Aufer

Quickstart

1. Open your inventory and find the Aufer Spawn Egg, or use /summon com_aufer_xzdkvt3c:mysniffer in a world where cheats are enabled.
2. Use the egg on grass or ground in a bright, open area to spawn Aufer.
3. Watch it fly around your base — it will automatically hunt down nearby hostile mobs (zombies, skeletons, spiders, and other monsters) so you don't have to.
4. Feed it Torchflower Seeds to tame its trust, heal it, or breed two of them together.
5. Leash it (works especially well with a Happy Ghast) to bring it along on your travels.

Aufer can also spawn naturally on the surface in dim, non-ocean biomes, so you may encounter one already patrolling the world.

Overview

Aufer is a friendly flying variant of the Sniffer that acts as a personal guardian. Instead of digging up ancient seeds, this airborne sniffer actively searches for and attacks hostile mobs, giving players a mobile ally that helps clear out monsters around their base or while exploring.

What It Adds

• Aufer — a flying, non-hostile mob that seeks out and fights monsters.
• Aufer Spawn Egg — used to summon Aufer directly.
• Natural surface spawning in dark, non-ocean biomes.
• A loot drop table when Aufer is defeated.

How To Use

• Spawning it yourself: Use the Aufer Spawn Egg on any block to place one in the world.
• Finding it in the wild: Aufer can spawn naturally outdoors in low-light conditions (light level 7 or below) in non-ocean biomes, at higher elevations.
• Feeding: Give it Torchflower Seeds to heal it, grow baby Aufers into adults, tempt it to follow you, or trigger breeding between two adults.
• Leashing: Attach a lead to keep Aufer close, including while riding a Happy Ghast.
• Naming: Use a name tag to give your Aufer a personal name.
• Combat behavior: Aufer automatically detects hostile monsters within a wide radius and flies in to attack them with melee strikes, without needing any command from you.
• Defensive behavior: If Aufer takes damage, it will panic and flee briefly before resuming its patrol.

Abilities And Mechanics

• Flight: Aufer flies rather than walks, has no fall damage, and takes damage in lava.
• Auto-targeting: It seeks out any mob in the "monster" family (hostile mobs) within roughly 32 blocks that it can see, and will chase and melee them.
• Health and durability: Aufer has 14 health points and deals 3–5 damage per hit.
• Sniffer behaviors: It retains classic sniffer animations and instincts — sniffing, searching, and digging animations play periodically, along with idle look-around and wandering behavior.
• Breeding and aging: Adult Aufers can breed using Torchflower Seeds, producing baby Aufers that grow into adults over time or with more feeding.
• Loot on death: Defeated Aufers can drop feathers, leather, bones, rotten flesh, and occasionally phantom membrane (higher chance with Looting and a killing blow from a player).

Progression And Strategy

Keep an Aufer near your base or farm to passively thin out hostile mobs that wander into its detection range. Because it flies and has a long follow range, it's especially useful for defending elevated bases, floating islands, or open-air farms where ground-based defenders struggle to reach enemies. Breeding multiple Aufers with Torchflower Seeds lets you build up a small aerial patrol squad, and leashing one to a Happy Ghast lets you carry your guardian along on long journeys.