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This article describes content that may be included in Java Edition.

This content has appeared in Java Edition 1.20 development versions, but the full update containing it has not been released yet.

This article describes a feature planned for Bedrock Edition.

It has not appeared in any development versions yet, but is planned to be included in Bedrock Edition 1.20.0.

Not to be confused with Sniffer Spawn Egg.

A sniffer egg is a block that can hatch into a snifflet.

Obtaining

Breaking

Sniffer eggs can be mined with any tool, even with bare hands, and always drop themselves. Unlike turtle eggs, Silk Touch is not needed.^[1]

Block	Sniffer Egg
Hardness	?
Breaking time (secs)
Default	?

Chest loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition 1.20^[upcoming]
Sniffer Egg	Warm Ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7%

Mob loot

Sniffer eggs can also be obtained by breeding two sniffers with torchflower seeds. Unlike turtle eggs or frogspawn which are laid in block form, sniffer eggs are laid in item form, similar to chicken eggs.

Usage

Placing

Sniffer eggs can be placed in block form and slowly hatch into snifflets.

Sniffer eggs do not require a supporting block below. Unlike dragon eggs, they are not affected by gravity.

Hatching

Sniffer eggs crack over time and hatch after cracking twice. They hatch faster when on moss blocks. Sniffer eggs hatch in about 10 minutes on moss blocks, and take twice as long to hatch on non-moss blocks.

Sniffer eggs do not progress toward hatching if no players are within 128 blocks of horizontal distance of the egg. This is due to the egg's chunk not receiving random ticks. However, the hatching speed of sniffer eggs is not affected by the randomTickSpeed game rule.^[2]

Piston interactivity

Sniffer eggs can be pushed and pulled by pistons; this is intended.^[3]

Sounds

Generic

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.metal.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	1.0	1.2	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.metal.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	1.0	1.2	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.metal.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.75	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.metal.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	1.25	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.metal.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.5	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Unique

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Chicken plops ^{[sound 1]}	Friendly Creatures	When a sniffer egg is laid by a sniffer ‌^{[upcoming: JE 1.20]}	`entity.chicken.egg`^{[sound 1]}	`subtitles.entity.chicken.egg`^{[sound 1]}	1.0	0.3-0.7	16
Sniffer Egg cracks	Blocks	When a sniffer egg's hatch state progresses	`block.sniffer.egg_crack`	`subtitles.block.sniffer.egg_crack`	0.7	0.72-0.88	16
Sniffer Egg hatches	Blocks	When a sniffer egg hatches	`block.sniffer.egg_hatch`	`subtitles.block.sniffer.egg_hatch`	0.7	0.72-0.88	16

↑ ^a ^b ^c The sniffer reuses the chicken's sound event in this case, resulting in this unintuitive subtitle; see MC-98316

History

Upcoming Java Edition
1.20		23w12a			Added sniffer eggs.

Issues

Issues relating to "Sniffer Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

A sniffer egg placed down.

References

↑ MC-261258 — resolved as "Works As Intended".
↑ MC-261250 — resolved as "Invalid".
↑ MC-261168 — resolved as "Works As Intended".

Blocks

Natural
Soil	Clay Dirt Coarse Rooted Dirt Path Grass Block Gravel Mud Mycelium Nylium Podzol Sand Red Soul Sand Soul Soil
Stone	Andesite Basalt Smooth Bedrock Blackstone Calcite Cobblestone Mossy Deepslate Cobbled Diorite Dripstone Block End Stone Glowstone Granite Infested Block Magma Block Netherrack Obsidian Crying Pointed Dripstone Reinforced Deepslate Sandstone Red Stone Terracotta Tuff
Ore/Mineral	Amethyst Bud Cluster Ancient Debris Budding Amethyst Coal Ore Deepslate Copper Ore Deepslate Diamond Ore Deepslate Emerald Ore Deepslate Gilded Blackstone Gold Ore Deepslate Iron Ore Deepslate Lapis Lazuli Ore Deepslate Nether Gold Ore Nether Quartz Ore Redstone Ore Deepslate
Liquid/Related	Bubble Column Ice Blue Packed Lava Powder Snow Snow Block Water
Non-physical	Air Cave‌^{[JE only]} Void‌^{[JE only]} Fire Soul

Biota
Wood/Hypha	Logs Stripped Wood Stripped Stems Stripped Hyphae Stripped
Plant	Azalea Flowering Bamboo Shoot Beetroots Big Dripleaf Small Stem Cactus Carrots Cave Vines Chorus Plant Flower Cocoa Dead Bush Fern Large Flowers Tall Grass Tall Hanging Roots Leaves Lily Pad Mangrove Roots Muddy Mangrove Roots Melon Stem Moss Block Carpet Potatoes Pumpkin Carved Stem Saplings Seagrass Tall Spore Blossom Sugar Cane Sweet Berry Bush Vines Wheat Crops Hay Bale
Fungus	Fungi Glow Lichen Mushrooms Blocks Stem Nether Sprouts Nether Wart Nether Wart Block Warped Roots Shroomlight Twisting Vines Weeping Vines
Fauna	Coral Dead Coral Blocks Dead Coral Fans Dead Sea Pickle
Faunal Product	Bee Nest Bone Block Cobweb Dragon Egg Frogspawn Turtle Egg
Algae	Kelp Dried Block
Sculk	Sculk Sculk Catalyst Sculk Sensor Sculk Shrieker Sculk Vein

Building
Ornamental	Bookshelf Carpets Chain Fences Iron Bars Glass Pane Stained Glass Pane Tinted Glass Glazed Terracotta Honeycomb Block Slabs Stairs Walls Wool
Mineral Block	Block of Amethyst Block of Coal Block of Copper Cut Raw Block of Diamond Block of Emerald Block of Gold Raw Block of Iron Raw Block of Lapis Lazuli Block of Netherite Block of Quartz Bricks Chiseled Pillar Smooth Block of Redstone
Structural	Bricks Concrete Powder Cut Sandstone Chiseled Smooth Cut Red Sandstone Chiseled Smooth Deepslate Bricks Cracked Deepslate Tiles Cracked End Stone Bricks Mud Bricks Nether Bricks Chiseled Cracked Red Packed Mud Planks Polished Andesite Polished Basalt Polished Blackstone Chiseled Polished Blackstone Bricks Cracked Polished Diorite Polished Granite Polished Deepslate Chiseled Prismarine Bricks Dark Purpur Block Pillar Smooth Stone Stone Bricks Chiseled Cracked Mossy
Lighting	Candle End Rod Froglight Jack o'Lantern Lantern Soul Sea Lantern Torch Soul
BE & edu only	Elements Hardened Glass Pane Hardened Stained Glass Pane

Utility
Interactable	Anvil Barrel Beacon Blast Furnace Brewing Stand Cartography Table Chest Ender Crafting Table Enchanting Table Fletching Table Furnace Grindstone Lectern Loom Shulker Box Sign Smithing Table Smoker Stonecutter
Utilizable	Banners Beehive Beds Bell Cake with Candle Campfire Soul Cauldron Lava Powder Snow Water Composter Conduit End Gateway End Portal End Portal Frame Farmland Flower Pot Frosted Ice Heads Jukebox Ladder Lodestone Monster Spawner Nether Portal Respawn Anchor Scaffolding Sponge Wet TNT
Redstone/Mechanical	Button Daylight Detector Dispenser Doors Dropper Fence Gates Honey Block Hopper Lever Lightning Rod Note Block Observer Piston Sticky Head Moving Pressure Plates Rail Activator Detector Powered Redstone Wire Comparator Repeater Lamp Torch Slime Block Target Trapdoors Trapped Chest Tripwire Hook Tripwire
Bedrock Edition only	Item Frame Glow
Minecraft Education only	Chalkboard
BE & edu only	Allow Border Compound Creator Colored Torches Deny Element Constructor Heat Block Lab Table Material Reducer Underwater TNT Underwater Torch

Creative only
All editions	Player Head
Java Edition only	Barrier Command Block Chain Repeating Jigsaw Block Light Structure Block Structure Void
JE & BE only	Empty Monster Spawner
BE & edu only	Allow Border Deny

Commands only
All editions	Unstable TNT
Java Edition only	Custom Player Head
JE & BE only	Petrified Oak Slab
Bedrock Edition only	Barrier Chiseled Purpur Command Block Chain Repeating Fern Fern Jigsaw Block Light Block Smooth Stone Bricks Structure Air Structure Block Structure Void tile.purpur_block.smooth.name
Minecraft Education only	Camera
Legacy Console Edition only	Ring Block
China Edition only	mod_ore

Upcoming
Soil	Suspicious Gravel Suspicious Sand
Wood/Hypha	Block of Bamboo Stripped
Plants	Pitcher Plant Crop Pink Petals Torchflower Crop
Ornamental	Bamboo Mosaic Chiseled Bookshelf Decorated Pot
Interactable	Hanging Sign
Faunal Product	Sniffer Egg
Sculk	Calibrated Sculk Sensor

Unimplemented
All editions	Branches Copper Button Colored Wood Planks Coral Slab Dirt Slab Empty Barrel Fish Barrel Furniture Paeonia Sculk Jaw Spike Block Wax Block

Unused
Bedrock Edition only	Bell Stand tile.client_request_placeholder_block.name Glowing Obsidian Invisible Bedrock Nether Reactor Core Smokeless Campfire info_update info_update2 reserved6 Unknown Stonecutter (old)

Joke features
Java Edition only	An Ant Block of Coal Box of Infinite Books Torch (Burnt-out) Cheese Copper Sink Copper Spleaves Cursor Etho Slab Funky Portal How did we get here? Leftover Other Portal Packed Air Pickaxe Block Place Block Swaggiest stairs ever Tinted Glass USB Charger Block

Removed

Java Edition only

Bedrock Edition only

MinecraftEdu only

Extreme metadata variants
All editions	Seamless Stone Slab Six-sided Hay Bale Weird Piston
Java Edition only	Faceless Jack o'Lantern Overripe Melon Stem Overripe Pumpkin Stem Overgrown Cocoa Overeaten Cake Potted non-flower block Green Shrub
Bedrock Edition only	Diorite Bell Granite Bell Polished Six-sided Bone Block Six-sided Purpur Pillar Six-sided Quartz Pillar