Entity Documentation - minecraft:behavior.sniff

minecraft:behavior.sniff compels this entity to detect the nearest player within "sniffing_radius" and update its minecraft:suspect_tracking component state.

Parameters

Name	Default Value	Type	Description
cooldown_range	[3.0, 10.0]	Range [a, b]	Cooldown range between sniffs in seconds.
duration	1.0	Decimal	Sniffing duration in seconds
priority	not set	Integer	The higher the priority, the sooner this behavior will be executed as a goal.
sniffing_radius	5.0	Decimal	Mob detection radius.
suspicion_radius_horizontal	3.0	Decimal	Mob suspicion horizontal radius. When a player is within this radius horizontally, the anger level towards that player is increased.
suspicion_radius_vertical	3.0	Decimal	Mob suspicion vertical radius. When a player is within this radius vertically, the anger level towards that player is increased.

Vanilla entities examples

warden

"minecraft:behavior.sniff": {
  "priority": 6,
  "duration": 4.16,
  "sniffing_radius": 24.0,
  "suspicion_radius_horizontal" : 6.0,
  "suspicion_radius_vertical": 20.0,
  "cooldown_range": [ 5.0, 10.0 ]
}

Vanilla entities using sniff

• warden