Unfortunately, the frozen friends don’t tell you what that ratio is, but you can build the perfect Snowboy following a simple procedure.

How to Build a Perfect Snowboy in Animal Crossing: New Horizons

Whether your Snowboy ends up being perfect or not, the process for building one is basically the same. Follow the below procedure to succeed every time.

What Makes a Perfect Snowboy?

Based on studying a variety of techniques (including the one above), what makes a Snowboy ‘perfect’ has to do with the distance you roll the body vs. how far you roll the head. Generally, it appears that you succeed at building when you’ve rolled the body between two and three times as far as the head. Based on this info, you can adapt this process to produce Snowboys in a variety of sizes. To do so, either add more items to the line on the ground, or roll the snowballs back and forth more times. Also, if your snowballs show up in a spot that doesn’t have as much room for rolling, you can use a combination of fewer items and more rolls to make the most of the space you have. As long as you maintain the ratio, you’ll get a perfect Snowboy every time.

Why Build a Perfect Snowboy?

Along with not having imperfect Snowboys remind you of their lesser quality every day until they melt, building the perfect one comes with benefits. Perfect Snowboys provide you a recipe from the ‘Frozen’ series, and they give you the large snowflakes you need to build most of them. You can collect a large snowflake as long as the Snowboy is around (four days), so be sure to check back with them every day so you can make everything possible.

What’s in the Frozen Series?

Gathering and building the winter-themed Frozen series is the ultimate point of building perfect Snowboys. Here are all of the available items, decorations, flooring, and wallpaper you can make during the winter and what you’ll need to make them. Along with the large snowflakes you get from your creations, you’ll also need regular snowflakes, which you can find floating around outside and catch with your net.