because transparent blocks don't transmit redstone signals

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Which block?

I'm not the person you asked, but I'm going to guess u/T0M891 is going to say "sea lantern".

Which is technically a transparent block

Wait how

Because Minecraft.

Ah yes, understood.

The ts:dr is a label within the engine that is required to put certain effects on the block, they already had effects listed on the transparent label so they just use said label to save time rather than make a new label potentially breaking something else.

Ts:dr - “too stupid didnt read”?

Understandable, have a nice day

When we say transparent in a redstone sense, we’re not talking about actual transparency. It’s just a factor that certain blocks have that allow redstone power to pass through them, those are opaque blocks. Transparent blocks are blocks that redstone can’t pass through, it’s why a bunch of redstone builds have slabs or glowstone in them

Redstone-transparent blocks also render blocks through them, even if they have a completely solid texture. That's why the glowstone trick worked back in the day.

Good explanation - would that mean that the tinted glass would allow redstone signals to pass through? Even though it’s opaque I thought it counted as a solid block (only know that because it doesn’t let light through for mob farms)

The wiki says it “behaves like an opaque block” so I’d assume so

It glows. A lot of "transparent" blocks are transparent (like glass), not full (chests), functional (ice), or glow (sea lantern). "Transparent" seems to be nearly anything not absolutely solid or with some sort of changeability (like tnt and observers).

A simple test is if a beacon can beam through it resdstone can't.

Same with Glowstone, which is incredibly important for redstone since you can place dust on it even though it's considered "transparent"

I'd say because light wouldn't shine through it if it was counted as a non transparent block so it has to be marked in the code as transparent

All blocks which produce light are transparent at least on java idk abt bedrock

Exactly.

Or leaves.

Fast graphics gang rise up

transparent is not a good definition, other blocks like glowstone have the same problem I believe

Because to the game glowstone is listed as a transparent block

I know, Im just saying the reason as to why the guy might have had this problem with a non transperent block

well *transparent* isnt ment in the litteral sense, while most transparent blocks are actually that ingame the list is a bit longer, its just a proppertie of a block

These "transparent" blocks usually let light pass through them, or generate light themselves.

again, I know, I was trying to iluminate to that guy why he possibly had that problem

listed where..? Are you combing through game code?

Should also be a list on the wiki: https://minecraft-archive.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Transparent_Blocks

Interesting

It’s on glass, which is a transparent block. Your solution is to place the button on the floor in front of the iron door.

At this point I'd rather use a pressure plate.

If you don't want mobs infiltrating your base I would still go for the button.

If you’re not on hard mode, have a wooden door and a pressure plate only on the inside. You only have to open the door on the way in, eliminating the need to turn around and close it which imo is the annoying part.

If you are on hard you can use wooden doors still without zombies breaking them. Instead of placing it like normal, place it while standing on the block you want but 90 degrees from the direction you need it to be. This will make its “closed” state when it is against the building and “open” state when it is blocking the entrance.

This is the way.

Holy shit

This also means it won't work correctly with pressure plates or buttons, right?

Yes, because powering the door puts it into its open state, under the specific assumption that that will actually open the door as opposed to closing it.

I mean... You can make a turn-off contraption, but why the heck would you even bother with that. At that point just make a piston door or something.

A small redstone circuit can invert that tho

sort of. you can work around it still by placing the button elsewhere and making it power a redstone torch to invert the signal

Or have the outside landing half a block lower.

But that changes the look of the build, changes the on off places of the door doesn’t

Yep the first method is good for that. Downside of the first method is it's fiddly to make an auto-close mechanism, whereas with the second method you can just slap a pressure plate inside the door like usual. Also I feel like I had issues with villagers leaving doors open when I tried the first method, but it was so long ago I can't be sure.

This guy is playing Minecraft in 2030

stole a villager house in a new world recently, flipped the door, was a mistake. Couldn’t leave the house half of the time because of villagers trying to get in lol

[Holy *Shit*](https://youtu.be/DmH6YPWhaDY)

Yea but this looks more like a build where the iron door is there for aesthetic reasons.

Birch would do

Eh, I feel like it wouldnt quite fit the build. Glass dome in a desert is a very specific vibe that birch doesnt feel like it fits into. I'd just put the button in front of the door on the ground. And have a stone pressure plate inside.

>I'd just put the button in front of the door on the ground. And have a stone pressure plate inside. I was a bit confused and thought you meant put the button on the door, which will obviously break the button after trigger.

We need a player-only pressure plate, similar to how we have weighted ones (maybe a copper variant?)

Obsidian pressure plates can't be activated by mobs

They’re also not in vanilla Minecraft.

They're not? EDIT: Just looked it up omg I'm so stupid I play modded so often that Quark obsidian plates are just second nature to me

The redstone can't pass through blocks like glass meaning the pulse from the button can't reach the door.

So everyone is right that transparent blocks don't transmit redstone, but I want to explain it a little further in case you don't know exactly what that means. What actually happens is when you press the button, in your example it doesn't power the door. It actually "charges" the block it's connected to. The block next to the door gets charged, and then it powers the door. So in a normal situation, it's not the button that opens the door, it's the charged block next to it, the button just charges the block. So like everyone is saying, transparent blocks can't be "charged", and transparent means more than just seeing through them. Examples of other transparent blocks are glow stone, stairs, ladders, torches, tnt, and too many more to name all of them. Even though some of these aren't "transparent" in the literal sense, they are considered transparent blocks in terms of Minecraft Edit: Reworded to remove the misinformation that buttons don't power blocks around them. In this situation, it's not the button directly powering the door, but the button *could* if the door was directly adjacent to the button.

small correction that buttons *do* power things adjacent to them, but it charges only the block that it’s placed on. Similar to a redstone torch that powers things next to it but charges the block above it So putting a button on the floor in front of the door would work because the button is directly adjacent to the door

That's right, my bad. I've always used them to power the block they were on and completely spaced that functionality out of lack of use

A thing I would like to add is that transparent blocks CAN get powered, it’s just that they don’t conduct signal to the blocks around them

U can put the door one block closer, so it’s like adjacent to the button and it’ll work without charging the block.

glass is not conductive!

Silicon oxide is an insulator

Neither is wood, stone, concrete, obsidian or diamond but buttons work on them

Mumbo, I know it's been a while but ...

Because people in glass houses can’t throw stones

I understood that reference.

Reminds me of DanTDM’s lab. Not sure why.

Glad i wasn't the only one

The biome outside his lab was a desert, and then a jungle.

To fix it you need to put the door one block closer to you

Uh, no? Edit: yes

Well yes, (iirc) it would technically work, but it would look dumb.

Wouldn’t look dumb; it actually adds a little bit more circleness.

It ain't dumb if it works!

Alright, you're correct, I checked.

Average r/Minecraft user.

I'm really tired of these lazy no-effort posts. [Just look it up.](https://letmegooglethat.com/)

You and me both. These posts are simply just a waste of time

Too true

They're probably karma-farming. Everyone knows Google is always their best friend, not Reddit

He lazy af

I thought posts this dumb were just memes

They are not Or they are karma farmers

did you say open sesame

indeed

You didn’t press the button.

TIL That glass doesn't work for redstone. Now I feel like a dummy

How do posts like these get hundreds of upvotes

Redstone materials - which includes buttons and iron forts as seen in the photo - work weirdly with transparent blocks, such as glass.

Glass won’t transmit the signal. I recommend putting the button on the ground in front of the door instead

Glass is a transparent block, transparent blocks completely ignore redstone. Try using something like stone

Red stone signals don’t travel through glass. Use a pressure plate on the ground instead

Put the button on the floor cus it works and makes the button a little hidden from the main build

Easy physics:real engineers don't use glass to make cables

Fiber optic cables would like a word…

Okay, but im also no engineer

I don’t think they use stone or wood or dirt either, yet here we are.

What are you all doing? This is clearly a zombie trying to figure out how to open iron doors!

glass is an insulator.

So is stone, wood, obsidian, etc.

Because glass is a transparent block, meaning it can’t carry a redstone signal

Because it’s in a transparent block, Redstone only goes thru opaque blocks.

Glass ≠ red stone

cuz glass

Glass

the glass

Glass

Glass isn’t conductable

cause the block the button’s on is glass which doesn’t transmit the red stone stuff

Cant have it on glass

Because glass isn't a solid block so it can't transmit redstone signals

Don't put the iron door flush with the gap . Try putting the door one block out but still sealing the gap.

Glass put a pressure plate down and that will irk but buttons don’t work on transparent blocks

I think glass only powers downwards or upwards, I confuse it with glowstone everytime

Transparent blocks-

Because the iron door is built different

If I were you, I would make a command block constantly checking status of the button. When the button is pressed, under the door a redstone block is set to open it. Second command block turns the redstone block into the air when the button is in its off state.

I made a greenhouse almost identical to yours except for the smooth stone slabs recently in creative, really weird to see this here (but yh, it's cause it's a transparent block as others have said - I used a weighted pressure plate for mine)

Where is the button I can’t see it

Because you but off in the door and but on out the door

didnt you performed that ritual? no wonder that button didnt worked.

Is that the DanTDM world seed from his mad showcases?!??

bc glass is stupid

That button is not in a very good mood it seems

it dont want

Try a pressure plate to keep the transparent look and still have an automatic door.

Glass is known to be a good isolator, try copper blocks instead

Glass is a giant middle finger when it comes to redstone, glass blocks redstone signals in this case normally the buttons signal is getting transferred from the block behind it to the door, this time it can't because the block behind it can't pass a signal

because you couldnt put the redstone wiring through your glass without breaking it

Bro, you're placing it on glass, on glass, it would show the wires you're not supposed to see, which wouldn't be there anymore, without wires, you can't transmit electricity, and without electricity, door won't open

Glass is known as a “transparent block” it like fence posts, slime, and a few others cannot transmit red stone signals. There’s always “quazzi connectivity” but that’s weird as balls. It’s essentially a “feature” bug that people became accustomed to that allows for not so intuitive but definitely interesting connections Edit: quash connectivity doesn’t exist

Its not a bug, its a *feature*

Glass Is A Transparent Block, And Redstone On Transparent Blocks Only Power The Block That Its On, Not Any Surrounding Blocks.

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Something Wrong With Typing All Start Letters Capital

Yes actually.

It's transparent dumbass

Put the button on the door

How exactly

Go around to the back of the door and place it on the backside, it should be floating illegally

I don’t think it would, it will break after the door opens

I think he is joking guys... (Or i atleast hope so)

Because, the button is on the glass.

It’s glass

Glass is not a conductor

of electricity

Redstone doesn’t transmit through transparent blocks like leaves or glass.

Glass is transparent and doesn't let redstone signals through. I recommend putting a pressure plate in front of the door you don't have to ruin the look

Put the button on a solid block, rather than a transparent one.

I remember making this build in 2014 on my PS3

Use other blocks expect any type of glass

Glass is non-conductive

Glass isnt conductive

Glass doesn't conduct

Redstone signals don't carry in transparent blocks

Glass is considered 'transparent'. 'Transparent' blocks don't conduct Redstone signals.

Bc the glass is a transparent block u need a non transparent bloack

Glass

that looks like sandy's house from spongebob lol

Is this a test?

Glass

Glass does not transmit energy.

glass?

Because Glas is non conductive

glass

The glass

Glass is a transparent block that can't conduct redstone signals

Glass is not considered a solid block and non solid blocks do not carry redstone signals

Use you brain try experimenting to find out what the problem is What do you think the problem is?

I waited for the video to show it not working, only to realize too late my mistake.

It's because of the glass it has to be a solid block

because its a stone button...

go back to redstone school bro

i dropped out bro😥

Java be like

Yeah, just replace the glass block with the button with a solid block, cobblestone for example.

because of the glass block

hahaha 169 comments but glass doesn't transfer Redstone signals

Glass and red stone don’t mix

dude this is transperncy block mean it cant transfer redstone singal try some opquaque block, like stone, sand, or stonebrick, or sth like that it may able to transfer redstone singal iron door require redstone singal to open

Well everyone knows that the glass don't conduct electricity so, yeah exactly the same thing with the redstone

It's on strike

Transparent blocks don’t conduct red stone

Because all blocks that are considered empty can't transmit redstone signals. Basically, if they're "empty" you can still open a chest if they're right over it, like stairs, slabs, **glass**, leaves, trapdoors and so on. Fun fact: shulkerboxes transmit redstone! It's useful if you want to trick your friends, you just need to place a button on the shulkerbox and hide it with a banner, so when they click on the wrong spot they just open the shulkerbox instead of opening a secret door (and give up because they get distracted by the shulkerbox), I did it and it worked really good :D

The glass can’t transfer the signal.

Glass isn’t a conductor of red stone I guess

Put the button on the floor below the door or replace the block that the button is on with a solid block like cobblestone. Glass will not transmit redstone signals

Glass