Sniffer

A sniffer is a passive mob that does not spawn naturally, and can only be hatched from sniffer eggs found through archaeology. It sniffs out and digs seeds for various unique decorative plants out of dirt 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 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 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.

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.

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.