Redstone Bug - minecraft.fandom.com

This article documents an April Fools' joke. 

This feature was exclusively part of a joke version and is not currently planned for addition to regular Minecraft.
It is documented here on the wiki due to being officially-released content by Mojang Studios, even if not present in a final version.

This feature is exclusive to Java Edition. 

A redstone bug was a hostile mob present in Java Edition 2.0, similar in form to a silverfish.

Spawn[]

Redstone bugs have a 1% chance to spawn when a redstone wire increases in strength. The chance increases by 5% for every redstone bug in a 7x7x7 area around the initial piece of redstone. The Color value of the bug can reach from 33292288 to 66846720.

Behavior[]

Redstone bugs, effectively having been reskinned silverfish, shared all of their behavior.

Data values[]

ID[]

Entity data[]

Redstone bugs used the ID of silverfish, different from them only by a newly-added Color NBT, which could have any color applied to it via editing. The first byte defines the alpha value and the other three the rgb color.

History[]

Java Edition
2.0					Added the redstone bug.

Gallery[]

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  Redstone bugs glowing in the dark.