[MCPE-167886] Sniffers/Sniffer spawn eggs are invisible when loading another texture pack to the world

Hi, there is this issue where Sniffers and Sniffer Spawn Eggs are completely invisible when loading up a new texture for each. (I only got it to work on the Classic texture pack. I don't have any others.) Despite being invisible, they still have the same mechanics, can be attacked, and still play their sounds. It seems like applying any new texture, unlike other items, will make them bug out and disappear. (Important: this issue relates to MCPE-167164, which was fixed in the 1.20.0.20 preview.)

Steps to Reproduce:

Change to a new texture pack (preferably the Classic one mentioned earlier)
Make sure you have the "Sniffer" Experimental toggle set up in your world
Download then activate it
Now take a look at the Sniffers and Sniffer Spawn Eggs
Observe how they are not visible anywhere

Observed Results: Sniffers and Sniffer Spawn Eggs are not visible by the player.

Expected Results: The Sniffers show up visible despite which textures you are using.

how to fix the issue was sent by OcelotOnesie and Timer RP in a comment. I couldn't have done it without them. Thanks for your support! Have a great day!

Linked issues

is duplicated by 28

BDS-18167 Missing sniffer textures Resolved

BDS-18419 Sniffer invisible and creative breaking messed up Resolved

BDS-18433 I can't see the sniffer it's like invisible Resolved

BDS-18677 Invisible sniffer Resolved

MCPE-167890 Sniffer Egg and Sniffer are invisible Resolved

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relates to 2

MCPE-171409 Sniffer is invisible Resolved

MCPE-178910 "min_engine_version" causes vanilla resource pack of entities to not work correctly with entities that only have one file Resolved

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Comments 26

JervieA20 2023-03-04T03:21:44Z

Can you attach screenshot and resource pack to see that problem

vex 2023-03-04T04:01:22Z

Sure!

JervieA20 2023-03-04T14:17:36Z

The classic texture pack is outdated this does not currently update

vex 2023-03-04T16:18:44Z

I'm not sure it works on another texture pack. I only got Classic to work. If I find it happening again on another one, I'll let you know!

vex 2023-03-08T23:32:54Z

Thank you for fixing my mistakes. 🙂

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nathonhay 2023-03-22T14:46:21Z

I'm having the same problem on 1.19.71. Sniffer spawn egg in inventory is invisible, it lets me spawn a sniffer that makes sounds but is also invisible (not effect, but just not showing).

BushyDungeons 2023-04-13T22:14:52Z

Not resource packs that are the problem. I have the VDX4J resource pack, which only touches the us er interface. The Sniffer did work before. Investigated further, and apparently the textures list completely leaves it absent.

vex 2023-04-16T04:17:24Z

It must just be an issue with the textures then. So when applying a different texture to them, they just go invisible.

BluJay Games 2023-06-08T13:30:24Z

I am having this same issue. I have a texture pack that only changes the anvil textures, and it made the sniffer egg and sniffer invisible. Would love to be able to use my textures without it affecting vanilla features!

vex 2023-06-08T22:47:30Z

@BluJay Games: yep! I think this issue works on almost every Texture Pack in the game. It is very annoying for me too.

NeoCyania 2023-06-09T10:27:04Z

Having this issue too on 1.20.0 on my world with texture packs applied. Removing all texture packs made them visible again, but it's still annoying since I can't play with my texture packs now.

[Mod] OcelotOnesie 2023-06-09T14:58:53Z

The cause of this issue is the same as MCPE-123229. Please see the panel in the description of that ticket for instructions on how to fix the issue.

vex 2023-06-09T15:32:22Z

@OcelotOnesie: Got it!

NeoCyania 2023-06-09T16:43:08Z

Changing the code in my packs worked, thanks for comment Ocelot!

Shannon Montes 2023-06-16T14:35:05Z

I don't understand what's going on with this issue. I'm on a world that has a texture pack applied. The players who use the texture pack (Chroma Hills) can see the sniffers. I don't use any texture packs, but I can't see the sniffers. I'm on mobile of that makes a difference.

vex 2023-06-16T16:47:55Z

@Shannon Montes: Mobile? Same here!

Alpaul30 2023-06-16T21:31:24Z

I'm having the same issue for Minecraft bedrock 1.20 and Minecraft preview 1.20.0.23 where the sniffer and its spawn egg are invisible even without any resource or texture pack installed.

vex 2023-06-17T00:55:18Z

@Alan Paul MacDonald: Really? Well, you must have an error then... Try deleting the game and coming back. 😉

hiyohiy 2023-07-03T01:46:05Z

i have the same problem using only 2 small gui resource packs

vex 2023-07-14T08:35:03Z

@hiyohiy: yeah it works with any pack, if that helps. 🙂

Willabuilder2 2023-07-31T20:31:19Z

There is also A bug where the zombified piglin looks like the zombie pigman from pre-1.16 and the vex uses the old model but uses the new texture witch makes it look very weird however this only happened when i joined my brother's world

vex 2023-07-31T21:03:55Z

@William Arthur Roberts: I think that's intentional. 😉

iCantThinkOfANam 2023-10-08T19:42:48Z

This was fixed

Timer RP 2024-02-02T02:32:57Z

As said above this has been fixed.Due to the removal of a few lines of code.

Analysis code

Bug sniffer (1.19.70-1.20.30)

[media]

{
  "format_version": "1.8.0",
  "minecraft:client_entity": {
    "description": {
      "identifier": "minecraft:sniffer",
      "min_engine_version": "1.8.0",
      "materials": {
        "default": "sniffer"
      },

Fix sniffer (1.20.40)

[media]

{
  "format_version": "1.8.0",
  "minecraft:client_entity": {
    "description": {
      "identifier": "minecraft:sniffer",
      "materials": {
        "default": "sniffer"
      },

As you can see removing "min_engine_version" solves the issue.

For people who have versions (1.19.70-1.20.30) you can use

[media]

to fix it

[Mod] OcelotOnesie 2024-02-02T11:29:05Z

@unknown: You added 1.20.51 and 1.20.70.20 to the affected versions lists, but I cannot reproduce this in either of these versions. Have you actually tested this in these versions?

vex 2024-02-02T14:26:42Z

No, I have not yet and will test them today. Thank you! I also removed them from the versions list.