Perfect Snowman criteria is annoying

[Imbri]

Not my favorite. And complaining I didn't make it perfectly? I gave you life! I could easily put a bonfire next to you, you overgrown snowball.

 

[user1234]

The key to get it to work for me was to make sure the base snowball is very close to the end of the path. If your smaller snowball goes off the path at all, it won't be the correct size!

 

[Fantasyland]

I don't find their disappointment in my failure to make them perfect condescending, I find it fair. I am a dumb baby who can't figure it out, and I've been time travelling like mad. I've easily made 30 snowmen, and 20 of them were "90%". I don't understand how I can continuously get so close but never even ONCE succeed. Alas. Back to it!

 

[John Wick]

Criteria?

I just roll them until they look right, and I've never messed up.

Just finished my 30th perfect snowman.

 

[Mr.Fox]

I'm sure people are frustrated so I don't mean this to come across as bragging, but I have yet to make one that wasn't perfect. I read somewhere that the top of the snowball for the body of the snowman should be even with the top of your villagers eye when standing next to it, and the top of the snowball for the head should line up with the bottom of your villagers ear when standing next to it.
This method hasn't steered me wrong so far.

 

[iamjohnporter67]

All you need to do is build a Large Snowball for the Body and a Medium size Snowball for the head. I know it took me 10 attempts but I was able to make the perfect Snowboy. I practiced more and more and I got better at it.

 

[Foreverfox]

Yes! I accidentally put the body on the head and the snowboy called me ridiculous. It was a bit much. And I made it right in front of my house, so I am stuck looking at this silly upside snowboy for days. Sometimes when I try to put it together nothing happens. It looks right, but nothing happens when I try to put the two parts together. I have no idea what I am doing wrong, but this process is not my favorite part of the game!

My husband did that today and the snowboy said something along that line as well!

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I've only made two so far, but I'm already annoyed with how hard it is! I'm probably just going to try to buy the DIYs from people who get multiples.

 

[tajikey]

I'm 3 for 3 so far. It doesn't seem terribly difficult, honestly. Roll the bottom ball until it's as large as possible, then roll the top ball until it's slightly smaller than that. Stack um and celebrate.

My husband did that today and the snowboy said something along that line as well!

I've only made two so far, but I'm already annoyed with how hard it is! I'm probably just going to try to buy the DIYs from people who get multiples.

You can't get multiples from the Snowboys. He sends them directly to your Nookphone.

 

[Fye]

I've been using the method that people in the SH posted a few months ago - where you roll the snowball for the body until it's as big as it can be, then roll the smaller snowball until it's just above your character's mouth and stack them. It's worked fine for me but I don't know how we'd be expected to make perfect snowmen without a guide, especially young children. I agree that they could have left more leeway.

 

[BungoTheElf]

Is it really that hard? Or maybe I have a snowboy making gift because I've been making a bunch of snowboys and time-traveling a bunch and out of all of them only the second one I made was wrong and I'm pretty sure I've made at least 10 :0 (I will agree the dialogue was annoying though I was like wtf when he said he wasn't perfect and didn't gimme a snowflake) I think once you've made a perfect one it's pretty easy to get down though, I like to look back at my perfect ones for size reference for the head since you can just make the bodies the biggest as possible!

I'm a little sad that they don't have the little snowtykes and other snow family members anymore though they were cute :[

 

[Foreverfox]

I'm 3 for 3 so far. It doesn't seem terribly difficult, honestly. Roll the bottom ball until it's as large as possible, then roll the top ball until it's slightly smaller than that. Stack um and celebrate.


You can't get multiples from the Snowboys. He sends them directly to your Nookphone.

Oh noo! Gahh. Okay, game on, snowboy!

 

[Snowifer]

Maybe because I played NL, but I didn't struggle with making perfect snowmen. I've had a few that were close, but I'm more often making perfect ones than not.

One tip: make sure your snowball is the right shape when they are right next to each other. If you make them far apart, you can accidentally make the head too big by the time you roll it onto the body.

 

[Cadbberry]

I had no troubles with my snowboys either honestly, so far only receiving perfects. I just kinda go until they look like they would make a good
snow man!

 

[Jas]

i have a lot of practice making snowpeople from wild world and new leaf, so i just make the snowballs into sizes that Look right to me? i kind of like this process - not too easy that it's boring - but i can see how it could be really difficult!

i try to get the two snowballs in the same area, and you can roll them on any non-snowy surface to make them smaller if they accidentally get too big. the reference pictures someone posted of the snowballs next to the person might help!

 

[Sansy]

Once I watched a few Youtube tutorials on how to make a perfect Snowboy, I've been able to get it right. I don't like that's it's one shot per day and there's 0 other ways to get the recipes other than building the perfect Snowboys.

But I do think it's loads better than New Leaf with crafting all the different types of the snow family all with different criteria. I actually never bothered doing any of the snowman stuff in New Leaf because of that.

 

[Bugs]

I've been doing the method where you roll up two balls to the maximum and then roll one of them down a path 10 tiles down onto the body and that seems to work every time for me

 

[J087]

Roll both to their maximum size. That means giving it 13 kicks and rolling it for atleast 40 seconds without stopping. Roll a little extra if you are unsure. The balls should now be the same height af your character.

Place a dirt path between them that's 10 squares long and 2 squares wide. Place a ball on each end. Roll the ball that's going to be the head over said path and push them together. Works everytime for me.

Just make sure the snowman has room to spawn or you can't push the balls together.

 

[Korichi]

It’s not just annoying, it’s absolutely and utterly infuriating. I’ve been making imperfect snowboys for ten times now and I’ve spent an entire hour and a half making them. I know the exact proportions, but if you’re even a fraction off then that’s apparently not good enough. And don’t get me started on how time consuming it is running around your entire island every time trying to find the snowballs.

 

[Mick]

I had to give it a few attempts on day one, but the last three days have been first try. I make smaller snowboys because I can't be bothered to roll two snowballs around that long, I just go for the minimum size and line it up until it looks about right, so far it seems to be working well enough...

 

[Pop-tart]

Yeah I really cbf with the perfect snowmen. I find rolling snowballs around for ages really boring so I just gave up