Sniffer

A sniffer is an ancient passive mob that digs ancient seeds out of the ground.

Spawning
Currently, sniffers can only be spawned using a spawn egg or using commands.

Drops
When killed, sniffers drop:
 * experience points, if killed by a player or tamed wolf.
 * 10% chance of dropping a if killed by a player or tamed wolf. Looting increases the chance by 2% per level, for a maximum of 16% with Looting III.

Behavior
Sniffers wander aimlessly, avoiding hazards and obstacles. Occasionally smell their surroundings and track 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 the ground until they get a torchflower seeds.

Breeding
The player can feed the sniffers using torchflower seeds, when feeding them the adult sniffers go into love mode and breed to create a snifflet. Parents have a five minute cooldown before they can breed again.

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



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






 * See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

Trivia

 * A baby sniffer is called a snifflet.