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Ice-olated Specimen aka "Snowmen" are objects found during at least two Limited Time Events, during which they have different functionality:

Ice-olated Specimen can be tapped with a Tapper and they produce Organic. It takes 20 seconds to produce an Organic.

Ice-olated Specimen during Project CHEER Delivery Event[]

Ice-olated Specimen during Project CHEER Delivery Event are white, and when dug up they spawn an Astral Figurine.

Ice-olated Specimen during Breakdown Event[]

Ice-olated Specimen during Breakdown Event grant various basic (not refined) LTE resources. Snowmen can be rarely found on surface, but are frequently found in the caves, mantle and outer core regions of every planet. The deeper regions having more of them, and different drops. Each snowman drops just a single random item. They can be reached a lot better whilst holding a digging tool.

Region Colour Size Examine text Drops
Caves Green-Blue About 2x player height ???

Common

Produces resource when tapped: Organic

Caves Purple-Blue About 3x player height ???

Common

Produces resource when tapped: Organic

Mantle, Outer Core Green-Blue About 2x player height Event item

Uproot this suspicous snow effigy to reveal an Astral Figurine. (this info most likely originates from the CHEER Delivery Event version, but is false for this version, as no Astral Figurine is revealed.)

Produces resource when tapped: Organic

Mantle Purple-Blue About 4x player height Event item

Uproot this suspicous snow effigy to reveal an Astral Figurine. (this info most likely originates from the CHEER Delivery Event version, but is false for this version, as no Astral Figurine is revealed.)

Produces resource when tapped: Organic

Outer Core Gold About 3x player height Event item

Uproot this suspicous snow effigy to reveal an Astral Figurine. (this info most likely originates from the CHEER Delivery Event version, but is false for this version, as no Astral Figurine is revealed.)

Produces resource when tapped: Organic

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