Minecraft Sniffer: How to get Sniffer Eggs and Pitcher Plants
Minecraft 1.20, the Trails & Tales update, is getting ever closer on the horizon, and although Sniffers have been in the snapshots for a little while now, they finally have some added functionality in Snapshot 23w12a. We’ve put this guide together to tell you everything you need to know about Sniffers, and the items it can provide, like Pitcher Plants.
If you want to know more about what's coming in Minecraft 1.20, check out our guide for the new Minecraft Trail Ruins and Minecraft Armor Trims.
How to get a Sniffer in Minecraft
Sniffers are adorable Minecraft mobs that wander around searching for ancient seeds.
To get a Sniffer you’re going to have to play around with the new archeology mechanics. Go diving into Warm Ocean Ruins, which can be found under the water in Warm Ocean biomes, and look for Suspicious Sand. This sand is almost imperceptibly different from regular sand, and you’ll need to use a brush to have a chance of getting a Sniffer Egg – using a shovel or letting it drop with gravity will destroy it.
Once you have a Sniffer Egg you have to place it on the ground and wait for it to hatch in about 20 minutes, but if you place it on a Moss block, the egg will hatch in roughly half the time. You must also be within 128 blocks for that timer to count down.
The egg will eventually hatch into a Sniffling, and at that point you’ve got to do a bit more waiting for it to grow into a fully-grown Sniffer.
As an adult, Sniffers will wander around and, assuming it is standing on any kind of grass, dirt, moss, or mud block, will occasionally catch the scent of something underground. It’s head will tilt towards the ground as it searches, eventually starting to dig when it finds what it was looking for.
Currently, they can dig up one of two items, Torchflower Seeds or Pitcher Pods.
Torchflower Seeds can be used to breed Sniffers, so once you’ve hunted up two in ruins you can just breed them from then on. Pitcher Pods, meanwhile, can be planets to grow into two-block tall Pitcher Plants
What are Minecraft Pitcher Plants?
Minecraft Pitcher Plants eventually grow into something quite beautiful.
As previously mentioned, you obtain Pitcher Plants by planting and eventually harvesting Pitcher Pods. They must be placed on a farmland tile, which you get by using a hoe on dirt – it must also have a water source within four blocks.
Currently, Pitcher Plants have no functionality in Minecraft, but they’ve only just been added in the latest snapshot. They’re sure to have a purpose within a few weeks, and we’ll update you on what they do as soon as it’s revealed.
