How to Make a Snowman Golem in Minecraft: Step-By-Step Guide

Snowman is a snow sculpture of a man built traditionally in a common winter tradition with three large snowballs of different sizes and some added paraphernalia for facial, hands, and decors.

With the coming of the Christmas season, you might wanna decorate your Minecraft home and get into the festive mood.

In this simple tutorial, you will learn how to build a snowman golem in Minecraft.

To make a Snowman Golem in Minecraft – Place 2 Snow blocks on top of each other and insert a Carved Pumpkin or a jack o’lantern on the top of two snow blocks to complete the head. Hold the shear on your hand and create a face on the Snowman’s head.

What is a Snow Golem?

In Minecraft, Snow golem is a player-constructed snowman-like passive utility mob that can help defend against hostile monsters and even snow farms.

Tip: They are affected by temperature.

Materials to Make a Minecraft Snowman

• 2x Snow blocks
• 1x Carved Pumpkin/ Jack o’Lantern

To acquire the materials –

• SnowBlocks – They are crafted from 4 snowballs using the inventory crafting window. When you destroy a Snowblock, it will drop 4 snowballs it took to create them. You require a shovel or a Silk Touch tool to get the four snowballs back – or it will drop nothing.
• Pumpkin – Pumpkins are found in most biomes in the Overworld. Use any tool such as axes to mine the Pumpkin.

Either use a carved pumpkin or a jack o’lantern to craft your snowman.

Alternatively, locate a snow biome in Minecraft and collect both materials for your snow golem.

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How to Make a Snowman in Minecraft

Follow this tutorial to create your own Snowman.

Step 1: Build the Snowman Golem Body

• Place 1 Snow Blocks on the ground.
• Next, Place 1 Snow Block on top of the other to complete the body.

Step 2: Make the Head

Click on the jack-o-lantern and place it on top of the body.

If you use jack o lantern and find it creepy looking. Use a non-craved regular pumpkin instead.

Select “shear” and click on the head to turn it into a Snowman face.

The snowman will be alive and begin to move around leaving a trail of snow along its wake.

What happens when a Snow Golem Die?

When a Snow golem dies, it drops between 0 to 15 snowballs and a carved pumpkin when it is sheared.

When you Shear a snow golem, it removes the pumpkin from the head, making it drop the pumpkin and revealing its face.

If you wanna create a happy-looking Snowman, shear a smiling face on the pumpkin.

What does Minecraft Snowman Eat?

Minecraft Snowman eats wheat and also attacks players holding wheat. They will continue attacking even after the wheat is not held anymore.

How to save Snow Golem from melting?

Since Snow golems are damaged by splash water bottles and lingering water bottles, you can resist Snow Golems from melting by applying Fire Resistance to them.

They also leave a trail of snow in plains biomes which you can collect using a shovel and turn it into snowballs.

That’s it for now. Now follow the steps above and create a happy snowman for your Minecraft world.