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This article is about the joke feature. For the gray hostile mob, see Silverfish.
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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 |
| Hitbox size |
Height: 0.3 Blocks |
| Spawn |
When mining redstone ore |
A redstone bug was a hostile mob present in Java Edition 2.0.
Spawn[]
Redstone bugs can spawn if a redstone wire increases the strength. The chance that they spawn is 1%. The chance increases for every redstone bug in a 7x7x7 area by 5%. The Color value of the bug can reach from 33292288 to 66846720.
Behavior[]
Redstone bugs, effectively being reskinned 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. The first byte defines the alpha value and the other three the rgb color.
History[]
| Java Edition | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.0 |  Added the redstone bug. | ||||
Gallery[]
Redstone bugs glowing in the dark.
| Beta 1.4 |
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| Minecraft 2.0 |
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| 15w14a |
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| 1.RV-Pre1 |
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| 3D Shareware v1.34 |
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| 20w14∞ |
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