Snowy Weaponry
by sciwhiz12
Snowy Weaponry adds snowballs with metal cores and explosive variants, along with edible snow cones that restore hunger and saturation.
What it does
Snowballs can be cored with iron, diamond or netherite, and each core raises the damage a hit inflicts, with higher tiers adding a slowness or blindness effect. Explosive snowballs detonate on impact and damage nearby entities. Packed snow chunks with embedded metal and gunpowder are used in crafting these projectiles.
Snow cones, wafer cones and golden snow cones are edible items. A wafer cone restores a small amount of hunger, a snow cone restores more, and a golden snow cone restores two hunger sticks and grants fire resistance for a short time. Potions can be dipped into the cones, where each use reduces the duration of the effect.
The mod is open source under the MIT License and runs on client and server, so both the server and every player need it. It is published for Forge and NeoForge across 25 release versions, 1.16.3 – 26.3, with Forge's latest file 1.9.0 for 1.20.2, released 2023-11-30. Just Enough Items and Roughly Enough Items are optional and add recipe lookup.
Key features
Cored snowballs
Iron, diamond and netherite cores increase damage, and the higher tiers add slowness or blindness to the hit.
Explosive snowballs
These snowballs explode on impact and deal moderate damage to entities close to the point of impact.
Edible snow cones
Wafer, snow and golden snow cones restore hunger and saturation, with the golden variant adding fire resistance.
Potion dipping
Cones can be dipped in potions, and repeated uses shorten the duration of the resulting effect.
Packed snow crafting
Packed snow chunks with embedded metal and gunpowder form the base for the weaponized snowballs.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
26.x5 of 5 versions with builds
1.21.x7 of 7 versions with builds
1.20.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.19.x4 of 4 versions with builds
1.18.x2 of 2 versions with builds
1.16.x3 of 3 versions with builds
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Optional 2
How it compares
Better Snowball Fight is also a snowball-focused mod, published under the MIT License for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge across 1.16.5 – 1.21.1 and requiring both the client and server. Saturation Plus targets food and saturation across 1.14.4 – 26.3 for Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, released under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 and not open source. Quality Of Life Mod is server-side only, published for Forge across 1.19.2 – 1.20.1 and covered by All rights reserved, so players need nothing installed.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snowy Weaponry | Forge and NeoForge | 1.16.3 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-26 |
| Better Snowball Fight | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.16.5 – 1.21.1 | Client and server | 2025-01-07 |
| Saturation Plus | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.14.4 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-06-23 |
| Quality Of Life Mod | Forge | 1.19.2 – 1.20.1 | Server-side only | 2026-02-20 |
Questions
Does Snowy Weaponry need to be on the server?
Which loaders can Snowy Weaponry run on?
Does Snowy Weaponry require Just Enough Items?
In the catalog
Snowy Weaponry is one of 6,151 Food mods on ModsFinder, and one of 3,337 Food mods for Forge. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Snowballs with metal chunks, and snow cones too! This mod is an entry for MMD's WinterJam 2020!
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/snowy-weaponry
- Owner
- sciwhiz12
- Published
- 2023-01-29
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-26
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15