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Revert the nerfs to the ice ball and freezing effect

In the latest snapshot, ice balls were nerfed to deal less damage, and all undead mobs were made immune to the freezing effect. Ice balls already didn’t deal much damage and can only stack to 16, so I don’t understand the point of making them weaker. As for the freezing effect, I can understand zombies and skeletons being immune since they have frozen variants, but even so they only turn into those variants when in powdered snow, not because of the effect itself. And what about mobs that don’t have frozen variants like zombie piglins and wither skeletons? Undead mobs are the most common enemy that players fight, making them immune makes the effect/potion not worth obtaining for most players.
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    Agree.

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    Functionally, they aren't weaker.
    The damage was reduced from 2 to 1.8 or so iirc, which sounds like a lot, but the damage amount rounds up to the nearest whole number.
    Realistically you wouldn't notice the change. As for undead mobs, It makes sense that they'd be immune to freezing.
    I think that the ice balls would make sense to have a buff to damage against nether mobs instead, since snowballs already deal damage to blazes.