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Secret Redstone
Four redstone pieces built into full blocks that wear a disguise: Secret Redstone Dust, Secret Redstone Wire, the Secret Repeater and the Secret Comparator. Each one looks like the block you clicked when you placed it (see How disguises work). Inside, it is working redstone.
| Block | What it does to a signal | Directions | Loss per block |
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| Secret Redstone Dust | Carries it, like redstone dust | Sideways, and up or down a step | 1 |
| Secret Redstone Wire | Carries it | All six sides | 1 |
| Secret Repeater | Repeats it at full strength after a delay | In at the back, out at the front | None (out at 15) |
| Secret Comparator | Compares or subtracts | In at the back and sides, out at the front | None |
| As you see it | Through the Builder's Goggles |
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- Each is a full, solid block. You can walk on it and build against it.
- No redstone shows: no dust lines, torches or arrows. Every face shows the disguise.
- To see what is inside, wear the Builder's Goggles. They show the wire, the repeater's arrow and delay, and the comparator's mode. The debug screen (F3) shows the delay, facing and mode too.
- They sound, mine and stand up to explosions like the block they look like, and they always drop themselves when mined. See How disguises work. A vanilla redstone piece breaks instantly; these take as long as their look.
- A piston breaks each of them and it drops as an item, as a piston breaks vanilla dust, repeaters and comparators.
- None of them passes power through itself the way stone does. A repeater pointing into one of them does not power the blocks around it.
- A comparator cannot read a chest through one of them, as it cannot through vanilla redstone dust.
- The Camouflage Wand turns vanilla redstone dust, repeaters and comparators into these blocks and back. A repeater keeps its delay and facing, and a comparator its mode.
- Vanilla redstone dust becomes Secret Redstone Dust with the wand. A Secret Redstone Wire turned vanilla becomes ordinary redstone dust, which joins its neighbors.
| As you see it | Through the Builder's Goggles |
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Redstone dust inside a full block. In a circuit it acts like a line of vanilla redstone dust.
Shapeless: 1 Dummy Block + 1 Redstone Dust makes 1 Secret Redstone Dust. See Crafting.
- A source gives it 15. Each block of dust along the line loses 1, so a signal reaches 15 blocks.
- It mixes with vanilla redstone dust and Secret Redstone Wire. The loss stays exactly 1 per block across any mix.
- It turns off as soon as its source is removed.
- It joins vanilla redstone dust beside it, and one step up or down, as dust does.
- It also reads a Secret Redstone Wire directly above or below it, at 1 less.
- It powers the lamp, piston or door it runs into, as vanilla dust does.
- A lamp beside it, where the line does not point, stays off, as beside vanilla dust.
- A comparator reads it at its side like vanilla dust.
- It needs a floor, like vanilla dust. You can only place it on a block with a solid top, and it pops off if that block goes.
- A piston breaks it and it drops as an item, as with vanilla dust.
- It is a full, solid, disguised block, not a flat line. You can walk on it, and the shape of the line does not show.
- It mines like its disguise, not instantly.
A six-sided wire: the signal moves through it in every direction, straight up and down included. A line can run through a wall, a floor or a ceiling in any direction.
Shapeless: 1 Dummy Block + 1 Redstone Dust + 1 Redstone Torch makes 1 Secret Redstone Wire. A Dummy Block and Redstone Dust alone make Secret Redstone Dust.
- Any power source touching any of its faces powers it: a lever, a redstone block, a repeater pointing into it, and so on.
- It also takes the strongest wire touching any face (vanilla dust, Secret Redstone Dust or another Wire), minus 1.
- A line reads 15, 14, 13 and so on. A column reads the same going up or going down. A signal reaches 15 blocks.
- Mixed with Secret Redstone Dust and vanilla dust, it still loses exactly 1 per block.
- It turns off when its source is removed.
- Breaking a block in the middle of a line splits it in two.
- It gives its signal to everything touching any of its six faces. A lamp, door or piston on any face is powered, and so is a repeater whose back touches it.
- It never powers through a block. A lamp on the far side of a stone block next to the Wire stays off.
- Vanilla dust or Secret Redstone Dust sitting on top of a Wire reads 1 less than the Wire. A Wire on top of vanilla dust reads 1 less than the dust.
- Vanilla dust one step up and to the side also picks up its signal.
- Vanilla redstone dust beside it points at it.
- It needs nothing under it. It can sit in a wall, a ceiling or mid-air.
- A piston breaks it and it drops as an item, as with vanilla dust.
Vanilla has no six-sided wire. Compared with vanilla redstone dust:
- It carries a signal on all six sides, up and down included.
- It is a full, solid, disguised block and needs no floor.
- It powers everything touching any face, but only directly. Vanilla dust also powers the block it sits on and the block it points into, so things beyond those blocks turn on. The Wire never does that.
- It mines like its disguise, not instantly.
A vanilla repeater inside a full block.
Shapeless: 1 Dummy Block + 1 Redstone Repeater makes 1 Secret Repeater.
- The signal goes in at the back and comes out of the front at full strength (15), after its delay.
- It faces the way a vanilla repeater does when you place it: the output points away from you. It only faces sideways, never up or down.
- The delay is 1 to 4. Use it (right-click) to cycle 1, 2, 3, 4 and back to 1.
- Each step of delay is 2 game ticks (0.1 seconds). The timing matches a vanilla repeater at the same delay, tick for tick.
- Like a vanilla repeater, it changes its delay only for a player who is allowed to build there.
- A powered repeater or comparator pointing into its side locks it. Secret and vanilla repeaters and comparators lock each other.
- Locked, it holds its output. It stays off if its input comes on, and stays on if its input goes.
- Placed next to a powered repeater pointing into its side, it is locked at once.
- Its output goes out of the front only. A lamp at its side stays off.
- Redstone dust at its side has no arm toward it. Dust at its input points at it. This is how dust treats a vanilla repeater, so dust nearby does not give it away.
- A piston breaks it and it drops as an item, as with a vanilla repeater.
- It is a full, solid, disguised block. No torches show, and you cannot see its delay or facing.
- It gives off no redstone particles when powered.
- It stays when the block under it is removed. It needs no floor, so it can sit in a wall. A vanilla repeater pops off.
- It mines like its disguise, not instantly.
A vanilla comparator inside a full block.
Shapeless: 1 Dummy Block + 1 Redstone Comparator makes 1 Secret Comparator.
- It takes a signal at the back and at both sides, and outputs from the front.
- It faces the way a vanilla comparator does when you place it, and starts in compare mode.
- Compare mode: the output is the back signal, unless a side signal is stronger. Then the output is 0.
- Subtract mode: the output is the back signal minus the stronger side signal. With 15 at the back and 13 at a side, compare gives 15 and subtract gives 2.
- Use it (right-click) to switch modes. It clicks like a vanilla comparator. Like a vanilla comparator, it switches only for a player who is allowed to build there.
- It reads a container behind it, either directly or through one solid block. A chest reads 0 empty, 6 with 10 full stacks, and 15 full.
- It reads a Secret Chest and the other secret containers the same way.
- Its output changes the moment the container's contents change.
- It reads an item frame on the far side of a solid block. The output follows the frame's rotation, as with a vanilla comparator.
- Side signals come from vanilla redstone dust, Secret Redstone Dust, the Secret Redstone Wire and repeaters, as on a vanilla comparator.
- A powered Secret Comparator locks a repeater at its side, Secret or vanilla.
- Its output goes out of the front only. A lamp at its side stays off.
- A powered repeater pointing into its side does not power anything past it.
- Redstone dust next to it takes the same shape as next to a vanilla comparator.
- A piston breaks it and it drops as an item, as with a vanilla comparator.
- It is a full, solid, disguised block. No torches show, and you cannot see its mode.
- It stays when the block under it is removed. It needs no floor, so it can sit in a wall. A vanilla comparator pops off.
- It mines like its disguise, not instantly.
Building hidden circuits
- A line inside a wall. Run Secret Redstone Wire through the wall, floor or ceiling in any direction, up and down included. A signal lasts 15 blocks. The Wire powers everything touching it, so keep doors, lamps and pistons you do not want to trigger away from its faces. Where a floor might get dug out, use Wire rather than Secret Redstone Dust: the Dust pops off when its floor goes, and the Wire needs none.
- Boost a long line. Put a Secret Repeater in the line to bring the signal back to 15. It needs no floor, shows no particles, and dust beside it shows no arm toward it. Repeaters only face sideways, so a column taller than 15 blocks has to step sideways through a repeater.
- A chest that opens a door. Build a Secret Comparator into the wall with its back to a Secret Chest. Put a Secret Repeater in front of it, then run Secret Redstone Wire to a door or a piston. The comparator's signal is weak while the chest holds only a little, and the repeater brings any signal up to 15. Put an item in the chest and the door opens. Take it out and the door closes.