Mojang just updated sculk sensors :O kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rKulaKRqu6y7pJ8.html

6:39 - At the very beginning, Mojang wanted to do such a sensor calibration using amethyst - the texture of the calibrated sensor was in the snapshot resources, but later it was removed. Probably, the player could use the amethyst to exactly fix the sensor's last sound that it caught. And it would be a simple and ingenious solution to all problems! But something went wrong.

I really like how this video is both informative and entertaining. Selectable frequencies definitely would make sensors more versatile as a detector block.

I don't do redstone, but I always jump on your videos. The editing and commentary cracks me up every time!

What if detection of specific frequencies could be set by powering the sensor using a comparator? (also, powering it otherwise could block it)

natural vs player placed sensors is already a genius idea. That means mojang will never make it happen

The "wolves shaking fur" sound is actually useful as a weather detector.

I'm not sure about getting rid of detection of some things ( it would kinda make it more inconsistent ) but I do like the idea of having a second version of sculk sensors. I think a player-obtained one could behave differently just like you suggested

The sculk sensor doesn't detect sound waves, it detects vibrations, which include sound waves.

What a cool glitch thumbnail 😍

The idea to right click the sculk sensor to select the desired type sounds great from a redstone perspective, but it doesn't really feel right with the sensors as beings that live in the ancient city ecosystem. I would propose to have a way to craft a sculk sensor into a redstone component that has all the features you mention, while the original sculk sensor can behave however it seems fit for ancient cities.

To make it easier to set the frequency, they should just make it so if u place a note block under it and set it to a specific tone, it changes what the skulk picks up. That way you don't have to add a new skulk version.

Skulk Sensor only activate Shriekers with player vibrations, so if you hook up an observer to a player placed Shrieker you can get a signal. It's not flawless but it helps prevent some of the other vibrations.

How about instead of a "player placed" Skulk sensor, there's a modified skulk sensor, made with Redstone or something. That way, players can still use the "natural" Skulk

Totally agree with this - skulk sensors are the new daylight sensor. Wonderful idea; sadly useless as coded.

This is similar to the 'noteblock' idea, but what if when you powered the skulk sensor with a certain signal strength it would allow ONLY that frequency to go through. You could even power it with multiple signal strengths.

Called it! The whole frequency filtering is just so needlessly complicated, I can’t see anyone using this outside of traps

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As someone who isn't well versed in redstone compared to you, I find the current frequency system extremely confusing. The change you offered is not only better but also user friendly.

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So when the Calibrated Sculk Sensor was adder, I was like "Why? We already have different redstone signal strengths if we want to differentiate the vibrations," so this video has brought a lot of insight into what really happened to make it a reality.

Hey dude! Hope you had fun audio editing during NAC, it was really fun chatting with you!

Haha love seeing the final revision of the bat farm! What an op concept. Definitely like the idea of tuning the sculk sensor to specific frequencies. I remember Etho had a similar idea when it was first announced.

I wish for a mod that revamp Sculk Sensor into something quite that interesting! Heck, even the whole Sculk Family, and expand the members! But so far, only port of the Deep Dark exist as Mods.

The thing about the sculk sensors is that they were first created all the way back in 1.17, before the entire Deep Dark got delayed to 1.19. Despite this, they didn't do a rework of the sensor, instead keeping it almost exactly how it was from 1.17.

I think the frequency system is fine as is. It teaches about signal filtering in a way that it somewhat transferrable to real life. Clicking it like a note block would streamline it too much. But I do think things could be mapped better to the frequencies and the cooldown could be reduced. Heck, why not even remove the cooldown altogether. If a new signal was outputted every redstone tick, it'd make frequency a whole lot more interesting and similar to real life.

I don't know what I'm most impressed by. His intelligence, or the astronomical speed in which he's clicking.

One thing you can do to create a player detector with a sculk sensor is to connect it to a sculk shrieker. After adding an observer, a sticky piston, and a redstone block, that will create a togglable pulse.

I think the player-obtained idea is perfect; it feels inconsistent that the shrieker is the only "different" block out of the bunch; one idea I saw was the ability to put a sculk into "recording" mode (maybe give it something it would "like"? echo shard, music disk or amethyst crystal since they're all musical?) where you can play the sound(s) it should listen to. While writing that last bit, I just came up with something that might work: since music disks each have specific comparator outputs when played in a jukebox, wouldn't it be useful to limit sculk sensors to the frequency that music disk corresponds to? perhaps being able to invert the filter (only IGNORE the frequency(/ies) it if you smack it with an echo shard? Mojang's always going on and on about giving uses to items, echo shards are (in my opnion) one of the supremely useless items once you get one death compass in your ender chest, unless you die with the compass on you... ironic. So the modus operandi could be either playing the music disk nearby after priming the sculk sensor somehow, or "giving" it to the sculk sensor (consume or not, idk, they seem easy enough to farm) to set up a filter for the sculk sensor to listen to. And then inverting by giving or smacking it with an echo shard.

2:45 the sound had me choking on air

the editings on point! love it 😄

While the sculk sensor does detect everything the sculk scream only activates when player activates the sensor. So you can use that as a player detector.

1:48 this guy throw the snowballs like a M134 Minigun

i think a right click to change the frequency it listens to would be the best solution. you could have it just listen for footsteps for the door and bar noises for the bat farm.

A good fix would be an item that the player could craft that has the ability to only detect certain frequencies, maybe the player can choose which frequencies, but would be craftable with a sculk sensor so there still would be an incentive to get sculk sensors for redstone.

If the sculk sensor existed in real life, we'd already have heard alien life forms through space many lightyears away

Love this! Keep up these fun videos!

Always hyped to see a new purple video!

Your time spent editing was worth it. This is funny!

Your uploads get better and better every time

I would like a filtering categories option, just like note blocks. "Category" is based on the block below. Eg bone block = hostile mobs

Mojang just now divided the problem in 15 with the calibrated sculk sensor. And they are reorganazing sculk frecuencies and consolidating them so hopefully the sculk sensor becames more practical.

Really well made!

Okay where on earth has your channel been up to this point? I wish KZfaq had recommended me your content sooner, your editing isn't overwhelming like with other KZfaqrs who do similar content. Well done, keep up the great work!

When I get pinged in Purple's discord I just know im gonna be entertained for however long the video is.

We now have a mod that makes the sculk sensor actually good :D kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qMyApdaJmL_Ioqs.html

22/03/23 MOJANG JUST FIXED IT

fantastic ideas. though, i think if there is going to be such a difference in how the block operates, it may be beneficial to use the sculk sensor in a crafting recipe for a new redstone component that behaves as you described instead of separating abilities based off of natural generation/player-placed. slap it in a crafting bench with redstone & quartz and give it a fresh coat of "techinical-component" paint & it'll fit right in on the creative redstone tab

If you shift and right-click the sensor, it could open a GUI for you to multi-select what you wish it to detect.

Yes this perfectly voices my thoughts on this missed opportunity of the block; prefiltering of frequencies, hardpowering and most importantly _goddam separating naturally genned sculk sensors from redstone ones_ coz the deep dark mechanics just holds back the potential of it sooo much. I've talked to kingbdogz this and he said quote: "I think there is a good candidate for another type of Sculk Sensor which is more configurable in general... filtering by event frequencies etc ... Butttt I don't think that should be the normal Sculk Sensor, [it] would be something crafted", Also, when I asked him about lowering the cooldown he sadly replied: "I think Sculk Sensor cooldown is fine - the problem is that players want to use it for something else ... it's fine in the environment [deep dark] that it's in right now"

I LOVE THE INTRO. TALKING ABOUT THE 2 SCRAPED THINGS AND THE DETECTION OF BATS

A cool option would be to be able to place certain blocks under the sensor to make it only detect certain frequencies (similar to the mechanic of noteblocks) but that wouldn't fix the mess with the frequencies itself

I really like one idea(not sure where I got it from), where you can train the sculk sensor by right clicking it and then playing the sound you want it to sense infront of it. Also, great video!

here now that the new snapshot is out i wont say where, but im pretty sure i know a certain place your video mightve been shared to a few devs :)

Great as always!

Can't wait to see some epic farms using sensors

Your actually the goat, This helped so much thank you.

I'd like the "player placeable sculk sensor" to be craftable as well.

I think the sculk sensor as-is makes sense for survival playthrough & lore. You discover an ancient city, walk around carelessly, set off it's alarm systems and die. Or you use wool to surround the sculk sensors to block the alarm system. That's what sculk sensors are, an alarm system for the ancient cities, lore-wise they aren't meant for the player's benefit, they're meant to harm the player. But for redstone circuits (and especially from the point of view of players who spend most of their time engineering in creative) I can see the frustration. They don't play nicely with smaller form factors, any redstone stuff which makes sound more than 2 seconds after activation causes loops, often breaking the machine, they're just a bit of a pain. I can certainly see the value of a more engineering-optimized sculk sensor, but I don't think player-placed is ideal from a survival gameplay perspective. I think it should have a relatively expensive recipe, after all exploring the deep dark is a mid-game endeavor and by then you'll have access to a lot of resources, and to use the sculk sensor anyway you're likely using comparators/observers, so you've got quartz. I would say the recipe for the controlled sculk sensor should be as follows; (empty) redstone torch (empty) redstone torch sculk sensor redstone torch quartz quartz quartz Quartz is used for comparators and observers, which both are for detection (detect items in container, detect blocks in area), so controlled sculk sensors should use this for their own harnessing of detection. Requiring a sculk sensor is obvious, and three redstone torches reinforces the idea that this controlled sculk sensor is a circuit component. For pulse length, I think a repeater-like mechanic should allow the sensor to output different pulse lengths. This would be visually represented by some change to the tendrills. For frequency, I would say there should be a noteblock-like interface. Right-clicking should cycle through various sounds, showing an item icon and playing a gamesound which corresponds to the sculk frequency. Frequencies should definitely be overhauled in the other ways mentioned.

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I agree with your points, when I first obtained some Sculk sensors, I though what could I build with them, searching over KZfaq didn’t help much since all of the tutorials for the Sculk sensor are eighter explaining how it works, explaining the lore of it and some small build hacks like a piston door or a lava bridge. These weren’t really what I was looking for. Realizing that the Sculk Sensor, like how you describe is an Everything sensor, further decreased my build option for it.

The fact pistons take an extra game tick to react to sculk sensors is also pretty annoying and makes it so you can’t get 1 game tick delay for pistons.

Sums up all of my thoughts exactly. Redstone dust update order was specifically designed to be obscure yet even that is easier to remember and less temperamental that the frequencies. Plus many of the frequencies are useless because they either do way too much or they do nothing important.

I really hope mojang looks in to some sort of frequensy switch for playerplaced sculc and redstone signal through wool. That would honestly be enough to make it a good redstone component.

A way the setting a frequency for the sculk sensor without changing the current mechanics could be to use a comparator reading another signal, a bit like redstone dust. Bit more janky than having the level set like a noteblock but it's another way it could be implemented.

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But a sculk shrieker only gets activated by olayers right? So if you put a sensor next to a shrieker and make activate observer watch it it can only be activated by players

Bro I laughed so hard and too much in this😂thx for making my day better

Love ur vids btw

I think the reason sculk sensors detect so many things is because the deep dark is meant to be a place where any noise is dangerous. But I think a player placed version of the sensor would make sense with more versatility in redstone, or a version of it crafted with a sculk sensor and some other redstone components.

3:15 I went dying of laughter

I think that a great idea that Mojang should do is let us craft a customizable detector (meaning that you can choose what sound activates it) by using the shulk sensor in the recipe.

I was really excited for the birch tree change it looked fir charming

The sculk detector circuit is one of my favorite. Best paired with pulse extenders, rs nor latches, and t flip flops tho. I've slowly gone through and made almost all my redstone contraptions have wireless inputs

One cool way to have the frequency selected would be for it to tune to the first noise the sensor hears (although that would have the flaw that the final stage of eating would be nearly unobtainable as a vibration frequency)

If you combine the skulk sensor with the shrieker,witch only detects sounds that come from players doesnt that sol e most problems?

Perhaps it would be good to mine the second version of the rolling pin with your hand, while the naturally generated first one only with a silk touch

i think mojang forgot that this was meant to be a redstone block and they kept balancing it for the deep dark instead.

What are the sculk frequencys because I want to make a secret door that open when you throw something at it

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I made a cool door which doesnt get locked, opens when i want and its efficient actually. But yes, i used a huge system of wool "channels" to direct the sound waves where i wanted, but honestly, if it is underground it doesn't really bother. (Yet to be posted to reddit) But it seems devs see the community reviews and they are release the calibrated sensor, hopefully it will solve things (although it still need a little bit of redstone to select frequencies, unlike note blocks that you can just right click)

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Love your videos

What software do you use to edit? Btw amazing vid :D

you are a a man full of great ideas

Or they could just make sculk frequencies actual frequencies, that is, alternating signals at different wavelength for each detectable sound. Players would have to decode them with fourrier transforms. Very fun to do, not too OP and multiple sounds can be detected at once 👍 Major downside : requires sampling for 30 min before being able to conclude that a player did, in fact, walk on the planks above half an hour ago.

the production quality of this video is quite high. Coming from a relatively small channel, i was pleasantly surprised :)

I think a big help would be shortening the cooldown and making it have NO cooldown if it detects something of the wrong frequency. Fun fact, there was going to be something called a "calibrated sculk sensor" made with a sensor and amethyst which I think could serve well as the "modified" sensor idea you had instead of it just being player placed ones.

Nice editing

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This is awesome haha

there was an unused calibrated sculk sensor.and the way i could see it working is a gui that allows you to change the frequencies it detects.

The sensor could be set to a certain frequency not by clicking on it like on a note block, but by somehow setting it in "calibration mode". It then could set itself to the first sound it hears.

A new purpledragon video? There goes 8 mins of my life

I personally don't like that you can now make invisible, instant tnt nukes to obliterate anyone on the server... Previously, if you were smart, you at least had a chance. Now you have to sneak ALL THE TIME or run the risk of getting nuked by minecarts with no warning.

I like the having tow kind of skulk concept But i think it's better to have a crafting recipe , which we combine the sensor with some redstone thing

Those are really good suggestions

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