After a long night hunkered down inside your home, avoiding marauding skeletons, zombies, and creepers, how do you know when it’s safe to venture forth once more?
You’ve got a few options. The simplest is to look out of a window. Is the sun up? You’re good to go. A reasonable alternative is to build yourself a clock out of gold and redstone, which shows the position of the sun. But the most complicated solution of all is to build a redstone contraption that lights up a series of lamps or triggers a note block when the sun rises. For that, you’ll need our block of the month – the Daylight Detector.
Daylight detection became possible following the Redstone Update, which was released in March 2013. The patch added the daylight sensor, but it got a new feature a year later in the Bountiful Update – allowing it to be switched between day and night mode.
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