The Minecraft Sniffer is a passive mob that won the 2022 Mob Vote and was announced in Minecraft Live 2022 to be added to version 1.20. It “sniffs” the ground to find seeds of new decorative flowers added to version 1.20.
What Does a Sniffer Do?
The sniffer walks around and digs ancient seeds (a pitcher pod or torchflower seeds) out of coarse dirt, dirt, grass, mud, muddy mangrove roots, moss, podzol, or rooted dirt every 8 minutes.
Where to Find a Minecraft Sniffer
Sniffers don’t actually spawn in the world. The only way to have a sniffer in your world is to hatch a sniffer egg. You have a 1 in 15 chance to get a sniffer egg by brushing suspicious sand in warm ocean ruins.
This might sound low, but this is the chance of each suspicious sand block, not the entire warm ocean ruins.
How to Hatch a Sniffer Egg
To hatch a sniffer egg, place it on any block. It will take around 20 minutes to hatch (full day/night cycle).
Placing the egg on a moss block doubles the speed of this process (hatching in 10 minutes).
The hatching is a three stages process, each with its own visual representation.
The player must be within 128 blocks of an egg for it to hatch.
The Snifflet
After the sniffer egg has been in the last stage of cracking for a few minutes, a Snifflet hatches from it. The snifflet is the baby form of the sniffer, and it takes it 40 minutes to become a grown sniffer. This makes it the slowest growing mob in Minecraft.
How to Get the Flower Seeds From the Sniffer
As mentioned above, the sniffer walks around and digs out a pitcher pod or torchflower seeds every 8 minutes. To do that, the sniffer must be placed in an area of at least 6 by 6 blocks.
How to Make the Minecraft Sniffer Follow You
There are two ways to make the sniffer follow you. Just like cows, pigs, sheep, and other passive mobs, you can use a lead to move it around or hold its favorite food item: tourchflower seeds.
How to Breed the Sniffer
To breed two adult sniffers, feed each of them tourchflower seeds when they are within 16 blocks of each other. Then, they’ll enter ‘Love Mode’ and drop a sniffer egg as an item.
Feeding torchflower seeds to a sniffer also recovers two health points (1 full heart).
Finishing Thoughts
The Minecraft sniffer is a unique mob that features a whole new mechanic. The most exciting part about the sniffer is that its full potential is probably to be discovered by the community, yet.
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