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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! 

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    Consider letting us ride the sniffers, it doesn't even have to be controllable or anything, just riding it would be great! And please have the torchflowers glow

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    Sniffer sometimes just lies down like a camel.

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    I feel that the Torchflower is counterintuitive, my first change would be the light, i think this plant should emmit light (example: https://prnt.sc/bmMFPQU5LH0f) the design is cool! 

    I think the time it takes for the sniffer find the seeds it's a little long, but i can manage that. I watched them for 10 minutes and they only gave me two seeds. Maybe we could duplicate the seeds somehow? 

    Edit1: I think maybe giving them a ancient seed would speed the time that sniffer finds them. And adding a quantity would be nice! like sniffing two or three seeds and that would solve the problem of duplicating them. And the Sniffer would only breed WITH the torchflower, not the seed!

    The sniffer design is great! and the snifflet is really cute!

     

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    I hope the sniffer isn’t just going to add a few useless plants, maybe this can be an opportunity to add more color to Minecraft which could give more opportunity’s for any block that can be dyed

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    I love how the sniffer is coming along! It clearly has a personality which makes it amazing. There is lots of potential for more ancient seeds. It would be a very nice amount if there were two more types of seeds the sniffer could find, making 3 total. That way there wouldn't be too many random seeds added, and instead Mojang can just focus on making the 3 plants special and unique.

    The torchflower is a pretty cool plant. The way the seeds are grown seems intuitive. Every seed in minecraft is planted in tilled dirt, but once the flower grows, it can be placed anywhere.

    In future ancient plants, I would love to see the super strange / prehistoric vibes continue, but also make sure that there is still a wide array of ways to use the plants in decoration. Remember, the main point of the plants is for decoration, but if they are too bizarre looking it might be hard to fit them anywhere! It would be awesome to have some sort of large tropical jungle-like fern or flower for example, or another vine block that can go on walls. Some sort of unique flowering vine would be fantastic to decorate the walls of builds with!

    The sniffer itself looks amazing, just one small tweak might be nice: currently its back / spine is curved on the sniffer's top texture, and it seems sort of strange on top of a rectangular creature. If all the green stuff stemmed from a straight line down the sniffer's back it might feel more Minecrafty (think of the hoglin's back crest)

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    From playing the new snapshot a bit, the only things I can really think of is the Torchflower having some sort of glow (as per the name) and maybe the Sniffer, if it sniffs a flower at night, it will produce whatever seeds and then sleep for the night in the same flopped position and have it breathe with the snout (and maybe a cartoon bubble come out of the nose when snoring). The time in between digging up seeds could be hastened a bit too, thought it would depend on how many other seeds would be added after the Torchflower, if any. Animations are great though, especially the little dance they do after digging up a seed.

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    I assume the Torchflower won’t be the only new plant added with the sniffer, but I think some of the new plants should have a use outside of just decoration, to give it more use for those who aren’t builders. Even just a new food crop would be enough

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    I love the Sniffer so much! Because of its large size, I think it should definitely have more hp, but other than a few bugs I think the Sniffer is basically perfect right now! To answer the questions:

    1. The time it takes the Sniffer to dig up seeds is a little long, but I think its good as it'd encourage you to bring more Sniffers into your world.

    2. With its constant Sniffing, it does feel like it is always on the hunt! Especially when it catches scent of one and goes crazy!

    3. Yes, the growth mechanics are perfect, its something I've wanted for MC Flowers for a long time!

    4. Its very slow, which is perfect! It looks like it would be slow.

     

    I've also prepared some feedback about the Torchflower! Considering its name, and the fact that it looks like a little torch.. I think it should give off light! Maybe just a small bit of light, but any amount would be great! It'd make it a very unique lighting option and a very unique flower, which would make me want to pursue it and utilize the Sniffer's mechanics much more! 

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    The torch flower should emit light! Everything else is pretty good

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    The torchflower need to emite light

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    I love it! I hope that there will be more than just one plant, because then that makes me sad a bit, but yayaya

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    Can you make the sniffer tameable pls! Would love to have one follow me around as I do stuff!

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    1. you can hear the sniffers sounds even when you´r far away

    2. you can see the inside of the sniffer when standing close to it

    3. the sniffing animation(not the digging one) is cute but to cartoony imo

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    what if some of the seeds it could find would be seeds from the removed flowers from Minecraft’s past? Such as rose and blue rose seeds. It would be so nice to have these OG flowers back. Am interesting mechanic to bring back the blue rose would be for the sniffer to find a blue rose bush (blue version of red rose bush) seed that the player could grow and then shear to get the invidiual blue rose and then for the already existing rose bush players can just shear that for the individual red rose.

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    The first 3 questions are all a huge yes from me! The Sniffer as a mob is amazing and truly feels like a living creature in this world. The way it looks and sniffs the ground really does give it so much personality and life. As for it's speed I think it really fits the Sniffer for the most part. Yeah it might be a pain moving it from place to place but for this lumbering giant I feel like his movement speed makes complete sense.

    As for some ways to maybe improve them I'd really like it if the Sniffer could dig up more than just ancient seeds. Not items or anything like that but different seeds already found in game. Wheat seeds, pumpkin seeds, beetroot seeds, ect. It would give them a unique purpose for players looking to start building their farms. Perhaps there could even be a system where the biome has an effect on which seeds the Sniffer is most likely to find. Like forest biomes predominantly giving wheat seeds while the jungle mostly does watermelon seeds. It would be a great way for the Sniffer to really feel like it's interacting with the world while also giving it a very unique purpose.

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    you missed something beautiful. the torch flower doesn't glow and it should

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    add more jurassic plants, plants with giant leaves, carnivorous plants, poisonous plants, something fun

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    Snifflet changes

    First I think the snifflet should have a slightly different texture than the adult

    I think its mainly just the eyes, they are perfect for the grown sniffer but looks kind of old for the snifflet. Maybe the moss on its back could be shorter too since it is young

    Other than the texture I think the behavior should be changed a bit too, the running speed of the snifflet should be faster than the adult, and maybe the snifflet should be more timid or maybe playful

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    There needs to be more than 1 ancient plant, you guys said "ancient plants" in the mob vote, that means at least 2, we just want promises fulfilled. Torchflower should also glow, name doesn't make much sense otherwise.

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    The Sniffer is a cool idea, but there needs to be more. For starts, it could REALLY use some more new plants. Also, a really cool idea I thought about is if you took a Sniffer to the Nether, it could dig up some exclusive plants in Soul Soil. The plants would still be decorative, but the plants in question would be more Nether-themed. Something like a Soulflower.

    Also, on the topic of the Torchflower, it should at least have a light source, so it can be a unique way of lighting up your base or home. If it does already have one, please tell me.

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    I think it would be really cool to use flower pots to grow the flowers instead of farmland.

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    I think as a neat easter egg sniffers should be able to rarely dig up roses and blue roses, seeing how those are quite literally ancient minecraft flowers :)

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    I think the sniffing animation is too unsettling, it doesn't really fit into minecraft since no other mob or texture expands like that (to my knowledge).

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    Torchflower can actually give of a little light, also please add at least 2 more plant types for sniffer, we are looking forward to it!

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    It could be great if the torch flowers can be used for potions (of course with new potions) or for the arrows in the fletching table thus this table would be useful , of course if those flowers can be upgrade in an other update for magic or something I m not saying no

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    Will there be more ancient plants like the ones roger badgerman posted on twitter?

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    Sniffer is amazing!

    Ive seen some people suggest that the sniffer could be rideable. Yes, I know theres already a rideable mob in this update, but think about it:

    The sniffer is huge, so it could hold 4-6 people or something. 

    Since hes wide, maybe we could make it a rideable mob that can ALSO swim...?

    A drawback would be that since the sniffer is so huge it would be slow and doesn't have any jump (or dash) ability like horses and camels. Maybe it could be just a tiny bit slower than player walking speed?

    It would also be awesome to be able to put on a ton of chests on the sniffer (maybe three chests on each side?)

    Hope this is a good idea!

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    I think that the Sniffer has good pace when walking slowly and looking for seeds. 
    About torchflower seed mechanics, I appreciate that it cannot be replicated, bonemealed, etc. The Sniffer should be the only source. 

    I am really interested in further seeds and flowers, and I hope they really bring unique features, as some other suggest.
    Also, torchflower really needs to glow, or even shine. 

    One detail: because the Sniffer is so big and "footy", I'd suppose that he actually could destroy some flowers or crops when walking over. I know, it is not fitting with his peaceful nature, but it would be more realistic, if he trampled like one flower/crop from ten or twenty - maybe except ancient ones.

    Yeah, and after seeing the Sniffer, I really wanted to have possibility to ride it, just to chill out on his back when he is searching for seeds.

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    My idea is that every biome has a different seed.For example,the sniffer could sniff ancient seeds in the mushroom island,which brings a new type of glowing mushroom tree,or a sculk ancient seeds that can bring a new ancient plant that grows berries,called ancient berries,they would have the color of souls,and emit soul particles,this is for all biomes,like the nether biomes,and even the end,where the sniffer can sniff a new block I call crumbling endstone,where you have to revive it

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    With the ability for sniffers to find rare seeds, I think this can also allow for some new crops to be found. I think new crops would allow for some opportunities to make new foods and other items. Some ideas I had for these crops are dragon fruits, rambutan, lychee, durian, amaranth, melon, artichoke, starfruit, rhubarb, cabbage ( maybe red cabbage because it is more interesting in my opinion), and tea leaves. These are a lot of options but these are just some ideas. Thanks for reading!