Making Golems in Minecraft

Minecraft Golems can help you attack and defend against enemies. There are two types: Snow Golems and Iron Golems.

Tether and Lead

Golems tend to just wander around. To keep them nearby you can either lead them around with a lead, tether them to a post with a lead or even block them in with a fence.

* Be careful about putting them next to each other as the Iron Golem can hit anything nearby and will kill your Snow Golems with 1 hit. It is better to keep them away from each other.

Crafting

4 Snowballs = 1 Block of Snow
9 Iron Ingots = 1 Iron Block

Snow Golem

Facts about Snow Golems

Create by stacking 2 Snow Blocks with 1 Pumpkin on top
Will drop a few Snowballs when destroyed
Leaves a trail of snow wherever it walks which can then be harvested for more snowballs
Attacks enemies by throwing snowballs but this does not do any damage to them (except for Blazes but Snow Golems don't do well in the Nether), they mostly distract the monsters so you can attack and kill them
Will be damaged by water, rain quickly kills it
Take damage in hot biomes such as Deserts, Savannah, Jungles and Mesas
Won't attack Creepers or hostile Wolves

Iron Golem

Facts about Iron Golems

Create by stacking 2 Iron Blocks and putting 1 Iron Block on either side of the top Iron Block, top it with a Pumpkin (made with a total of 4 Iron Blocks and 1 Pumpkin)
Will only drop a few Iron Ingots and Poppies when killed
Can appear naturally in Villages and will protect the Villagers, will stay near a village if natural spawned there or if you created one there
Naturally occurring Iron Golems will attack you if you attack them
Attacks by swinging their arms and hitting enemies
Won't attack Creepers
Can pick up, and will give, Poppies to Villagers