocks can now be used to create snow golems.
1.4.2		12w38a			Snow has now been given a new block breaking sound.
1.5		13w05a			A crafting recipe for snow cover has now been added.
ane.seven.ii		13w36a			Added the water ice plains spikes biome, which generates snow blocks on the surface.
i.9		15w43a			Snowfall blocks now generate as office of igloos.
one.12		17w15a			Snow can at present exist placed correctly on upside-downward stairs.
1.13		17w47a			"Snowfall" has now been renamed to "Snow Block".
					The ID of snow blocks has now been inverse from snow to snow_block.
					Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 80.
		18w15a			Added icebergs to frozen oceans, which contain snow blocks.
1.14		18w43a			Prior to this snapshot, snowfall blocks were capable of spontaneously melting under specific conditions. This no longer happens.[i]
					The texture of snow blocks has at present been changed.
		18w49a			Snowfall blocks now generate as part of some houses in the newly added snowy tundra villages.
					Snow block items tin can now be found in chests in snowy village houses.
1.18		Experimental Snapshot 1			Plants tin now be placed on snow blocks.
		21w37a			Reverted change allowing plants to exist placed on snow blocks.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0					Added snowfall blocks.[ is this the correct version? ]
v0.3.0					Snow blocks are now craftable, and driblet snowballs when mined.
v0.3.iii					Snow blocks are now available in the creative inventory.
v0.9.0		build i			Snowfall blocks now generate naturally in ice fasten biomes.
v0.12.1		build 1			Snowfall is now renewable.
					Snow tin now be used to create golems.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			Snow blocks at present generate every bit part of igloos.
Boulder Edition
1.4.0		beta 1.ii.fourteen.two			Snow blocks now generate naturally in icebergs.
one.10.0		beta 1.10.0.three			The texture of snow blocks has now been changed.
					Snow blocks now generate in snowy tundra villages.
i.xi.0		beta 1.eleven.0.1			Snow blocks can now be plant in snowy tundra village house chests.
Caves & Cliffs (experimental)		beta 1.16.220.50			Snowfall blocks at present generate in mountain grove, snowy slopes, snowfall capped peaks and lofty peaks biomes.
Legacy Panel Edition
TU1	CU1	one.0	Patch 1	i.0.1	Added snow blocks.
		1.xc			The texture of snow blocks has now been changed.

Bug [ ]

Issues relating to "Snow Cake" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia [ ]

• Snowfall may however fall on acme of snow blocks, making them look taller than they actually are.
• When a snowfall block is on grass, the grass block changes to a different "snowy" texture as if a snow layer is on it. However, because snowfall is not transparent to light, the grass changes to dirt shortly after.
• Snow blocks, equally well as snowfall layers, are the simply blocks that crave a tool other than a pickaxe to be mined successfully.

Gallery [ ]

• 

  Naturally generated snow blocks in an igloo.

• 

  Naturally generated snow blocks in top of an iceberg.

See too [ ]

• Snowfall
• Snow golem

Notes [ ]

1. ↑ Known as Snow Block in Java Edition and Snow in Bedrock Edition.

References [ ]

1. ↑ MC-88097

Source: https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Snow_Block

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