The Sneaky Snowman consumable and its' snowballs do not work as intended

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Summary

As of a few updates ago, the snowballs created by the Sneaky Snowman no longer work as intended. They have odd physics applied to them now, damaging the ground they’re dropped on and glitching around rather than remaining stationary as they should, and they explode instantly when thrown while moving. They are also incredibly laggy while midair, and do not follow their intended trajectory. There is also a 40 second recharge on the Sneaky Snowman rather than the intended 10-15ish seconds.

Steps to Reproduce

-Equip the Sneaky Snowman consumable.
-Throw the Sneaky Snowman on the ground in front of you.
-Hit the Sneaky Snowman with your pickaxe.
-Pick up and drop the snowball a few times, throw it, etc. as you normally would.

Expected Result

The Snowball should behave as intended, and the cooldown on the Sneaky Snowman should be the usual ~10-15ish seconds it was before.

Observed Result

The Sneaky Snowmen have a 40 second cooldown, and the snowballs do not work as intended. They have odd physics applied to them, damaging the ground they’re dropped on, and glitching around rather than remaining stationary as they should. They also collide with your player and explode immediately when thrown while moving, and throw in a buggy, unpredictable manner.

Platform(s)

All platforms.

Additional Notes

Here is a video link showing off these problems.

One thing that DOES finally work as intended as of this glitch appearing, however, is that snowballs can now create a chain reaction, exploding each other once again as they used to - this functionality broke years ago, and we’re all glad it’s back. They can also be pickaxed or shot to explode once again which is great.

It would be awesome if the aforementioned bugs could be fixed before the Winterfest creator callout. Thank you so much in advance for your time!

UCB-1040 incident has been created. Status is ‘Awaiting Validation’.

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Any update on this?

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I’m coming back to say that this bug is still an issue, and has, in fact, only gotten worse since. The snowballs have one again lost the aforementioned features that I had said came back, and you can no longer even pick up a snowball without it immediately falling at your feet 90% of the time.

Additionally, other ice-granting items like the frozen ice cream cone, chiller grenades, and the Big Chill do not show their ice visual or audio effects when applied to players, and the sliding effect does not end until ice applied via something like a snowball or icy grappler replaces the effect.