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Daylight Detector

A block that outputs a redstone signal proportional to the amount of sunlight. It can be right-clicked to invert into a night-detecting mode.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Redstone

Version Added

1.5

Item ID

daylight_detector

Daylight Detector at a glance

Daylight Detector, a redstone component out of crafting, sits under Redstone. Carrying Daylight Detector is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest. It doubles as furnace fuel, good for 1.5 smelts each and 96 from a full stack.

Wire Daylight Detector into a circuit and it becomes part of the timing: redstone builds are made of components like this, each one deciding what the next block sees. On the hardness scale Daylight Detector sits at 0.2. There is no second figure for Daylight Detector; explosions meet 0.2 too. Any axe will do on Daylight Detector, from wood upward. It sits between Crafter and Dispenser in Redstone, number 5 of 29 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
GlassGlass
GlassGlass
GlassGlass
Nether QuartzNether Quartz
Nether QuartzNether Quartz
Nether QuartzNether Quartz
Daylight DetectorDaylight Detector
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Daylight Detector has the grid for Daylight Detector

How to obtain

  • Crafting

Fuel value

Daylight Detector burns for 15 seconds (300 ticks), which is 1.5 items per Daylight Detector

Notes

Right-click to toggle between daylight and inverted (night) sensor modes.

Frequently asked questions about Daylight Detector

  1. Glass, Nether Quartz, Wooden Slab going into Daylight Detector, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Daylight Detector in Minecraft?

    Daylight Detector is crafted from Glass, Nether Quartz, and Wooden Slab at a Crafting Table, in a single step.

  2. Daylight Detector on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Daylight Detector used for?

    A block that outputs a redstone signal proportional to the amount of sunlight. It can be right-clicked to invert into a night-detecting mode.

  3. Daylight Detector as a block, next to the axe its 0.2 hardness asks for

    How long does Daylight Detector take to break?

    Two figures cover Daylight Detector: 0.2 to mine, 0.2 to blow it up. When the two numbers on Daylight Detector match, it offers nothing extra against TNT. Any axe will do on Daylight Detector, from wood upward. Java 26.2 records Daylight Detector with the numbers above, and it keeps them here.

  4. 64 Daylight Detector drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Daylight Detector can you stack?

    192 Glass, 192 Nether Quartz, and 192 Wooden Slab is what 64 Daylight Detector costs, so filling a single slot is 64 crafts. A shulker box of Daylight Detector comes to 1,728, over 27 slots.

  5. Daylight Detector beside a furnace, which is where its 15 seconds of burning go

    Can Daylight Detector be used as fuel?

    Daylight Detector in the bottom slot gives you 15 seconds of heat, which is 1.5 items apiece. Since one craft turns Glass, Nether Quartz, and Wooden Slab into Daylight Detector, a furnace fed that way runs on Glass, Nether Quartz, and Wooden Slab. Nothing burns until it is Daylight Detector: Glass on its own does not.

Building with it

Three glass, three quartz and three wooden slabs make a daylight detector, and it outputs a signal proportional to the sunlight above it. Inverted with a right click it fires at night instead, which is how street lamps and automatic shutters switch themselves.

In practice

A daylight detector outputs a strength that follows the sun, peaking at fifteen at noon, and a right click inverts it so it fires at night instead. Wired to a comparator it can trigger at a chosen brightness rather than simply on or off.

Related Astroworld Resources

Daylight Detector in a redstone circuit

Timing, signal strength and wiring for Daylight Detector on Astroworld Redstone

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