Snowball

Detailed
Equipped

Typical

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Release

18 December 2006 (Update)

Disassembly

Yes

2006: Yes
2007: No
2009: No
2010: No

Unknown

Examine

Made from snow. / It's a ball of snow! Uncanny.

Snowballs were projectiles used during four different Christmas events, the 2006 Christmas event, 2007 Christmas event, 2009 Christmas event and the 2010 Christmas event. Neither type of snowballs are currently tradeable. If kept in a player's bank for too long, the snowballs will melt "because the weather got warmer".

2010 Christmas snowballs

The snowballs return again. but this time, they resemble the old 2007 snowball model. and starting with this years event, the Build option has been returned, for the first time in three years.

2009 Christmas snowballs

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A player making a snowball in the 2009 Christmas event.

Once again, snowball returned in the form of snow piles around the feast area in the Land of Snow. This time, the snowballs had no major involvement in the event, but were there simply for enjoyment. These snowballs could be taken out of the event, and were also bank-able. The snowballs melted on 19 January 2010 in players' bank accounts.

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The login message on 19th January 2010.

2007 Christmas snowballs

Pelt — Players can right-click other players to "pelt" them.

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.

2006 Christmas snowballs

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The result of pelting someone with a snowball when they are running.

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 could be banked, but had no further use and melted sometime between 25 January 2007 and 16 February 2007.

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.

Trivia

When you drop the 2007 snowball, it appears bigger than when you wield it.
Many people banked thousands of these snowballs because they thought that the snowballs would not remain after Christmas, causing these 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.
When you try to attack an NPC with a snowball, your chatbox will say "There would be no point in throwing a snowball at that".

If you die with a snowball wielded, you will still have the option to pelt but if you choose it nothing happens. The option disappears when you log out.
When you examine a Christmas Cupboard the text shows, "A portal to another world, or just a cupboard?" this could be a take from the Narnia film.
In the fourth room, if you pick up the "Snowmaker" and dont pick up the "Ice Skates," when you search the bag that you are given to you by "Thorgor Crittersmash," it tells you that you have the Ice Skates and no snowmaker until, of course, you pick up the "Ice Skates" as well.