Tutorials Day night detector


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Making the circuit

  • Place the detector in an appropriate place, near your house.
  • Place your lamps in an outer wall (They must be visible from inside!)
  • Connect the detector to a NOT Gate (If you`re confused, check the picture), for best effect have a distance of 5-6 blocks (Again, if you don`t understand, check the picture).
  • Connect the NOT gate to the lamps.

Thanks to the 1.8 update, there is an easier way to do this:

  • Place the detector in an appropriate place, near your home or on top of your home.
  • Place your lamps in an outer wall (They must be visible from the inside!)
  • Connect the detector to the lamps.
  • Right click the detector

Uses

This circuit can be used for many things, including

  • Turn on lights inside/outside
  • Turn on in-ground "street lights" to prevent mobs from spawning in a certain area
  • Use lights to prevent spawning, and combine with other defenses to keep mobs out of your house (For instance, you could make a drawbridge that retracts at night, or something to automatically kill mobs outside your door in the morning, hooked up to the same circuit that will reduce mob spawning in the first place).
  • Use an "AND" gate to create a circuit that will only work at day, or one that will only work at night

BUD method

This method of time of day detecting uses a block update detector.

Materials


Water Bucket

Redstone

Redstone Repeater

Redstone Torch

Piston

Sticky Piston

Grass Block

Instructions

  1. You need to gather:
Item Amount
Sticky Piston 5
Piston 4
Glass 12
Grass Block 16
Stone Stone Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 30 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Cobblestone (1) Data value dec: 01 hex: 1 bin: 1 Name stone See the block called stone. For minecraft 20
Water Bucket 4
Redstone Dust 50
Redstone Repeater 11
Redstone Torch 4


Follow these dimensions before you start.
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Step Image Description
Step 1 Day-nightstep1.png After you dig a 10ud6efud63013ud6efud6304 hole make your day/night detector as in the picture.
Step 2 Day-nightstep2.png Redstone
Step 3 Day-nightstep3.png Redstone Cont.
Notice there is one stone block on each sticky piston.
Step 4 Day-nightstep4.png Glass


Xbox 360 Edition

Xbox 360 compatible detector