Minecraft Sniffer

Minecraft sniffer: the egg, ancient seeds and breeding

The sniffer is an ancient, passive mob that never spawns on its own. It only hatches from a sniffer egg, and the first one has to be found in the suspicious sand of warm ocean ruins, using a brush. Once placed, the egg hatches after 10 minutes on moss or 20 minutes on any other block.

Its job is sniffing. It presses its snout to the ground until it finds something, then sploots with its legs stretched out and digs up torchflower seeds or a pitcher pod, with equal odds. Those are the two ancient plants, and there is no other way to get them. After each find it waits 8 minutes before searching again and remembers its last 20 dig spots.

It only digs in dirt, coarse dirt, grass, moss, pale moss, mud, muddy mangrove roots, rooted dirt and podzol, and never in mycelium. It cannot dig while leashed, in water, in a boat or minecart, panicking or following someone holding seeds. So if you want it to dig, let it roam a pen with a dirt or grass floor.

To breed it, use torchflower seeds on two adults. No baby appears right away; instead they drop another egg. The baby, called a snifflet, takes 40 minutes to grow, twice as long as most animals, does not follow the adults and cannot dig. Its sploot was inspired by the way corgis stretch out.

Sources: minecraft.wiki/Sniffer