String

String is used for the crafting recipes of many tools and utilities. When placed as a block, string becomes tripwire which, when combined with tripwire hooks, can form a tripwire circuit.

Obtaining
String can be obtained from drops and fishing, and can be looted from jungle temples and dungeons.

Breaking
Tripwire can be instantly with any tool, dropping string.

Tripwire will also be removed and drop string as an item:
 * if water flows into its space
 * if a piston tries to push it or moves a block into its space

Tripwire will be destroyed without dropping string if lava flows into its space.

Cobwebs
String can be obtained from breaking cobwebs with a sword, as well as by the pushing of cobwebs by pistons and when water flows over cobwebs.

Drops
Spiders and cave spiders drop up to two pieces of string upon death.

Fishing
String can be obtained by fishing.

Natural generation
Five pieces of tripwire generate naturally in every jungle temple.

Usage
String can be used as a crafting ingredient and tripwire can be used as a redstone component. It can also be used to keep players from ender-pearling through that space.

Trading
Fisherman and fletcher villagers will buy 15-20 string for an emerald.

Redstone component
Tripwire can be used to detect entities as part of a tripwire circuit.


 * Placement


 * To place tripwire, string while pointing at a surface facing the space the tripwire should occupy.


 * In order to activate tripwire hooks, tripwire must be part of a "tripwire circuit": a straight line of blocks consisting of a block with a tripwire hook attached to it, a "tripwire line" (1 to 40 blocks of tripwire), and a second tripwire hook attached to another block.


 * Activation


 * A tripwire activates if almost any entity (players, mobs, minecarts, boats, items, arrows, etc.) intersects its collision mask. The tripwire remains active until there are no entities intersecting its collision mask. Thrown potions, some arrows, thrown Ender pearls, and thrown eyes of ender will not activate tripwire.


 * Behavior


 * An active tripwire that is part of a valid tripwire circuit will cause the attached tripwire hooks to activate (producing redstone power). Active tripwires also trigger block updates, but do not themselves produce redstone power.


 * When tripwire is broken (including by being washed away by spreading water) after being part of a valid tripwire circuit, it will activate the attached tripwire hooks for 5 redstone ticks (10 game ticks, or 0.5 seconds barring lag). It will not produce the signal if it is broken using shears.


 * A tripwire does not need to be part of a valid tripwire circuit to activate, but without valid attached tripwire hooks the activation or deactivation can only update adjacent blocks (for example, activating a BUD circuit).

ID
String has the ID name. Tripwire has the ID name  and is further defined by its block data. Tripwire also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.

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