Sniffer Egg

For other uses, see Sniffer (disambiguation) and Egg (disambiguation).

Not to be confused with Sniffer Spawn Egg.

Sniffer Egg

Rarity tier	Uncommon
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0.5
Hardness	0.5
Luminous	No
Transparent	JE: No BE: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color	28 COLOR_RED
Note block instrument	Default (Harp)

A sniffer egg is a block that can be brushed out of suspicious sand in warm ocean ruins, or obtained by breeding two sniffers. It slowly hatches into a snifflet (baby sniffer) when placed.

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	0.5
Breaking time (secs)
Default	10.75 (JE) 0.75 (BE)
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• incorrect tool, drops nothing
• correct tool, drops nothing or something other than the block itself
• correct tool, drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Mob loot

Sniffer eggs can also be obtained by breeding two sniffers with torchflower seeds. Unlike turtle eggs or frogspawn, which are placed into the world in block form, sniffer eggs are dropped as items, similar to chicken eggs.

Generated loot

Item	Structure	Container	Quantity	Chance
Java Edition and Bedrock Edition
Sniffer Egg	Warm ocean ruins	Warm ruins suspicious sand	1	6.7% { "item": "Sniffer Egg", "stacksize": 1, "chance": 0.06666666666666665, "structure": "Warm ocean ruins", "container": "Warm ruins suspicious sand" }

Usage

Placing

Sniffer eggs can be placed in block form. Once placed, they slowly mature and hatch into snifflets.

Sniffer eggs do not require a supporting block below.^[2] Unlike dragon eggs, they are not affected by gravity.

Hatching

Sniffer eggs crack over time and hatch after cracking twice. They hatch in 10 minutes when placed on moss blocks or 20 minutes when placed on any other block (including pale moss blocks).

Sniffer eggs do not need to receive random ticks to hatch in Java Edition. Therefore, the hatching speed of sniffer eggs is not affected by the randomTickSpeed game rule.^[3]

Piston interactivity

Sniffer eggs can be pushed and pulled by pistons.^[4]

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

metal sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	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​[until: JE 26.4]	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
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.metal.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	1.25	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.metal.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.5	16

Bedrock Edition:

metal sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	1.1–1.2
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	use.stone	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	1.2–1.25
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.3	0.75
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.35	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Translation key
Sniffer Egg	sniffer_egg	Block & Item	block.minecraft.sniffer_egg

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
Sniffer Egg	sniffer_egg	-596	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.sniffer_egg.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Advancements

Icon	Advancement	In-game description	Actual requirements (if different)
	Smells Interesting	Obtain a Sniffer Egg	Have a sniffer egg in the inventory. This is a hidden advancement, meaning that it can be viewed by the player only after completing it, regardless of if its child advancement(s), if any, have been completed.

History

Java Edition

Java Edition
1.20			23w12a				Added sniffer eggs.
			23w17a				The player now gets the advancement "Smells Interesting" when they obtain a sniffer egg.
1.21.2			24w33a				The rarity of sniffer eggs has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon".

Bedrock Edition

Bedrock Edition
1.20.0			Preview 1.20.0.20				Added sniffer eggs.
							Currently, sniffer eggs cannot be found from brushing suspicious sand in ocean ruins, making them not naturally obtainable in survival.
			Preview 1.20.0.22				Can now be found in the suspicious sand loot table found at warm ocean ruins.
							Now emits particles only when placed on moss blocks.
			Preview 1.20.0.23				Can now be placed into water or lava.
1.20.30			Preview 1.20.20.21				Increased the hardness and blast resistance of sniffer eggs from 0.4 to 0.5.
1.21.30			Preview 1.21.30.21				The rarity of sniffer eggs has been changed from "Common" to "Uncommon".
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.24				Sniffer eggs no longer provide side support to any block.
							Sniffer eggs now provide only center support on top and bottom faces.[5]

Issues

Issues relating to "Sniffer Egg" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  A placed sniffer egg

Mojang screenshots

• 
  Efe digging up a sniffer egg
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  A player next to a sniffer egg in a lush cave
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In other media

• 
  The pixel art of the sniffer egg shown at Minecraft Live 2022
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  Sunny finding the sniffer egg in an ocean ruin and swimming away
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  Sunny watching the sniffer egg crack
• 
  Wallpaper of Sunny watching a sniffer egg hatch

References