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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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    We could "plant" plants on the sniffer to customize it (it would be just decorative)

     

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    a seed of a new fungus or flower that drops a spore animation

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    I have an idea for the sniffer, I think it would be fun if one of the seeds you find is some kind of ancient boss, like a prehistoric carnivorous plant a few blocks high. I think it would be interesting to have to plant and care for the plant so to speak, having to not only plant it but care for it until it grows into its final form, that at first you have to feed it meat until it transforms into a giant plant. I think it would be nice to have to take care of and feed a boss to be able to fight him, I would like him to have some special attacks, like he can spit out seeds or attack you from the ground with his own roots, he could have several attacks to make the fight more varied, could be I think a good boss.

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    add plants that have a purpose like lighting, food, water wall. 

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    This mob is just… useless. I am a veteran of Minecraft (played before the nether dimension was in the game) and this update is comepletely disappointing. Especially the sniffer. The texture looks like it came directly out of a mod and the animations don’t look like Minecraft at all. This 1.20 update is seriously a problem in my opinion. But the sniffer doesn’t do anything and you can’t even ride it. This is a really big facepalm moment. Sorry for all the trouble of this post but man… the game has gotten so bad, and it’s going to get worse after this update. The cherry trees don’t have cherries, and the bamboo isn’t even green. But enough of that. I’m glad the sniffer is extremely rare, so I don’t really need to see it. The sniffer feels like it will never have a point in the game, just like the bees (you can craft some stuff but nothing really useful) and glow squid. I suggest you guys make it have a point in the game at least. Maybe make it sniff for treasure or *important* plants/seeds.

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    There should be more flowers be very interesting there should be 13 different flowers

     

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    Please add more seeds for the sniffer to find. Maybe finally the palm trees? Or maybe extinct trees like giant ferns, clubmoss and horsetails? Maybe plants that excting because of human and civilization? Like silphium...

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    add different colors please! like green and gray.

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    SNIFFERS CAN LITTERLY ONLY DIG UP SEEDS WHY ADD THIS TO A GOOD GAME LIKE MINECRAFT THE OTHER TWO WERE SOOOOOOOOOOOOO MUCH BETTER

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    The sniffer has too much of a Pokemon feel for it to seem "Minecrafty."

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    Pitcher plants should hold allays. Some small animals like bats frog and birds use pitcher plants as shelter. Pitcher plants could act like a beehive when placed(for allays) and could could be used to pick up allays with the players hand(like fish buckets). Ideally they could hold up to four. This would solve the issue of transporting allays long distances for different builds.

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    The sniffer is great and is one of my favorite features coming into the 1.20 update, and honestly other than having more health and knockback resistance I have no problem with the sniffer mob itself, just the flowers it sniffs up. I think it would be amazing if the flowers it sniffs up had more to them. For example I think a must is to make the torchflower at least glow even if its just a little bit maybe even some cool particles little fire sparks maybe some subtle smoke would be cool. It would also be cool to see something change with the pitcher plant maybe adding some water particles to it. But I think there's a really big missed opportunity in not giving the flowers some sort of unique qualities that no other plant or flower has, some examples I thought of are maybe new unique dyes you can get from the flower, maybe these dyes have a gradient maybe they are animated maybe even create a particle effect all of these would increase the vanity of minecraft giving players more ways to express themselves. They could also be used for special ancient potions. Maybe even add a new ancient edible crop that the sniffer can sniff that could give special properties to the player when eaten similar to the chorus fruit (this would also make some advancements more challenging and fun). all of these will create more of a reason to seek out the sniffer instead of only seeking them out simply to get some new flowers. 

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    The Sniffer should drop Meat and some of the bush on its back also it should sometimes lay down

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    I like the new ancient plants and how they're acquired - they remind me a lot of wither roses, insofar as they can't be renewed with bone meal and require some interaction with a mob to reproduce. However, wither roses can apply a status effect to mobs and the player; I think the Torchflower and Pitcher Plant should be given the same utility. Specifically, they should apply other damage over time effects: naturally, the Torchflower sets entities on fire, and perhaps the Pitcher Plant poisons them.

    I also want to echo other commenters with regards to biome-specific ancient seeds. Requiring the Sniffer to dig within different biomes to find all the ancient seeds is similar to biome temperature deciding a Frog's color. It's a relatively small feature that would go a long way in further developing this new mob.

    Additionally, if a third ancient plant is added before 1.20 releases, perhaps it's the Sniffers' food of choice? A creature that large could not sustain itself with small flower seeds, and adding ancient food still allows for the same behavior that Torchflower Seeds currently enable (breeding and luring Sniffers). It's also not strictly necessary that the player be able to eat this new food, given that the biology of these ancient plants is strange and alien to the present world of Minecraft.

    Finally, I like what others have said about the Sniffer being able to dig up modern plants and/or seeds. I think a feature like that could be a great way to add renewable Spore Blossoms.

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    Let us use saddles to ride the sniffers!

    They should sniff out more seeds for edible crops too. There's a whole world of food out there. 

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    I don't about you, but I really think there should be more plants that the sniffer could dig up.

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    As costas de folhas devem ter a cor determinada pelo bioma que nascer assim seria mais um incentivo para os jogadores irem em um bioma específico só para o sniffer ter uma cor

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    sniffer should be hardER to get thank it is currently planned

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    I am really disappointed with this update, so far the seeds that the Sniffer gives are only used for decoration, which is really poor to what I expected, and still the argument of those who wanted the Sniffer was "It will give more seeds", but are they only flower seeds that give dye or this is what Mojang has shown us so far.

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    I love the sniffer a lot! My only suggestion would be to mess with the colors a bit. It feels very vibrant compared to the rest of the terrain. Also, although it might be too late, maybe making them a little wider would help. Overall though, I am very excited to see the sniffer added! 

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    Will they add more flowers? It was a pleasant surprise that they added more ceramic fragments, I hope it's the same with the flowers

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    Spore Blossom Seeds from Sniffers

    The Sniffer egg hatches quicker on moss blocks and the flower seeds it does dig up are for already extinct plants. Spore blossoms are found in mossy caves and also cannot be bonemealed at the moment. From a storytelling standpoint, it could be argued that spore blossoms are a flower species on the decline and their method of replicating has been forgotten thus leading to an eventual extinction in the future. Bringing back an extinct species like the sniffer could be a cool way to save the dying plant species.

    Although the spore blossom is found on the ceilings of lush caves, it's not too crazy to think their seeds could be on the moss at the bottom of the caves. Players may already gather moss on their own to hatch the egg or have some as ground cover in their gardens, so it could be a fun reward for the player to reunite their sniffer with some moss in addition to them hatching quicker.

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    Is there only going to be one flower.?

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    I love the sniffer, but just more sniffer plants please!!!!!

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    Maybe some more plants?

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    Sniffer needs more plants than just the current two.

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    I want the sniffer to dig up loot like seed, plants, ores like iron, ect.

    plz make a technoblande name tag for pigs that will suit it up and give it a crown 

     

    # technoblande never dies 

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    I honnestly think the sniffer doesn’t have enough plants. I love decorating but it’s not worth going to the trouble of finding à sniffer egg for so little content.

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    Deberian añadir una variación del sniffer que tenga la espalda rosada y que cuando un huevo de sniffer se rom en el bioma de cerezos haya una pequeña probabilidad de que salga el sniffer de cerezospa

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    Where

    do I place torch flower on