Snowmen

Snowmen were an enemy that existed during the Winter Update.

## Description

There were 3 types of snowmen. The first type was friendly, and had a red bucket and a smiley face. The second type was aggressive, and had a blue bucket, an angry face, and human arms. Upon death, both types would fall apart. As of now, they are removed from the game. Another did appear, but they were much rarer.

Blue bucket snowmen were much less common than red bucket snowmen. They also possessed very simple AI, having no pathfinding, meaning that instead of ignoring walls or another obstacle, they simply ran into them. However, they could swarm you easily due to their numbers. They also spawned much more frequently at night time. Touching a blue bucket snowmen would result in death.

Meanwhile, red bucket snowmen had no AI, and stood idly. They replaced the cacti from the desert temporarily. They could spawn anywhere, including on the road and in buildings, just like aggressive snowmen. There was a small chance that a red bucket snowman would be replaced by a blue bucket snowman.

A rarer variant of the blue bucket snowmen could appear that spawned with a blue jack o lantern on their head that could illuminate the dark. Other than that, they were functionally identical to regular blue bucket snowmen.

## Types

As said previously, there were 3 types of snowmen.

The red bucket snowmen had red buckets, and were passive. They did not move at all nor did they attack. They were also the most common, spawning the most throughout the ice plains.

Blue bucket snowmen, on the other hand, had blue buckets, and were aggressive. They move slid through the floor awkwardly, and if they touched the player, they would kill you. They were much rarer than the red bucket snowmen, although they spawned much more frequently at nighttime. They could be killed the same way the friendly type could, although it was much more dangerous to.

Glowing snowmen were the rarest, and were a reskin of glowing snowmen except with a glowing pumpkin. Other than that, they were the exact same thing, except they could be easier spotted at nighttime.

## Lore

The snowmen were possibly the result of the catastrophe that hit the world. What made them is unknown, but it could aliens. However, it does not explain why there are multiple types of snowmen.

Since they only existed briefly, we do not know much about them.

## Strategy

The safest ways to deal with these snowmen are either to use your gun or allow it to ram into an obstacle, with causes it to collapse. They were very fragile, so a simple bump or one bullet from a rifle should take them out. You could be alert of their location by their low pitched sound they emit.

In addition to that, blue bucket snowmen could also try to swarm, so make sure you are prepared or in a car if they try to do that.

Red bucket snowmen cannot kill you directly, but if you rammed into one of them at a high speed with your vehicle, it could result in death.

## Facts

* Snowmen were the first AI added to the game.

* There was a mod that replaced all red bucket snowmen with blue bucket ones.

* There are mods that brought back the snowmen into the modern versions.

* You could collect paddles and severed arms from dead snowmen.