How to build a Digital Clock in Minecraft using RedstoneChips

From Redstonechips

by Mordenkainen

This tutorial will show you how to build a digital clock for your Minecraft world. This tutorial requires that you have the [eisental.github.com/RedstoneChips RedstoneChips] 0.87 or higher plugin installed on your Minecraft server.

There are several different types of clocks that you can build. These include 12 and 24 hour clocks, as well as clocks that show the current time in the real-world or the game-world. The construction of each is slightly different, and this tutorial will show you how to build them all.

The Clock Generator

For the clock generator I used a simple 5-clock placed in between the minute and hour circuits. You can use any method to generate a clock signal, such as the RedstoneChips clock chip. Below is a picture of the clock generator I used:

The Display

The Display can be made of any material, but the actual digits must be made of wool. You will need to choose the colors you want for the Display, I will refer to them as “color-off” and “color-on”, ideally they should be chosen to blend in with the background of the display when off. Below is a picture of the front and back of the minutes portion of a Display. Front:

Back:

At the edge you can also see the Blinker. This can be omitted if desired. Blinker Sign:

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Color-off color-on

Blinker

The signs for the digits are in the format:

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Color-off color-on

MinXX:Y

Where MinXX is “Min1” for the ones digit, and “Min10” for the 10’s digit. The Y is a number starting at 0, and counting up to 6 starting at the top segment of the display and going counter-clockwise ending in the middle, looking at the back of the display. So, for the minutes 10’s digit, the top segment would be Min10:0, the bottom segment would be Min10:3, and the middle segment would be Min10:6. Of course color-on and color-off are the colors you have chosen for your Display

For a 24 hour Display, the hours section is constructed in the same way:

And the signs:

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Color-off color-on

HourXX:Y

12 hour Displays are a little more complicated, Pictures of a 12 hour display are below:

Front:

Back:

As you can see it has an additional section after the minutes to display AM/PM and the hours section only has a partial 10’s digit. (Yes, I know I haven’t put text on the signs yet!)

The sign for the AM/PM indicator is:

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Color-on Color-off
AMPM

The sign for the hours 10’s digit:

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Color-off color-on
Hour10

Everything else is the same.