Redstone Bug

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.

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition.

A redstone bug was a hostile mob present in Java Edition 2.0, similar in form to a silverfish.

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

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