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If you’re looking to decorate your Minecraft home with Pitcher Plants or Torchflowers, you’ll need an ancient mob known as the Sniffer. Introduced in version 1.20, this large-nosed beast serves a purpose true to its name. It can “sniff” out the seeds needed to grow both the Pitcher Plant and Torchflower. However, before you can create a Sniffer farm, you must first understand how to get and hatch a Sniffer Egg in Minecraft.
How Do You Hatch a Sniffer Egg in Minecraft 1.20?
First, using the new Brush tool, you can get Minecraft Sniffer Eggs by excavating Suspicious Sand in Warm Ocean Ruins. Once you’ve discovered at two for breeding, you can return to land to get started on the incubation process. Unlike Turtle Eggs, which hatch on Sand, Sniffer Eggs can hatch on any block within roughly 20 minutes.
However, placing a Sniffer Egg on a Moss block in Minecraft will hatch twice as fast in 10 minutes. Moss blocks spawn within Lush Caves, the temperate Overworld cave biomes that generate beneath Azalea Trees. To find these trees, you must search for Oak-like trees with a yellow-greenish tint and Azaleas blooming all over their leaves. Dig through the Rooted Dirt below to eventually discover the Lush Cave.
As noted above, Sniffer Eggs in Minecraft hatch faster when placed on Moss blocks, but this condition is not a requirement for their incubation. Moreover, Sniffer Eggs can be broken with your bare hands or any tool without the need for Silk Touch. As a result, you can place and relocate the eggs wherever you please.
What Do Sniffers Do in Minecraft 1.20?
Once your Sniffer Egg has hatched, a Snifflet will appear, the baby variation of its adult Sniffer form. After roughly 40 minutes, the young passive mob will turn into a Sniffer, which will then search for Pitcher Pods and Torchflower Seeds. As long as Sniffers have a 6×6 space of suitable blocks surrounding them, they can farm as many Pitcher Pods and Torchflower Seeds as possible. Torchflower Seeds, in particular, are the resource used for breeding Sniffers.
Sniffers can dig up seeds and pods from any block that can have Saplings planted atop them. These blocks include Dirt, Grass blocks, Podzol, Coarse Dirt, Rooted Dirt, Moss blocks, Mud, and Muddy Mangrove Roots. Unlike the hatching process with their eggs, Sniffers do not discover seeds faster if they are grazing atop Moss blocks.
The purpose of Pitcher Plants and Torchflowers is solely for decorating as of version 1.20. You can turn both into Cyan and Orange Dye, respectively, but such use is not recommended due to their rarity. If you’d like a video reference of how Sniffer Eggs are hatched in Minecraft, here’s a YouTube video by Jax and Wild:
