==Gathering==
Snowballs can be found in [[Winter]] by right-clicking a ground tile and clicking '''Collect snow'''. Snow starts becoming available on tiles approximately 21 hours after the beginning of Winter. After snowballs are collected from a tile, they will be replenished periodically throughout Winter. The number of snowballs you can gather from a tile depends on the type of tile:* '''1''': [[Stone slabs]], [[Slate slabs]], [[Sandstone slabs]], [[Marble slabs]], [[Lawn]], [[Steppe tile|Steppe]], [[Tundra]], [[grass|Short grass]] and [[tree|trees/bushes]] with short grass.* '''2''': [[grass|Medium grass]], [[tree|trees/bushes]] with medium grass.* '''3''': [[grass|Tall grass]], [[tree|trees/bushes]] with tall grass.* '''4''': [[grass|Wild grass]].The tiles must not be within a building. Snowballs can also be found year-round by collecting from [[Snow pile]] [[Resource nodes]]. Snowball item count from snow pile nodes is significantly increased in winter, however. For instance, [[Snow pile]]s below the snow line will yield 8 snowballs instead of 4. The resource node is also much more often encountered in Winter.
The [[quality]] of a snowball is random, with a maximum of 99.00. Average quality is determined by how many snowballs can be collected on the tile, and how many have already been collected in that action. When gathering multiple snowballs from the same tile or [[Snow pile]], they will decrease slightly in quality with each successive snowball you gather. Tiles producing only 1 snowball are likely to produce one at maximum quality.