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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 like the sniffer idea, but not the implementation.  You practically have to cheat to get just one sniffer egg (much less two for breeding.)  Some seeds barely have any warm oceans, and the ones that do sometimes make it very difficult to even spot a warm ruin (covered in coral, etc) and even once you find a ruin you're not guaranteed to find a sniffer egg.  I find so much useless stuff in "suspicious sand" it makes the new archaeology addition very disappointing to me.

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    we NEED to be able to ride the sniffer like another user suggested.

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    I think there should be more seeds that the sniffer can find, like venus flytrap seeds and stuff. I think it would also be cool if pitcher plants could actually eat small animals like rabbits, silverfish, and frogs like they do in real life (I haven't tested if they do this yet or not). Along with the venus flytrap, a flying bug mob would be cool, and it would be even better if carnivorous plants would deture small animals and phantoms. 

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    Please stop adding useless mobs.

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    I wanted the developers to add a new plant that can dig up a Sniffer vine with blue berries . It grows as well as a vine, but flowers appear on it over time, and berries will appear from the flowers. In order for the vines not to grow, they can be cut with scissors.

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    Sniffers need more HP, especially when becoming an adult.  Baby sniffers fit in places that adults do not, risking the life of the adult sniffer.  Not at fun thing to watch your baby grow and die faster than you can get to the rescue.

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    The sniffer needs more than just 2 plants (amazing plants though they are) we need MORE PLANTS, plants aren’t that hard to make right? Maybe sniffer digs up a new vine plant like the passion fruit (not my idea I read somewhere else) or digs up sundew seeds, really just pls more plants

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    Sniffer is a good mod but it needs more plants
    The sniffer doesn’t really need a good use to it except plants, bc that’s its thing, what makes it lame is that there is not enough plants, it should at least dig up a new crop seed that you can eat, maybe one that gives you haste and can be brewed into the haste potion.
    I voted for the copper golem too guys

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    Please add more plants to dig up 🥺 it would be great for the game lore, experience and gameplay as well as more building blocks and items

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    The torchflower should emit light or, at least, burn the players who touch them (like the wither rose) without giving the burning status (like campfires)

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    The sniffer is too boxy. The head and nose are less noticeable because it is very animated, but their back is a rectangular prism! Like a chorus flower block, rounding off its back might lessen the boxiness. I'd also like its hair sticking out like a big shaggy dog. Add some extra pixels sticking out the sides, like silverfish. Many custom player skins do this well. Minecraft should start thinking more imaginative about their mob designs.

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    Make the new flowers have a purpose. Like having a new mining potion which gives you a combination of night vision and mining speed, but have only have a small time limit. Or be able to have more lighting options using the torch flower for the recipe.

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    Love the Sniffer but I think it could definitely be improved on (as well as the flowers).

    - Torch flower should provide light (its called a TORCH flower!)
    - More seeds/plants for the Sniffer to find.
    - Would be neat to be able to ride them (maybe they move faster when ridden, or can be used to help dig?)
    - Would love to be able to put the pitcher pods, torch flowers, and other 2-block tall plants in the vases made from the shards.

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    You should have added all three of the mobs, guys please!!!

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    I'm really dissapointed in the sniffer. There are only two new plants, and it feels rushed.

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    I think my opinion is that since the sniffer smells flowers, there should be more variations of flowers that he can smell, so having a little more varieties of flowers, one idea would be a flower that the player could take the leaves from to make an outfit. with camouflage system on the normal game leaves

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    I think that the Sniffler could have more uses if we can ride it. Just think it, you put on them a saddle and explore the world, but obviously it can't be like ride horses or pigs. If you ride a Sniffler you'll go kind slow.

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    Make it so sniffers can sniff mycelium idk why they csnt

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    The suspicious sand needs to be more common in order to make looking for the sniffer worthwhile

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    I think the sniffer must be pet and everytime he try to find the ancient items. And when you will check his back the items will be there.

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    please let me ride him!!!!!!!!!!

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    The difficulty of finding Sniffer eggs was layered on far too thick. You have to find suspicious sand, in a biome already full of sand, but only within certain types of that biome, and only within certain structures within that certain type of that certain biome, and underwater the whole time, and with a miserable drop rate. It’s asking a whole lot for a mob that is ultimately decorative.

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    Iv'e defeated about 1000 sniffers and counting. #TEAM RASCAL!!!

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    Nos também queremos que as plantas não fosse decorativas! Decorativo e algo que e algo que esteja lá que já é deslumbrante ao ver da pessoa que nem as pinturas, nos queremos quê eles tem poderes(habilidades ou efeitos)diferentes ou atacasse esporros venenosos, ou uma planta que gera 2 novos mobs pequenos bem fortinho que teriam 20 de HB, um que seria pacífico e o outro neutro, o neutro tem um poder que se bater nele ele de envenena, e isso acontece em 6 min, ele atacaria vinhas pra de prender, e essas vinhas tem espinhos relaxante que deixaria o jogador com sua visão igual a do sniffer só que se borrado e o MOB atacaria sua magia qualquer pra atacar a distância quando o jogador está presso, o pacífico ele de curaria e que revivesse mobs que foram morto mas vc tem que der um item pra isso Ash flores(ele poderia ser um MOB de estimação, mas a sua outra variante não é estimável) e ele podia gerar plantas que atacam quando um mob mostro o ataca ou até mesmo jogadora se ele atacasse

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    It would be cool if armor stored NBT data of the last player to wear a piece of armor and be able to sniff them out anywhere in the world. To expand on that idea, he could sniff out mob spawners when presented with a head of the mob you want to find. I just wanna have him do something cool and not just dig up seeds. He's kind of a lame mob in my opinion.

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    The sniffer feels like it doesn't have a place in the game. It's ridiculously tedious to actually get, and when you do, all it does is give you 2 seeds, that only exist for decoration. No new crops, no new mechanics, nothing, and it takes forever to even get those seeds from it anyways. Plus, its design and animations feel really out of place in minecraft. Please stop giving things more detailed animations, it takes all the stylized charm out of the game.

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    I think the sniffer could not just dig up decorative seeds but also use his sniffing function to something else a more useful like: shows the players if there's some land treasure nearby or even find the trial ruins

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    What if the sniffer actually sniffs out flowers that could only be obtained by the sniffer, which would then be converted to dyes from these flowers.

    The two flowers are the "CARNATION" and "ROSE".

    The colors will be "AQUAMARINE" and "ROSE" respectively.

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    hoy quiero aser una propuesta un poco hovia pero que creo que es importante. sabemos que el sniffer fue el mod ganador de la minecraft live de 2022 y que ya esta aqui con nosotros a fecha de este comentario y lo que pido para el sniffer es que el de mas tipos de semillas al escarber y mas plantas decoratibas, tambien por sujerencia que pueda sacar minimo una semilla diferente por biomas principales, como una planta desertica en desiertos o dunas, una flor escarcha en las niebes, una arbusto frondosa o palmiado en la jungla, alguna flor de bosque en el vioma de abeto, alguna blor de rio, y mas (no encontre mas tipos de plantas para los biomas) pero mi puto es que se me asen pocas las semilloas y plantas que el sniffer nos puede dar.

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    The plants they give are too useless. The plants should have some uses and purpose