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This article documents an April Fools' joke.
This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
It is documented here on the wiki due to being officially-released content by Mojang Studios, even if not present in a final version.
It is documented here on the wiki due to being officially-released content by Mojang Studios, even if not present in a final version.
Redstone Bug
| Health points |
16 |
|---|---|
| Behavior |
Hostile |
| Attack strength |
Easy and Normal:1 hard:3 |
| Hitbox size |
Height: 0.3 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks |
| Spawn |
after mining a redstone ore |
Redstone bug was a hostile mob present in Java Edition 2.0.
Spawn[]
Redstone bugs spawned close to redstone which was rapidly oscillating between strengths, but could also be found spawning in strongholds.
Behavior[]
Redstone bugs, effectively being reskined silverfish, shared all of their behavior.
Data values[]
ID[]
| Name | Savegame ID | Numeric ID | Translation key |
|---|---|---|---|
| Redstone Bug | Silverfish | 60 | entity.Silverfish.name |
Entity Data[]
Redstone bugs used the ID of silverfish, different from them only by a newly-added Color NBT, which could have any color applied to it via editing, not just the redstone shades.
Gallery[]
Redstone bugs glowing in the dark.
