Snowman

"Man, this freezing little town is just the pits... If only I'd been rolled up in some tropical paradise instead..."

- Snowman

During the winter time (December 1st to February 25th) 2-3 snowballs appear randomly everyday throughout the town. The player can use these to make a Snowman (ゆきだるま). The snowballs are usually in different locations, and they have to be the right size. A good strategy is to make the body the size of the player and the head about the size of up to the players head. In there are other snowmen and snowwomen to create.

Snowballs gain size when being pushed through the snow and slightly decrease in size when going over dirt or pavement. Initially, snowballs will be hard to push but once they get to a certain size they become more controllable. If a snowball falls off a cliff ledge, rams into a hillside, gets hit by a shovel, falls into a hole, or dropped into the river, the ocean or pond, it will be lost. A new snowball will be randomly generated when you enter and leave a building for you to try again.

When the snowballs look to be the right size, push the smaller one on top of the larger one by pushing them together. The snowman will tell you if you did a perfect job, a good job, an average job, or a poor job. The snowman's personality is determined by how it is made, for example if you do a poor job it will often say bad things about their life like, "I just want to make one light shine before I melt away, oh woe is me." However, if you did a perfect job, you will receive a snowman themed item from the Snowman series in the mail after the snowman melts away. The snowman will remain a few days and will shrink each day until he disappears. The snowman also asks you to build him a snow-lady. If you do or not, it does not affect whether you receive the furniture or not.

The snowman always knows what pieces you have and will never send you duplicates until you have every single piece in the series.

In, if a snowman is built anywhere on the pavement in front of the Town Gate, even out of the bus' path, the player will not be able to go to the city because the bus will not be able to stop citing snowstorms. If you build a snowman right next to an obstacle such as another snowman, a house, or a tree it may have moved when you next see it or possibly even disappear.

New Leaf
In New Leaf there is a whole snowman family to build, each with their own size range. If you fail to make one of the family members you will just create a regular snowman. Papa Snowman will give you a card which cannot be dropped or deleted until January. Each day you will recieve a tick on it.

Trivia

 * In Animal Crossing, the snowman speaks in Animalese, but in Wild World and City Folk, it speaks in Bebebease.