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Quick answer
- Get a Sniffer egg by brushing suspicious sand in warm ocean ruins.
- It hatches in 10 minutes on a
Moss block, or 20 on anything else. - Sniffers dig up
Torchflower seeds and 
Pitcher pod items.
Sniffers are huge ancient mobs that never spawn on their own. You have to find an egg and hatch it yourself.
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Getting an egg
- Find a warm ocean ruin, in warm or lukewarm oceans.
- Look for suspicious sand and use a Brush on it.
- Keep brushing until a sniffer egg pops out. It's one of several possible finds.
Hatching
10 minto hatch on moss
20 minon any other block
Place the egg and leave it. It cracks a few times, then a baby sniffer (a snifflet) comes out.
Digging for seeds
Adult sniffers sniff around and dig in grass, dirt, moss, mud and podzol. Each dig finds a torchflower seed or a pitcher pod, with equal odds.
After finding seeds, a sniffer waits 8 minutes before digging again.
Give it spaceBuild a big pen with grass or moss on the floor. Sniffers won't dig on mycelium.
Breeding more
Feed torchflower seeds to two adult sniffers. One drops a new egg, and they need 5 minutes before breeding again.
Rare decorationsTorchflowers and pitcher plants only come from sniffers, so they're great for showing off in builds.
Cheat sheet
- Eggs: warm ocean ruin suspicious sand
- Hatch on moss: 10 minutes
- Digs up torchflower seeds and pitcher pods
- Breed with torchflower seeds
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