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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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    I think you should be able to give the sniffer a flower to sniff and it would lead you to the nearest flower of that type. Making it useful in finding flower fields and other biomes.

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    I don't hear anybody talking about the textures being much more softer then the grass blocks it walks on for example, shouldnt it match with the world around it?

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    This is one of the more interesting mobs added recently, and I believe that it would fit in the warped forest biome in the nether so well. I feel like if they were to guard their egg until it hatched would be a pretty cool feature. And would be the only time they were hostile towards the player and only if said player gets too close to their egg. The seeds it drops are very cool too, I think the torch light should light up for sure. I believe everyone really agrees with that though. Also different types of seeds would be awesome. Maybe have more than just flowers too. A new types of seed that could grow into a fruit or something would be cool. Also you could add whatever seed a certain sniffer would drop. Growing on their backs to help players know which sniffer drops each different seed. Such as if the sniffer digs and finds torch flower seeds. It’s a torch flower sniffer and a torch flower grows from its back

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    make it so it has 20 hearts but only 15 when it is a baby but its cool so add it 

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    Quoting what others have said I love the idea of adding biomes Specific Seeds to add in the exploration with the sniffer mob digging. Also adding Ancient seeds that can either be decorative or consumable would be a great addition. I love the torch flower but I think it should eliminate an extremely high level of light to stop a whole room from mob spawning when grown at full level As to eliminate the need for torch Spam in large rooms or caves.

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    please add more ancient plants for the Sniffer to dig up not just one

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    Mojang want to remove sniffer
    Because is like prehistoric Survival not normal survival.and add rascal if you find a miner in mineshaft he will help you in real-life or in the game

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    I want a flower blossom or leaf pad plant that can float over a patch of torch flowers' heat or chemical "lift", the torch flowers would give it if grown next to one..

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    I want to place a full chest on its back fur, and have the sniffer float while hauling a ton of material over both land & sea. While Slower than the chest boat, it can be a fun way to transport an decent amount of material, players can use to upgrade their small, cozy “early-game” base; to a base that is more suitable for the latter stages of the game.

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    One plant is not enough.  Add in the venus flytrap.  Then you could add in fireflies or gnats/flies and the venus flytrap would take care of them!

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    Mojang want to remove sniffer.and add rascal a miner who give item in mineshaft to help you.sniffer become like prehistoric Survival game.you don't want to add so many ancient seeds and plants.please add rascal

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    Add quiver can store 3 slotes of arrow
    And remove sniffer because it like prehistoricSurvival and add rascal a miner who help in mineshaft.you don't want to update so many ancient seeds and plants

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    the torchflower should emit light

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    Heres an idea for my lil sniffs

    Sniffer needs more health and knockback resistance to fit its huge size. I feel like every new flower the sniffer adds should have a cool feature like the dripleaf falling when walked on. Torchflower should give a small light maybe half a torch's light? Also a feature that is exclusive to the Torchflower. Undead mob repellant. Skeletons and zombies will keep a distance of 5 blocks between them and the Torchflower. Also the mob repellant and light only work with the fully grown flower. thats all i have. Cheese

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    Among the new plants the Sniffer will bring there should be a tree of some sort with an exotic wood color

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    I really loved Sniffer, but how about he finds a few other plant seeds besides just one?
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    its looks super cuuute!!!!!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰

     

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    Add an animation that makes the sniffer's head rotate to both look around, but also, after it sniffs the dirt, it turns its head and goes straight for the seeds.

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    I hope you could maybe have the sniffer drop a special item such as Sniffer Hide or a Sniffer Hoove and you could make it to where the sniffer could hold double chests or be ridden with a huge saddle using Sniffer Hide and you could make it fight mobs like zombies or skeletons. It could also be afraid of creepers or ocolots. This might be a lot but i hope some of this is added in. :D

     

     

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    I think the torch flower should have its own dye and the dye should be a mix of orange, red and yellow not in a specific order. I also think the torch flower should glow since it’s called a torch flower. If the torch flower has its own dye it could lead into many possibilities, such as having its own wool, and bed, which could increase the possibilities and the builds having a more sunset vibe. 

    I recommend the dye should be named sunset since the colors are like a sunset.

     

     

    Ps, the torch flower should glow Since it’s called torch flower.

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    I think torch flowers can shine

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    i THInk it'd be great if you could bounce off them from high up, and use them to break your fall

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    The sniffer is awesome, but it can become even better :)
    1) I think that the sniffer has too dark nostrils, they resemble eyes and it looks weird. Maybe they should have much more light color
    2) Since they are born from eggs they should reproduce like turtles or chickens
    3) The idea of sneezing near flowers suggested above is great. It would make the mob very cute :)
    4) Since the sniffer is covered with moss it would be cool if you could use bone meal on it causing its texture to become covered with flowers (it could also attract bees in this state)
    5) It would be cool if torchflowers had some use, for example they can be a light source or a food (potion?) ingredient

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    I really like the sniffer, but I think the torchflower should emit a little bit of light. Also adding consumable seeds would be very fun!

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    I think depending on the dimension or some rare biomes (mushroom island, for example) I think the Sniffer should drop different plants. Imagine how cool it'd be if there was a nether plant or something that originated to the primate nether? Or a super cool mushroom plant for the mushroom island. It's a cool way to add a bit of variety for the Sniffer

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    The torchflower needs to emit light. The game needs a glowing flower.

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    I think the sniffer should have a slightly larger hitbox as atm people can see straight through it if they look at the right angle and can walk through its face lol

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    Maybe could you add dyes for each of the flowers it can sniff up, and get a better variety of colors for everything. Also, more HP. It's a HUGE mob, and really hard to obtain in survival, so maybe give it more health. Also, maybe another few food items with several unique characteristics for each one.

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    Could the sniffer's seeds be a bit more cool? I'm very disappointed with how it turned out. Maybe giant trees or glowstone plants / glistering melon plant. Maybe a redstone plant. A regular flower that's only 2 blocks tall doesn't fit in with the ancient sniffer hype.

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    Please make Snifflets tamable with sweet berries.