Changes: Calibrated Sculk Sensor

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A calibrated sculk sensor is a craftable variant of sculk sensor. Similarly to its counterpart it detects vibrations, but with twice the range, and can detect multiple vibrations in quicker succession. It outputs a signal on all sides except for its input, which can recieve power to make the sensor only listen to specific vibrations, depending on the input signal strength.

Obtaining

Breaking

Calibrated sculk sensors can be broken with any tool, but can be broken faster with a hoe. They drop experience when broken. When broken by an item that is enchanted with Silk Touch, a calibrated sculk sensor drops itself.

Block	Calibrated Sculk Sensor
Hardness	1.5
Tool
Breaking time^[A]
Default	2.25
Wooden	1.15
Stone	0.6
Iron	0.4
Diamond	0.3
Netherite	0.25
Golden	0.2

↑ Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Amethyst Shard + Sculk Sensor

Usage

Unlike regular sculk sensors, there are a few differences:

Calibrated sculk sensors can detect vibrations up to 16 blocks away.
Calibrated sculk sensors have a cooldown of 1 second instead of 2 seconds.
Calibrated sculk sensors' "Sensor" could be disabled by a redstone signal onto its crystalized side.

Redstone

The same with the sculk sensor, one side of the calibrated sculk sensor can receive a redstone signal as an input, and the strength of that redstone signal is the only vibration frequency the sculk sensor will listen to. The following list showcases (in order) a list of frequencies that the calibrated sculk sensor can listen for.

Movement in any medium (land, water and air)
Landing on any surface (land or water)
Using an item (casting a fishing pole, throwing a snowball, etc.)
Gliding with an elytra or unique mob actions (Ravager roar, Wolf shaking, etc)
Dismounting a mob or equipping gear
Mounting a mob or interacting with a mob
Mobs and players getting damaged
Consuming items (drinking and eating)
Blocks 'deactivating' (door close, chest close, button unpress, etc)
Blocks 'activating' (door open, chest open, button press, etc)
Blocks changing (adding food to campfire, etc)
Non-wool blocks being destroyed
Non-wool blocks being placed
Mobs and players teleporting or spawning
Mobs and players dying or an explosion

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	`block.sculk_sensor.break`	`subtitles.block.generic.break`	0.9	0.96	16
Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	`block.sculk_sensor.place`	`subtitles.block.generic.place`	0.8	0.96	16
Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`block.sculk_sensor.hit`	`subtitles.block.generic.hit`	0.25	0.5	16
None^{[sound 1]}	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	`block.sculk_sensor.fall`	None^{[sound 1]}	0.5	0.75	16
Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	`block.sculk_sensor.step`	`subtitles.block.generic.footsteps`	0.15	1.0	16

↑ ^a ^b MC-177082

Bedrock Edition:

Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
Blocks	Once the block has broken	`break.sculk_sensor`	0.8	0.8-1.0
Blocks	When the block is placed	`place.sculk_sensor`	0.8	0.8-1.0
Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	`hit.sculk_sensor`	0.35	0.5
Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	`fall.sculk_sensor`	0.4	1.0
Players	Walking on the block	`step.sculk_sensor`	0.17	1.0
Players	Jumping from the block	`jump.sculk_sensor`	0.12	1.0
Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	`land.sculk_sensor`	0.14	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
Sculk Sensor starts clicking	Blocks	When a calibrated sculk sensor detects a vibration	`block.sculk_sensor.clicking`	`subtitles.block.sculk_sensor.clicking`	0.73	0.8-1.0	16
Sculk Sensor stops clicking	Blocks	When a calibrated sculk sensor deactivates	`block.sculk_sensor.clicking_stop`	`subtitles.block.sculk_sensor.clicking_stop`	0.62	0.8-1.0	16
Amethyst resonates	Blocks	When an amethyst block re-emits a vibration	`block.amethyst_block.resonate`	`subtitles.block.amethyst_block.resonate`	1.0	varies^{[sound 1]}	48

↑ Picks number from 0, 0, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, or 24 using the vibration's signal strength, and applies $2^\frac{n-12}{12}$ . It uses the same equation that note blocks do.

Bedrock Edition:

Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When a sculk sensor detects a vibration	`power.on.sculk_sensor`	0.73	0.8-1.2
	Blocks	When a sculk sensor deactivates	`power.off.sculk_sensor`	0.62	0.8-1.2
	Blocks	When an amethyst block re-emits a vibration	`resonate.amethyst_block`	3.0	varies^{[sound 1]}
None	None	Undefined sound event	`block.sculk_sensor.clicking`	1.0	0.73
None	None	Undefined sound event	`block.sculk_sensor.clicking_stop`	1.0	0.62

↑ Uses the same system as Java Edition.^[verify]

History

Java Edition
October 12, 2020		Brandon Pearce mentioned adding "habituation" to the skulk sensor.
1.17	20w49a	Added unused textures for calibrated sculk sensor to the game files (specifically to the `assets/minecraft/textures/blocks` directory).
		The top texture is a translucent version of the block of amethyst texture, where the side texture is composed of the sculk sensor's side texture overlayed on the amethyst texture.
		The amethyst textures are based on those from 20w45a, despite these textures being added after the amethyst block textures were redone twice, implying these textures come from a scrapped functionality of the sculk sensor coupled with amethyst.
	21w13a	Removed texture files from the game files.^[1]
1.20	23w12a	Added calibrated sculk sensors.
	23w14a	Calibrated sculk sensors now detect vibrations up to 16 blocks radius instead of 8 blocks.
		Calibrated sculk sensors now have 1 second active cooldown instead of 2 seconds.
		Calibrated sculk sensors now accept signals into the calibration input side more consistently with other Redstone components.
		Calibrated sculk sensors can now be activated by sniffer digging.
		Calibrated sculk sensors can now glow when they trigger, just like a regular sculk sensor.
		Default redstone output has been modified to be more reliable for distance calculations.
		Calibrated sculk sensors can now strongly power the block they are placed on.
	23w16a	The model of the calibrated sculk sensor have been changed. The amethyst is now stretched to match the model of the amethyst cluster.
	23w17a	Now lasts 10 game ticks when in Active phase instead of 20.
	23w17a	Now lasts 10 game ticks when in Cooldown phase instead of 1.
Bedrock Edition
1.19.80	beta 1.19.80.22	Added calibrated sculk sensors.

Gallery

One interpretation of how the old texture could have looked.
Another interpretation.

Issues

Issues relating to "Calibrated Sculk Sensor" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

References

↑ MC-208551

Redstone

[breakingtimenote-1] Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

[bugMC-177082-2] MC-177082

[3] Picks number from 0, 0, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9, 10, 12, 14, 15, 18, 19, 21, 22, or 24 using the vibration's signal strength, and applies $2^\frac{n-12}{12}$ . It uses the same equation that note blocks do.

[4] Uses the same system as Java Edition.^[verify]

[5] MC-208551

[A]

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 * Calibrated sculk sensors can detect vibrations up to 16 blocks away.
 * Calibrated sculk sensors have a cooldown of 1 second instead of 2 seconds.
 * Calibrated sculk sensors "Sensor" could be disabled by a redstone signal onto its crystalized side.
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