How To Find The Sniffer! ▫ Minecraft Survival Guide S3 ▫ Tutorial Let's Play [Ep.28]

[@exp8all]

Tip to explore under water ruins. Bring lanterns. They will help light up the area. They will show you which areas you had already explored if there are several ruins are bunched close to each other or if you travelling over the water via boat or elytra. Plus you often get coal and iron in loot chests in the ruin. Crafting lanterns is quite easy.

[@bd_mayhem]

That's a good idea, especially if you haven't gathered a supply of glowstone or shroomlights from the nether.

[@kektics3074]

Also some ruins spawn with sea lanterns which you can mine to take with you to other ruins

[@Ca7iburn]

I read: "Bring interns." 😅

[@purplejellytotPJT]

Genuine question: can lanterns be waterlogged on java? (I have no idea)

[@RO-ug7qj]

I used jackolaterns😂

[@TheRealWormbo]

Pitcher pods and torchflower seeds are treated as crop (or crop-like) blocks and do indeed use the same growth speed modifiers as other crops. (i.e. farmland around = good, hydration = even better, planted in diagonals or crossing lines = bad) Breaking them before they are full grown gives back the seed (that wasn't mentioned in the video), but once they are fully grown and broken, you get the flower item, which interestingly represents a completely different block type. (Those place on- or two-tall flowers.) Fun fact: The Pitcher crop block is currently the only block in the game with a collision box that extends below the 1x1x1 cube it was placed in, similar to how fence and wall blocks extend above. Unfortunately the collision only extends into the farm land, and the pod can't exist without that, so it's less exciting than in the snapshot where it was introduced.

[@Flareontoast]

Splooting is such a good word, it's mostly associated with dogs, like corgis, that do it relatively often due to their short legs. It's always so surprising to me how large the adult sniffers are! They're such chunky guys.

[@tastychunks]

Rabbits can also pull off some impressive sploots

[@MASSOFTHEFERMENTlNGDREGS]

25:15 fun fact you actually can keep pitcher pod in their ‘turnip’ form by placing string above it

[@thejonbmc]

Came here to say this

[@colleenlavigne2196]

It’s a shame it only works on the first form 😢

[@eyvithorgeirsson6028]

I think it can still grow to the second form, since that’s still 1 block tall. However, it won’t go further than that.

[@cobblestonebee]

came to comments to say exactly this! hoping pix sees this comment!

[@vinnygranata8363]

I really hope Mojang puts more creatures like this in Minecraft, I love the idea of prehistoric animals in Minecraft and giving them purposes, no matter how mundane

[@TheRealWormbo]

Another fun thing I've learned over the weekend: Farmer villagers will pick up and plant nearby torchflower seeds and pitcher pods, but they won't harvest either of them.

[@jesuscoyt3367]

I found 2 different warm ocean ruins about 200 blocks apart from each other and found 3 sniffer eggs in each ruins. It was very cool and I enjoyed today's episode of talking about the sniffers.

[@joshuastanaway1691]

I think it would be cool if you could use beeswax on the eggs to “preserve them in amber”

[@purplejellytotPJT]

Yes this would be amazing and fits with the theme!

[@LiamDennehy]

The progression and dependency required to breed a pair of sniffers is great - eggs in the right structure in the right biome, allowed to roam on the right blocks, then only breedable using the product of their activity once they're grown. Takes dedication and patience.

[@ArcherJLady]

I'm a pretty experienced Minecraft player, but I still love watching these videos because it's fun to see the progress of this world and I do occasionally learn something new!

[@LeMan12349]

I’m so glad that I can add watching Pix back to my schedule

[@imperfectimp]

Is it just my bad luck or are warm ruins far less common than cold ones? It literally took me 3 hours to find 2 sniffer eggs. Also there's a little stutter in the video at 27:35

[@firenkyo8073]

I love these guys! I wish they dug up some more types of ancient seeds, another crop food would be cool. But they're cute enough that I'll just keep them around for pets, and the two flowers they have now are still nice.

[@TriangulumGalaxy_1]

Ah nothing better than watching Pixlriffs, I get nostalgia watching your videos I still remember watching your RTX series

[@thechillinestvillain3637]

Love the little snifflets! After an inordinate amount of searching for sniffer eggs, I was able to build a decent torchflower seed/pitcher pod farm using allays and a noteblock collection mechanism. Oh boy, the groaning gets intense once you have any number of sniffers in one place tho 😂 thanks for the great episode Pix, looking forward to the next!

[@briandara8832]

It’s so worth finding sniffers just for the flowers. Those are amazing!!!

[@EpicMuttonChops]

i've never been this excited for an update than i am for 1.20. i wasn't even nearly this excited for 1.18!

[@brandongardenhire7045]

Love the videos as always Pix! It is always a great start to my day and I'm glad you have your computer back :) I was casually listening so I'm not sure if this was mentioned, but sniffers can only find seeds once in a block. This means in the enclosed space they're in, they will stop finding seeds at one point or another. Good luck sniffing folks!

[@bones5258]

Splooting is also a term used for when dogs lie down with their legs out to the side like the sniffer. My dog does it alot. Great vid, learned more than I thought I would :)

[@WigneyR]

I feel like they should really change the texture of suspicious blocks to be more noticeable, I get what they’re going for but for people with bad eyesight it can be really hard to distinguish, especially since the loot is pretty average

[@kamikazenights58]

This season is feeling so fresh and bright 🙌

[@danielfc]

What a great way to start my birthday with a video from my favourite Minecraft Guide 🥳

[@trevinbeattie4888]

Happy birthday! 🎉

[@danielfc]

@@trevinbeattie4888 thank you!

[@drew_z9571]

Appreciate the content you make, Pix!!

[@billmaharjan2229]

These are so adorable

[@AdamRadenheimer]

Can confirm; you can find sniffer eggs in any warm ocean ruins, not just the big ones. Just found one myself in a smaller one :)

[@riuphane]

14:18 These ones were a huge bust for me. I found 6 of this exact design and got only a few suspicious sand blocks with nothing of value...

[@tctt185_dg]

Tip to note for Sniffer Eggs in the future from the Warm Ocean Ruins, there is actually no difference in terms of structure shape, you get the same loot tables as even the small Warm Ocean Ruins. It is just that you're most likely to get the common loot of Coal and Wooden Hoes more often than Sniffer Eggs and Pottery Sherds. There is a *13.3% chance* of getting 1; Coal, Emerald, Wheat, Wooden Hoe or Gold Nugget per Suspicious Sand Block. There is a *6.5% chance* of getting 1; Pottery Sherd (Angler, Shelter or Snort), Iron Axe or the Sniffer Egg per Suspicious Sand Block. This is slightly annoying because there is likely a Sniffer Egg in one in every 15 Suspicious Sand Blocks compare to getting an Emerald one in every 7 to 8 Suspicious Sand Blocks, and if you think Bedrock Edition has different loot tables, nah... they're the same as Java, even down to the Loot you find in their Chests.The only real difference between Bedrock and Java is pretty much where and what type is generated, the larger clusters of the Ocean Ruins seems to appear more frequent on Java than Bedrock... but don't take my word for it. If there is one thing that Bedrock does WAY better at in terms of structures, it is that we get *MORE Buried Treasure Chests* than Java. Just look up a Bedrock seed on the Seed Map and you'll see a noticeable difference. A lot of these are in close proximity with each other on land. It is quite comical but also equally rewarding because you'll be walking home with LOTS of loot with plenty of Heart of the Oceans than you know what to do with them. It is something that a lot of Bedrock players overlook since they don't check their seed on the Seed Map website which I highly recommend marking down certain co-ordinates for certain structures like Villagers, Woodland Mansions or Ocean Monuments, Trail Ruins, Jungle Ruins and even Ancient Cities if you haven't found any yet. Who needs a Buried Treasure Map on Bedrock Edition. The only real annoying thing that Java is better than Bedrock when it comes to structures is that Java gets more Nether Fotresses than Bedrock. Bedrock has a hard time finding those while on Java, you're like not even a couple of hundred blocks to find them. Admittedly, Bedrock does not have a limit in Stronghold Generation compare to Java, so that evens out.

[@emmdeekaysays173]

I just updated from 1.18 to 1.20, it's like you always know when I do something big and need your help. As excited as I am about finally getting to explore ancient cities and trail ruins, I don't think anything will compare to seeing a sweet berry bush for the first time since I started this world in 2020 because there wasn't a taiga in my 2500x2500 exploration boundry.

[@Ironsight_Army]

Saw in Bedrock that if you keep the Sniffer attched to a lead on a fence they will ignore the mechanic of rembering the last 20 blocks they dug in. That way you can keep them in a much smaller area

[@SainteTea]

Pix, if you place string on the pitcher pods they will stay as turnips :>

[@soultundra7869]

I found 4 of my 5 sniffer eggs in small outer buildings in the ruins, 2 of which were out of the water - found two eggs in one of them! I think it's about a 6% chance of getting them, but it seems entirely random which buildings you get them in. Took me about 6-7 hours to find the first one (including flying about trying to find the ruins), but then found two more really quickly after that, and the other two I found by random chance as I was flying past a jungle looking for something else and noticed a ruin on the cliffs by the ocean 😄 It can take a while, but it's worth it, they're so cute! Edit to add - I found night vision potions really helpful when exploring underwater!

[@tuxxler]

Keep in mind that anyplace gravel/sand can spawn in the respected structure, sus blocks can sometimes spawn.

[@Lea_D.]

"Welcome back TO the Minecraft Survival Guide, I hope you're all having a good day..." I actually wasn't, up until I just watched the latest episode and now my day is much better! 🥰

[@GiodoAldeima]

Yey another episode! Thanks pix! Whenever I hear Sniffler sounds I confuse them with the sounds my belly makes, and have to approach the phone to my ear to make sure everything is okay

[@jasonstimson6617]

The acacia tree pottery shard looks like an uzi. Love it

[@johanputter5061]

Hey Pixl, great to see you found the sniffer eggs, it toke me and me daughter a while to find them as well and have breaded 4 sniffer. Thanks for the eps and can't wait to see the blacksmiths house. Till next time Cheers

[@erikjansson2329]

Content suggestion: could you build an auto-offloader for the raft that transports the items in the chest so you don’t have to go back to the boat once you’ve emptied the character inventory?

[@UltraMurf]

Poor luck on the sniffer egg drop rate. I had six by the end of a small excursion. I did find that beached underwater ruin also. If you dig down into the ones with granite trim, they have chambers underneath, some of which has suspicious sand like a desert temple. Depends on the generation and how much stone takes over the ruin I suppose. Great vid, I’m enjoying playing the same seed.

[@Ninjette2004]

I love this series. Trying to make my own now that I have java

[@madieg]

aw the saddled friends are so cute

[@Ababiyirga]

YOU SHOULD BUILD A CHAIRY AND BAMBOO EXTRA HOUSES THAT WILL BE AWSOME

[@purplejellytotPJT]

A good way to light up the ocean whilst exploring early game: carved pumpkins / jack-o-lanterns!

[@creatorfuyu]

i must have gotten very lucky because as per your advice i expected to be out in the warm oceans for a while but after my first large ruins i came back with three eggs!

[@quillebtw_]

Where yiu been I haven't been posting but , glad you're back

[@christianhohenstein1422]

Sandstone ruins generate in lukewarm oceans, too. I suspect not every ruin you explored was in a warm ocean and as far as I know, sniffer eggs can only be found in warm oceans not lukewarm oceans

[@hikari1690]

I'm glad there weren't any nether regions mentioned in this video. Also I hope pix uses mud and hoppers! Would be a lag machine but it's silent 🤣. Also I wonder if you can shear the plants to stop their growth like you do vines? I haven't played 1.20 yet 🤣

[@captainjunsan9125]

Sniffers will also only dig for seeds if they have at least a 6x6 area available to dig around in 21:25

[@azzura_ignis3520]

for the pitcher plant try a piece of string in the block above the farmland ? because is a two tall flower ?

[@NinjaXanderCat]

If you put a piece of string over the pincher pod, it will be frozen at the single block stage.

[@jaysonfangon4133]

I need this guide so bad. Thanks Mr Riffs

[@TName30]

Wake up babe, new survival guide episode just dropped. We got Sniffers.

[@TName30]

@@magicmagic8188 she's very sleepy

[@moody7470]

Love the lore you add 😂

[@artofodify]

I'm currently having a pretty decent day until this video came out, this days amazing

[@volehunter]

Use sting on patcher plants before they are 2X high and it will stop the growth at the the last 1X high stage.

[@multi.instrumentalist]

Really has this beautiful commum…

[@sathiyadhevs7997]

Pix when u make the episode for item sorting storage consider allay powered item sorter

[@EvesterBee]

I’m so excited to find a sniffer! Our server just reset so I’m only just starting to explore 1.20 now. I definitely need to get some water breathing, was trying just magma blocks and it’s very tedious

[@bd_mayhem]

Doors are also quite easy to acquire and use.

[@JimKayaker]

I guess in real life you would find truffles in mycelium, maybe Mojang are thinking of possibly future TLC for the pig?

[@DolceArdore]

Perfect motivation to use a conduit if you have one 💪

[@_Abjuranax_]

I didn't see anything that supports hydrating farmland with water for the Torch Flowers and Pitcher Plants. But you may be able to use String or Shears to limit their growth. Not sure if that works though, so give it a trial.

[@David_Jacome]

Long live the sniffers!!! ✨🌱🌺🏆🌺🌱✨

[@katgrace8834]

Awe I absolutely love the sniffer!! I hope there will be some more plants for it to sniff up in the future. Something else that I’ve seen with sniffers is that they tend to follow the player around even if they don’t have their favorite torchflower seeds! Love that for them

[@darknesswave100]

You can actually see what is in the sand before you get done and if its not something you want then you can just break it with a shovel or something. That way you don't clog your inventory with useless items youll just get rid of later on

[@Gdpud]

First time i saw a Sniffer, it struck me that thier nose looks just like that of a "Honey-Monster" head! (as in the old Sugar-Puffs Advert!!). I honestly cant un-see that now!! Much the same as the Llama's head!, it's nose looks just like a smilie-mob-head! 😃😃

[@annawaite5527]

Grian was stopping the pitcher plants in a kind of 'large turnip' form by placing a string over them.

[@Pshyduck]

He's the first person to teach me how to play Minecraft before Anyone

[@hookedbycrafting5348]

My first encounter with warm ocean and sniffer hunt was in a coral reef. Had to search chunk base because I could not discern the structures...

[@JBgames007]

Omg, I remember hunting them on my world and took me around 5 hours lol

[@BrandonVout]

12:55 So that's why I kept finding blank maps. I thought it was a bug.

[@jujoya]

I found 4 eggs (2 in each ruin), but it was part of my huge dessert raid! I generated 10 gb of chunks to get every armor trim and sherd i could 😂

[@damodardasladha4096]

Tip to clear out a large patch of seagrass. use a sponge . They are an expert at getting rid of seagrass. And they reveal suspicious sand blocks hidden.

[@unmeclambda5837]

Thanks for the tip, allow me to share another one then : sponges dry instantly in the nether, you don't have to wait for them to dry in the furnace that way. Also, their preferred tool is a hoe

[@damodardasladha4096]

A wet sponge will not work

[@unmeclambda5837]

@@damodardasladha4096 um okay, what are you responding to ?

[@damodardasladha4096]

@@unmeclambda5837 a wet sponge will not dry anything even if it is seagrass

[@unmeclambda5837]

@damodardasladha4096 yes, I never said that it did wtf ? All i said was that you can dry them instantly in the nether instead of using the furnace, and that using a hoe is the fastest way to collect them 🤔

[@austinx8320]

I think putting a string on top should halt growth of pitcher planst at certain stages

[@thejonbmc]

It took my sniffers so long to dig up the first torchflower seeds. I got like 6 pitcher pods before I got one.

[@pixelcat4187]

I will say, beware of the Sniffers enormous hitbox, they have a way to get on top of fences so make sure theres nothing close to the fences otherwise they just walk out of the fenced areas!! Ive found so many escapes sniffers just walking about my base!! And beware of endermen leaving blocks near your fences!!

[@thenopequeen]

What if the ocean ruins weren't a farming society that sank, but a society that used to actually farm the ocean floor? And the reason there are more drowned there is because they succumbed to the zombie plague?

[@AshleyIsArtsy]

Sniffers are just so cute, I have a huge paddock of almost 20 of them and a big greenhouse for their flowers in my most recent world. One of the best creature additions to Minecraft, honestly.

[@Happylachia]

Do the plants have any use outside of deco and breeding more sniffers?

[@brandonmiles1341]

Can you use 4 different pottery shreds to create a decorated pot on bedrock as well?

[@VulpisFoxfire]

You brought water-breathing potions, but no night-vision ones? The would have been rather useful to deal with the lighting issues...

[@maestrolodahl8681]

Am i the only one who thinks the Sniffer is adorable ? :))

[@Nature-dk7nw]

Pixl budd you are near to 1 million .. May Allah give u more success .. hope could see the million next week❤❤❤ love from pakistan❤

[@Gf_playz]

Good morning Pix!

[@Silvery1313]

I have found sniffer eggs in lukewarm ocean. I was shocked because I also thought it was warm only.

[@evieiscool555]

Took me 4/8 structures (maybe 13 pieces of suspicious sand) in a large warm water ruin to get 2 sniffer eggs! The next problem is finding the moss….

[@gabiechoi4784]

I totally missed this series everytime I get home from work. Are you still on the new life SMP?

[@za91848]

Apparently sherd is still pronounced the same as shard (according to Cubfan). Why you would want the ability to distinguish between the two , but only in writing, I don't know but there you go

[@Jeesus353]

27:34 Hey pixl you forgot to edit that!

[@Boltman12278]

I wish there was a mod to take a minecraft world you played and Fast forward it so it becomes ruined. you can do a new playthrough and look at what your builds would look like many years in the future. complete with archeology and of course new terrain gen when a new version comes out.

[@trazom666wow3]

This is a lot of efforts just to get 2 flowers !!

[@JohnPatrickCasul]

I named my first 2 sniffers Appa and Oogi. 😁

[@TheLewylew]

It's mental to me, that you go through all that, going to all those monuments, making potions, ect, breeding, waiting hours. For what? Two flowers with no use other than dye? As if you'll even use that use considering it takes that long to get them. They are nice flowers, but not adding any use what do ever? Could have made the flowers have coloured lighting, could have done literally anything with them. Seems like a lot of effort to get two flowers.

[@tctheunbeliever]

Is there canon agreememt on which end of the sniffer that sound is coming from?

[@angel7171972]

Is the empty treasure map a bug? I get them a lot

[@Pixlriffs]

It's fairly rare in my experience, but it seems to occur when the game can't find a treasure chest near enough to where you found the map.

[@Lea_D.]

Pretty much all the treasure maps I've found so far in 1.20+ have been like that for me and I've seen it happen to lots of other people in their YT videos, so I'd say something is definitely wrong. 🙁I finally had to resort to using chunkbase to find a treasure chest in the area of the dud maps because I needed to get a heart of the sea.

[@PenguinEmpress87]

the donkey needs to be tamed in order to put a chest on it.

[@sarahplatten544]

I have only searched a few warm ocean ruins but I have found that if I dig down under the first layer of sand inside and one row around, I always find more sus sand. This is on bedrock though so 🤷‍♀️

[@meleamascioli7013]

Does anybody know if you can get the Sniffer naturally in bedrock yet? i know before they didn't implement it in the ruins yet but i havent seen an update that was useful lately.

[@marshalllee6376]

It has been naturally in bedrock since 1.20 was released

[@elliotgandersen]

It looks like the sniffer has chapped lips.

[@michaelbondt8202]

I used a piece of string above my pitcher pods to stop them at the mid- Turnip - stage

[@trevinbeattie4888]

I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or my game is bugged, but when I try to brush suspicious blocks the brush animation goes much faster, the block breaks without dropping anything, and my brush’s durability doesn’t decrease. Is there a right way and a wrong way to use the brush on a suspicious block? After doing this several times, I checked Mojang’s bug tracker and found a similar report of this situation and added my experience to it.

[@NRGspook]

Liven the riffs at bed time