Eat THE Ice Cream Snowballs, Cannons & Social Badges

Snow toys are the social layer of Eat THE Ice Cream. They do not open the front door, but they unlock four badges that completionists chase on peak-hour lobbies: Snowball Fight, Oops!, SNOW CANNON, and SNOW SNIPER. This guide explains each requirement, when to farm them, how they sit on the tools tier list, and how to stay polite in 16-player servers while someone else is mid-Speedrunner attempt.

If you are still learning the mountain loop, finish Getting Started first. Snowballs are flavor on top of bites, cash, and the house key — never a substitute for the Scooper path.

Badge requirements at a glance

Badge	Requirement	Best context
Snowball Fight	Hit another player with a snowball	Busy lobby, friendly chat
Oops!	Hit yourself with a snowball	Solo or empty pocket
SNOW CANNON	Land 15 snow-cannon hits on the mountain	Any server; aim at ice cream
SNOW SNIPER	Land 10 snow-cannon hits on players	Peak CCU; ask first

Full checklist context lives on the Badges page. Treat this article as the playbook for the snow row only.

Video guide

Snowball Fight — your first social hit

Equip a basic snowball (shop or event toy — exact stock rotates with patches) and throw it so it registers on another avatar. One clean hit unlocks Snowball Fight. Tips that save time:

1. Stand close enough that latency does not eat the projectile
2. Aim at a standing player, not someone mid-teleport or sitting in a UI
3. Call “snowball badge?” in chat if the lobby feels sweaty — most players will stand still for one hit
4. Do not farm this during a friend’s sub-15 Speedrunner clock

Snowball Fight is intentionally easy. It exists to teach the throw input before the cannon badges demand accuracy volume.

Oops! — hit yourself on purpose

Oops! requires a self-hit. Throw into a wall, jump into your own arc, or use whatever self-collision the live build allows. New players sometimes think Oops! is a fail state; it is a designed badge. Clear it once in a quiet corner so you never confuse it with griefing later.

If self-hits feel inconsistent after a patch, recheck Updates — projectile physics occasionally change with event toys. Until then, assume the badge still tracks a registered self collision.

SNOW CANNON — 15 mountain hits

SNOW CANNON asks for fifteen successful snow-cannon impacts on the ice cream mountain. This is a volume badge, not a PvP badge. Strategy:

• Face a wide, unbroken mountain face so every shot can land
• Fire in controlled bursts; wasted air shots do not count
• Combine with normal dig sessions — cannon between bite cycles if the toy is hotbar-friendly
• Track progress mentally in sets of five so you do not overshoot into boredom

Because targets are environmental, you can finish SNOW CANNON in a low-population server. That makes it the safest cannon badge to clear before you bother anyone with sniper shots.

On the tools tier list, snow cannons rank as social / badge tools — not dig-speed kings. Do not sell your Scooper budget to max a cannon skin before Home Sweet Home.

SNOW SNIPER — 10 player hits

SNOW SNIPER needs ten snow-cannon hits on players. This is the badge that creates lobby drama if you spray silently. Best practices:

1. Announce you are sniper-farming badges
2. Ask for volunteers who will stand still for a few hits
3. Prefer friends or clanmates who already finished their door clear
4. Avoid Hard Mode queues — weather and helper bans already stress people; see Hard Mode
5. Stop the moment someone says they are on a timed run

Ten hits can be the same cooperative player hit ten times if the game counts repeats, or ten different avatars — verify on your badge counter as you go. Either way, consent keeps the server fun.

When snowballs fit your session plan

Session goal	Snowball priority
First Home Sweet Home	Ignore until door opens
Badge night with friends	Clear all four snow badges
Speedrunner practice	Disable toys; no distractions
Hard Mode candy farm	Optional; survival first
KABOOMS MASTER prep	Leave snow toys unequipped

Snow content is perfect “lobby filler” while waiting for Advent day resets or Santa gift respawns. It is terrible filler when your party is sealed for bomb-only Chapter 2.

Etiquette in 16-player servers

Eat THE Ice Cream caps at 16 players. That density makes snow fights funny — and makes collateral hits inevitable. Keep these norms:

• Never bury someone’s dig lane in cannon spam while they chase the key
• If you accidentally hit a Speedrunner, apologize once and switch targets
• Do not camp the front door with toys; that space is for Find the Key finishes
• Save chaotic fights for after multiple players already own Home Sweet Home

Creator group Ѣ designed these badges as cozy chaos, not ranked PvP. Play them that way.

Progression order we recommend

1. Unlock throw input → Snowball Fight
2. Self-hit → Oops!
3. Mountain volume → SNOW CANNON (15)
4. Consensual player volume → SNOW SNIPER (10)
5. Tick the snow row on Badges and move to gifts or Advent

This order minimizes social friction and teaches aim before you need player targets.

Common mistakes

• Thinking snow badges gate Home Sweet Home (they do not)
• Buying cosmetic cannon skins before spoon upgrades
• Farming SNOW SNIPER in Hard Mode whiteouts
• Confusing mountain hits with player hits for the wrong badge
• Using executors from the Scripts hub to fake hits — ban risk, and challenge integrity suffers

Related guides

• Badges — full table including snow rows
• Tools tier list — where cannons rank vs Scooper
• Getting Started — when to ignore toys
• Hard Mode — why blizzard queues are bad sniper farms
• Speedrunner — do not grief timed door clears
• Santa Gifts — next social/loot badge chain
• Lucky Wheel — optional event spend after badges

Clear the snow set once on a friendly night, then put the toys away until the next badge patch. The mountain still wants bites more than it wants powder fights.