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Snow Golem

Mobs & entity

The Snow Golem is an entity in Minecraft, and a spawn egg for it exists, so players can bring one into the world that way. When a Snow Golem is killed, it drops a snowball, which players can pick up and keep.

Contents (7)
  1. Animations
  2. Sounds
  3. Stats
  4. History
  5. Registry entry
  6. Related items
  7. See also

Animations

4 of these were recorded inside the running game, so the movement is the animation Mojang shipped rather than an imitation of it. Transparent background, free to download.

Snow Golem, walking
WalkingDownload
Snow Golem, running
RunningDownload
Snow Golem, idle
IdleDownload
Snow Golem, taking damage
Taking damageDownload
Snow Golem, death
DeathDownload
Snow Golem, sheared
ShearedDownload

Sounds

4 sound events for this mob, 8 files in all. Where an event lists more than one file the game picks one at random.

EventSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
deathSnow Golem diesentity.snow_golem.deathsubtitles.entity.snow_golem.death
hurtSnow Golem hurtsentity.snow_golem.hurtsubtitles.entity.snow_golem.hurt
shearShears clickentity.snow_golem.shearsubtitles.item.shears.shear
shootSnowball fliesentity.snow_golem.shootsubtitles.entity.snowball.throw

Stats

Mojang publishes these numbers in the Bedrock behaviour pack (bedrock-samples); the Java edition keeps them in code, not in any data file. Most values match across editions, but not all — treat them as the Bedrock figures.

Health points4
Attack strength2
Movement speed0.2
Hitbox size0.4 blocks wide, 1.8 blocks tall
Mob typesnowgolem, mob

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w50a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w50a (12 December 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

Registry entry

Identifierminecraft:snow_golem
Registryminecraft:entity_type

See also