r/redstone • u/Waste-Bobcat-9606 • 7h ago
Bedrock Edition 100% Reliable Thunderstorm Detector That Works Day and Night.
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I made a fully functioning, fits in one chunk thunderstorm detector on bedrock! Unlike other thunderstorm detectors I've seen, this one not only works at night, but was designed and tested on bedrock! How's it work? Pandas are special in minecraft. They are the only Mob in minecraft with genetics. They have different personalities and appearances based on their genetics. One kind of panda has a special feature, the worried panda variant. It has an extra top pixel on its eyes. They will stop all movement and sit up and rock back and forth on their butt when a thunderstorm starts. I wanted to find a way to convert this behavior into a redstone output. This machine does exactly that. A hopper clock powers a Dropper elevator recycling bamboo into itself in front of our panda. He attempts to grab this bamboo, Every time he does so, he is pushed into a hole, via pistons, into a water stream, into a bubble column. This puts him back on the platform to try again. Every time this happens he activates a tripwire hook that powers a pulse extender into a redstone torch. The pulse extender acts as a battery in this case, giving the panda enough time to go back around the loop without the circuit turning off. When a thunderstorm happens, the panda stops moving entirely. This stops him from hitting the trip wire hook, and stops powering the pulse extender "battery", allowing our redstone torch to come on. If anyone attempts to build this on java, let us know if it works! Or if anyone has anyway of condensing this too!