Snowball



Snowballs were projectiles used during two different Christmas events, the 2006 Christmas event and the 2007 Christmas Event. Neither type of snowballs are currently tradeable.

2006 Christmas snowballs
A user could get as many snowballs as he/she wanted during this event, but once they left Karamja, the area of the event, the snowballs disappeared. This caused them to be both discontinued and extinct after the 2006 Christmas event ended.

However, snowballs could only be used against a gublinch, and it would unequip the snowballs if you tried to attack anything else.

Snowballs could be retained after completing the event, by dropping them before filling the last cage and picking up after claiming the reward. They had no further use and melted sometime between 25 January 2007 and 16 February 2007.

2007 Christmas snowballs


Snowballs made their return as a different item during the 2007 Christmas event to make snowmen, and are also spawned from a snow globe. Snowballs are classed as a fun weapon at the Duel Arena, since they can be pelted on other players, doing no damage.

When seen in the combat bar on the inventory it is classified as a ranged object, however they cannot be used to attack non-player characters. Also, pelting other players does not yield any Ranged experience.

Players could keep these snowballs after the 2007 Christmas event, and even gain more by shaking their snowglobe.

Glitch
Along with the 1 July 2008 graphical updates the snowball was affected. If you had the snowball in your hand and went into HD the snowball would be larger than normal, away from your hand, and have a hole in the middle.

This glitch has been fixed.

Sometimes if wielded upon death, the option to pelt player would still appear even after the snowball wasn't equipped.

Trivia
If one were to lean on the balconies at the Duel Arena, the ones stationed above the fights, and then tossed a snowball at anyone in the stand, a humorous glitch would occur.
 * When you drop the 2007 snowball, it appears bigger than when you wield it.
 * Many people banked thousands of these snowballs because many thought that the snowballs would not remain after Christmas, causing many users to be stuck with hundreds of unnotable, hard to get rid of snowballs. This was of course prior to their discovery of the snowglobes acquired from the Christmas event, which when shaken would fill the player's inventory with snowballs, even after the Christmas event.
 * If you were to throw a snowball at someone in front of you, but when you throw and they moved quickly, your snowball will "home" in on them. This is very hard to pull off, however.