
Snowball and Egg Knockback
Returns the snowball and egg knockback mechanics of old Minecraft, for fun! Inspired by HalfloveJAR's original 2016 plugin.
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Snowball Damage
Snowball Damage is an extremely lightweight Minecraft plugin that allows you to modify the damage dealt by snowballs and eggs to any entity. If y'all are old enough, you should remember when snowballs could do 0 damage but still affect players with knockback, which was especially used on minigames like Skywars. This was removed in 1.9 Minecraft.
This project is forked from halfloveJAR full credit to them for the original work. I've made my own additions I wanted to add, and optimized their code.
Features
- Configurable damage
- Works with Snow Golem snowballs
- Option to restore vanilla knockback mechanics for eggs & snowballs
Configuration
A default configuration file looks like this:
http://pastebin.com/3fYh0gkq
Important Note
Whatever damage value you set in the config is divided by 2 in-game.
Example:
- Config value:
6 - In-game damage:
3 hearts
This follows Minecraft’s internal damage calculations.
Credits
- Original Plugin: halfloveJAR
Huge thanks to halfloveJAR for the base implementation.
License
Please respect the original license from halfloveJAR when redistributing or modifying this plugin.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.9, 1.9.1, 1.9.2
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as SnowballDamage-1.0.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 5 KB
- Download link checked 7 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.