What is "Powder Snow"? This is a new block added to Minecraft 1.17, a very cave-like cliff update theme of the block, which is different from snow and is a subdivision of snow blocks. Even, it is possible that in the future it will revolutionize the mechanics of mc temperature systems.
1. What is "fine snow"? In fact, fine snow is actually a japanese word, specifically referring to the kind of snow that has just fallen, dry, powdery, and not easy to melt snow, also known as powder snow. Japanese is very romantic to take different snow subtle states, are given a beautiful name, such as deep snow, foam snow, cotton snow, gray snow, jade snow, peony snow, etc., and fine snow in Japanese is called "ささめゆき".
So in fact, foam snow and fine snow, both refer to the kind of snow that has just fallen, but the fine snow will specifically refer to the long snow in cold and dry areas, and the foam snow is biased towards a thin layer, as if it will melt at any time. Therefore, accurately locating and understanding the word "fine snow" is necessary to understand the new square of Minecraft.
2, fine snow will not be born naturally; at least until 20w46a, all kinds of cold, snow groups in nature will not give birth to this kind of snow. And fine snow is not deep snow (snow), I personally think that in future version updates, Minecraft will add a naturally born "deep snow" block. After all, this is also what was predicted before.
3, the alchemy pot to obtain fine snow; as if the alchemy pot received rainwater, exposing it to the vast snow, the bottom of the alchemy pot will slowly accumulate from the first, second and third layers. When stacked full, collect them in iron buckets, and fine snow blocks are born.
4. Fine snow = water and lava? The setting of fine snow is like water and lava, both of which can only be placed and collected by buckets. So the fate of fine snow is that once it is placed on the ground, you can only be destroyed by mining with all the tools you use, including the pickaxe that is accurately collected. And fine snow, like water and lava, cannot obtain the corresponding blocks in the inventory. It can only exist in the form of barrels.
5, the piston can not be pushed; whether it is an ordinary piston, or a sticky piston, even including a honey block, it cannot pull the fine snow by stickiness, and pushing it will only destroy the fine snow. This feature is very similar to a water block.
6. Melting; like the top layer of snow, any fluid (water source, water flow, lava flow) will melt the fine snow blocks. Note that this melting is only achieved by contact, such as placing fine snow blocks on the edge of the magma, and has no effect.
7. Fine snow = spider web? Fine snow blocks are similar to spider webs, and once a physical collision box comes into contact with them, they will be instantly slowed down and reduced. After testing, fine snow blocks will also completely offset the damage caused by falling from high altitudes. This is almost consistent with spider webs.
8. Fall into; almost all entities will fall into fine snow, including ships, minecarts, armor racks, all drops, almost all creatures, and of course, the player.
9, the rabbit will not fall into the fine snow; when a rabbit is buried in the fine snow, it will jump directly above the fine snow. The player struggles to walk in the fine snow, splashing snowflakes, but the rabbit can walk flat. Ender mites and mites can also walk on fine snow.
10. Leather equipment; Leather boots can keep the player standing above the fine snow blocks without sinking. Each addition of a leather helmet, leather armor, and leather leggings increases Steve's ability to "resist the cold.".
11, fine snow = scaffolding = snow elevator; fine snow blocks in addition to like a spider web, but also have the characteristics of scaffolding. When the player wears leather boots and is fully buried in a fine snow block, they are free to climb up and down like scaffolding. The scaffolding was suddenly out of the blue, and the fine snow blocks did not have a lateral distance limit.
12, fine snow = water block; whether it is falling water, or relying on water to extinguish the fire after the fire, these two characteristics can be replaced by fine snow blocks. The player jumps into the fine snow, which is also immune to drop damage and can extinguish the flames on the body.
13, freezing; although we talked about the advantages of fine snow, fine snow has a characteristic that you can't ignore - freezing damage. When the player falls into fine snow, Steve's body begins to be injured by the freezing effect. First the view is covered with frost, then the red blood bar turns into ice and snow, and then Steve begins to bleed until he dies.
Judging from the news released by Mojang so far, fine snow will definitely not be the only new version of the snow square in Minecraft 1.17, and it is expected that the snow (deep snow) will definitely come to mc in the future. Expect to bring more unknown features to this snowy land.