Sniffer

A sniffer is an ancient passive mob that digs seeds out of the ground and loves to sniff.

Spawning
Sniffers spawn by hatching from sniffer eggs found in suspicious sand from warm ocean ruins. Breeding sniffers with torchflower seeds will also result in a sniffer egg. They can also be spawned from a spawn egg or commands.

Drops
When killed, sniffers drop:
 * experience points, if killed by a player or a tamed wolf.

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 and when they find a seed, they drop to the ground and use their noses to dig into the ground until they get torchflower seeds or a pitcher pod. A sniffer needs, at least, a 6×6 space to sniff out ancient seeds and after sniffing out seeds, an eight minutes cooldown is activated before it can dig in again.

The following blocks are diggable by the sniffer:

Breeding
The player can feed the sniffers using torchflower seeds. When feeding them, the adult sniffers breed to create a snifflet. Parents have a five 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.

Sounds
Sniffers use the Friendly Creatures sound category for entity-dependent sound events.



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Entity data
Sniffers have entity data associated with them that contain various properties.






 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.