Daylight Detector

Daylight Detector

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	0.2
Hardness	0.2
Luminant	No
Transparent	Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	Yes

A daylight detector is a block that outputs a redstone signal based on sunlight.

Obtaining

Loot

From block loot

Daylight detectors can be broken fairly easily by hand, but can be broken faster by using an axe.

Namespaced ID	Source	Drops
		Default
blocks/daylight_detector	Daylight Detector	1 (100%)

Recipes

From crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Glass + Nether Quartz + Any wood Slab

Usage

Breaking

Daylight detectors can be broken fairly easily by hand, but can be broken faster by using an axe. Inverted daylight detectors cannot be collected directly; they drop a regular daylight detector. In Bedrock Edition the inverted sensor may be obtained via inventory editing.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]}

Block	Daylight Detector
Hardness	0.2
Tool
Breaking time
Default	0.35
Wooden	0.2
Stone	0.1
Iron	0.05
Diamond	0.05
Netherite	0.05
Golden	0.05

Block loot

Namespaced ID	Source	Drops
		Default
blocks/daylight_detector	Daylight Detector	1 (100%)

Redstone component

Graphed daylight detector output in clear weather.

See also: Redstone circuit

A daylight detector can be used to produce redstone power in proportion to the daylight or night time.

A daylight detector is 0.375 blocks high (3/8ths of a block). Daylight detectors can be moved by pistons.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} Water and lava flows around daylight detectors without affecting them.

Placement

To place a daylight detector, use the "Use Item/Place Block" control.

A daylight detector can be "inverted", which reverses the power levels produced by the daylight detector. To invert a daylight detector, aim at the placed daylight detector and use the "Use Item/Place Block" control.

Activation

A daylight detector activates when exposed to sufficient daylight (daylight detector mode) or when exposure to daylight is low enough (inverted daylight detector mode).

Sources of block light (torches, glowstone, etc.) cannot activate a daylight detector.

Behavior

An active daylight detector:

• powers adjacent redstone dust, including below it, and redstone comparators facing away from the daylight detector, to a power level that depends on the time of day, the weather, and the internal sky light level (see tables below)
• powers adjacent redstone repeaters facing away from the daylight detector to power level 15
• activates adjacent redstone mechanisms, including above and below, such as pistons, redstone lamps, etc.

A daylight detector has no effect on other adjacent blocks (for example, it cannot power a block the way a repeater can).

The output signal of daylight detectors in the loaded chunk is updated every 20 gametime‌^{[JE only]}/daytime‌^{[BE only]}. Block update have no effect on daylight detectors.

Daylight Detector

The daylight detector power level depends on the time of day, the weather, and the internal sky light level.

Daylight detector power levels when sky light level is 15

Power	Clear		Rain or Snowfall		Thunder
	Time ↓	Time ↑	Time ↓	Time ↑	Time ↓	Time ↑
0	13670-22330		13670-22330		13670-22330
1	22331-22781	13219-13669	22331-22798	13203-13669	22331-22943	13058-13669
2	22782-23069‌[JE only]/23070‌[BE only]	12931-13218	22799-23231	12769‌[JE only]/12770‌[BE only]-13202	22944-23352	12648-13057
3	23070‌[JE only]/23071‌[BE only]-23296	12705-12930	23232-23504	12497-12768‌[JE only]/12769‌[BE only]	23353-23700	12300-12647
4	23297-23529	12471-12704	23505-23745	12256-12496	23701-59	11941‌[JE only]/11942‌[BE only]-12299
5	23530-23767	12233-12470	23746-23991	12010-12255	60-441	11560-11940‌[JE only]/11941‌[BE only]
6	23768-23960	12041-12232	23992-394	11607-12009	442-1039	10962-11559
7	23961-166	11835-12040	395-882	11119-11606	1040-1735	10266-10961
8	167-535	11465‌[JE only]/11466‌[BE only]-11834	883-1429‌[JE only]/1430‌[BE only]	10571-11118	1736-2608	9392-10265
9	536-933	11067-11464‌[JE only]/11465‌[BE only]	1430‌[JE only]/1431‌[BE only]-2069	9931-10570	2609-3942	8059-9391
10	934-1371	10629-11066	2070-2875	9125‌[JE only]/9126‌[BE only]-9930	3943-8058
11	1372-1865	10136-10628	2876-4108	7892-9124‌[JE only]/7893-9125‌[BE only]	N/A	N/A
12	1866-2444	9557-10135	4109-7891‌[JE only]/7892‌[BE only]		N/A	N/A
13	2445-3175	8826-9556	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
14	3176-4294	7706-8825	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
15	4295-7705		N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A

Inverted Daylight Detector

Using a daylight detector inverts it. However, the output of the inverted detector is not a simple inversion of the daylight detector's output; it uses a much simpler algorithm that depends only on the internal sky light level. Specifically, it outputs a signal strength of 15 minus the current internal sky light level, where values over 15 or below 0 are taken as 15 or 0 respectively. This means that an inverted daylight detector actually outputs a strength of 11 at midnight when it's clear weather, if it has line of sight with the sky. The effects of shade are applied before inverting, so shade increases the signal strength when it isn't already full, and prevents it from reaching zero.

The inverted daylight detector cannot be obtained as an item in Java Edition. Mining an inverted daylight detector simply drops a regular daylight detector.

Fuel

Daylight detectors can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	Block broken	Blocks	Breaking the block	block.wood.break	subtitles.block.generic.break	1.0	0.8	16
	None	Blocks	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.wood.fall	None	0.5	0.75	16
	Block breaking	Blocks	Mining the block	block.wood.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit	0.25	0.5	16
	Block placed	Blocks	Placing the block	block.wood.place	subtitles.block.generic.place	1.0	0.8	16
	Footsteps	Blocks	Walking on the block	block.wood.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition: ^{[needs in-game testing]}

Sound	Description	Namespaced ID	Volume	Pitch
?	Breaking the block	dig.wood	?	0.8
?	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.wood	?	?
?	Mining the block	hit.wood	?	0.5
?	Jumping from the block	jump.wood	?	?
?	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.wood	?	?
?	Walking on the block	step.wood	?	?
?	Placing the block	use.wood	?	0.8

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Daylight Detector	daylight_detector	block.minecraft.daylight_detector

Name	Namespaced ID
Block entity	daylight_detector

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Daylight Sensor	daylight_detector	151	tile.daylight_detector.name
Inverted Daylight Sensor	daylight_detector_inverted	178	tile.daylight_detector_inverted.name

Name	Savegame ID
Block entity	DaylightDetector

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, a daylight sensor's block data stores its power level:

Bits	Values
0x1 0x2 0x4 0x8	Four bits storing a value from 0 to 15 representing the daylight sensor's current redstone power level.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
inverted	false	false true	If true, the daylight detector is inverted.
power	0	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	The current redstone power level produced by the daylight sensor.

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
redstone_signal	0	0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15	The current redstone power level produced by the daylight sensor.

Block entity

See also: Block entity format

A daylight detector has a block entity associated with it which stores only its entity ID and position (the minimum data for a block entity). Although the daylight detector's block entity stores no additional data, the block entity ensures that the daylight detector is updated every game tick.

• Block entity data
  • Tags common to all block entities see Template:Nbt inherit/blockentity/template

Video

Note: This video is outdated, as it was made before 14w31a where daylight detectors could be inverted.

History

July 6, 2010					Notch suggests that he may implement daylight sensors (in the blog post mentioning Alpha 1.0.2_01).
November 24, 2012					Jeb stated that there may be a daylight sensor.
January 2, 2013					Jeb tweeted an image of the daylight sensor.
Java Edition
1.5		13w01a			Added daylight sensors.
1.8		14w31a			Daylight sensors can now be toggled between day and night by using them.
1.9		15w47a			Daylight sensors no longer emit signal during the night when sufficiently shaded.
					Inverted daylight sensors now emit a variable signal at night.
1.11		16w32a			The block entity ID has now been changed from DLDetector to daylight_detector.
1.13		17w47a			"Daylight Sensor" has now been renamed to "Daylight Detector".
					The different block IDs for the daylight detector have now been merged into one ID.
					Added an inverted block state to daylight detectors.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 151 and 178.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.13.0		build 1			Added daylight sensors.
0.15.0		build 1			Daylight sensors can now be moved by pistons.
Legacy Console Edition
TU19	CU7	1.12	Patch 1		Added daylight sensors.
TU25	CU14	1.17			Daylight sensors can now be toggled between day and night by using them.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added daylight detectors.

Gallery

• 

  The 13w01a snapshot image released by Mojang.

Issues

Issues relating to "Daylight Sensor" or "Daylight Detector" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

References

Redstone

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