Minecraft Sniffers Explained: Spawn Locations, What They Eat, And How To Hatch Sniffer Eggs

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Here's everything you need to know about Sniffers.

By Luis Joshua Gutierrez on

The 1.20 update for Minecraft is here, and with the Trails and Tales update comes a wide variety of new content, such as Sniffers. A new passive mob that doesn't spawn naturally and can only be found by doing a specific task. But once you spawn them, Sniffers can find all sorts of buried items for you that'll make life a little bit easier for you in your Minecraft world. This guide will detail everything you'll need to know about Sniffers.

Sniffers tend to wander around aimlessly, smelling the ground. They use their noses to sniff around until they find Torchflower Seeds or aPitcher Pod. But for them to find something, they'll need at least a 6x6 space to sniff it out, and after they find an item, there's an eight-minute cooldown before they can perform the task again. Listed below are all the blocks they can dig from:

If you or a tamed wolf kills an adult Sniffer, you'll earn anywhere from one to three XP, and if you murder a baby, you'll earn nothing but guilt.

Sniffers are a rare kind of mob because they're one of the few that don't spawn naturally. For one to spawn, you'll first need to find a Sniffer egg when they're brushed out from suspicious sand in warm ocean ruins or when two adult Sniffers breed. Warm Ocean Ruins can usually be found in Desert and Badland Biomes.

After you've obtained an egg, all you need to do is place it down somewhere, and it'll begin to hatch over time. But if you place a Sniffers Egg on a Moss Block, it'll hatch within ten minutes.

The only thing Sniffers eat are Torchflower Seeds. The only way to get these is by finding and hatching a Sniffer Egg first. But once you feed a torchflower seed to them, it'll heal them