| Health points | 8HP
|
|---|---|
| Behavior | Hostile |
| Mob type |  Arthropod Monster
|
| Attack strength |
Easy and Normal: 1HP Hard: 1.5HP × 0.75
|
| Hitbox size | Height: 0.3 Blocks Width: 0.4 Blocks |
| Spawn | When a redstone wire increases the strength |
A redstone bug was an April Fools' variant of the silverfish exclusive to 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 7×7×7 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 |
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.
Issues
Issues relating to "Redstone Bug" are not maintained on the bug tracker because it is an April Fools' joke, and is therefore not in the newest stable version or snapshot. Issues reported there are closed as "Invalid".
Gallery
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Redstone bugs glowing in the dark
