How to Make a Clock in Minecraft (Guide)
As you may know, time is of great importance in Minecraft. It determines a few crucial mechanics in the game such as villager working hours and hostile mob spawning on the surface. But did you know you can know what time of day it is wherever you are if you craft a clock? This item is pretty easy to make and constantly displays time via cycling animation. With that said, we’ll be showing what you need to make a clock in Minecraft and how it works. So, without any further delay, let’s start!
Resources You Need to Make a Clock
To make a clock, you will need two different items and the crafting block. Those are the following:
Gold ingots are result of smelting raw gold or Nether gold ore in a furnace orblast furnace. You can also make a gold ingot by placing 9 gold nuggets in a 3 x 3 crafting grid. Redstone dust is a common precious material that you can get by mining redstone ores underground. Alternatively, you can buy it from cleric villagers.
Crafting tableis a utility block that allows you to use a 3 x 3 crafting grid to craft items.Crafteris the newest addition to the game and is very similar to the crafting table, but it only supports automated crafting using redstone power.
How to Craft a Minecraft Clock
After you collect the needed resources, follow the steps below to learn the clock’s crafting recipe.
If you choose the crafter route, you will need to power the block with a redstone power source for it to spit out the clock. You can do so with a lever, button, redstone block or any other redstone power source.
Where Can You Find a Clock in Your World
Apart from crafting, you can obtain a clock in a couple more ways. One of them is through finding it in loot chests of the following structures:
The other option you have is to buy it from librarianMinecraft villagers. They offer this trade at the expert level and have slightly different chances of doing so, as well as the price they accept on bothBedrock and Java editions.
How to Use a Clock in Minecraft
Now, let’s talk about how you use a clock in Minecraft. This item’s primary function is to show you what time it is in your world, which then tells you how light or dark it is on the surface. Although you can easily see that for yourself while you’re at the surface, it’s not always going to be so clear.
For example, when you’re underground, there is no way to tell what time it is and whether it’s safe on the surface. So, that’s why having a clock with you is pretty useful and also recommended. You can have it in your inventory, put it in theender chest, or even carry it in an item frame.
As long as you are in the Overworld dimension, the clock will always show the accurate time of the day. It does so by rotation of the image between a bright sunny half and a dark starry-night half.
There is also one other notable use of the clock. Since it’s a golden item, it affects piglins. When you throw the clock item on the ground, any nearby piglins will run toward it. They’ll then pick it up and inspect it. However, thepiglins won’t give you any bartering items, as they accept gold ingots exclusively for this mechanic. Moreover, if you have a clock on you and an angry piglin chasing you, you can distract it with the golden item and earn theMinecraft advancement.
There you go everyone, now you know how to make a clock as well as all its uses. It’s a fairly useful little item that is usually overlooked by many players. But it can save your life, especially if the mine entrance is surrounded by a bunch of hostile mobs during the night. Anyway, that’s it for this guide. What’s your thought on the clock? Let us know in the comments below!
Radojka Travar
I’m a gaming enthusiast with a strong passion for writing. My expertise lies in creating simple, to the point and clear content teaching you about various features, mechanics and community-based inventions related to Minecraft. In spare time, I love flying around in my Minecraft world and exploring stories of other pixelated games.
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