Minecraft wiki entry for Snow, associated text: In Bedrock Edition, using a shovel on snow (left or right click) yields 1-4 snowballs. 4 snow balls can be crafted into a full snow block, which can in turn be crafted into snow layers (3 full snow blocks = 6 snow layers). Snow layers cannot be "mined" with silk touch. Silk touch has no effect on the number of snow balls acquired when using a shovel. The number of snow balls acquired is as follows: 1 snow ball for snow layers 0-2, 2 snow balls for snow layers 3-4, 3 snow balls for snow layers 5-6 and 4 snow balls for snow layer 7 and full snow blocks.