Snow Minion

Snow Minions are a type of Minion that produce, and collect Snow. They are a rare drop displayed as a SWEET! reward obtained from opening Gifts from the Jerry's Workshop event from presents, with around a chance from White Gifts and Green Gifts or a  chance from Red Gifts. If all 20 White Gifts are found along with the Green Gift given by St. Jerry there is an 11.2% chance of getting a Snow Minion. Like Flower Minions, Snow Minions do not have a collection and, thus, cannot be crafted.

Usage
Although Snow Minions are the fastest non t11 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 you use an Enchanted Lava Bucket, a Diamond Spreading, and a Compactor or Super Compactor 3000 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 are especially important for the snow minion because instead of producing 1 extra Diamond occasionally, it will produce 4, providing a still subpar money method as diamonds can be sold to the bazaar or NPC for coins. Use medium or large minion storage as this minion fills up much faster than clay minions, even with a Super Compactor 3000. If you don't check the minion often enough consider using budget hoppers or enchanted hoppers which automatically sell extra minion outputs for a part 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 you decide to use Super Compactor, remember to only take out the enchanted snow and NOT the snowballs, otherwise your 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 170k 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 diamond often goes for very little in the Bazaar. As for snow, if enchanted snow sell 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 Exp on public islands used to be extremely inefficient. With the introduction of dwarven mines, mining exp 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, will consistently over twice as good money-wise than snow.
 * Due to how fast the snow minion's action time is, it is considered 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.
 * There is 992 snow blocks and 248 enchanted snow blocks 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 you do not want to mine manually.