Sniffer

A sniffer is a passive mob that does not spawn naturally, and can only be hatched from sniffer eggs. It sniffs out and digs out seeds for various unique decorative plants out of dirt, grass, and moss blocks.
== Spawning ==
Sniffers spawn by hatching from sniffer eggs found in suspicious sand from warm ocean ruins. Breeding sniffers with torchflower seeds would also result in a sniffer egg being laid as an item.
== Drops ==
When killed, adult sniffers drop experience points if killed by a player or a tamed wolf; snifflets drop no experience just like other baby animals.
Upon successful breeding, is dropped.
== Behavior ==
Sniffers wander aimlessly, avoiding hazards and obstacles. They occasionally smell their surroundings and track ancient seeds by pressing their nose to the ground. When they find a seed, they sploot and use their noses to dig into the ground until they get torchflower seeds or a pitcher pod. For a sniffer to be able to dig it needs to be doing nothing else, not in water, on the ground, not in a boat or minecart and the block underneath the head needs to be diggable and reachable for the sniffer. The head location is defined as 2.25 blocks in front of the center of the body. The sniffer also stores the last 20 locations it has dug up so it can't dig there anymore. After sniffing out seeds, an eight minute cooldown is activated before it can dig in again.
The following blocks are diggable by the sniffer:
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Data packs from Java Edition can change this list by modifying the minecraft:sniffer_diggable_block block tag.
Sniffers cannot dig on mycelium.
=== Breeding ===
The player can breed the sniffers using torchflower seeds. When two adult sniffers are bred, they drop a sniffer egg, after which the parents have a 5-minute cooldown before they can breed again.
==== Healing ====
Sniffers are healed by health points each time they are fed a torchflower seed.
=== Snifflets ===
A baby sniffer is called a snifflet and they have a bigger head than the adult. Snifflets take 48000 game ticks to grow up into adult sniffers, which is equal to 40 minutes or two in-game days, twice as long as most other baby mobs in the game.
Unlike most baby mobs, snifflets do not follow their adults.
== Sounds ==
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Sniffers use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.
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== Data values ==
=== ID ===
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=== Entity data ===
Sniffers have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.
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: See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.
== Advancements ==
== History ==
 
== Issues ==
== Trivia ==
*The sniffer was originally a doodle Nekofresa made in their kitchen.
**The sniffer was Nekofresa's first mob ever designed for Minecraft.
* The plants that sniffers find are based off kniphofia genus of perennial flowering plants, which can be similarly called "torch lilies" as a common name for torchflowers and pitcher pods are loosely based off existing pitcher plants but with an orchid or ornamental vibe.
* The sniffer's walking animation was inspired by the leg movement that centipedes do.
* During the prototype phase for the sniffer's digging up of items the developers used beds as a placeholder.
* Due to the size of the sniffer it was a big challenge for the developers to perfect its pathfinding especially on 1 block edges.
* A new team made up of new developers were tasked with developing the sniffer, and most of them had never made a mob before.
* The sniffer's digging animation was inspired by the way s spread their legs while lying down.
* To this day, the developers still don't know what the sniffer's front yellow part is. Whether it's a beak, a nose, or eyes, or whether it's used for breathing or finding seeds is unknown.
* A baby sniffer is called a snifflet in an article on Minecraft.net and in the achievement "Little Sniffs".
* Original ideas for what a baby sniffer would be called were Sniffling, Snort and Snifflet.
** Mojang developer Cory Scheviak personally calls sniffers "snuffleupaguses".
*The reason why sniffers don’t spawn naturally and are at first only hatched from their preserved eggs is due to the sniffer being extinct prior to the player’s events in Minecraft.
== Gallery ==
===Animations ===
Sniffer walk.gif|A sniffer walking.
Sniffer sniffsniff.gif|A sniffer sniffing.
Sniffer longsniff.gif|A sniffer sniffing for a long time.
Sniffer search.gif|A sniffer searching.
Sniffer dig.gif|A sniffer digging.
Sniffer standup.gif|A sniffer standing up.
Sniffer feeling happy.gif|A sniffer feeling happy.
=== Screenshots===
Digging sniffer.png|A digging sniffer.
Sniffer Party.png|Dozens of player-spawned sniffers.
Sniffer Dies.png|A sniffer dies.
Bedrock 1.20.0.23 PatchNotes.png|A sniffer in a farm of the plants it gives.
Player, Warden, and Sniffer.png|A sniffer compared to a warden and a player.
Sniffer and Frog.jpg|A sniffer and a frog.
===Trails & Tales Event ===
File:Sniffer Hat (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|The Sniffer Hat, an item featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
File:Sniffer Balloon (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|Sniffer Balloon, another item featured in the event.
File:Sniffer Snout Popsicle (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|The Sniffer Snout Popsicle, an item featured in the Trails & Tales Server.
File:Prehistoric Wide (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|An NPC dressed as a Sniffer.
File:Prehistoric Slim A (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|Ditto.
File:Prehistoric Slim B (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|Ditto.
File:Sniffer Carousel (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|Sniffer Carousel
File:Sniffer Hedge (Trails and Tales Summer Event) Render.png|Sniffer Hedge.
File:Sniffer (Trails & Tales Event).png|Secret Sniffer.
=== Cosmetics ===
File:Sniffer Beak.png|Sniffer Beak
File:Sniffer Cap.png|Sniffer Cap by DigiPort
File:Sniffer Ears.png|Sniffer Ears
File:Sniffer Floaties.png|Sniffer Floaty by Diveblocks
File:Sniffer Hat Team Vaeron.png|Sniffer Hat by Team Vaeron
File:Sniffer Head FTB.png|Sniffer Head by FTB
File:Sniffer Head Diamond.png|Secondary Sniffer Head by Diamond Studios
File:Sniffer Head Tristian Productions.png|Tertiary Sniffer Head by Tristan Productions
File:Sniffer Hoodie.png|Sniffer Hoodie
File:Sniffer Hoodie Team Vaeron.png|Secondary Sniffer Hoodie by Team Vaeron
File:Sniffer Hoodie Kuboc.png|Tertiary Sniffer Hoodie by Kuboc Studios
File:Sniffer Hoodie Sapix.png|Additional Sniffer Hoodie by Sapix
File:Sniffer Mask Team Vaeron.png|Sniffer Mask by Team Vaeron
File:Sniffer Mask Kuboc Studios.png|Secondary Sniffer Mask by Kuboc Studios
File:Sniffer Mask DigiPort.png|Tertiary Sniffer Mask by ’'DigiPort’'
File:Sniffer Mask Jolicraft.png|Additional Sniffer Mask by Jolicraft
File:Sniffer Onesie.png|Sniffer Onesie
File:Sniffer Onesie DigiPort.png|Secondary Sniffer Onesie by DigiPort
File:Sniffer Hoodie Diveblocks-5496-4177-853E-81E2F2173415.png|Tertiary Sniffer Onesie by Diveblocks
File:Sniffer Sniffin.png|Sniffer Sniffin’
===Development Images===
JE 1.20 Dev Sniffer 1.jpg|The earlier texture file and model of sniffers.
JE 1.20 Dev Sniffer 2.jpg|An early sniffer splooting.
JE 1.20 Dev Sniffer 3.jpg|An early sniffer in sunset.
Sniffer1.png|The final texture file and model of a sniffer inside of a horizontally flipped image.
1.20 Dev Sniffer lays down.jpg|A sniffer lays down within a desert inside of a horizontally flipped image.
1.20 Dev Sniffer lays.png|A sniffer sploots.
1.20 Dev Sniffer in swamp.png|A sniffer in a swamp.
1.20 Dev Sniffer in snow.png|A sniffer in a snow biome.
1.20 Dev Sniffer in village.png|A sniffer in a village.
Giant Sniffer2.png|Giant sniffer.
Giant Sniffer.png|Giant sniffer rearing up.
Sniffer Digging Up a Bed.png|Sniffer sniffing up a bed.
Sniffer Digging Up a Bed2.png|Sniffer sniffing up a bed. (2) 
===Concept Art===
Sniffer Concept Art.png|Sniffer concept art with rascal and tuff golem.
Sniffer Concept Art2.png|Colorized sniffer concept art.
Sniffer Beak Sketch.png|Sniffer's beak sketch.
Sniffer Centepide Walking.png|A sketch of a centipede walking which was the sniffer's walking animation inspiration. 
Sniffer Walking Animation Sketch.png|Sniffer's walking animation sketch.
Sniffer Concept 1.jpg|Watercolor art for the sniffer
Sniffer Concept 2.jpg|Watercolor art for the sniffer
Sniffer Concept 3.jpg|Watercolor art for the sniffer
Sniffer Concept 4.jpeg|Watercolor art for the sniffer
Sniffer Concept 5.jpeg|Watercolor art for the sniffer
===Official artwork===
Sniffer walk pixel art.gif|Pixel artwork of a sniffer walking.
Snifflet plop pixel art.gif|Pixel artwork of a snifflet splooting down on the ground.
Snifflet sniff pixel art.gif|Pixel artwork of a snifflet sniffing.
File:SnifferPixel.png|Pixel artwork of an adult sniffer.
Sniffer Valentines Art.png|Sniffer valentines artwork.
Sniffers by Cherry Grove Artwork.png|A sniffer and a snifflet near a cherry grove.
Sunny Placing Sniffer Egg in Sand.png|Sunny placing the sniffer egg in sand.
Sunny Celebrating Sniffer Hatching out from Egg.png|Sunny celebrating the snifflet hatching from the sniffer egg.
File:Snifflet Wallpaper.jpg|A wallpaper rendition of the pixel art featuring Sunny and the snifflet.
Camel Crew and Sniffer Squad Xbox Console Giveaway.png|Sniffer Xbox giveaway.
File:Cutout Prehistoric (Trails & Tales Event).png|The Lost World cutout, featured in the Trails & Tales Event.
===Textures===
Sniffer (texture) JE1 BE1.png|Texture of sniffer
===Merchandise===
File:Sniffer Xbox.jpg|The finalized Sniffer Xbox. https://twitter.com/Minecraft/status/1665768603575271425?s=20
== References ==
== External links ==
*Mob Menagerie: Sniffer – Minecraft.net on July 21, 2023
Category:Passive mobs
Category:Animal mobs
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