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Silver's Sniffer Upgrade
The author built this one for Minecraft 1.20.1 on Forge. On other versions it may install and then do nothing.








Hello! This is Silver's Sniffer Upgrade: a mod that upgrades and adds uses to the Sniffer mob introduced in 1.20.
You can find new blocks, structures, and even a new dimension!
Requires Terrablender!
Three new wood types:
- Ginkgo
- Spiketip
- Tree Fern
New mobs
- Greater Dodo - drops dodo meat and bred with rotten apples
- Ancient Zombie - zombie variant found in the Ancient Fields dimension
- Nautilus, Coneshell, and Eurypterus - water mobs found in primal ocean biome
- Armisor - found only in prismaze structures.
New structures
- Sniffer Pedestal - has a pedestal that must be activated with a sniffer egg. Takes the player to the Ancient Fields dimension.
- Boulderstone Temple - structure found in the Ancient Fields that contains new mobs and loot.
- Prismaze - structure that spawns in Primal Ocean biome with unique loot.
- Floating village
- Ginkgo hut
New Biomes
- Petrified Forest - dry, desert biome found in the overworld
- Ancient Ginkgo Forest
- Ancient Jungle
- Little Mountains
- Primal ocean
A new dimension
- The Ancient Fields is entered via an active Sniffer Pedestal. It is the natural home of Sniffers and Greater Dodos.
- You will need an Oxygenated Potion to survive. Sniffers can find something to help you.
New blocks and items
- Boulderstone with variants
- Powderstone with variants
- Three full wood sets
- Three grass and soil types
- Incubation Bench - increases the hatch speed of Sniffer and Dodo eggs.
- Greater Dodo egg - hatches into the greater dodo. Can be placed on a hay bale or Incubation Bench to hatch faster.
- Broken trident - repair it in a smithing table
- new enchantment
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as silversnifferupgrade-1.0.0-1.20.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 922 KB
- Download link checked 28 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.
