How ticks work in Minecraft

I explain what a tick is, and then I use scientific methods to investigate ticks in Minecraft. My findings:

There are two kinds of ticks in Minecraft.

Redstone ticks occur every 1/10th of a second, or 100 milliseconds.

Game ticks occur every 1/20th of a second, or 50 milliseconds.

When a redstone tick occurs, all redstone torches and redstone repeaters update. Redstone torches take 1 redstone tick to update. Redstone repeaters take 1, 2, 3 or 4 redstone ticks to update.

When a game tick occurs, pistons (and probably everything else in the game) update. Pistons start moving instantly, but they don't fully extend or retract until the 3rd game tick after that.

So when you're talking about ticks, please be specific! Is it a redstone tick or a game tick?

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Minecraft
• game
• gaming
• redstone
• piston
• tick
• timing
• clock
• redstone repeater
• repeater
• delay
• science
• Minecraft science

[C0mmand3r27]

What if Blocks were 1 tick, pistons were .5 ticks or 1/20 of a second, and torches were instant?

[TaviRider]

@C0mmand3r27 I don't think your theory is correct. Consider a line with a redstone repeater, then a block, then another redstone repeater, etc, etc. This would show a longer delay if blocks had delays.

[TaviRider]

@corkeyIIonthebus Redstone repeaters update on redstone ticks, which are every 1/10th of a second. Set on the longest delay, that's 0.4 seconds. Four of them together is 1.6 seconds.

[frapalino]

if you do any more redstone tutorials, you should change the repeater skins to numbers instead of the normal skin, it'd be easier for us to see how many ticks each one is set at.

[TaviRider]

@frapalino I've avoided using different skins because people unfamiliar with the skin may be confused by it. But you're right that I should be very careful about showing the length of the delay on repeaters to avoid any confusion.

[TercYspot]

Did anyone film the redstone panel you attended at Minecon? I really wanna see it!

[TaviRider]

@13burnie13 Not to worry, I'll be back to making videos right after MineCon! :)

[C0mmand3r27]

@TaviRider I tried doing a test but my PC is slow and wouldn't transfer power through blocks without a repeater so i gave up

[CraftMine1000]

hers some fact for you: in the redstone torch class in minecrafts sourcecode the "tick" variable is set to 2... correct me if im wrong...

[vinceguy1]

how come you hardly make videos?????????

[theanswer1005]

@TaviRider still wayting...



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[xDFancyPantsxD]

*talking to my friend* Him: "The repeater should be at two ticks." Me: "What kind of ticks, redstone or game?" Him: "There are different kinds of ticks?" *realize I have to explain this all* O-o