Redstone Lamp

A Redstone Lamp is a golden block visually resembling Glowstone(hence its crafting materials) that gives off light as long as it is powered. While powered, they have a luminance of 15, one level higher than a torch. They require constant input in order to emit light. Similarly to other light emitting blocks, they will melt snow and ice. When redstone torches are placed on them, they will not activate. However, placing one next to the block will activate it. Placing a button, lever, or something similar on the block will cause it to become active.

Behavior
A redstone lamp with a switch placed on it will behave just like a standard solid block, meaning that if a redstone lamp is powered, it will power the block adjacent to it. It will also power redstone wire if it is placed on top of, underneath, or directly next to the lamp following the same principals as a standard solid block. Unlike Glowstone, when a Redstone Lamp is broken it will not break into Glowstone Dust or Redstone Dust. Instead it will yield one Redstone Lamp, just like a standard block.

History
The Redstone Lamp was introduced in the 12w07a snapshot on February 15th. Jeb confirmed the addition of Lamps in a tweet the day before, replying to a @ reply asking if there would be lamps that could turn on and off.



Bugs

 * When the lamp is placed outside and turned on, extreme lag may be caused continuously, especially on lower performance computers.
 * Breaking a lamp while it is lit will drop a lit Redstone Lamp that will not stack with unlit Redstone Lamps in the inventory. Placing the lit lamp away from a redstone source will unlight it, allowing it to be stacked with other unlit Redstone Lamps in the inventory. This is probably due to it being two separate blocks, like redstone ore and glowing redstone ore.

Trivia

 * Although it makes the sound of Glass (like Glowstone and Glass Pane), it acts like a solid block.

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