Minecraft:Gear: Difference between revisions

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Template:Outdated feature Template:Infobox block The gear was a Minecraft:block that could be placed on walls and grounds, but had no clearly defined or implemented functionality. It is believed that gears were intended to be used in mechanisms, similarly to redstone wire.

Obtaining

Gears are only known to be obtainable through the use of inventory editors and other external tools.

Breaking

Gears cannot be targeted by the player and thus cannot be destroyed by mining them. If it were possible, they would have a hardness value of 0.5 and a breaking time of 0.75 seconds.

Usage

File:Gears on infinite sources.png

Gears would only render on the sides of full, solid blocks, including water and lava spawners.

When edited into the game, a placed gear would show nothing in its block space and was invisible unless horizontally adjacent to one or more blocks. The placed gear would then show an animated gear sprite on the near side of each of those blocks. It was not possible to destroy a placed gear by mining a block that its gear sprite was shown on, because the placed gear itself was actually adjacent to that block. If the block a gear sprite was shown on was destroyed, the adjacent placed gear would no longer show that sprite. Removing all blocks adjacent to a placed gear would remove all of its visible gear sprites, leaving the placed gear invisible. Placed gears could not be destroyed directly by the player; attempts to do so would phase through to the block behind it, much like Minecraft:water. Placed gears could only be removed by letting water or lava flow into them, or by explosions.

Texture generation

Procedural animated texture generation/Gears

Sounds

There are no specific sounds for the gear block. Mostly just when you step on it.

Data values

ID

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History

Template:Hatnote Template:HistoryTable

Issues

"Gear" is a removed block and as such issues relating to it cannot be fixed.

Trivia

In an episode of How We Make Minecraft, it's stated that the original plans for gears were forgotten.<ref>youtube-DLSeGbecKMw | DLSeGbecKMw }} "Redstone: How We Make Minecraft" – Minecraft on YouTube, February 26, 2021</ref>

Gallery

Screenshots

Gears placed into the world.

Gears placed into the world.
More gears placed into the world.

More gears placed into the world.
In-game animation of gears.

In-game animation of gears.

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-The '''gear''' was a [[Minecraft:block]] that could be placed on walls and grounds, but had no clearly defined or implemented functionality. It is believed that gears were intended to be used in mechanisms, similarly to [[Minecraft:redstone wire]].
+The '''gear''' was a [[Minecraft:block]] that could be placed on walls and grounds, but had no clearly defined or implemented functionality. It is believed that gears were intended to be used in mechanisms, similarly to redstone wire.
 == Obtaining ==
@@ Line 19: / Line 19: @@
 == Usage ==
-[[File:Gears on infinite sources.png|thumb|right|Gears would only render on the sides of full, solid blocks, including [[Water Spawner|water]] and [[Minecraft:lava spawner]]s.]]
+[[File:Gears on infinite sources.png|thumb|right|Gears would only render on the sides of full, solid blocks, including [[Water Spawner|water]] and lava spawners.]]
 When edited into the game, a placed gear would show nothing in its block space and was invisible unless horizontally adjacent to one or more blocks. The placed gear would then show an animated gear sprite on the near side of each of those blocks. It was not possible to destroy a placed gear by mining a block that its gear sprite was shown on, because the placed gear itself was actually adjacent to that block. If the block a gear sprite was shown on was destroyed, the adjacent placed gear would no longer show that sprite. Removing all blocks adjacent to a placed gear would remove all of its visible gear sprites, leaving the placed gear invisible. Placed gears could not be destroyed directly by the player; attempts to do so would phase through to the block behind it, much like [[Minecraft:water]]. Placed gears could only be removed by letting water or lava flow into them, or by explosions.
@@ Line 43: / Line 43: @@
 == History ==
-{{See texture generation|Gears|type=block}}
+{{MC/See texture generation|Gears|type=block}}
 {{HistoryTable
-|{{HistoryLine|java indev}}
+|{{MC/HistoryLine|java indev}}
-|{{HistoryLine||January 26, 2010|link={{ytl|N_TT1N-9K90|t=2m12s}}|[[Minecraft:Notch]] posted a video of gears being placed onto the wall of a cliff.}}
+|{{HistoryLine||January 26, 2010|link={{MC/Ytl|N_TT1N-9K90|t=2m12s}}|Notch posted a video of gears being placed onto the wall of a cliff.}}
-|{{HistoryLine||0.31|dev=20100128-2200|[[File:Gear (N).png|32px]] [[File:Gear (NW).png|32px]] [[File:Gear (W).png|32px]] Added gears.
+|{{MC/HistoryLine||0.31|dev=20100128-2200|[[File:Gear (N).png|32px]] [[File:Gear (NW).png|32px]] [[File:Gear (W).png|32px]] Added gears.
 |Gears have a numerical ID of 55.
-|[[File:Gear (placeholder texture) JE1.png|32px]] [[File:Gear (placeholder texture) JE1.png|32px]] There are also two identical gear placeholder textures in <samp>[[Minecraft:terrain.png]]</samp>, one per direction.}}
+|[[File:Gear (placeholder texture) JE1.png|32px]] [[File:Gear (placeholder texture) JE1.png|32px]] There are also two identical gear placeholder textures in <samp>terrain.png</samp>, one per direction.}}
-|{{HistoryLine|||dev=20100130|Gears are now visible in the inventory.}}
+|{{MC/HistoryLine|||dev=20100130|Gears are now visible in the inventory.}}
-|{{HistoryLine|java alpha}}
+|{{MC/HistoryLine|java alpha}}
-|{{HistoryLine||v1.0.1|Removed gears. Existing gears would automatically convert into [[Minecraft:redstone wire]] as the latter had a numerical ID of 55, the same as gears.}}
+|{{MC/HistoryLine||v1.0.1|Removed gears. Existing gears would automatically convert into redstone wire as the latter had a numerical ID of 55, the same as gears.}}
 }}
 == Issues ==
-{{removed block issues}}
+{{MC/Removed block issues}}
 == Trivia ==
-* In an episode of [[Minecraft:How We Make Minecraft]], it's stated that the original plans for gears were forgotten.<ref>{{YouTube link|DLSeGbecKMw|Redstone: How We Make Minecraft|Minecraft|February 26, 2021}}</ref>
+* In an episode of How We Make Minecraft, it's stated that the original plans for gears were forgotten.<ref>{{MC/YouTube link|DLSeGbecKMw|Redstone: How We Make Minecraft|Minecraft|February 26, 2021}}</ref>
 == Gallery ==
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 == References ==
-{{reflist}}
+{{MC/Reflist}}
 == Navigation ==
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+{{MC/Navbox blocks|removed}}
-{{Navbox removed features}}
+{{MC/Navbox removed features}}
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+es:Engranaje
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+fr:Engrenage
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+it:Ingranaggio
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+ja:歯車
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