I find it hilarious that the feature meant for technical players is seen as "gimmicky" (or even considered useless by some people) but the random decorative plant Is extremely useful

The wither cage thing reminds me of the movable reinforced deepslate. Surely Mojang won't remove it this time :)

I like that you can permanently seal signs. If you don't want people trolling/griefing your signs you can perm lock them.

I think the reason with the sign NOT being unwaxable is the fact you can break it to rewrite it very easily with the axe.

The shelter shard looks more like an acacia tree than a mushroom to me. Maybe because skeletons take shelter under trees during the day

That took like 3 hours for the tech community to figure that out... Just incredible!

To make a slightly more compact Block Place emitter, you could use a block of sand on top of an upward-facing piston. Extend and retract the piston, and the sand should make the Block Place noise when it lands.

That's awesome to see the sculk sensor updated! It's super exciting to see Mojang listening to gripes of the redstone community. Even if it's not everything we wanted, it at least is something in the right direction.

If no one has done so yet, I would recommend a bug report titled "Pitcher pod crop has no bottom texture" and explain the benefits of keeping the non-supported block behavior. Even if it is removed, you can plant a seed with the development team.

the calibrated sensor has goofy "pinapple+pen" energy, but i love it xD it definitely helps fill the frustrating hole in minecraft where mojang refuses to give new recipes that combines existing items, and instead almost always add new items

It would be cool if instead of fixing the plant, they made it so the pod itself is a separate block you can get when harvesting the plant as a bonus drop, or maybe when using a silk touch tool. Then you can place the pods around without the plant attached and they can keep their own use, while fixing the buginess of removing soil from under a plant and having it float :D

would be nice that if with the calibrated skulk sensor the signal strength was again relative to the source that triggered it. So we have trigger groups that deliver a specific signal on a regular sensor. With the calibrated one, we set it to be sensitive to a particular group, and then the signal is down to the specific source within that group, allowing for finer granularity on triggers.

It's funny how they added a block that would be literally perfect for you in the last Skyblock episode in TWO ways.

waxed copper has a feature of removing wax because waxed and unwaxed copper block are 2 different blocks you can put in your inventory, the sign will always be just a sign, there is no "waxed sign" so to remove the effect you just need to destroy the sign and place it again (unless it actually doesn't work that way, but I'd be very surprised)

What would be a nice change for the calibrated sensor is the introduction of subgroups. So if you have it set to pay attention to signal 13 sounds prehaps the signal it sends out when it detects something in that group would be a represented

Me: Oh look, pretty flowers for decorating. ilmango: Oh look, a new way to trap the most destructive force in the game.

I suspect the pitcher plant not being supported is a bug, as indicated by the fact that the bottom of it doesn't render.

the sculk sensor should have one dedicated channel for only noteblocks, so we can make reliable wireless redstone.

Stopping sign from being edited is to stop other players from changing signs. There are plugins to block players from placing and breaking blocks, but not interacting with it, so they can use doors in other peoples builds. Its obviously not vanilla, but i think thats the usecase that prompted non removable wax. If you were the one to place the sign, and you want to edit it, you can break it too.

The calibrated skulk sensor is exactly what I wanted them to do with the standard skull sensor. I also want something along the lines of the resonance, but in such a way that it works in the ancient cities, creating an atmosphere of all the skulk being one organism that communicates with itself.

I'd love if you could just time these new skulk sensors like noteblocks. Then you could have more than 15 events, to differentiate a bat landing from a player walking for example and it would be a lot more compact. Like it is now it's still too gimmicky.

I really hope they make 2 tall flowers be able to be pot in flowerpots! Atleast a small version similar to the azalea

The power of the POT. All shall fall before it, fear it and it shall be magnificent

The warden shard being called "mourner" definitely seems open to some lore interpretations, especially given the contents of the 5 music disk.

The pitcher plant is 100% unintentional. The bottom side is not just untextured, but missing entirely. I would like to see it become a thing though. Being able to put the seed anywhere would look nice. Also the inability to dewax the sign seems intentional. There'd be no reason to wax it otherwise, as someone else could just right click to remove and change it.

I wish you could shear crops/flowers to keep them at a certain growth stage.

A potential fix to the calibrated skulk sensor being limited to 15 ambiguous signal strengths would be to have two inputs and two outputs at the 4 edges of the block, where each event represents a combination of both. This would allow for 255 inputs and outputs: 16 * 16 - 1 = 255 (There are 16 signal strengths including 0, but two signal strengths of 0 would be invalid since that is the state of the skulk sensor when it is inactive) The texture could resemble a + symbol, where two ends are inputs and two are outputs, like so (O=output, I=input): I O+O I Or perhaps the placement of inputs can be tweaked through the placement of amethyst shards in the crafting recipe

I am so glad they finally did this with skulk sensors, this is what I wanted on them from day 1! No more useless signal noise slowing them down. It's also very nice having the amethyst have such a cool use

They should make it so you can add Redstone to shards so that only certain directions of pots can power lines. Then you can have funny combination puzzles for adventure maps

Can’t wait to see mango break the game once again in the next update

I'd like to see a reverse-tuned sculk sensor, maybe right-clicking with an echo shard gives it blacklist functionality? Also i still think the torchflower should "trick" mobs into not spawning around them, without emitting light. Would be great for dark builds.

The new interaction between amethysts and skulk sensors opens up some really interesting opportunities. It basically allows you to send 15 different kinds of signals over a single "Channel" There are some pretty incredible interactions just waiting to be explored

never clicked a video faster

It's poetic that the pitcher plant, a plant that traps bugs can be used to make a witcher trap

I think the honeycomb is designed to be permanent, so it wouldn't make much sense to be able to remove it with an axe

You should've spawned in a hidden trail with a structure block to see what it's meant to look like without the sand covering it

I believe it's very intentional that you can't remove the honey comb from the signs again; this is to make it possible to make permanent signs that e.g. can't be edited by passing trolls (I know they can still break and edit, but that's more effort, meaning less attempts)

No wonder why sniffers got extinct, they need players to place their eggs down in order to reproduce 🤣

Powdered snow can trigger the block place/break signals, composter can be used to get the block state change

The calibrated skulk sensor output ought to have a signal strength that expresses some sort of "sub-category" classification within the category selected by the input -- e.g. if you feed it the signal strength to filter to 'eat food' actions, then the signal strength output should indicate _which_ food.

It would be so cool if you could paint the individual sides of the pots by clicking on it with dye

I think it makes sense that you can't un-wax a sign, because the whole idea is to prevent further griefing or modification.

with the tuned skulk sensor, I wish theyd done something more customisable. Like, a skulk sensor that records the first exact sound bit it hears and then only triggers on that exqct sound in the future

In my opinion, a comparator from a calibrated skulk sensor should allow further resolution in the sound detection, for overlaps

Casual: oh cool a new plant >_> Technical: *HOLY JESUS THIS IS THE GREATEST FEATURE OF THE DECADE*

That "mushroom" shard definitely is an acacia tree

Saved this one for sure!! I have SO many ideas running through my head for what to try with these new features!

The hidden trails look a lot more like ruins if you just remove all the sand and gravel, so it's just as if they filled up with loose earth over time. I think it's neat. One room even has a smithing table and other useful blocks

Very interesting stuff! Thanks for showing the new stuff ^^

Wow now I'm excited for this update. Re: sensors, I think it's exactly what I need to simplify a more hands free 4 way junction for a single piston bolt network. I've seen other channels do this but it's really complicated and I wanted to see if I could build a very simple one. I could prob encode certain signals for specific destinations and retain that signal for the entire journey on a piston bolt using more of a graph structure.

nice to see a redstone guy like you to be so excited about a decorative flower!

Yes! The calibrated sculk sensor is exactly what I've been wanting sculk sensors to be ever since they added comparator support!

could you make a "combination lock" which requires a certain combo of sounds to unlock something? like using a subtract comparator off of the original skulk sensor to change the signal into a new skulk sensor to detect a different sound

Block place and block remove can also be automated with a dispenser and powdered snow.

I think an interesting way to give the calibrated sculk sensor a unique use would be to make it give out a different comparator strength based on the specific event it reacted to, instead of just the broad category. For example, when tuned to frequency 10 it could give comparator strength 1 for doors, 2 for trapdoors, 3 for fence gates, 4 for levers, 5 for buttons, 6 for tripwires, 7 for pressure plates, 8 for chests, 9 for trapped chests, 10 for ender chests, 11 for barrels, 12 for shulkers, 13 for shulker boxes, 14 for chest minecarts, and 15 for hoppers (That probably isn't the exactly what counts as frequency 10, I'm just guessing based on the current categories and the vague descriptors Mojang gave). 15 values might not be enough for every source event, but those frequencies could give the 14 most common sources specific values and all the rest would be in a final catch-all value, or just do general subcategories, something like stone materials, wood materials, metal materials, glass materials, and dirt materials as subcategories for breaking and placing. There could also be fewer values for some frequencies. Frequency 5 could be broken up into 1 for dismounting, 2 for helmet, 3 for chest plate, 4 for leggings, and 5 for boots, or it could even differ based on armor material. This rework probably still won't be super useful for technical players, but it could definitely make the calibrated sculk sensor more interesting for other players.

I think it'd be cool if you used a sponge, or a wet sponge, to wipe the wax off of signs, instead of scraping it off. makes it seem like you're not damaging the sign by using a blade, but instead simply scrubbing it off.

I would love if the attuned sensors would have alternative mode where they would not listen to any sound, instead they would just relay the signal strength you put in them, attuned sensors with amethyst block next to them would also listen only to other sensors. This would allow you to for example code redstone strenght 3 to signal that one, or several farms are out of bonemeal, and have signal decoder that starts bonemeal farm with that redstone strength, essentially one line of sensors would act as bus line signaling different events to different farms.

I think the calibrated sensor would be useful for elytra maps!! having checkpoint rings that are pure redstone could be cool

The calibrated skulk sensor should be able to be placed on top of certain blocks like note blocks to then send and receive very specific sound resonances, it could allow multiple lines next to each other without triggering each other.

I want to see more calibrated blocks, such as a calibrated observer, which will only give an update if a specific block is detected.

You could do a bat cave entrance that opens just because you a flying towards it. That seems pretty fun.

Very interesting additions to the game! The last thing the sculk sensor now needs to make it truly wireless redstone is a way to send a specific signal strength without having to do various things. An idea would be to place a sculk sensor, or the calibrated sculk sensor, on a noteblock and each tune corresponds to a certain signal strength! This way we can choose what signal strength we want to send. (And changing the tune shouldnt activate the sculk sensor if its directly above the noteblock, but activating/playing the tune should active the sculk sensor and send the desired signal) (The lectern might also work and it is a bit more readable which frequency you are sending and currently at).

you could line up a row of calibrated sculk sensors that only enable when the previous one is triggered allowing for a much higher temporal resolution if audio events

sign update is the highlight of my whole day

In relation to triggering a sensor using a cauldron, you might be able to use a composter instead. You can add to a compostor using a hopper or dropper.

Strait to the point as always great video

that one pixel makes a difference

Morning Ilmango. The one thing I have see the calibrated skulk sensor would worked well for is the fish farm rayswork designed. He had to stack some boats so when the line was cast the bobber bobbing wouldn't trigger the skulk sensor, however the bobber being pulled under would be detected. It may be possible to simplify his farm design using a calibrated sensor, calibrated to the bobber being pulled under instead of it bobbing.

Lmao he was like this is such a great block. And then sinisterly said we can use this for a either cage lmao

Setting to one side the general concept of all the sound based things you could do with this. You feed it a signal strength of X, an event happens, it outputs a signal strength of X. Not all possible signal strengths are automatable, but for some of them this is a repeatable delay circuit. It's also a box that when an input signal matches the operation inside of it, gives an output signal. Course you can get fixed redstone signals from the slotted book shelves....

I wonder if you could bypass the calibrated sculk sensor's cooldown by using multiple sensors that are by default tuned to a completely irrelevant signal strength, but get changed to the one you actually want to listen to when the previous sensor triggers. For instance, let's say you're trying to detect mobs taking damage (frequency 7.) You'd have one calibrated sensor permanently set to frequency 7, and several additional sensors tuned to something like frequency 14 (mobs spawning) that's unlikely to be triggered accidentally. When the first sensor activates, it changes the frequency of the next sensor to frequency 7, so that if another mob takes damage right afterwards, that will also be detected. And of course, you could chain this together to detect any number of activations in quick succession.

I think, to make the calibrated sensor useful for the 99% of players who aren't going to read wikis whilst playing, it should have an inventory. Think of it like a hopper that can hear. Put a trapdoor in its inventory, and it listens only to blocks that give the same volume

Something really cool for the calibrated sculk sensor would be the output signal strength being different depending on the type of sound that it detected, in the group. For example, in a "block broken" group there could be signal strengths for dirt-like blocks, stone-like blocks, etc. Also, they should fix the weird pulse length

Best video on the update yet!

Since skulk sensors detect multiple different sounds on the same frequency, it would be nice if the calibrated sensor, which could only trigger on one 'frequency' anyway, it would be nice if it output a signal for the specific type within the specific range, like a sort of 'sub-frequency'

This calibrated sculk sensor in different calibrations and with an AND gate, can turn into a "lock" that requires specific actions in sequence/combination.

I wish there was a high frequency sculk sensor isntead of this. A sensor with no cooldown that overwrites the previous output immediately when theres a new sound. That way, you could filter out unwanted "noise" with redstone but you could also send long streams of data encoded as signal strengths really quickly. It'd be closer to real life digital communications systems

0:48 I think they should rather make you click on a skulk sensor with a amethyst shard to make it a calibrated one, with the crafting they are basically adding another item to the inventory.

25:37 that's such a flower power moment 😂

16:20 i interpreted the "shelter" shard as being an acacia tree, its not quite the right shape for being a mushroom and the little side bit looks like an acacia branch

oh boy, time for another snapshot to play with :D

The most terrifying monster in Minecraft *The Witter* ... getting defeated by a plant lol.

I love the "archaeology" in this video, ilmango just carelessly punching holes in the original structure because they're only interested in the rubble.

Just thinking: 🤔💭 Could this one *pottery shard* called *_"shelter"_* be a hidden reference to the *baobab tree?!* --- Would definitely fit the overall theme, so with the camel and desert temple/fountain update. Of course, an _"warm ocean"_ pottery shard, where one finds this, could just mean the already known *acacia tree,* which also grows in the _"warm"._ But the *baobab tree* would really be cool!

They didn't forget to add honey-removal on signs, it's intentional so that other players can't easily tamper with your signs in multiplayer.

Would be cool if the calibrated skulk sensor and the normal skulk sensor has different arrangements of the vibration signal strength. So using both of them could allow you to precisely detect one particular (or one type of) vibration.

The calibrated skulk sensor should output different power levels based on subcategories, i.e. for blocks, there could be different power levels based on the type of block placed. The community could probably figure out the most efficient categorization of blocks.

I actually hope that when updating minecraft all existing signs are by default pre-waxed and that there will never be a feature to unwax them. Some minecraft servers are insanely old and signs are one of those precious historical landmarks left behind by previous players. Sure you can just break those anyway for the most cruel griefing but people usually don't bother, I think being able to edit them however would encourage editorial griefing to a whole new level, erasing a lot of history.

@ilmango There might be another snapshot. Since, Roger Bagerman did show two new plants not just one. The second one, the wall one, may be another snapshot in and of itself.

I'm so glad that sniffers don't spawn naturally! Nice and fun feature to search for eggs and if you font want them in your world.

Imagine if the pitcher plant was intentional for technical players. Imagine if it was someone from SciCraft working at Mojang who thought of it...

You could use the calibrated skulk sensors for (relatively) high speed data transfer. with 8 lines you can hit 1% the speed of dial-up

the skulk sensor should work by depending on how many crystals you crafted it w/ depends on how high the frequency needs to be to notify the sensor. (i.e., one crystal is more sensitive and 3 crystals takes more to set it off)

Would be cool if you could shear the pitcher pod block from the fully grown plant to use it elsewhere for its neat properties! It's also really neat to see an actually really practical use for the allays for sniffer seed gathering. My alternative solution in my head for the sniffers just dropping their seeds on the ground was to make the sniffers "wear" the seeds on their texture when they dug them up, and have those manually removed by the player, but this is much more automatable. Also, I think the calibrated sensor is a bit of a missed opportunity. Minecraft's "sound" system might not be able to support this, but I was hoping when I first heard of it that you'd be able to "train" it on a very specific sound and have it only activate when that sound is activated, instead of having to deal with whatever else might also share a frequency with it.

wow that speed, in wich this video is made is insane

21:51 you could even call it an egg timer! :)

A note on the signs, I hope they don’t allow you to remove the honeycomb with an axe for the sake of multiplayer. Most people will use this to prevent people from changing their signs, but there’s no point if anyone can just unlock it with an axe

It would be interesting if, for the events that share a signal strength, this sensor could differentiate those events

*Pitcher Plant:* _Exists_ *Mojang & Most Minecrafters:* Decoration! *ilmango & Technical Players:* Upside-down fence trapping Withers go BRRRRR

At 16:20 it's a Tree with a beehive on it, so shelter for bees, not the instant base of a red mushroom xD