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Minecraft Live 2022's Mob Vote Winner, the Sniffer, is coming to Minecraft as part of update 1.20 and is now available in Java snapshot and as an experimental feature in Bedrock! 

The Sniffer is an ancient being, found in eggs unearthed from suspicious sand. Once hatched, they can help you search for seeds of ancient plants such as the Torchflower, which can add some prehistoric panache to your world!

There's still plenty of work to be done on developing the Sniffer, so your amazing feedback will be crucial in helping us iterate over the coming weeks. As well as your general thoughts and feedback on the Sniffer, we've also prepared a few questions:

  • Does the time it takes for a Sniffer to dig up seeds feel reasonable?
  • Does it feel like the Sniffer is searching for seeds?
  • Do the growth mechanics for the Torchflower feel intuitive?
  • How do you feel about the speed at which the Sniffer moves through the world?

Let us know what you think in the comments! 

How to test new Minecraft Features: 
https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/testing-new-minecraft-features

Latest Changelogs:

You can find all previous changelogs in the Knowledge Base in the "Beta Information and Changelogs" category.

 

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    Sobre el rastreador poco útil y muy difícil de conseguir.

    Estaba jugando Minecraft con un compañero de mi trabajo y como mayor mente juego en el celular le pregunto que utilidad tiene el rastreador y me dijo que solo extrae semillas y que también es difícil de conseguir y la verdad nose porque agregan un mod si es poco útil . para estarlo buscando, es decir es tan difícil de conseguir en supervivencia y muy poco util nose si mas adelante talves agregen algo mas, lo que quiero decir porque no pusieron esta criatura como todas las demas que te aparescan en un bioma en especifico, la verdad no sirve de mucho como para querer buscar en las profundidades y tengo una idea o bueno un concepto para que sea mas util y valga la pena querer encontrarlo

    Dado que es una criatura tan grande deberíarian agragarle una montadura pero!!! con pistones y bloques de cuerno, es decir que cuando se le ponga la montadura con todo lo demas incluido, tenga la capacidad de tumbar bloques, esto de que servira
    1-nos serviria para poder tumbar barios arboles y recojer muchos recursos ( cuando de un golpe al arbol no solo tumbara el tronco si no todo el arbol)
    2-nos serviria para abrirnos pasos hacia las minas por que la verdad es muy tedioso estar picando y solo encontrar piedra alrededor, igual remplasaria el uso de usar TNT (que solo te funciona una vez)
    3-servira para romper fortalesas enemigas, el bloque de cuerno junto con el pistón no tiene mucha funcionalidad en si misma,

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    I would love to have sniffer only to hatch on the moss block. It would engage people to look for it and also it would prevent normal sniffer egg to hatch so it could be used as decoration - same mechanic as turtle eggs on sand!

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    The sniffer needs more ancient plants to dig up: maybe an Apple Sapling.

    This would grow into a tree with an oak trunk and a crown of oak leaves mixed with fruiting leaves (a new block). The fruiting leaves would slowly flush with apples, which could be right clicked to remove, or left on the tree for decoration. Fruiting leaves would just drop apples when broken or de-spawned, so the only way to obtain more saplings would be from the sniffer.

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    The Sniffer needs more plants to sniff up: how about Coral Larvae. 

    This would be a stony, fossilized item which when right-clicked in water would release a bunch of particles which would sink to the ocean floor or river bed. Over time, a single coral formation would grow there, block by block.

    This would give us renewable coral and make conduits more useful for tending our underwater, renewable coral farms!

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    The sniffer needs more plants to dig up: How about a Sun-Vine.

    This would be a sapling which could be planted alongside 8 other saplings to produce truly giant versions of those trees: for instance 1 Sun-Vine sapling and 8 oak saplings would grow a huge oak tree with a 3 by 3 trunk. The same could be done with dark oak or jungle, etc. Some of the logs in the trunk would be replaced with a new log type, Sun wood, which would spiral up the trunk, dotted with single blocks of leaves. Sun wood could be an opportunity for a new wood family, or it could just break down into string, since it is a fibrous vine and its real effect is to produce epic, giant trees. 

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    Torchflowers should be able to glow. Right now they don't reallly do anything!!!!

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    Semi-related, I think the pitcher plants could be more unique in conjunction with the fireflies which were sadly not added. Maybe they could consume the fireflies and output bonemeal or some other related item. Also, of course, the Sniffer should be able to find more types of flowers than just two, and they should all be interesting; they don't have to be 'useful', just interesting.

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    Wow, this mob is so incredibly useless.

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    Aside from adding more flowers for the sniffer to discover (esp with the new update, even one flower is okay), please revamp torchflowers. If you can't really make them emit light when grown, at least give them this chance. I think having a crafting recipe which include utilizing the glowstone dust will introduce a "lit" variant just like the new flower, eyeblossoms that have two of its kind. This also give new use to the glowstone dust. 

    Other recipe can be: torchflower + froglight/glow berry/magma cream

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    Sniffers need more health, they're bigger than ravagers but have as much health as a vex or axolotl. I think 100 health is a good amount

    As for the theory that they went extinct because they had low health, argentinosaurus are extinct. I don't think high health protected them from the six-mile-wide meteor that landed in Mexico and set the western hemisphere on fire. Sniffers prob went extinct the same way, so 14 health makes no sense, even lorewise, especially bc they fought off an alien invasion from the allays which have 20 health and the guardians with 30 health and the elder guardians with 80 and also the rascals because the mob vote has lore - anyway, plz fix this

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    Mojang, if you see this, sniffers should find more plants.

    White Pumpkin
    White pumpkins could be found in the Pale Garden.

    Rice
    Rice could be grown like wheat. You could eat it in a bowl or turn it into sushi using raw fish and cooked kelp. A rice bowl restores a lot of hunger. Sushi restores one hunger point and restores one full heart. You could have 8 sushi in a stack.

    Pansy
    The pansy would be a yellow and purple flower. It could be brewed to make a Potion of Aptitude which increases the amount of XP you earn.

    Lemons
    You could grow lemon trees and harvest lemons. Lemons could be used to make lemonade. You would need to drink the lemonade twice. Drinking it once would clear your effects and it would infuse any effects you had into the lemonade. It would also save the remaining time. Drinking it again would give you the effects.

    Corn
    Corn would grow like sugar cane, but on dirt instead of sand. This would let you make automated corn farms. You could make corn bread which is crafted identical to bread, but with three corn instead of three wheat. It would restore equal or more hunger points. You could also make popcorn by cooking corn on a campfire or in a furnace.

    Garlic
    Garlic could be used to make garlic bread which would keep phantoms away from you.

    Venus Flytrap
    You could put it into a pot and keep it tiny, or you could plant it in the dirt and use bonemeal to make it grow big quickly. It will eat creepers. After 5-12 days, it will spit out the gunpowder.