Tripwire Hook

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Tripwire Hook

Transparency When leaves are opaque (in "fast" graphics), they completely block rendering. When leaves are transparent (in "fancy" graphics), the world behind them is also rendered. Opacity (and its inverse, transparency) are properties of blocks with	Yes
Luminance Light (or lighting) in Minecraft affects visibility, mob spawning, and plant growth. Contents 1 Brightness 1.1 Spread 2 Sources of light 2.1 Blocks 2.2 Other 3 Light-filtering blocks 4 Effects of light 4.1 Mobs 4.2	No
Blast resistance	0
Tool	Any tool
Renewable A renewable resource (as opposed to a non-renewable, or finite, resource) is a resource that can be recreated indefinitely in survival without exploiting glitches or using commands. While running out of resources isn t likely to	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Drops See the items that drop from entities and blocks. For drops as in falls, see Fall Damage. Typical drops from a skeleton: experience orbs, an arrow, and bones. Drops are items that	Itself
Data value	dec:131 hex:83 bin:10000011
Name See values from the latest PCPersonal Computer version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	tripwire_hook

A tripwire hook is a block See the various blocks found in Minecraft. For the blocking with shields that reduces damage when performed, see Blocking. All blocks Blocks are the basic units of structure in Minecraft. Contents 1 that can be used to detect entities (players, mobs, items, etc.) when part of a tripwire circuit.

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Breaking

To remove a tripwire hook, mine it. Tripwire hooks can be broken instantly using any tool, or without a tool.

A tripwire hook will also be removed and drop itself as an item if:

• its attachment block is moved, removed, or destroyed
• water Water Transparency Partial (-2 to light) Luminance No Blast resistance 500 (Flowing) 500 (Still) Tool Renewable Yes Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Water dec: 08 hex: 8 bin: 1000 Still Water dec: 09 hex: 9 bin: 1001 flows into its space
• a piston Piston Transparency Yes Luminance None Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Pistons are blocks capable of pushing most blocks, depending on tries to push it or moves a block into its space

A tripwire hook will be destroyed without dropping itself as an item if lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still flows into its space.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe
Iron Ingot+ Stick+ Any Wood Planks Wood Planks Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101 Name planks Wood planks are common blocks used in many crafting	2

Fishing

Tripwire hooks can be obtained as a "junk" item from fishing Fishing is the process of obtaining fish using fishing rods. Contents 1 Catching fish 2 Junk and treasures 3 Fishing rod durability 4 History 5 Issues 6 Trivia Catching fish edit | edit source] A .

Natural generation

Four tripwire hooks are generated naturally in each jungle temple Jungle Temple Biome Jungle Consists of See Blocks Can generate post-generation No First appearances See History Jungle temples are generated structures found in jungle biomes. Contents 1 Generation 2 Structure 2.1 Puzzle 2.2 Trap 2.3 .

Usage

Tripwire hooks can be used as crafting ingredients or as redstone components.

Crafting ingredient

Tripwire hooks can be used to craft trapped chests Trapped Chest Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 12.5 Hardness 2.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No, but catches fire from lava First appearances See History Drops Trapped .

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	Ingredients	Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe
Trapped Chest	Tripwire Hook⃂+ Chest

Redstone component

See also: Redstone circuit See redstone circuits. For other redstone-related articles, see Redstone (disambiguation). Contents 1 Redstone basics 1.1 Redstone components 1.2 Power 1.3 Power level 1.4 Redstone update 1.5 Redstone tick 1.6 Signals and pulses

A tripwire hook can be used to detect mobs, items, and other entities A player standing in front of a large group of entities The hitboxes of several entities. Note the blue line which points to the direction the entity is "facing." Entities encompass all dynamic, moving objects over a large area.

Placement

To place a tripwire hook, use the Place Block control Minecraft uses the standard control scheme of mouse and keyboard controls as input. The game cannot be played using only a mouse or only a keyboard using the default control scheme. The controls menu is .

A tripwire hook can be attached to the side of any full solid opaque When leaves are opaque (in "fast" graphics), they completely block rendering. When leaves are transparent (in "fancy" graphics), the world behind them is also rendered. Opacity (and its inverse, transparency) are properties of blocks with block.

In order to function correctly, a tripwire hook must be part of a "tripwire circuit": a straight line of blocks consisting of a block with a tripwire hook attached to it, a "tripwire line" (1 to 40 blocks of tripwire String Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops String (1) Data values Block dec: 132 hex: 84 bin: 10000100 Item dec: 287 hex: 11F bin: 100011111 Name Block tripwire Item ), and a second tripwire hook attached to another block, with both tripwire hooks facing the tripwire.

To place tripwire, use the Place Block control Minecraft uses the standard control scheme of mouse and keyboard controls as input. The game cannot be played using only a mouse or only a keyboard using the default control scheme. The controls menu is with a string String Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops String (1) Data values Block dec: 132 hex: 84 bin: 10000100 Item dec: 287 hex: 11F bin: 100011111 Name Block tripwire Item . Tripwire in a valid tripwire circuit has a short hitbox (0.09375 or 3/32 blocks high, with the bottom 0.0625 or 1/16 blocks above the block below), while tripwire not in a valid tripwire circuit has a taller hitbox (0.5 blocks high, bottom not raised).

The three states of a tripwire hook: not attached (folded), attached (straight), activated (depressed).

A tripwire hook in an invalid tripwire circuit appears "folded", while a tripwire hook in a valid tripwire circuit appears extended straight. Tripwire lines from separate tripwire circuits can be placed next to each other (in parallel), above each other, and can even intersect each other.

Activation

A tripwire hook in a valid tripwire circuit activates when certain entities A player standing in front of a large group of entities The hitboxes of several entities. Note the blue line which points to the direction the entity is "facing." Entities encompass all dynamic, moving objects (players, mobs, items, etc.) intersect the tripwire hook`s tripwire line "hit box" (but not the tripwire hook itself), and deactivates when all entities leave or are removed from the tripwire line.

Entities which will not activate a tripwire circuit include: thrown potions Potion Type Potions Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable No First appearances See History Data values See Data values Name See Data values See the drinkable potions. For the throwable potions, see Splash , some arrows, fireworks, thrown ender pearls Ender Pearl Type Raw materials Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (16) Internal ID PC: 14 PE: 87 Network ID PC: 65 Entity ID ender_pearl First appearances See History Data value dec: 368 hex: 170 bin: 101110000 Name , and thrown eyes of ender Eye of Ender Type Items Durability N/A Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Internal ID PC: 15 PE: 70 Network ID PC: 72 Entity ID eye_of_ender_signal First appearances See History Data value dec: 381 hex: 17D bin: 101111101 Name .

A tripwire hook also activates for 5 redstone ticks (0.5 seconds, barring lag) when any of its tripwires are destroyed, except when shears Shears Type Tools Durability 238 Renewable Yes Stackable No First appearances See History Data value dec: 359 hex: 167 bin: 101100111 Name shears Shears are a tool used primarily to shear sheep and mine a few types of are used to destroy the tripwire.

Breaking the tripwire hook, or the block it is attached to, does not generate a pulse.

Behavior

The tripwire hooks and the blocks they are attached to provide power, but the tripwire does not.

While active, a tripwire hook appears to move downwards and it:

• powers any adjacent redstone dust Redstone Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Availability Survival Drops Redstone (1) Data values See Data values Name See Data values This article is to power level 15, including beneath the tripwire hook
• powers any adjacent redstone comparators Redstone Comparator Transparency Yes Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Redstone Comparator (1) Data values See Data values Name or redstone repeaters Redstone Repeater Transparency Yes (partial) Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Availability Survival, Creative Drops Redstone Repeater (1) Data values facing away from the tripwire hook to power level 15
• strongly powers its attachment block to power level 15
• activates any adjacent mechanism components Redstone components are the blocks used to build redstone structures. Redstone components include power components (such as redstone torchs, buttons, and pressure plates), transmission components (such as redstone dust and redstone repeaters), and mechanism components , including above or below, such as pistons, redstone lamps, etc.

Tripwire produces no power itself, but its state change can be detected with an observer.

Although destroying tripwire with shears will not activate a tripwire hook, it will change the tripwire hook`s block state (its "attached" state from true to false) which can be detected with an observer.

Data values

A tripwire hook has an ID name of tripwire_hook and is further defined by its block data. A tripwire hook also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.

Block data

See also: Data values

A tripwire hook`s block data stores its orientation, connection status, and activation status:

Block state

See also: Block states

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	Value	Description
attached	true false	True if the tripwire hook is connected to a valid tripwire circuit.
facing	north south east west	The direction in which the tripwire hook juts out from the block it is attached to. For instance, a tripwire hook facing north will be attached to a block to its south.
powered	true false	True if the tripwire hook is active.

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History

Official release
1.3.1			May 28, 2012		Dinnerbone released a series of cryptic tweets, starting with "I think I`m taking a big liking towards adventure maps. It`s starting to show in my choice of new blocks." He hinted at shears being used to disable the tripwire, then posted a series of images before revealing the name. Afterwards, he posted a video to reveal the functionality of the tripwire and finally credited the idea to his fiancee MissMarzenia.
			12w22a		Added tripwire hooks.
1.5			13w01a		Tripwire hooks are used to craft trapped chests Trapped Chest Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 12.5 Hardness 2.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No, but catches fire from lava First appearances See History Drops Trapped .
1.7.2			13w36a		Tripwire hooks can be obtained as one of the "junk" items by fishing.
1.8			14w11a		The model was slightly changed.
			14w17a		The model was changed: the stick is now affected by the Smooth Lighting option, the iron is bigger, and the top, side, and stick textures were slightly changed.
1.9			15w49a		The suspended block state is removed from tripwire hook.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.13.0			build 1		Added tripwire hooks. They are used to craft trapped chests Trapped Chest Type Block Entity Physics No Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 12.5 Hardness 2.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No, but catches fire from lava First appearances See History Drops Trapped .
Console Edition
TU14	CU1	1.04	Patch 1		Added tripwire hooks.

Issues

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Gallery

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  The first image of tripwires released by Mojang.

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  The second image of tripwires released by Mojang.

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  The third image of tripwires released by Mojang.

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  A comparison between a tripwire hook and a lever released by Mojang.