What is the sniffer? This fascinating creature looks vastly different than any other creature we've ever seen on this earth.

Once thought an extinct creature, the sniffer's eggs were excavated from a warm ocean ruin, allowing us to enjoy these

ancient creatures today.

Wait, did you say ancient? Oh, buddy, you know what that means. Oh! Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the show that's always sniffing for clues and digging up law.

And you guys have no idea how happy I am to be doing this episode.

I've written a number of Minecraft theories in my time, but this one is my Minecraftian white whale.

I was so excited when the Trails and Tales update came out almost a year ago.

Finally, an update that was going to focus on the ancient law of

Minecraft and what did Mojan give us? Some lines on our armor and pieces of

broken pots. Yeah it wasn't the most exciting update. It was certainly no

warden that's for sure. But we made the most of it, and we managed to use those broken pots and armor trims to figure out that the ancient builders weren't one collective group, but a number of tribes, each with their own specific resources.

However, there is one part of this update that we've purposefully ignored.

One that I'm sure the keen miners and crafters among you have already noticed.

The winner of the...

Completely legitimate mob vote of 2022, the sniffer.

And the winner is sniffer.

This is a mob that apparently went extinct.

But if you find an egg, you can hatch it,

and from that point on, it will spend its time walking around, sniffing for special seeds that it will then dig up.

It's a pretty unique mechanic. Plus, the idea of finding an egg rather than taming a wild mob is a fun idea.

And in the past, whenever a new mob has been added, we've made sure to do a video covering it as soon as possible

so why after almost a year is there no video on this adorable thick boy?

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