Snow biome

See also: Underground Snow

This article is about the snow-themed biome. For the block, see Snow Block. For the weather event, see Rain.

The Snow biome is a biome that takes on an arctic theme, being primarily composed of Snow and Ice Blocks, and displaying a constant snowfall effect. Trees within Snow biomes have a snowy cover on them, and yield Boreal Wood instead of ordinary Wood. During rain, a Snow biome will undergo a blizzard instead, where snowfall increases, causing decreased visibility, and unique enemies to be able to spawn. Some NPCs will sell different items when situated in a Snow biome, including the Merchant, Painter, and Clothier.

On the  Windows Phone version and Nintendo 3DS version, normal sized worlds only have a 1/3 chance of containing a Snow biome.

At Cavern depths, each Snow biome becomes an Underground Snow Biome. The Underground Snow biome will revert to normal Caverns shortly above the Underworld.

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Characters

During the day:

• ​Ice Slime

During the night:

• ​Zombie Eskimo

During a Blood Moon:

• ​Corrupt Penguin(Corruption only)
• ​Vicious Penguin(Crimson only)

During Hardmode at night:

• ​Ice Elemental
• ​Wolf

During Hardmode Blizzards:

• ​Ice Golem

Critters:

• ​Penguin

Unique Drops

From Zombie Eskimos:

• ​Eskimo armor

From Ice Golems:

• ​Ice Feather
• ​Frost Core
• ​Frost Staff

From Ice Elementals:

• ​Frost Staff
• ​Ice Sickle

From any enemy in Hardmode:

• ​Amarok(1/300 chance)
• ​Frozen Key(from any enemy, 1/2500 chance)
• ​Frozen Key Mold(from any enemy, 1/2500 chance)

From terrain:

• ​Snow Block
• ​Ice Block
• ​Purple Ice Block(Corruption)
• ​Red Ice Block(Crimson)
• ​Pink Ice Block(Hallow)

From vegetation:

• ​Boreal Wood
• ​Shiverthorn
• ​Shiverthorn Seeds

From fishing:

• ​Atlantic Cod
• ​Frost Minnow
• ​Frost Daggerfish

For Sale

From Merchant:

• ​Marshmallow

From Clothier:

• ​Beanie

From Painter:

• ​Cold Waters in the White Land

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Notes

• Player-created Snow biomes are possible by placing more than 300 Snow Blocks and/or Ice Blocks in an area.
• Water does not turn into ice blocks in a Snow biome. Ice blocks are generated only on world creation.
• Snow biomes are somewhat immune to surface Hallow and Corruption/Crimson spread, since snow blocks cannot be transformed. However, Ice Blocks are affected and will be transformed into Pink Ice Blocks (Hallow), Purple Ice Blocks (Corruption) and Red Ice Blocks (Crimson), which mostly affects the Underground Snow.
• Grass will not grow on Dirt Blocks in a Snow biome.
• From surface to underground, the snow biome will always generate in a shape similar to a trapezoid.
• The Snow biome will always be located on the opposite side of the world as the Jungle. However, unlike the Jungle, it can be located very close to (or at) spawn.

Trivia

• It is referred to as "Tundra" by the Angler.
• The Snow Biome is the only Biome that is required to craft an item, which is the Snow Cloud.
• The Angler will still display quests for the Mutant Flinxfin, Pengfish, and Tundra Trout in the mobile version even if the world doesn't contain a Snow biome.

History

 PC version

• Desktop 1.3.0.1:
  • Snow no longer falls in front of blocks.
  • Added the Vicious Penguin.
  • Enemies now drop Frozen Keys instead of Frozen Key Molds, however the Frozen Chest in the Dungeon cannot be unlocked until Plantera is defeated.

• Desktop 1.2.4:
  • Snow trees now drop Boreal Wood.
  • Added Shiverthorn, Atlantic Cod and Frost Minnow.

• Desktop 1.2.1: Enemies within the Snow biome no longer drop Frozen Keys, instead they now drop Frozen Key Molds which can be crafted into Frozen Keys.

• Desktop 1.2.0.3.1: Fixed random crashing when in a snow biome in multiplayer.

• Desktop 1.2.0.3: Snow particles will no longer spawn on backwalls.

• Desktop 1.2:
  • Now generates in all worlds (instead of 1/3 of worlds not generated during the Christmas season, and all worlds generated during the Christmas season).
  • Blizzard event.
  • New background.
  • New theme music.
  • Some vendor NPCs sell specific items from within the Snow Biome:
    • New NPC Painter sells Cold Waters in the White Land.
    • Clothier now sells Beanie.
    • Merchant now sells Marshmallow which can be crafted into Marshmallow on a Stick.
  • Unique enemies added (Penguin, Corrupt Penguin, Ice Elemental, Ice Golem, Ice Slime, Wolf, Zombie Eskimo).
  • Underground Snow biome added.
  • Snowy trees now drop acorns.
  • Ice Blocks added.
  • Can now be corrupted/hallowed (creating Purple, Red, and Pink Ice Blocks).
  • Enemies within the Hardmode Snow biome now drop Frozen Keys which can be used to unlock the Frozen Chest in the Dungeon.

• Desktop 1.1.1: Introduced with Snow Blocks.