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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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    The traveling merchant should have a rare chance to sell sniffer eggs in addition to the planned way of obtaining them. This would give the merchant something interesting to sell, and allows a player to have that fantasy fulfilment of buying a mysterious egg from a strange merchant and hatching a mystical creature.

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    I think the sniffers perfect, can’t lie! It’s a brilliant feature which is fantastically implemented. I love the animations especially, so smooth!

    The only things I could suggest would be more ancient plants (although all we ever want is more more more lol!) and possibly making the sniffer tameable? If you could sit on it and just ride about with it, and get popped off when it goes digging, that would be a lot of fun! Right clicking it to sit is so funny too, I think if you could tame it and made it sit, a sleeping animation would be super adorable!

    Great work Mojang team

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    1. The Torchflower should glow in the dark like the glowberries and maybe have some particles emitting from them. 

    2. The sniffer should have more health. it is a large mob so it makes sense.

    3. The sniffer should have more interactions with the surrounding world other than sniffing out seeds. things such as being scared of certain things because its new or sneezing like the panda for sniffing new plants. 

    4. Other mob interacting with the sniffer would be nice as well. bees could fly around the sniffer or parrots could sit on it while it free roams. cute little details that would make the sniffer more lively and more loveable than it already is. 

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    And please make Torchflowers emit light! If not that, they should have another use, maybe burn or wade off undead mobs? And I think it should be craftable into glow dye. Glow ink from glow squids should be craftable into glow dye aswell then.

    I've also seen the idea to be able to walk on Sniffers and I really like that. Not on the small ones though, that would be a little harsh.

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    The Sniffer is a great mob, it’s chunky, Funky, and the snifflets are just adorable.
    But I feel as if there is a missed opportunity, the sniffer needs more ancient plants to uncover; and some of those plants should have a function instead of giving us dyes.
    The Torchflower could give out a bit of a light source,
    a new farming crops that the player could eat, or another sapling tree.

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    I think the sniffer should have biome diversity of every biome,for example, a mushroom island would have glowshroom mushrooms,while the desert would have ancient palms,and this would include every biome,and some biomes would have more ancient seeds depending on the lack of features that biome has,for example the desert would have way more ancient seeds than the jungle.(This would include all the cave biomes,the nether biomes,the end,and all the overworld biomes to make you,and you sniffer to go on a journey to bring back these ancient wildlife)Maybe their could be a journal in the secret library they have been teasing where if you find a ancient seed,the journal will talk in more detail about it.Maybe for the cherry grove,there could be blue and white wisteria trees that were brought to extinction because the ancient builders over-used them because of their light blue and white wood.The Lush Caves could sniff out azaleas,that when grown,aos have their own wood type.

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    Can one of the new ancient seeds PLEASE be a giant absolutely mammoth sized plant? It would fit the theme of the ancient world with chonky mobs like the sniffer!

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    mojang the sniffer is a great mob and i want to make it even better!. because sniffer is a prechistoric mob like a dinosaur but flowers apeard alost when the dinosaurs go extinct so there ware only primitive flowers so a better desition would be to add only small flowers to the sniffer and more plants like ferns cycads ect.

    i really want to make sniffer a better mob so here is my sugestion. have a nice day!

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    I truly hope there is more plants along the way with the sniffer. And I mean ‘PLANTS’ not just flowers, the game needs more unique greenery. Like a large fern, or some type of bush, something that is just lush rather than something pretty.

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    Sniffer is super cute. A great new mod.

    I wish if not all the seeds the sniffer digs up are good.
    For example: Chickens become Evil Chickens (with red eyes) at Torchflower Seed. Which then attack other chickens and the player. 

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    A use for the torchflower could be to finally add a crafting recipe to shroomlights! Perhaps sort of like the sea lantern recipe, but torchflower instead of the prismarine crystals, and crimson/warped fungus in stead of the prismarine shards! It would seem logical because the lightbulb on the torchflower looks a lot like the round-shaped features of the shroomlight! Perhaps it could (in lore ) also mean the nether forests are related to the sniffer, and that way perhaps the hoglins are related!

    Would be cool to see this added!

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    THIS A LOT OF IDEAS FROME ME AND OTHERS PLEASE READ AND LIKE IF YOU AGEE                                                                                                                                               love the update so far, but I think it should some of my and others' ideas added Tho. the sniffer should lay down randomly like a camel and sometimes and sneeze near flowers. I think it also have breeding like a horse and have less or more heath and small different in size that is passed down in breeding. That would make it fun to keep the one you like and get ached to. The actant pants the torch flower should glow and I think they should be made for potions, and I would add 2 or 3 more with cool Feachers like poisons to touch or carnivore stuff like that.

    I know is a stretch would love all of this I hope I made some ideas and helped. I can't what to have a sniffer in a big cage habitat with plants and stuff from past.

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    Another idea would be to better combine sniffer and archeology.

    Sunken villages, that is to say, for example: old, ancient villages that the snooper could sniff out. But they are now underground, sand or mud and completely encapsulated by them, like in a bubble. 

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    The game need more plants, not only one flower.

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    The sniffer feels wonderful and I feel as though can be given more life through;

    • Birds following the Sniffer and landing on it's big fluffy back! 
    • When the Sniffer digs for seeds it should go through a few normal seed types before finding the ancient seeds! I feel this would be cute, and it would feel more satisfying when it finally gets what it is looking for.
    • As others have suggested, the Sniffer is not used to these new flora! It should have a rare chance of sneezing by flowers.
    • I think it would be cute if it had a rare chance of shaking it's body, and from it's enormous fluff normal seeds are dropped- as if it was covered by seeds from previous excavations! (This would also give reason for birds to follow it)
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    Considering how hard it is to get a Sniffer, he should be able to sniff out many more types of seeds from ancient plants like ferns (because I personally don't like the torchflower and if it's the only plant the Sniffer can smell I'll be disappointed).

    I think the Sniffer should also be able to smell the seeds of some edible plant (and this new edible plant should be Sniffer's food).

    However, if the torchflower is to be the only ancient plant, let it at least shine (according to its name).

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    I was disappointed that the plant was entirely decorative, so I think there should be another seed that can drop which does something a bit more useful, how about an Ancient Thistle plant, which will damage players like the sweet berry bush and can be harvested and used to make Potions of Wither.

    Another seed idea would be a Cooksonia plant, which is an extinct, ancient plant species that could grow and maybe fend off the undead within a 10 block radius of it (These plants didn't have such properties, but it would be a nice use for them)

    Another idea wouldn't be a seed at all, but a unique and rare Fungi that could make a new dye (Maybe Olive Green or Salmon coloured, since there aren't many blocks that have those colours) (Getting lots of it would just require leaving on in a dark space, as it spreads in darkness)

    One final idea might be a seed to plant a new type of food plant, something exotic like Kiwi, Dragon fruit, Durians or something else. This would tie into the theme of the update because it would help represent players who may have grown up eating such fruits.

     

    These are all just random ideas, not all of them have to be added. :)

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    The interacts between the player and the sniffer don't feel very dynamic or interesting. Having some sort of interaction between the player and sniffer that has to happen before the sniffer will start searching for seeds would make the whole process more interesting and rewarding. Perhaps feeding the sniffer something like and apple or melon. 

    The torchflower is a really cool looking plant, and definitely has an ancient vibe to it - but its just not unique enough to warrant going through all the work of digging up and then hatching a sniffer egg. The most logical way to make the torchflower unique it to make it give off light at night

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    Real quick, did any one else see the odd flower in the preview picture on the top left, wonder what It is?

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    Sniffer must have more HP and knockback resistance.

    Textures of torchflower and torchflower seeds looks like from old mods, not vanilla minecraft.

    If Torchflower is TORCHflower it should glow a bit, isn't it?

    Torchflowers are really useless, that makes sniffer a very nice mob, but useless too. It can be used for brewing a glowing potion or something else. I believe it will be useful in next updates.

    And I see a nice idea in comments that parrots can seat on Sniffer while he in Jungle.

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    smaller and cuter snifflet

     

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    smaller snifflet and bigger sniffer

    more hp

    more seeds 

    variant based on biomes

    torchflower emit light

     

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    It would be cool to see the Sniffer be able to dig up plants that were removed from the game in the past, such as the roses and blue roses.

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    Please allow us to feed new flowers discovered by the sniffer to the mooshroom for a new type of suspicious stew. You could make the new suspicious stew variants available in desert temples as well. But not through villager trades as villagers have not seen this extinct flower. New suspicious stew effects could be levitation, slow falling, or maybe a new effect like warmth that would allow mountain trekking without freezing?

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    In my opinion the current color palette and textures of the sniffer feel a bit out of place, because they feel darker or more contrasted in some way. It would be nice if you could alter the texture to look more "vanilla" :)

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    Good morning mojang team. Everything about the sniffer is great. I just think the animaition must be tweaked a little bit, its nose goes too high when it sniffs, higher than its face actually. Maybe if you made it goes just one pexel up it will be perfect. Thank you.

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    The torchflower should have some more uses. For example, they should be able to be crafted into glow poitions and arrows. The torchflowers should be able to do something unique not seen before in Minecraft. There should also be different seeds each biome. 

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    I like how the Sniffer is presented in Minecraft as an extinct "mob" though for me personally, it feels like another useless mob being added to the game just for the sake of one simple seed which is the torchflower.

    To answer the questions above, No it doesn't feel reasonable it feels lacklustre for the Sniffer to dig up seeds, No the Sniffer doesn't feel like it is searching for seeds, No I do not like the new mechanics for the torchflower and finally, yes the Sniffer moves VERY slowly!

    Conclusion: Remove the sniffer from the game and replace it with a mob that actually fits with the criteria of the update (please)

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    The new flower should glow up

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    I love sniffer but i feel as if its seeds need a liiiiiiiiiiiiittle bit more to get the community excited. I think that the seeds should have another purpose other than decoration. For example the torch flower should be able to emit light as it's name says "torch" flower. I also saw a comment on the yt channel saying that the sniffer should be able to sniff up OG plants like the single rose and the blue rose. I think there should be a parana plant that can be sniffed up and it can protect your base or your prized possessions like the mob from mowzie's mobs. Also there could ones like rice and corn seeds or something farmable and edible. I also think that the sniffer should have some sort of defense mechanism or be able to put the plants on the sniffers bush to camouflage or like I said about the parana plant, it could be placed on its back so it can be protected. I hope you are able to see this and consider these ideas and add them to the game.