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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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    Life is fine because it gives you the feeling that it is in danger of extinction.

more plants please MOGANG
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    so no one is going to talk about the fact that there is only two seeds for the sniffer!!!

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    so no ones going to talk about the fact that there is only two seeds for the sniffer

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    They should make the sniffer not a passive mob and according to its size that it be a neutral mob like the golem since it is bigger than the ravager

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    Il faudrai rajouté d autre mob préhistorique

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    Yet another mob tailoring to the 8 year olds who purchase everything on the marketplace. All that work done programming it for it dig up 2 useless flowers that don’t even look like they fit in the game at all.

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    idea for a future update for the sniffer add a prehistoric tree

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    Sniffer is not good.Plz add another mob instead of sniffer.I think octopus is good.

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    Sniffer is just too common, it needs something to spice it up and make it interesting.

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    pls made sniffer rideable

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    As many others in the community have expressed, we want the torch flower to emit light. That would make it so much cooler and more useful. Therefore, encouraging more players to find Sniffer eggs! 

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    The Sniffer seem like a fun joyful mob to have around, and I feel like that is all what it got going for it. However, the concept of ancient mobs that must be "discovered", has potential.

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    Echoing some of the other comments, I think that the sniffer and the plants that it uncovers don't look like they belong in the game.  The mechanic of having to hang around the thing for a long time to get the drops is flawed and annoying.  I think that adding this mob was a mistake.

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    Dear Minecraft developers, 

    I think the Sniffer mob needs another use because all it does is dig up flower seeds.

    So my innovational idea might do the trick!

    So, what if the Sniffer egg* could be brewed into a potion?

    I introduce… …the Potion of Resilience!

    The Potion of Resilience gives you the effects of Health Boost III (which temporarily gives you twelve extra health points), Regeneration II, Speed II and Strength II for three and a half minutes.

    As with all other potions you can add Redstone to make it last for a full eight minutes and use Glowstone to level up all the effects by one!

    We would prefer if you added this in the next update but no pressure, you know?

    * the Sniffer egg should be bred from two Sniffers for a steady supply or else you would have to look for a Sniffer egg all over again after brewing the potion.

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    I would talk about it but you can't get sniffer in survival bedrock yet

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    Honestly, I think sniffer is terrible and useless.
    It only finds like 2 plants and they don’t even grow anything like fruit that can be used to make cool potions or be a really good food source.
    It needs more variety and function coz at the moment it is not worth looking for

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    I hate the sniffer, why can’t we have the moobloom back

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    For the next mob vote, I think they should choose five of the most voted mobs from the past that did not win, and the top two would get added.

    That way you don’t need to come up with bad ideas like the sniffer, glowsquid, phantom or anything else that is just straight up trash

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    If you want to change my mind about the sniffer, being absolute trash then I may have a idea

    How about there is a plant that can be planted on a sponge block however, sponge blocks can absorb potion effects and the plant that is planted on it grows fruit that gives you that potion effect.

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    You should definitely add those cool looking vines from that screenshot. I would love to see what they are and what they might do.

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    Please add the third plant

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    ive played minecraft for over 40 hours since the update and havent seen one lmao

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    Can sniffer find plants through cherry petals?

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    What if every update a new type of plant is added for the sniffer to find. That way like in archeology there's new stuff being found over time. It could become a consistent thing that players are excited for with each update.

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    I think that the plants should stay useless, like the sniffer. it would make it much less frustrating that it exists to me.

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    Can we be able to tame sniffers please?

     

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    All the people that say sniffers are a mistake are wrong the sniffer is great please keep it in the game but I do like the idea of the sniffers of being a neutral mob I think that is a great idea in my opinion

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    I really love the Sniffer's design and concept, but I wish their plants were much more unique. It was little bit disappointing that sniffer's plants can be only used for decoration, or dyes and stew.

    I wish ancient plants have more uses. a new lightning sources(for torch flower like most other people said), or new potion ingredient, or even new food type. It would make sniffer more interesting and unique than mob that produces 2 decoration item.

    another suggestion, I think it would be really nice if sniffer can find different ancient seeds depends on biome they're in. kinda like frog having different colors depends on biome.

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    I feel the speed of the sniffer feels okay, sometimes it bugs if its searching for seeds by going up or down a block though and stops entirely.

    It's nice having a roaming mob around but would be nicer to see them herd together a bit more instead of staying far apart and wandering away from one another.

    The Torchflower seems okay. still would be nice to have it at least glow (not give light levels). 

    All of my sniffers have wandered away from my safe haven so i suppose they move relatively well.

    I do wish that more flowers did come from the sniffers be it from exclusive biomes or just as really rare seeds.
    It would also be nice if the Pitcherplant seeds would also help breed the sniffer as waiting around for it to dig up torch plants then waiting to have the egg hatch takes an extremely long time.


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    I think that the sniffer doesn't have enough seeds to find for starters.  As well as adding more, Mojang should add purpose to pitcher pod and torchflower. Also, the Sniffer is from a long time ago, so he would only be able to find seeds he knows. However, I think it would be nice if the Sniffer could also be introduced to seeds. For instance, if he come across a wheat crop, Mojang could add an animation of him sniffing it, licking it, and maybe sneezing. After being introduced to a seed, he could now find it in the overworld. This would be helpful if you were starting a giant wheat, carrot, or potato farm, and would also make the sniffer more lovable since the "learning" animation could become really adorable.