Light Sensor Block, as shown by Jeb
Jeb released a teaser image recently, calling it a "Daylight Detector"! Upcoming feature in 1.5, maybe?
Light sensor blocks have, in many different forms, been a feature of numerous mod packs, and with good reason; the block is often depicted sending a redstone signal when a specific light threshold is detected, and otherwise emitting no signal. Many people use them for automatic lighting, doors, or more complicated and esoteric machinery. Will this particular block allow for sensitivity adjustments, letting players tell the block just how much light they want detected? Maybe this is just one exciting part of the upcoming Redstone Update. Dinnerbone already teased a number of redstone logic upgrades, and Mojang continues to pile on the features for the upcoming 1.5 update! We will keep you posted as it develops.
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Maybe it's because there are three extra, useless bits of redstone on the other side. Are they leeching the power from the full twelve the the sad, sad nine we have here? This could be interesting!
That's easy. Just use a memory cell.
Infinite energy?
Redstone isn't energy. It's... uh... redstone
But if you want infinite redstone signal, I have a better method: Place a redstone torch.
Nope, funny thing is, they mentioned this new feature at Minecon. Redstone will be more analog like, depending on signal strength will depend on how far the signal travels.
Repeaters will have more of a play finally, instead of slapping a repeater every 15 blocks, sometimes you may have to put it 5 blocks from the source, othertimes 15.
No I know that, what we're taking about is that (we are assuming) the strength of the signal will be 1:1 comparable to the light level. If the light level is 15, the redstone signal will travel 15 blocks. If its 2, it will travel 2 blocks.
Therefore, in the picture in the first post, the light level is (or appears to be) 10. But whenever the sun is completely over the horizon it's always 15. So there are 2 options: Redstone signal is not 1:1 with light level, or the way the world is lit during daytime hours has changed.
Both are possible. The first seems weird and the second seems cool, so I'm leaning towards the cool one
I counted fifteen blocks of redstone, so even if this is true the lamp should still be powered.
I, too was thinking that making the sunlight level more gradual would be the only way for this to make sense. It just seemed a bit out of place in a redstone update, but there's always some random additions that make no sense, I suppose.
EDIT: D'oh, I just saw that on the wiki... Sorry,
Im 99% sure it will, I cant wait for street lights
...huh? I think you may have mistyped...