Usually, no: snow golem snowballs do not damage most mobs. They can still knock targets back and draw their attention. Blazes are a documented exception and take 3 HP per hit, according to the Minecraft Wiki’s snow golem tutorial.
What snow golem snowballs do
Against most mobs, a snowball from a snow golem deals no damage. Its practical effect is knockback: it can push a target away and help interrupt or redirect its approach. The Minecraft Wiki’s defense tutorial describes snowballs as pushing mobs back despite generally dealing no damage.
Which mobs can be hurt?
Blazes
Blazes are a documented exception. The Minecraft Wiki tutorial gives the damage as 3 HP per hit. That makes a snow golem potentially useful against blazes, but it does not make snow golems a dependable source of damage against mobs generally.
Wolves and other reported exceptions
A Minecraft Wiki entry on Fandom also mentions wolves as an exception, while the tutorials describe the blaze exception more simply. The available references do not resolve the discrepancy by edition or version, so do not assume the blaze-and-wolf list applies identically to every release.
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Yes, as a distraction and source of knockback rather than a general damage dealer. By drawing hostile mobs’ attention and nudging them away, a snow golem can delay or redirect an attack. Whether that is useful depends on the situation; its snowballs will not reliably reduce most mobs’ health.
This describes ordinary vanilla behavior at a broad level. The references do not provide a current, version-by-version Java and Bedrock comparison, so exact behavior should be checked against the edition and release you play. Custom projectiles or modified gameplay are outside this vanilla rule.
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