Snow Minion

Snow Minions are a type of Minion that produce and collect Snow. They are a SWEET! reward from opening Gifts. Like Flower Minions, Snow Minions do not have a Collection and thus cannot be crafted.

Obtaining
Snow Minions are obtained from opening Gifts. The chance of obtaining a Snow Minion for each type of Gift is listed below. If all 20 White Gifts are collected from the Winter Island along with the Green Gift given by St. Jerry, then opening all 21 gifts results in a chance to get at least one Snow Minion.

Usage

 * Although Snow Minions are the fastest non tier-11 minion in Hypixel SkyBlock, they are just used as a method of skill xp.
 * It is not recommended to use snow minions for Coins like Clay Minions, but they have the capability to generate a little more coins.
 * If the player uses an Enchanted Lava Bucket, a Diamond Spreading, and a Compactor or Super Compactor 3000 then it will generate 2,492 coins every hour when sold to NPC and quite a bit more (unless a Super Compactor 3000 is used) to the Bazaar.
 * Diamond Spreadings pair extremely well with the snow minion, providing a still subpar money method as diamonds can be sold to the bazaar or NPC.
 * Use a medium or large minion storage as this minion fills up much faster than clay minions, even with a Super Compactor 3000.
 * Players who don't check the minion often enough should consider using budget hoppers or enchanted hoppers since they automatically sell extra minion outputs for a portion of the NPC sell price (50% for budget, 90% for enchanted).

Super Compactor vs Compactor

 * When sold to the Bazaar, normal snow blocks will sell for more than Enchanted Snow Blocks when comparing their price per snowball, meaning if each snow block sells for and each enchanted snow block sells for  (these values can very well change), each snowball will cost  if selling snow blocks but costs <1 coin if selling enchanted snow blocks.
 * However, using Super Compactors will allow the minion to fill up much slower, as using Compactors overnight will often result in a full minion by morning. Also, if a super compactor is used, remember to take out only the enchanted snow and NOT the snowballs; otherwise, the player's inventory will fill up very fast.
 * Snow minions are incredibly cheap to upgrade, costing only 2 stacks of enchanted snow blocks for the final upgrade, and one costs a mere 150k coins to upgrade from tier 1 to tier 11.
 * Snow minions can also be a good source of Mining XP to level up the Mining Skill. 64 enchanted snow blocks provide around 7,000 Mining XP and therefore are considered one of the best ways to gather large quantities of it.
 * When selling snow and diamonds, make sure to sell the diamonds to a Merchant as diamonds often goes for very little in the Bazaar. As for snow, if enchanted snow sells for more than 600 coins (currently: ) and if normal snow sells for more than 4 coins (currently: ) in the Bazaar, sell it there. Otherwise, sell the snow in NPC too.

Tips

 * The Snow Minion is the minion that gives the second most Mining XP behind ice, which was really useful since manually grinding mining without Mineral Armor or have Cole as mayor with 1.5x Mining XP on public islands used to be extremely inefficient. With the introduction of dwarven mines, mining XP is much easier to grind, making snow minion not as important.
 * The trade price for a snow minion is usually around 1m for a t11, but it's often quite popular due to the very inexpensive cost of upgrading from T1 to T11 and the high market value for T11 snow minions.
 * Before the Bazaar Update, this was the best minion for money, as everyone just sold the minion's products to NPCs. However, since the Bazaar Update, a lot of minions, especially Slayer Minions and minions which produce items in high demand, are consistently over twice as good as snow in terms of profitability.
 * Due to how fast the Snow Minion's action time is, a Snow Minion with a Diamond Spreading produces more diamonds than a Diamond Minion.
 * Since it is not crafted with a pickaxe, this minion does not get affected by the 25% mining minion speed buff from mayor Cole.
 * 992 snow blocks and 248 enchanted snow blocks are needed to upgrade this minion from Tier 1 to Tier 11.
 * Using a tier 11 snow minion with a Super Compactor 3000, Enchanted Lava Bucket, and Diamond Spreading, the snow minion generates around 60,000 coins per day.
 * Since it is a very good source of Mining Experience, it is recommended to have a partial Snow Minion setup if the player does not want to mine manually.