Minecraft Mob Vote Winner: What the Sniffer Does

Minecraft Live 2022 ended with the Sniffer winning the mob vote, beating both the rascal and the tuff golem. The ancient plant-loving mob returned from extinction through eggs, ruins, and a whole lot of player curiosity.

How Players Find the Sniffer

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When Minecraft 1.20 goes live, the Sniffer does not simply spawn in the Overworld. Players need to recover Sniffer eggs from ruins found across ocean biomes and sandy shores. Once an egg is brought back to land, it can hatch and bring the Sniffer back into the world.

What the Sniffer Does

Sniffers are large, gentle mobs with a dinosaur-like look. After hatching, they wander, sniff around, enjoy flowers, and sleep in the sun. Their confirmed purpose in this source is digging up ancient seeds, which players can grow into new flowers.

That leaves plenty of room for players to wonder whether more plant-related uses could appear later, but the source only confirms ancient seeds and flowers.

Sniffer Breeding Possibilities

Breeding was not confirmed in the source. Still, it would not have been surprising if Mojang planned some version of it, since even the Allay, the previous mob vote winner, later received a way to duplicate. A specific flower setup or ancient seed requirement was possible speculation, not a confirmed feature.

Sniffer Vote Result

The Sniffer won with 55.1% of the vote, making it the first mob in the vote format to receive more than half the total votes. For once, the mob vote was less of a battlefield and more of a flower garden with opinions.