Environment Detector¶

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The Environment Detector provides current information from the environment like the current time, the current moon phase, the light level of the block and many more.

Peripheral Name	Interfaces with	Has events	Introduced in
environmentDetector	World	No	0.1b

Functions¶

getBiome¶

getBiome() -> string

Returns the current biome the block is in.

local detector = peripheral.find("environmentDetector")

-- e.g. prints "Biome: minecraft:plains"
print("Biome: " .. detector.getBiome())

getBlockLightLevel¶

getBlockLightLevel() -> number

Returns the block light level (0 to 15) at the detector block, this can be influenced by light sources

getDayLightLevel¶

getDayLightLevel() -> number

Returns the day light level of the current world from 0 to 15. This is uneffected by blocks covering the peripheral.

getSkyLightLevel¶

getSkyLightLevel() -> number

Returns the current sky light level from 0 to 15 (like a daylight sensor).

getDimensionName¶

getDimensionName() -> string

Returns the name of the current dimension (ex. overworld, the_nether or the_end).

local detector = peripheral.find("environmentDetector")

-- e.g. prints "Dimension: the_nether"
print("Dimension: " .. detector.getDimensionName())

getDimensionPaN¶

getDimensionPaN() -> string

Similar to getDimensionName it returns the name of the dimension prefixed with the provider name (ex. minecraft:overworld).

getDimensionProvider¶

getDimensionProvider() -> string

Returns the provider of the dimension (ex. minecraft).

getMoonId¶

getMoonId() -> number

Returns the current moon phase's id.

Info

There are 8 different moon phases, see below a list of their names and ids

0 = Full moon, 1 = Waning gibbous, 2 = Third quarter, 3 = Waning crescent, 4 = New moon, 5 = Waxing crescent, 6 = First quarter, 7 = Waxing gibbous

getMoonName¶

getMoonName() -> string

Returns the current moon phase's name.

getTime¶

getTime() -> number

WIP

Returns the daytime of the current world.

getRadiation¶

getRadiation() -> table

Added in version 0.6.1b

Requirement

Requires the Mekanism mod to be installed

Returns the current radiation level from the Mekanism mod with the radiation unit.

Properties¶

table	Description
radiation: `string`	The current radiation level as a string
unit: `string`	The radiation unit

getRadiationRaw¶

getRadiationRaw() -> number

Added in version 0.6.5b

Requirement

Requires the Mekanism mod to be installed

Returns the current raw radiation level in Sv/h.

isDimension¶

isDimension(dimension: string) -> boolean

Returns true if the current dimension matches the dimension parameter.

isMoon¶

isMoon(moonPhaseId: number) -> boolean

Returns true if the current moon phase matches the moonPhaseId parameter.

isRaining¶

isRaining() -> boolean

Returns true if it is raining.

isSunny¶

isSunny() -> boolean

Returns true if it is sunny.

isThunder¶

isThunder() -> boolean

Returns true if it is thundering.

isSlimeChunk¶

isSlimeChunk() -> boolean

Returns true if the current chunk is a slime chunk.

listDimensions¶

listDimensions() -> table

Returns a table with all of the registered dimensions for the current world, this includes modded dimensions.

Example

As an example listDimensions might return a table like so:

{"minecraft:overworld", "minecraft:the_nether", "minecraft:the_end", "twilightforest:twilight_forest"}

scanEntities¶

scanEntities(range: number) -> table

Returns a table with all entities in the given range Coordinates are relativ and not absolute

Example

Example output for an entity:

{
  {
    canFreeze = true,
    uuid = "380df991-f603-344c-a090-369bad2a924a",
    tags = {},
    id = 158,
    y = 0.99835407917146,
    x = 2.3657836835311,
    name = "Dev",
    isGlowing = false,
    z = 1.2416321248782,
    isInWall = false,
    maxHealth = 20,
    health = 20,
  },
}

Changelog/Trivia¶

0.6.5b
Added getRadiationRaw

0.6.1b
Added getRadiation

0.3.3b
Added many more functions to the environment detector. The environment detector was a useless block before this update.

0.1b
Added the block. It was the second feature of the mod.