How To Get Powder Snow In Minecraft & How To Use It

Whether it is to trick your friends or protect your home, Powder Snow is important for your base. But because all snow looks very similar, it can be quite hard to spot this block naturally as you explore Minecraft.

If you are also one of those who struggle to find Powder Snow, here’s a guide on how to get Powder Snow in Minecraft and where to collect it.

Stuck In Powder Snow — Powder Snow is a fun block in Minecraft that you can use to joke with your friends or defense your base.

How to get Powder Snow in Minecraft

Powder Snow naturally spawns in regions where there is common snow. As the block looks no different from regular snow, the only way for you to find it naturally is to literally stumble across it.

Luckily, there is an easier method to get Minecraft Powder Snow by putting a Cauldron in a snowy biome when it is snowing. The powder snow will gradually fill up the cauldron and once it gest full, you can right-click on the Cauldron with an empty bucket to acquire a Bucket of Powder Snow.

Now that you have obtained a Powder Snow bucket, you can right-click while it is on the ground to craft a Powder Snow block. As the blocks of Powder Snow cannot be mined, players can pick it up once more by right-clicking on it with an empty Bucket.

In case you don't know how to reach snow biome, refer to the article of how to find any biome in Minecraft for detailed instructions. Next, let's see what you can use Powder Snow for.

What does Powder Snow do?

Powder Snow actually works as a trap block. Every entity including the players will sink into a block of Powder Snow if they walk over it. Post 7 seconds of interacting with the block, you will begin to take freezing damage. You will lose 1 HP every 2 seconds.

Over this duration, you will see a frost vignette starting to tint the corners of your screen to warn of the danger. However, there is a defense to this: you can use leather armor.

Powder Snow Effect — Use leather armor to negate the freezing effect.

Any leather armor piece will nullify the freezing effect. Moreover, you will not fall through the Powder Snow if you don leather boots in the first place. Although it cannot defend you as wholely as Netherite Armor or Diamond Armor, there is a good reason you can make use of leather armor now.

The Stray — A Skeleton will turn into a Stray if stuck in the Powder Snow for long enough.

A number of other things to know about Powder Snow in Minecraft are that it melts when exposed to fire. Moreover, a Skeleton that gets stuck into Powder Snow for a long time will transform into a Stray or also called an Ice Skeleton. In fact, that Stray will spawn with 100% HP even though the earlier Skeleton was damaged.