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Snow Golems should be upgradable to throw Ice Balls

Snow Golems have always got themselves killed by aggravating mobs that they could do no damage to. The new Ice Balls give a unique opportunity to upgrade them to do actual damage as a unique friendly ranged attacking mob, while not interfering with any farms or other use cases that use the Snow Golems' zero damage aggroing. This will not only give Ice Balls more value beyond early game but will meaningfully touch up on a mob that has been in the game for over a decade without forcing the change onto players that may like the non damaging part of their kit. How one can make them throw Ice Balls I think can go in possibly more interesting directions, but I think the simplest way for both players and developers is to just right click them with an Ice Ball in hand to give it to them, and they'll hold it in their hands, which could be removed with Shears.

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    Perhaps it is an opportunity for an entirely new golem

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    Shears won't work for taking the ice balls back (that'll just take their pumpkin head off). Instead, just hand them back some snow balls.

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    i think having you hand them it would be a bit odd considering they are canonically creating the snow balls, perhaps giving them a blue ice block or even building them out of blue ice instead of snow tho, that would make it meaningfully harder to make them while also making a bit more sense in my opinion (with the caveat that it may necessitate a new mob model to a certain extent)

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    Not entirely sure if your ideas would work per se, but the general concept of being able to have snow golems toss ice balls is definitely something I'd love to see implemented with the upcoming drop as I feel like they don't see much use other than: A) Aesthetics, B) Farms where its purpose is to aggro mobs, but not kill them, and C) Letting the player collect infinite snow without the need to be in a biome where it snows/relying on weather RNG.