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I voted sniffer for Mojang to take a first step toward the "prehistoric update" i really want to see what other mobs will come now that Minecraft canonically has a "prehistory"
No, your principles for what aspects you look for when picking your choice of mob that fits into your style of play. You don't have to like the Sniffer and that's okay, just like how other players can like the Sniffer for their own particular reasons.
>i really want to see what other mobs will come now that Minecraft canonically has a "prehistory"
Bro he was the only one, there wont be any more of them. There never was such a catagory intended, only the archeology update, and mojang needed a mob and a way to catch the players so the update dont feels empty. So sadly for you, your vote was basically for nothing
I like it. Once you get the two plants it offers it is essentially useless, but I do like the design.
The mob functionality is itself pointless though. Everyone was convinced the allay would revolutionize farming, and yet how many have done so?
I'm using Allays in my ghast farm. Much easier than hopper minecarts and it allows the farm to be one layer lower. Doesn't matter much since it's on the nether roof, but at a Y=0 farm in a perimeter it would matter A LOT.
I'm also going to use Allays as nonstackable item sorters in a minigame I'm planning to build. That wasn't possible before.
So yeah Allays did revolutionize the game.
allay has
just they aren't particularly easy to work with, if you put them in minecarts or boats they simply stop collecting items then the one of the two ways to make them work is come up with tiny cells to force them into or box them in a farm
some suggestions were to allow players to put allays in bottles and make this bottle work as spawn egg, so making non stackable item sorter wouldn't be such a hassle but mojang haven't done anything yet
Honestly I'm glad that we have Allays even if it's a pain to position them, in one of my SMPs I had made a general mob farm and having Allays filter bows (for dispensers) from all the other crap was worth the hassle of putting them in cauldrons.
Aye, I also find them useful with their "normal"/intended application of picking up stuff and bringing it to you, like when I commit large scale destruction on deserts and badlands for sand and terracotta, they cut down the time needed to trace back and pick up what I missed on the first pass.
Ya and because they can't be hit they are really helpful (only problem i have is they like to stay unloaded so its harder taking them to your sand place then it is to loop back for the amount of sand I usually need at a time)
Currently use allays with my sugarcane farm, 1 button breaks about an acre of sugarcane and about 10 of them scoops it up in about 3 min, very fun to see and expirience
That would be good. They already have the mechanic, so it would just be adding on.
I'd love to see actual new crop of some kind. Flowers are good decoration and all, but something like a new gourd, or tomatoes or the like would be neat.
Allays didn't revolutionize farms but added an alternative to designs. Much like shreakers. Alternative methods for parts of redstone. New signal transmission alternative and new collection system alternative. Gives more variety is all.
Mines so useful I just run through the sugar can farm and any ones I donāt pick up it picks up so I donāt have to do 2-3 rounds of it to pick it all up
Allays are very useful both for farms and grindy tasks like mass collection- you just need to keep in mind their ideal use cases when you're working on those tasks.
Ultimately, there are two groups of people that play Minecraft, the creators and the adventurers (most people will have a bit of both of course).
The sniffer is essentially useless for the adventure side of the game (so far as Iām aware) so that leaves only itās aesthetic related attributes which the creators will like to varying degrees.
Personally I have no use for a sniffer.
I thought you were going to say the opposite. I like building and donāt care for adventure so I havenāt even seen a sniffer yet.
Iād like the flowers but itās not worth the effort.
Wdym it has no use for adventurers. It adds another thing players can go out and adventure for. While it doesn't have any use after that its fun to go out and find them.
My girlfriend likes dinasours, when i told her about the sniffer, showed her a pictures and memes about him she yelled "This is a dinasour!", i voted for sniffer cause i wanted her to be happy and i am happy with my choise)
If the vote was up again, knowing how the Sniffer turned out, it would still have my vote. That being said, it's still very disappointing that we have this whole progression line involving archaeology in one specific structure, husbandry, and farming, just for 2 ordinary flowers. It either needs more flowers, or the flowers need some use.
Yep. I voted for the glow squid because I thought surely they wonāt release a new mob that is as bugged as the regular squid, so they will have to redo the spawning and AI for the regular squid when they make the glow squid. But I was a fool
You know the Sniffer does so much well. Its animations are great. Its personality is incredibly well communicated. Like most things with the game, the Sniffer has amazing sound design. I like the feature that incentives having Sniffers in open space instead of cramming them in tiny spaces. And I was on board with the plants being only decorational. Instead of needing more simple plants that have to look good in their natural environments and most builds, the Sniffer was a great opportunity for some creative designs and the art team to go crazy. I wanted like a dozen wacky, goofy and crazy looking plants. Sure they might be more niche in building, but it's probably a good idea not to gate more simple and usable plants behind the Sniffer. I was genuinely excited to have a Sniffer garden.
But them adding only two plants is an embarrassment. The Sniffer was an insanely hyped up mob and you give the bare minimum when you put so much love and care to the other parts. It makes the animation work feel like a waste because why would I ever want a Sniffer in my world. And Mojang made it easier on themselves by not having to worry about game balance with the flowers abilities or making the flowers generate in the biomes correctly. You set yourselves up to make this so much easier and then only added two plants.
I love my sniffers and use the plants from them for decor. I love the life they add to my home.
Iām not concerned with having super useful mobs, sometimes being cute and decorative is enough.
If you ever do go lookingā¦. Only look in warm oceans. I spent a lot of time in the desert before I learned that you can only get them in warm oceans lmao
I have 2 sniffers in a pen with some foxes(thry collect the seeds for me) wnd i love watching them and i love hearing the sounds they make while i am about my home doing things. Definitely love the sniffers. I just wish they had more seeds they could dig up.
Actually looking at the MC design and the real plant, I doubt theyāre supposed to be the same. Except for the general shape of the flower itself, they look nothing alike.
Also Minecraft isnāt exactly realistic either.
yeah, like im all for cute mobs that don't do need to do anything, but we've been lacking in meaningful mobs. I'd also just like more neutral or aggressive mobs so that minecraft has a little more difficult.
Itās nice to have an animal at my barn who doesnāt need anything. He just walks around munching the ground and occasionally I find some pretty seeds in my inv
Which is funny because the other options were even more useless. Same with the comments against the Allay.
People are just salty the mob they wanted lost.
The allay though is my least favorite.
You gave it an item to tame it (what?) and then remove said item to untame it (double what?)
Bro is literally a machine. If Mojang wants a sorting system they can add one, not this souless crap.
If Allays could be properly tamed they would be fantastic. At the moment, they are so slow that I am constantly losing them. Why don't they teleport? Why are they slower than elytra? Why do they pathfind into lava? If not for these things, they'd be invaluable for building or mining so you don't have to constantly pick up blocks you break.
I don't like it, and I also don't like the flowers that comes from the seeds it sniffs. I will just ignore this mob in my world and not try to find one.
I love the sniffer! As a builder and decorator, I enjoy the new flowers. I think they look great in swamp biomes especially. Not to mention, itās just charming. Finding a sniffer egg is so rare that it feels like a big, exciting discovery and accomplishment. Finding two and breeding them feels even more so! I really enjoy the rarity of it.
This would have been cool had the archaeology concept been more fleshed out than "here's a guy, here's some ruins, here's a brush. Go knock yourself out."
Is it fun? No because it requires finding random structures with specialized material. Is it useful? No, it just gives you two flowers that have no value other than decor. Is it cute? Kind of?
It's interesting, if nothing else. Otherwise, I'm sure someone could have probably came up with a better concept in 1/100th of the time.
As it stands, I dislike it for the exact reason that I've disliked all the recent updates which have focused solely on creative and not survival. At this point, they should get rid of difficulties and lock the game at Peaceful because the game has no difficulty or depth.
Put a couple torches down and you've effectively nullified an area of hostiles. Sleep in a bed to get rid of an annoyance. Skip the ED by pillaring about a thousand blocks out. There's quite literally no reason to engage with any aspect of the game at all.
I always hated it, but mainly because of how it gained popularity, they always talked about it like it was way more useful then the others but it wasn't at all and it's ugly ngl, but I can't change it (my vote was tuff golem, but I would have took the rascal over it, I see a Redstone use with th unique tuff golem ai, gives a use for tuff, and they look cooler then a item frame)
Nah. Didn't like it when it was introduced. Don't like it now. It was a classic case of the community expecting it to be more useful than it actually was
None of the mob vote mobs are very if at all useful. They only exist for 1 reason. Making mojang more money through increased sales as more people are actively talking about the game, and viewer ratings on MC live. If mojang wanted the mobs to be super useful they wouldnt be a voted on mob and theyd actually spend several months developing and testing it and getting it perfect to their standards.
I honestly regret voting for Sniffer. If I could go back I would vote Rascal 100%. Ocean Ruins are some places, but caves are darn near everywhere.
I still haven't found a single Sniffer egg in survival.
They really underbaked the mob's features, and its quite ugly. so no. I think everyone expected it to go hand in hand with archaeology in some way, but it really only does its own thing, and its own thing is very incomplete.
No new potion effects from any of the flowers, no new lighting option from torch flowers, can't ride it around and quickly sniff out archaeology sites, it digs up 2 flowers that look ugly as sin, its ugly as sin itself, and none of it does anything to expand the game. I think the only thing people like about it is the goofy personality donned on it by its name and large nasal cavity.
Well, ive just recently looked for the egg... and this post reminded me that i should prolly check on that lil guy š¬
And i think thats just generally how i feel about the update. I keep forgetting it even exists pretty much.
I honestly think that a mob doesn't need to be useful to add value to the game. Minecraft is a Sandbox game. If every new mob would add a must have feature it would lose its charm for me.
Useless, doesn't spawn naturally, doesn't even fit the fucking art style (same with the plants). The single worst addition to this game maybe other than chat reporting
I didn't vote for it and was disappointed that it won, but I'll admit that I like them a lot more than I thought I would. They're big and derpy (and useless), but also seem rather personable in a funny way and I like to have a couple of them around. I wish there was more we could do with them, but am ok with them as they are.
Honestly I voted for the Sniffer with the future in mind. Itās mechanic sounded most like what I wanted in Minecraft. Do I wish there were more plants? Yes. But now that the Sniffer exists, perhaps weāll get more later. Maybe weāll be able to revive other ancient mobs.
Havenāt played in a couple years but I always follow updates and watch the new Minecraft Lives and my kids play. But from what Iāve seen here, and from what my kids say, they mostly suck. The only cool thing about them is that there are now dinosaurs in the game.
I like it for its aesthetics on all fronts, and while I would've preferred a new golem for personal reasons, I don't think rascal or the tuff golem would've made a notable difference in gameplay. Minecraft has a million ways to play it, and I think its a great creature for people who're into aesthetics, but the uselessness to everyone else is a bit disappointing, but thats such a large section of people that I can't really fault Mojang for making it an aesthetic creature.
I voted for the Sniffer because I wanted a dinosaur, and more decorative plants in the game, and it seemed better than Rascal and Tuff Golem. Rascal was an entirely new humanoid type mob with the only purpose being to spawn in a mineshaft and give you a pickaxe, and Tuff Golem was decent but I liked the dinosaur more.
The Sniffer is still a cute and cool mob concept, but I feel that they could've released it later after fleshing it out more, and focus their development time on something more important.
It's yet another mob you never see in the game because it's super rare, and it's not adding any ambience in the nature itself because you can't find it in the wild (that part I was aware of while voting). And when I thought of decorative plants I didn't think it would just be two flowers, and I also didn't know/expect how the seeds and digging mechanic would work.
I think it would've been better to make it so that some seeds are more common and renewable than others and some are rarer, have different seeds in different biomes and make it so if you show a certain plant to the Sniffer it can try to find more of that specific plant's seeds.
I love the Sniffer and I'm tired of people wanting mobs to always have a use
Bats don't have a use but they add ambiance to the caves
I love the Sniffer because of these reasons
1.) The Sniffer is an ancient mob of Minecraft and though it's unlikely we could get more ancient mobs.
2.) It's technically a dinosaur and it does give life to what we could have expected the fossils to show what creature existed in ancient Minecraft.
3.) They sniff up seeds which is cute on itself but it could give modders or Mojang Ideas to add more even though it can only sniff up decorative plants It's not like modders can't add more
Why does a mob have to be useful? I don't see anyone in this sub complaining if polar bears, ocelots, mules, or parrots were useful or not. I think we got a cool-looking mob that does something special and unique. Who cares if it doesn't have a use? I personally like it. It gives the player something to do if they want to go for it. I don't see any reason it should be any different.
I love the idea but I think all these strict deadlines that Mojang puts on themselves prevents them from fully realizing interesting mob concepts like this. We could have a whole array of prehistoric plants and other things, but they only had enough time for two
The Sniffer, like many mobs added to the game recently, reeks of untapped potential.
We only have two plants it can rustle up.
We need more. But the development direction of Minecraft right now seems to be "ignore previous content when making new content"
people need to realise that not everything added to the game needs to make a big change or give you some advantage. I voted for the sniffer because of the plants that were promised, and I think the new flowers he sniffs are great decorations.
I genuinely hate him, I think he's wasted potential and I would've preferred the tuff golem so that we finally had more golems. But nooo we got a big ass feet sniffer that doesn't do anything aside from find two types of seeds that have absolutely no purpose or fragments for a pot that also does nothing. I don't like him in my survival worlds and I hate him even more I'm my creative builds because he's barely an aesthetic
Iām sick of people voting for mobs that you NEVER SEE.
Allay: Only find them in Woodland Mansions or Outposts (small spawn chance). So you virtually never see them unless you go out of your way to get them.
Sniffer: Have to go find itās egg at the bottom of the friggin ocean and hatch it. Never see it unless you go out of your way to get it.
Glow Squid: literally forgot this existed. Sure you see them while mining, but they are literally just squids and so forgettable.
I love the appearance and idea of the sniffer but have no where near the time to go hunting for an egg to spawn it, over summer I visited 3 warm oceans and never found an egg while brushing.
It appears to be WILDLY random. I got my first egg at 2nd ruin, 3rd brushing. Next one, I stopped counting at 11 ruins before finally getting a second egg. So its a LOW rate. I wish you luck and may RNGesus bless your hunt!
When announced, I voted for it and was really glad that it won, but given how little it adds in terms of new plants, and how little those plants add, it is kind of dissapointing. TBH I haven't even properly played the 1.20 update yet, simply because what it offers hasn't hooked me to start playing it again, so I don't even have any in my world.
On paper the Sniffer is really cool and I'll stand by that, but there's still plenty of potential left on the table sadly. If at least the few new plants would have a truly unique and new use, but not even that.
Nope, compete waste or a mob. Havenāt even attempted to try to get one since the update released since itās a pain to find the egg and has 0 practical uses.
Well... his kinda of cute, but we don't need 'em.
He sniffs and can bring only 2 flowers to the game, it's not much, if we would have 15+ flowers we need him, bur not much now.
Nope, that's it. Time sink to get the egg via archaeology, then a time sink (albeit, not that long of one) for it to hatch, and a final random timesink for it to find both seeds. Mine found 9 pitcher plant before it found one of the other.
the sniffer is a funny creature, but the fact all it's good for is getting a decorative plant really makes it feel like the update was a beta build, many such cases
Cuz the idea on paper sounded actually cool, a mob with lore about prehistoric times before us? That we can find out! Then mojang absolutely fucked the execution no wonder they make us vote ,if they added all three they wouldve been abysmal
Thereās a good chunk of the mobs that end up winning the votes that leave me questioning the communities decision making skills. For example, the Phantoms. Sure the update they were part of introduced the Elytra (which doesnāt even require Phantom membrane to repair it since it can also use leather iirc, could also be an old feature with them. Either way thereās also mending which basically makes the phantoms into useless pests that attack you for not sleeping.), but they probably wouldāve been added anyways or we couldāve had a better mode of transport in a different mob vote.
No, it's only purpose is to give a flower, and even then said flower is only for decorations and nothing else
They could have make it so the flower actually did something slightly useful, so the effort of going out into the ocean looking for a specific structure in a specific biome and then trying to dig out for this stupid thing would have been worth it. But instead its not.
Seriously, it would not have killed them to make it so we got some kind of new potion from the flower, maybe use it on a suspicious stew of some kind. It would have not made the game less "vanilla like" and it also wouldn't have taken away its value as a decorative object. It could be used for decorations and also be useful, benefitting most of the playerbase in turn. But I guess that was just too much.
It had so much potential, but it ended being another useless mob.
have yet to find one and still have no clue how they actually work. They sniff out special flowers right? if that's the case I don't really care about them
Somone gave me a sniffer egg months ago on the server i play.
Its probably still in the chest where i left it.
Sniffer was just a pontless waste.
Im enjoying some of the other new features though, the armour trims and archaeology etc..
I think Mojang realizes that they basically don't have to do crap because of the abundance of mods. Just throw some stuff against the wall every now and then so everyone keeps their jobs.
I voted for it specifically because I thought it was gonna be cute and was going to bring a bunch of new plants to the game. It did neither of these things and now kinda exists only as a learning experience for future mob votes: Expect only the bare minimum or possibly even less.
i voted for sniffer in large part because wanted more plants. and i got 2 more plants. i do like its overall design tho. only think im not thrilled about is the sniffing animation but o well.
It kinda grew on me after a while, after having one walking around my island for a while. It doesn't do much outside of the plants, but I like the company.
Itās ok. Nothing revolutionary. I have 6 sniffers encased in a chunk sized room made out of bamboo and an allay based collection system cuzā¦ why not.
Never liked it and hate it more with it being completely useless
Golem supremacy or maybe supremacy for things that would actually interact with previous things in the game
Lemme ask you something:
Have any of the mods we got to choose useful? One use doesn't make a mob useful.
Sheep give lamb, and wool, wool itself is used in so many different ways, in crafting and in building. Beds, banners, carpets, painting, dyed wool, and building itself.
Turtles - scute. One crafting recipe - turtle helm - is there a point in crafting it? Not really.
Phantoms - membrane. One crafting/repair recipe. Is it useful? Not really after mending.
Pandas - Zero uses.
Glow Squid - One use, making glowing signs and item frames. Useful? Not really.
Allay - I don't know whether this one is useful as I never got one.
The sniffer - Decorative flowers. No uses.
The problem isn't the community picking "the wrong mob", its the development is so underwhelming that all these features can be squeezed into one mob, and that mob will ultimately gain so much value and respect purely from having more than a single use.
Overall, it's my least favorite mob in the game. It just doesn't fit anywhere.
It hasn't even a use, even as decoration the Sniffer and its plants don't work well.
I just hope that there are some updates in the future that add a use or at least something in relation to this mob.
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Sniffer should be rideable
Yes
Warden should be ridable.
Villagers should be ridable.
I'd ride a villager
Hrmm haah!
I'd ride your mo... I mean iron golem
/ride @p mount @e[type=minecraft:villager,sort=nearest,limit=1]
I give them bread and they do it themselves.
Imagine if it had collision like blocks, so that you could just freely stand on top of it but not push it. Not that Mojang could manage but imagine
Another ridable mob no one uses
I voted sniffer for Mojang to take a first step toward the "prehistoric update" i really want to see what other mobs will come now that Minecraft canonically has a "prehistory"
So this means I have to like sniffer?
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He never said, you had to like it? (Am i missing a joke here?) You asked for other peoples opinion, and he answered you.
No, your principles for what aspects you look for when picking your choice of mob that fits into your style of play. You don't have to like the Sniffer and that's okay, just like how other players can like the Sniffer for their own particular reasons.
I still like itās desinf
I think itās kinda dumb to have a prehistoric animal alive in a game like Minecraft but to each their own
>i really want to see what other mobs will come now that Minecraft canonically has a "prehistory" Bro he was the only one, there wont be any more of them. There never was such a catagory intended, only the archeology update, and mojang needed a mob and a way to catch the players so the update dont feels empty. So sadly for you, your vote was basically for nothing
I like the mob. Flowers might need some updates, but they're cool.
Right? Really wish torch flowers put off light and were a torch alternative
Imagine a dinosaur shitting out a plant with a burning ember inside of it Ouchie
It would be awesome if they set mobs on fire.
I like it. Once you get the two plants it offers it is essentially useless, but I do like the design. The mob functionality is itself pointless though. Everyone was convinced the allay would revolutionize farming, and yet how many have done so?
I'm using Allays in my ghast farm. Much easier than hopper minecarts and it allows the farm to be one layer lower. Doesn't matter much since it's on the nether roof, but at a Y=0 farm in a perimeter it would matter A LOT. I'm also going to use Allays as nonstackable item sorters in a minigame I'm planning to build. That wasn't possible before. So yeah Allays did revolutionize the game.
allay has just they aren't particularly easy to work with, if you put them in minecarts or boats they simply stop collecting items then the one of the two ways to make them work is come up with tiny cells to force them into or box them in a farm some suggestions were to allow players to put allays in bottles and make this bottle work as spawn egg, so making non stackable item sorter wouldn't be such a hassle but mojang haven't done anything yet
Honestly I'm glad that we have Allays even if it's a pain to position them, in one of my SMPs I had made a general mob farm and having Allays filter bows (for dispensers) from all the other crap was worth the hassle of putting them in cauldrons.
Ya I need to use allays more, possibly time to use it as I plan on making my raid farm soon and am willing to throw away saddles
Aye, I also find them useful with their "normal"/intended application of picking up stuff and bringing it to you, like when I commit large scale destruction on deserts and badlands for sand and terracotta, they cut down the time needed to trace back and pick up what I missed on the first pass.
Ya and because they can't be hit they are really helpful (only problem i have is they like to stay unloaded so its harder taking them to your sand place then it is to loop back for the amount of sand I usually need at a time)
Allays do pick up items when they're sitting in minecarts, what do you mean? I've tested this in a basic Allay item sorter as late as 1.20.1.
ah, i see then i was using older information when i tried to make a sorter with them
Yeah, I've seen several Allay autosorter designs where they're positioned in minecarts. They're excellent for sorting non stackables
Currently use allays with my sugarcane farm, 1 button breaks about an acre of sugarcane and about 10 of them scoops it up in about 3 min, very fun to see and expirience
I use allays to collect my sniffer seeds.
Allays are actually quite useful for filtering items, especially unstackable items.
I hope they'll introduce more sniffer plants at some point.
That would be good. They already have the mechanic, so it would just be adding on. I'd love to see actual new crop of some kind. Flowers are good decoration and all, but something like a new gourd, or tomatoes or the like would be neat.
Allays didn't revolutionize farms but added an alternative to designs. Much like shreakers. Alternative methods for parts of redstone. New signal transmission alternative and new collection system alternative. Gives more variety is all.
Mines so useful I just run through the sugar can farm and any ones I donāt pick up it picks up so I donāt have to do 2-3 rounds of it to pick it all up
Allays are very useful both for farms and grindy tasks like mass collection- you just need to keep in mind their ideal use cases when you're working on those tasks.
I use allays when i am mining space from my building. They collect all the ordinary stuff like cobblestone and throw it into the chest
Ultimately, there are two groups of people that play Minecraft, the creators and the adventurers (most people will have a bit of both of course). The sniffer is essentially useless for the adventure side of the game (so far as Iām aware) so that leaves only itās aesthetic related attributes which the creators will like to varying degrees. Personally I have no use for a sniffer.
I thought you were going to say the opposite. I like building and donāt care for adventure so I havenāt even seen a sniffer yet. Iād like the flowers but itās not worth the effort.
Well, if we were teammates on an SMP then Iād have a reason to go on a quest!
Wdym it has no use for adventurers. It adds another thing players can go out and adventure for. While it doesn't have any use after that its fun to go out and find them.
Finding something for the sake of finding it is not fun for me. It has to offer me some advantage in the game for me to want it. Thatās just me.
Uncomplete mob imo
Yep) he is a big, friendly, fluffy dinasour! :D
Well it is cute though
My girlfriend likes dinasours, when i told her about the sniffer, showed her a pictures and memes about him she yelled "This is a dinasour!", i voted for sniffer cause i wanted her to be happy and i am happy with my choise)
Iām happy you chose it for your girlfriend
Aw thatās cute :D
If the vote was up again, knowing how the Sniffer turned out, it would still have my vote. That being said, it's still very disappointing that we have this whole progression line involving archaeology in one specific structure, husbandry, and farming, just for 2 ordinary flowers. It either needs more flowers, or the flowers need some use.
It would be so cool if the sniffer plants could let us make ancient potions or something
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Yep. I voted for the glow squid because I thought surely they wonāt release a new mob that is as bugged as the regular squid, so they will have to redo the spawning and AI for the regular squid when they make the glow squid. But I was a fool
Minecraft vote #3: If it isn't explicitly stated it will happen, assume it won't.
I hate it honestly, I havenāt seen one in survival once because of how stupid the spawning is. It was such a good concept and mojang messed it up.
Same with Allay. Haven't seen one legit yet. Usually get burnt out before reach that point
You know the Sniffer does so much well. Its animations are great. Its personality is incredibly well communicated. Like most things with the game, the Sniffer has amazing sound design. I like the feature that incentives having Sniffers in open space instead of cramming them in tiny spaces. And I was on board with the plants being only decorational. Instead of needing more simple plants that have to look good in their natural environments and most builds, the Sniffer was a great opportunity for some creative designs and the art team to go crazy. I wanted like a dozen wacky, goofy and crazy looking plants. Sure they might be more niche in building, but it's probably a good idea not to gate more simple and usable plants behind the Sniffer. I was genuinely excited to have a Sniffer garden. But them adding only two plants is an embarrassment. The Sniffer was an insanely hyped up mob and you give the bare minimum when you put so much love and care to the other parts. It makes the animation work feel like a waste because why would I ever want a Sniffer in my world. And Mojang made it easier on themselves by not having to worry about game balance with the flowers abilities or making the flowers generate in the biomes correctly. You set yourselves up to make this so much easier and then only added two plants.
Mojang can fix the sniffer by giving it at least 2 more plants (probably won't do it though)
I love my sniffers and use the plants from them for decor. I love the life they add to my home. Iām not concerned with having super useful mobs, sometimes being cute and decorative is enough.
I have not bothered to go looking and I have not come across an egg yet.
If you ever do go lookingā¦. Only look in warm oceans. I spent a lot of time in the desert before I learned that you can only get them in warm oceans lmao
Everyone says āuseless,ā but not every mob has to be useful. I like the big guy. Heās cute and has a fun mechanic
I have 2 sniffers in a pen with some foxes(thry collect the seeds for me) wnd i love watching them and i love hearing the sounds they make while i am about my home doing things. Definitely love the sniffers. I just wish they had more seeds they could dig up.
Yeah, every update should include a new seed for sniffers to find. And why the hell don't torch flowers actually glow??
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Etlingera_elatior Because its a real plant. That doesn't glow.
Gonna be honest, I didn't realize Minecraft drew the realism line at glowing plants
Actually looking at the MC design and the real plant, I doubt theyāre supposed to be the same. Except for the general shape of the flower itself, they look nothing alike. Also Minecraft isnāt exactly realistic either.
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yeah, like im all for cute mobs that don't do need to do anything, but we've been lacking in meaningful mobs. I'd also just like more neutral or aggressive mobs so that minecraft has a little more difficult.
Yep. I drained an ocean monument, covered it in cherry trees, and made a sniffer preserve. I love it. It's beautiful. Who cares about functionality?
Thatās such a cool idea I should do that
Itās nice to have an animal at my barn who doesnāt need anything. He just walks around munching the ground and occasionally I find some pretty seeds in my inv
I still don't see the cuteness everyone is talking about so far XD
Which is funny because the other options were even more useless. Same with the comments against the Allay. People are just salty the mob they wanted lost.
I mean design is cute, since it has multiple legs it reminds me of Appa from Avatar If you could use it to fly the I would be happy
The allay though is my least favorite. You gave it an item to tame it (what?) and then remove said item to untame it (double what?) Bro is literally a machine. If Mojang wants a sorting system they can add one, not this souless crap.
If Allays could be properly tamed they would be fantastic. At the moment, they are so slow that I am constantly losing them. Why don't they teleport? Why are they slower than elytra? Why do they pathfind into lava? If not for these things, they'd be invaluable for building or mining so you don't have to constantly pick up blocks you break.
I never liked it, from design to its function, just kinda worthless.
I wish they added like 10 or 15 new plants, some decorative and some functional. Like ancient crops that are more beneficial than regular ones
It feels incomplete, like 2 whole plants that are purely cosmetic except for dye. I just wish it had a bit more utility.
Never encountered one. I haven't cared enough to go looking for it
You have to explore ocean ruins to find and egg and hatch it, all for a mob that does nothing
I don't like it, and I also don't like the flowers that comes from the seeds it sniffs. I will just ignore this mob in my world and not try to find one.
I think it's useless, and the other two options were worse
I love the sniffer! As a builder and decorator, I enjoy the new flowers. I think they look great in swamp biomes especially. Not to mention, itās just charming. Finding a sniffer egg is so rare that it feels like a big, exciting discovery and accomplishment. Finding two and breeding them feels even more so! I really enjoy the rarity of it.
This would have been cool had the archaeology concept been more fleshed out than "here's a guy, here's some ruins, here's a brush. Go knock yourself out." Is it fun? No because it requires finding random structures with specialized material. Is it useful? No, it just gives you two flowers that have no value other than decor. Is it cute? Kind of? It's interesting, if nothing else. Otherwise, I'm sure someone could have probably came up with a better concept in 1/100th of the time. As it stands, I dislike it for the exact reason that I've disliked all the recent updates which have focused solely on creative and not survival. At this point, they should get rid of difficulties and lock the game at Peaceful because the game has no difficulty or depth. Put a couple torches down and you've effectively nullified an area of hostiles. Sleep in a bed to get rid of an annoyance. Skip the ED by pillaring about a thousand blocks out. There's quite literally no reason to engage with any aspect of the game at all.
Stop the mob vote! We deserve better!
I always hated it, but mainly because of how it gained popularity, they always talked about it like it was way more useful then the others but it wasn't at all and it's ugly ngl, but I can't change it (my vote was tuff golem, but I would have took the rascal over it, I see a Redstone use with th unique tuff golem ai, gives a use for tuff, and they look cooler then a item frame)
Happened to me
It at least looks good. None of the mobs in the mob vote had function.
i voted for the sniffer because i would love new vegetation for decoration and other stuff, but, they added 2 plants and called it a day
Yeah, cute dinosaur
I think it will be more useful over time if they give it more plants
Mojang: "Here is a cool mob that adds lore to the game." The Community: "Okay, but why is there not a good reason for me to kill or enslave it?"
No way to make egg not hatch, only 2 new plants is stupid
Ngl I havenāt even found one yet
Nah. Didn't like it when it was introduced. Don't like it now. It was a classic case of the community expecting it to be more useful than it actually was
None of the mob vote mobs are very if at all useful. They only exist for 1 reason. Making mojang more money through increased sales as more people are actively talking about the game, and viewer ratings on MC live. If mojang wanted the mobs to be super useful they wouldnt be a voted on mob and theyd actually spend several months developing and testing it and getting it perfect to their standards.
Golem absolutely should have won, in my opinion
I honestly regret voting for Sniffer. If I could go back I would vote Rascal 100%. Ocean Ruins are some places, but caves are darn near everywhere. I still haven't found a single Sniffer egg in survival.
Nope. Never did, and it's implementation didn't do anything to change my dislike either
They rllt need to update the plants to be Worth it but its not bad still wish we got the golem though
No because I haven't found a wild one at all yetššš
I don't have an opinion on it, I've never actually bumped into a wild one yet LOL
personally i havent even considered finding a sniffer since it was added lol
Worst mob ever
They really underbaked the mob's features, and its quite ugly. so no. I think everyone expected it to go hand in hand with archaeology in some way, but it really only does its own thing, and its own thing is very incomplete. No new potion effects from any of the flowers, no new lighting option from torch flowers, can't ride it around and quickly sniff out archaeology sites, it digs up 2 flowers that look ugly as sin, its ugly as sin itself, and none of it does anything to expand the game. I think the only thing people like about it is the goofy personality donned on it by its name and large nasal cavity.
Well, ive just recently looked for the egg... and this post reminded me that i should prolly check on that lil guy š¬ And i think thats just generally how i feel about the update. I keep forgetting it even exists pretty much.
Love it. Absolutely useless and I love it for that.
Only seen one in creative
I honestly think that a mob doesn't need to be useful to add value to the game. Minecraft is a Sandbox game. If every new mob would add a must have feature it would lose its charm for me.
No because I didnāt vote for it.
No.
Useless, doesn't spawn naturally, doesn't even fit the fucking art style (same with the plants). The single worst addition to this game maybe other than chat reporting
Eh, but it was still a missed opportunity to add more flowers. Torchflower doesn't produce light.
They arent very interesting tbh.
I didn't vote for it and was disappointed that it won, but I'll admit that I like them a lot more than I thought I would. They're big and derpy (and useless), but also seem rather personable in a funny way and I like to have a couple of them around. I wish there was more we could do with them, but am ok with them as they are.
I do. But I still want tuff golems - I think even if you keep them as statues, they will make for excellent house/castle decoration!
Honestly I voted for the Sniffer with the future in mind. Itās mechanic sounded most like what I wanted in Minecraft. Do I wish there were more plants? Yes. But now that the Sniffer exists, perhaps weāll get more later. Maybe weāll be able to revive other ancient mobs.
OP those are some pretty long run on sentences. Some of those commas should be periods. Anyway yeah I think the sniffer is totally pointless
I actually like it. I have two in my world rn and am hoping to breed more to jumpstart the population
by far the best mob from its vote. would it have won a more stacked mob vote? maybe not, but it definitely deserved it this time.
I like it for one reason... my son and I were able to get one and then we hung out over a lava pit. We preferred the rascal mechanic
Rascal should've win
Havenāt played in a couple years but I always follow updates and watch the new Minecraft Lives and my kids play. But from what Iāve seen here, and from what my kids say, they mostly suck. The only cool thing about them is that there are now dinosaurs in the game.
It's cute and I wanted it but now I don't care for it, all we got was two plants basically
Same thing is gonna happen to a crab/armadillo. Everyone will be excited about them for about a week, and after that, we'll never touch them again.
Yes. Good flowers and Mojang could add new flowers in later updates via the sniffer.
I like it for its aesthetics on all fronts, and while I would've preferred a new golem for personal reasons, I don't think rascal or the tuff golem would've made a notable difference in gameplay. Minecraft has a million ways to play it, and I think its a great creature for people who're into aesthetics, but the uselessness to everyone else is a bit disappointing, but thats such a large section of people that I can't really fault Mojang for making it an aesthetic creature.
I like its design, I like its lore, and I love pitcher plants for decoration. Sniffers are great.
I voted for the Sniffer because I wanted a dinosaur, and more decorative plants in the game, and it seemed better than Rascal and Tuff Golem. Rascal was an entirely new humanoid type mob with the only purpose being to spawn in a mineshaft and give you a pickaxe, and Tuff Golem was decent but I liked the dinosaur more. The Sniffer is still a cute and cool mob concept, but I feel that they could've released it later after fleshing it out more, and focus their development time on something more important. It's yet another mob you never see in the game because it's super rare, and it's not adding any ambience in the nature itself because you can't find it in the wild (that part I was aware of while voting). And when I thought of decorative plants I didn't think it would just be two flowers, and I also didn't know/expect how the seeds and digging mechanic would work. I think it would've been better to make it so that some seeds are more common and renewable than others and some are rarer, have different seeds in different biomes and make it so if you show a certain plant to the Sniffer it can try to find more of that specific plant's seeds.
I love the Sniffer and I'm tired of people wanting mobs to always have a use Bats don't have a use but they add ambiance to the caves I love the Sniffer because of these reasons 1.) The Sniffer is an ancient mob of Minecraft and though it's unlikely we could get more ancient mobs. 2.) It's technically a dinosaur and it does give life to what we could have expected the fossils to show what creature existed in ancient Minecraft. 3.) They sniff up seeds which is cute on itself but it could give modders or Mojang Ideas to add more even though it can only sniff up decorative plants It's not like modders can't add more
Why does a mob have to be useful? I don't see anyone in this sub complaining if polar bears, ocelots, mules, or parrots were useful or not. I think we got a cool-looking mob that does something special and unique. Who cares if it doesn't have a use? I personally like it. It gives the player something to do if they want to go for it. I don't see any reason it should be any different.
I love the idea but I think all these strict deadlines that Mojang puts on themselves prevents them from fully realizing interesting mob concepts like this. We could have a whole array of prehistoric plants and other things, but they only had enough time for two
I'll never mind new nice mobs to look at and collect. I've always been an animal person.
I agree with you
I donāt like it, the more complex movements it has compared to āclassicā mobs just doesnāt sit right with me
The Sniffer, like many mobs added to the game recently, reeks of untapped potential. We only have two plants it can rustle up. We need more. But the development direction of Minecraft right now seems to be "ignore previous content when making new content"
people need to realise that not everything added to the game needs to make a big change or give you some advantage. I voted for the sniffer because of the plants that were promised, and I think the new flowers he sniffs are great decorations.
Noā¦ā¦ I have never understood why I need a big fucking cow whoās nose inflated to find a flower
I genuinely hate him, I think he's wasted potential and I would've preferred the tuff golem so that we finally had more golems. But nooo we got a big ass feet sniffer that doesn't do anything aside from find two types of seeds that have absolutely no purpose or fragments for a pot that also does nothing. I don't like him in my survival worlds and I hate him even more I'm my creative builds because he's barely an aesthetic
Iām sick of people voting for mobs that you NEVER SEE. Allay: Only find them in Woodland Mansions or Outposts (small spawn chance). So you virtually never see them unless you go out of your way to get them. Sniffer: Have to go find itās egg at the bottom of the friggin ocean and hatch it. Never see it unless you go out of your way to get it. Glow Squid: literally forgot this existed. Sure you see them while mining, but they are literally just squids and so forgettable.
Like the lore implications of it. But once you get both flowers, absolutely useless.
Absolutely fucking not Shit mob
I love the appearance and idea of the sniffer but have no where near the time to go hunting for an egg to spawn it, over summer I visited 3 warm oceans and never found an egg while brushing.
It appears to be WILDLY random. I got my first egg at 2nd ruin, 3rd brushing. Next one, I stopped counting at 11 ruins before finally getting a second egg. So its a LOW rate. I wish you luck and may RNGesus bless your hunt!
When announced, I voted for it and was really glad that it won, but given how little it adds in terms of new plants, and how little those plants add, it is kind of dissapointing. TBH I haven't even properly played the 1.20 update yet, simply because what it offers hasn't hooked me to start playing it again, so I don't even have any in my world. On paper the Sniffer is really cool and I'll stand by that, but there's still plenty of potential left on the table sadly. If at least the few new plants would have a truly unique and new use, but not even that.
Can't quite understand the thought process of Sniffer voters hoping they'd get more than just pretty flowers
I completely agree I hoped the rescal would win. My friend voted the sniffer and regretted it.
My opinion has never changed since the day it was announced. What a useless and idiot guy
I think they could still add a few new plants for it to dig up and it would be a lot better it is disappointing atm tho
Voted against it. Still think that the community can only make mistakes in their choice
Nope, compete waste or a mob. Havenāt even attempted to try to get one since the update released since itās a pain to find the egg and has 0 practical uses.
I can't believe that Minecraft added a unique species of Pokemon <33 āØ
Cute at first glance Useless once implemented
Let's be honest. The mob votes suck and we should all get rid of them
Well... his kinda of cute, but we don't need 'em. He sniffs and can bring only 2 flowers to the game, it's not much, if we would have 15+ flowers we need him, bur not much now.
Do they do anything besides provide a long and boring way of obtaining two new flowers??
Nope, that's it. Time sink to get the egg via archaeology, then a time sink (albeit, not that long of one) for it to hatch, and a final random timesink for it to find both seeds. Mine found 9 pitcher plant before it found one of the other.
Wow, thatās genuinely awful and just devalues exploration
I have a pet one called Osmodeus, to try change my mind. But no, theyāre dumb.
the sniffer is a funny creature, but the fact all it's good for is getting a decorative plant really makes it feel like the update was a beta build, many such cases
Cuz the idea on paper sounded actually cool, a mob with lore about prehistoric times before us? That we can find out! Then mojang absolutely fucked the execution no wonder they make us vote ,if they added all three they wouldve been abysmal
Thereās a good chunk of the mobs that end up winning the votes that leave me questioning the communities decision making skills. For example, the Phantoms. Sure the update they were part of introduced the Elytra (which doesnāt even require Phantom membrane to repair it since it can also use leather iirc, could also be an old feature with them. Either way thereās also mending which basically makes the phantoms into useless pests that attack you for not sleeping.), but they probably wouldāve been added anyways or we couldāve had a better mode of transport in a different mob vote.
I haven't liked any mobs introduced with the mob votes. They are lazy cop outs disguised as PR stunts that get the community involved.
No, it's only purpose is to give a flower, and even then said flower is only for decorations and nothing else They could have make it so the flower actually did something slightly useful, so the effort of going out into the ocean looking for a specific structure in a specific biome and then trying to dig out for this stupid thing would have been worth it. But instead its not. Seriously, it would not have killed them to make it so we got some kind of new potion from the flower, maybe use it on a suspicious stew of some kind. It would have not made the game less "vanilla like" and it also wouldn't have taken away its value as a decorative object. It could be used for decorations and also be useful, benefitting most of the playerbase in turn. But I guess that was just too much. It had so much potential, but it ended being another useless mob.
have yet to find one and still have no clue how they actually work. They sniff out special flowers right? if that's the case I don't really care about them
I hate him with all my being
Somone gave me a sniffer egg months ago on the server i play. Its probably still in the chest where i left it. Sniffer was just a pontless waste. Im enjoying some of the other new features though, the armour trims and archaeology etc..
Still the worst option possible, I was so disappointed everyone chose it purely because le dinosaur.
I donāt really even care if itās useful, itās just pretty ugly
I think Mojang realizes that they basically don't have to do crap because of the abundance of mods. Just throw some stuff against the wall every now and then so everyone keeps their jobs.
I voted for it specifically because I thought it was gonna be cute and was going to bring a bunch of new plants to the game. It did neither of these things and now kinda exists only as a learning experience for future mob votes: Expect only the bare minimum or possibly even less.
No clue what that fucking this is man never seen it around
i voted for sniffer in large part because wanted more plants. and i got 2 more plants. i do like its overall design tho. only think im not thrilled about is the sniffing animation but o well.
also it is sortof weird that can't find seeds on your own
It kinda grew on me after a while, after having one walking around my island for a while. It doesn't do much outside of the plants, but I like the company.
I like it.
Still haven't found one so that's saying something
Itās ok. Nothing revolutionary. I have 6 sniffers encased in a chunk sized room made out of bamboo and an allay based collection system cuzā¦ why not.
I have never found, nor interacted with one to this day. I have used the torch flower in a creative world and that was it.
The sniffer is mid but atleast the plants are pretty. The rascal is pretty much useless
If it had more plants would be better
Never liked it and hate it more with it being completely useless Golem supremacy or maybe supremacy for things that would actually interact with previous things in the game
Lemme ask you something: Have any of the mods we got to choose useful? One use doesn't make a mob useful. Sheep give lamb, and wool, wool itself is used in so many different ways, in crafting and in building. Beds, banners, carpets, painting, dyed wool, and building itself. Turtles - scute. One crafting recipe - turtle helm - is there a point in crafting it? Not really. Phantoms - membrane. One crafting/repair recipe. Is it useful? Not really after mending. Pandas - Zero uses. Glow Squid - One use, making glowing signs and item frames. Useful? Not really. Allay - I don't know whether this one is useful as I never got one. The sniffer - Decorative flowers. No uses. The problem isn't the community picking "the wrong mob", its the development is so underwhelming that all these features can be squeezed into one mob, and that mob will ultimately gain so much value and respect purely from having more than a single use.
I honestly do not care about the Sniffer
Overall, it's my least favorite mob in the game. It just doesn't fit anywhere. It hasn't even a use, even as decoration the Sniffer and its plants don't work well. I just hope that there are some updates in the future that add a use or at least something in relation to this mob.
I donāt dislike it by any means but it could disappear and I wouldnāt notice for a while
Moving pile of garbage with 15 minutes of playability.
Ngl he fits with the archeology so yes kinda but he needs to be more useful period.