[MC-4397] Armor Absorbs Snowball Damage

When a snowball is thrown at someone wearing armor will cause the armor to take damage and not the player.

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duplicates 1

MC-3179 Snowballs, Enderpearls and Eggs do not knockback players in multiplayer Resolved

Comments 4

James M. Welch 2012-12-10T05:29:07Z

Snowballs don't give any damage to players; only certain mobs like endermen or blazes are.

Ryan Madsen 2012-12-10T05:46:02Z

I believe this is an intended feature.

kumasasa 2012-12-10T06:52:43Z

Duplicate of MC-3179

Torabi 2013-01-04T16:00:02Z

But should snowballs cause damage to armor, when they don't do any damage to players? That's what it sounds like the report is saying, but I'm not sure that they do.