Snowfolk

A snowman (ゆきだるま, Yukidaruma) is a special visitor that must be built. During the winter season, two or three snowballs appear randomly throughout town daily. The snowballs are usually in different locations around the town. They have to be the right size to please the Snowman you create; the smaller snowball (for the head) should be roughly 3/4 as big as the larger snowball. The snowballs do not need to be huge, just properly proportioned. A good strategy is to make the body the size of the player and the head about the size of up to the players nose.

Snowballs increase in size when being pushed through the snow and 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 or axe, falls into a hole, or gets dropped into the river, ocean, or pond, it will be lost. A new snowball will be randomly generated when you enter and leave a building, so you can 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 state if the job was perfect, good, average, or poor. 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 its life like,"I just want to make one light shine before I melt away, oh woe is me."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. This does not effect receiving furniture.

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.