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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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https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/testing-new-minecraft-features

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    I like the idea that many have suggested that the Torchflower glows. It would be awesome to be able to light up the outside of your base with something decorative instead out just laying torches all over the place. Not to mention my Sniffer got stuck on one of those torches, (torches, not torchflowers). I know we have glow berries but they just don't look right in all biomes and don't emit much light so you would need a lot to light up a large area. For Torchberries to be a effective use as a light it would need a better light level then glow berries too.

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    The main thing I want is just a bunch of different new seeds for decorative and farmable plants.

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    Since the plants they dig up are supposed to be "prehistoric", there should be a kind of carnivorous plant that will be hostile when growing.
    This carnivorous plant could serve as a trap to mob or for other players. She could eat bees and other flying mobs (bats...)

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    Sniffer is great ! I love the idea of an Ancient Mob but I still have got some questions : Why the torchflower doesn't give seeds when harvest ? Then it's difficult to reproduce Sniffer, to make the species come back to life,  and get some Torchflower. Also, what will be the purpose of "Ancient" flower ? Will they be important for potions ? Or maybe it's for a new type of drink like tea ? (Does tea can co-exist with potion ? Maybe with mug) And finally, I think that the egg we will got from survival are not there for the moment, but when we will get a reword of Chicken egg ? Maybe to be like the Turtle or Frog ? And will you delete the fact that we can breed to chicken and get a young chicken without going throug egg ?

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    Since snifflets look so similar to ordinary grass blocks (or warped nylium, depending on who you ask), what if endermen tried to pick them up sometimes? lol, the image is so perfect it just has to be added.

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    Since the sniffer looks like a giant grass/warped nylium block, one should be able to stand on it similar to how boats can be stood on. It would also be a funny interaction if the sniffer got irritated sometimes and shook the player off its back.

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    Parrots should naturally perch on sniffers' backs like irl birds on the backs of rhinos.

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    there should be other types of plants I know that there might be more but you should also add ancient trees that are more bigger than any tree in the game 

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    The sniffer should dig up a variety of decorative plants. Since they're decorative and should have little to no impact on gameplay, why not go all out? Along with the existing torchflower, these new plants could try to feel more "ancient" so that you get the sense you're bringing back a part of Minecraft's past where the Overworld would be full of these now extinct plants.

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    And please, PLEASE, add to MineCraft mobs that lost in contests! Please! PLEASE!!! PLEEAASE!!!!!!

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    Torchflowers should absolutely glow. It might also be nice if they came in multiple colors, or maybe had a chance of being a larger variant when fully grown. 

    I'd definitely agree that more diggable plants would be nice. Biome-specific ones, to add the challenge of getting sniffers to multiple biomes, would be excellent. 

    Honestly, I tried to plant the seeds in regular ground, like berry bushes, and was confused when it didn't work. It doesn't necessarily make sense to me that torchflowers, a plant that presumably grew in the wild back in the past, would need to be planted on farmland. I'd rather they be plantable in the ground. 

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    I would tell you what inthink but the sniffer is invisable in my game i play on bedrock ive tried even taking my mods off

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    I've been playing this sence i was 5 in 2011 (beta 1.4).

    Honestly I feel like this game is unrecognizable. but that isnt a bat thing. how ever i simply think that the way this thing looks and especially its size are way too much, but its mechanics are intresting. but the mob its self dont spawn without player help so as long as i dont come accross one on my own by random chance then thats fine

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    People are saying the torch flower should glow but I think it should light you on fire instead. Or possibly it could be used to make a new potion. Maybe potion of luck?

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    It could dig up a seed which could grow into a palm tree. First you place it on farmland. Then it grows into a sappling(slower than other plants grow), then you pick it up and place it on sand or dirt and it grows into a tree. I think it's wood can't be used to make planks (cause palms are not real woods), but they could make some fluids like a maple tree. The fluid could be used as water in potion making, and the potions made with it could be infectous to another entities if you, or another mob drinks it.

    I'm sorry if the english is bad, i'm hungarian. 

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    A user suggested that Sniffer should have a small chance of sneezing from ordinary flowers. This sneeze could knock a player back, maybe even loft them a bit.

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    The sniffer is great but it needs to find more than one seed. It would be great to find a variety of seeds instead of one, maybe the sniffer could dig up a unique seed based on the biome

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    Allow players to stand on sniffers it doesn't really make sense that you fall through. Would be a cool and fun feature.

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    Only a new plant does not justify the presence of the sniffer within the game, at least 2 more decorative or functional plants should be added.

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    Yeah, it would be nice if torchflowers glow, because placing down a whole bunch of regular torches to light up an area looks pretty ugly on the surface, and it would be nice if we could replace them with more "natural" looking torchflowers. I mean, it would still be only cosmetic right? Like make them like glow berries although it looks like it should be brighter. Besides, have you seen a torchflower at night? it looks weird because it looks like it should glow because of the bright yellow center, I feel like I turned my screen too dim just looking at it.

    I think that these sniffers should be able to sniff up every variety of flora (a new tree, fungus, vine, wall algae, even some grass and underwater stuff). I feel like every sort of plant in minecraft would have an ancestor so yeah. Well, if you have the bandwidth to do so, since the sniffer doesn't seem to be sniffing up anything at this moment.

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    It'd be cool if the sniffer should act as a sort of bloodhound of sorts; it wouldn't be out to kill but it could track players that have one of their seeds in their inventory.

    Imagine throwing a seed into another player's inventory without them noticing, and being able to track them as long as they don't remove it! (this could also possibly apply to mobs, minecarts, etc)

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     I would love to see Ancient Beans! Minecraft has added axolotls, which were common in the Chinampas. Beans were a commonly grown crop in the Chinampas. The Ancient Beans could appear similar to scarlet runner beans with vibrant red blooms when grown. This adheres to the prehistoric plants requirement as beans have a long standing evolutionary history with pollinators and hummingbirds. This also counts the Ancient Beans as a new flower addition. Players could make baked beans, which would be high in saturation. We already have baked potatoes, why not baked beans? Plants could be bush beans to adhere to game mechanics for crops. How cool would Ancient Beans be?

     

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    Ancient water lilys? we need flowering lily pads

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    We need an ancient seed type that's actually useful, like a new crop.

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    Pour moi le sniffer devrait trouver une plus grande variété de plante et devrait en trouver une très rarement,je prend l'idée d'un autre:

    Se serait une plante carnivore ,devenant hostile à maturité mangeant les petit animaux dans une periphérie plus ou moin grand ,on pourrait la cacher afin de faire des piège,lorsque quelle mange il faudrait un cooldown et elle loot un item

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    a small cute feature I would like to see is the ability for smaller mobs like cats,foxes and wolfs to sleep on top off the sniffer while its laying down

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    beans?

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    bristlecone pine trees?

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    scarlet bee balm is a pretty flower

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    I really love the sniffer, but could I make it 4 pixels higher