Snowball

Snowballs are a special weapon added in the v0.6.9 "" update on December 19th that replaced the 3 usual grenades until around December 25th. MIRV Grenades could still be found, but they were very rare, as they only appear in Barrel Caches and Airdrops. The snowballs deal a very tiny amount of damage (4). However, it makes up for it by having the ability of removing one item from an enemy's inventory for each hit and slowing them down for a few seconds. When other grenades were added they patched a bug where they may deal no damage.

How to Obtain
Snowballs are quite common on the Snow Map, and uncommon on the Autumn Map.
 * They spawn in snowball crates scattered all over the map. When broken, gives the player 12 snowballs.
 * Can be found in any other crate as well, but only gives 5.

Carrying Capacities

 * Pouch - 10 snowballs
 * Small Pack - 20 snowballs
 * Regular Pack - 30 snowballs
 * Military Pack - 40 snowballs

Tactics

 * They can be "Cooked" or charged to deal more damage and slow for a longer duration.
 * This weapon functions similar to grenades, meaning you can hold longer for a further throw. However, unlike grenades, you can hold a cooked snowball indefinitely.
 * Use this weapon to first take off an enemy's armor, ammo, medical supply, or even his weapon. This will weaken or completely unarmor your opponent, giving you a huge advantage.
 * Unless you are just messing around or the whole island is having a snowball fight, never use this as a damaging source, as it deals 4 damage, or 12 when cooked.
 * Remember that even though you can make the enemy lose many items, they can quickly pick them back up and resume fighting.
 * Because the snowball slows down an opponent, camping with a cooked snowball can be deadly when paired with melee weapons, especially the Katana. Just hide under a bush or tree and leave a snowball cooked. When someone passes by, throw the snowball, then switch to your melee weapon. If they walk out of range, you can just switch to a gun.
 * Abuse the fast-switch tactic to throw upto 10 snowballs at once (during close combat) to remove the items from a player. Remember, you can clear up all the items (except throw-able items) with 16 snowballs.
 * Using the fast switch tactic and Melee at the same time causes the opponent to instantly die because the slow-down. There is no strategy to defeat this move except to have a better Melee weapon.

Trivia

 * This is the first item that replaced every other item in its category for a time (grenades).
 * It has the second lowest damage out of all weapons, only next to the flare gun that does no damage.
 * It is the only item that can forcefully remove another player's items without killing them.