Clocks are items that display the current in-game time by displaying the sun and the moon's position relative to the horizon.
Obtaining
Crafting
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Gold Ingot + Redstone Dust |
Natural generation
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Clock | Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 7.3% |
| Shipwreck | Map chest | 1 | 7.7% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Clock | Ruined portal | Chest | 1 | 7.3% |
| Shipwreck | Map chest | 1 | 7.7% | |
Trading
Expert-level librarian villagers have 1⁄3 chance to sell a single clock for 4 emeralds as part of their trades.[Bedrock Edition only]
Expert-level librarian villagers have a 50% chance to sell a clock for 5 emeralds.[Java Edition only]
Usage
Clock animation
The clock dial consists of two halves, a day side and a night side. The dial spins clockwise slowly to indicate the time of day, corresponding to the sun or moon's actual position in the sky. The player is able to sleep a few seconds after the clock shows exactly dusk.
The dial can be read from a clock in any of its representations: held in a player's hand, placed in any inventory or crafting grid, in an item frame, and even as a dropped item.
Because there is no day/night cycle in the Nether or the End, clocks do not work properly in these dimensions. Instead, the dial rotates rapidly and randomly, making them useless.
Piglins
Piglins are attracted to clocks and run toward any clock on the ground, and inspect it for 6 to 8 seconds before putting it in their inventory.
Data values
ID
| Name | Identifier | Translation key |
|---|---|---|
| Clock | clock | item.minecraft.clock |
| Name | Identifier | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Clock | clock | 347 | item.clock.name |
Video
Note: This video doesn't state that Clocks can be found in Buried Treasure, Shipwrecks, or Ruined Portals because the video was released in a earlier version.
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Oooh, shiny! | Distract a Piglin using gold | Give a piglin a gold item while it is aggressive toward the player. | 30G | Silver | ||
Advancements
| Icon | Advancement | In-game description | Parent | Actual requirements (if different) | Resource location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Oh Shiny | Distract Piglins with gold | Nether | While aggravated, give a piglin one of these 25 gold-related items in the #piglin_loved item tag:
| nether/distract_piglin
|
History
| alpha | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v1.2.0 | ? | ||||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Librarian villagers now sell clocks for 10–11 emeralds. | |||
| 1.5 | 13w02a | ||||
| 1.6.1 | 13w24a | Clocks are now broken up into individual textures, instead of combining 2 textures. | |||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Librarian villagers now sell clocks for 10–12 emeralds. | |||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 347. | |||
| 18w14a | Clocks can now be found in shipwreck map rooms. | ||||
| 1.16 | 20w16a | Clocks now generate in ruined portal chests. | |||
| Upcoming Java Edition | |||||
| 1.17 | 20w48a | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| ? | |||||
| Clocks currently have no function or legitimate method of obtaining them. | |||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | Clocks are now functional and craftable. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.0.4 | alpha 1.0.4.0 | Librarian villagers now sell clocks for 10-12 emeralds. | |||
| Bedrock Edition | |||||
| 1.4.0 | beta 1.2.20.1 | Clocks can now be found inside map room chests in shipwrecks. | |||
| 1.11.0 | beta 1.11.0.4 | Trading has been changed, librarian villagers now have 1⁄3 chance to sell a clock for 4 emeralds as part of their trades. | |||
| 1.16.0 | beta 1.16.0.57 | Clocks now generate in ruined portal chests. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | 1.0.1 | |
| TU69 | 1.76 | Patch 38 | Clocks can now be found in shipwreck map rooms. | ||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | |||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Clock" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
Trivia
- In Java Edition, a clock can be viewed under the item statistics page as long as one obtained a clock at some point. It can also be viewed in recipe book if the recipe for it has been unlocked.
- In Java Edition, the default resource pack for the clock contains 64 individual frames, each frame lasting about 18.75 seconds in real time (375 ticks) (1350 seconds (22 minutes, 30 seconds) in minecraft time).
- When the time of day changes suddenly, such as after sleeping or when
/timeis used, the clock dial spins rapidly to catch up. - After completing 100 day-and-night cycles in Bedrock Edition, the player is awarded an achievement.
- Although clocks do not function in the Nether or the End, the actual daylight cycle does continue.
- Despite that redstone is used in its crafting recipe, this item does not have any use with redstone or any redstone component.
