Minecraft how to get snowballs
Andrew Vasquez
Updated on March 24, 2026

This video shows you how to get basically unlimited snowballs quickly and easily!First you try and get 2 snow blocks made by 8 snowballs, 2×2 on a crafting b…
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A shovel without the Silk Touch enchantment can get 4 snowballs by breaking a snow block, and 1–8 snowballs by breaking or blasting snow layers – one per layer. … On Bedrock Edition, Ravagers destroy snow layers, dropping snowballs. How …
ObtainingUsageData ValuesTriviaMiningA shovel without the Silk Touch enchantment can get 4 snowballs by breaking a snow block, and 1–8 snowballs by breaking or blasting snow layers – one per layer. The Fortuneenchantment does not affect these amounts.Mob lootSnow golemsdrop 0–15 snowballs upon death.
One way to get new snow on Minecraft is by using the /weather command to change the weather to snow. Snowballs can be acquired by finding them in chests or by crafting them using snow blocks and ice. ← Previous Post
You can add a snowball to your inventory in Survival mode by digging up snow with a shovel. So, let’s get started! 1. Find Snow First, you need to find some snow to dig up. 2. Hold a Shovel You can only get snowballs by digging up the snow with a shovel. These are the shovels you can choose from: How to make a Diamond Shovel
Players can obtain a Snowball quite easily and through many means listed down below: Using a Shovel on any snow block, will give the players 1-8 snowballs. However, if the Shovel has the Silk Touch Enchantment, the snowballs will not drop. If a Creeper or TNT explodes near a Snow block, it will drop Snowballs.
To make a flaming snowball, you MUST be an op in creative mode! 1. Get a command block. To do so, you type /give (username) command_block 2. Place the command block, and type or copy/paste this: /execute @e [type=Snowball] ~ ~ ~ /particle lava ~ ~ ~ 0 0 0 0.01 100 3. Press done, and hook up a redstone clock. 4. Throw a snowball!
A shovel is now required to obtain snowballs from snow. Snow blocks on top of top snow cover no longer look unusual. Snow blocks now require only 4 snowballs to craft instead of 9. This allows for infinite amounts of snow blocks and snowballs as snow blocks still drop 6 …
So in the left command block (attachted to the clock) put in /execute @e [type=Snowball] ~ ~ ~ summon PrimedTnt and then in the command block attatched to the repeater put /kill @e [type=Snowball] So what this does wherever there is a snowball it will blow up when the command block is activated that’s why we want a slow clock.