Can Detect Magic see simulacrum?

Yes, Dispel Magic works on the simulacrum. Malleable Illusion uses the spell's normal parameters, and your example is outside of the spell's normal parameters (a casting of the spell on a creature always produces the same appearance, no tailoring possible).
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Can you detect a simulacrum?

The simulacrum feels slightly cold to the touch (owing to the face that a simulacrum is made of snow and/or ice) The real wizard always carries a certain magic staff, but the simulacrum is never seen with it.
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Can Detect magic see magic items?

If the party has magic items yes it will detect them, but when you use your action to look around you will see the magic aura as listed in the Detect Magic so yes a caster using it has to use an action to spot said items or creatures or effects. But they can be seen by the caster as written in the spell.
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Can Detect magic see monsters?

Monsters and creatures would not be detectable through detect magic. It would give off an aura of a certain type of magic and creatures don't give off an aura, so detect magic would not sense them.
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Does detect magic detect doppelganger?

Doppelgangers have an at-will Detect Thoughts. That is a specific spell that is detectable by Detect Magic.
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Can Detect magic see polymorph?

Yes, the magic is still active. True polymorph(PHB, 283) was altered and the spell text no longer calls it "permanent".
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Do golems detect as magical?

No, they do not

There is absolutely no reference in the rules stating that constructs, or golems more specifically, have a magic aura that could be detected.
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Does detect magic see invisible creatures?

Detect magic won't locate an invisible creature, you need to be able to see the creature or object. There is a spell specifically designed to find invisible creatures or objects, See Invisible 2nd level.
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Can Truesight see invisibility?

Truesight pierces invisibility, illusions, darkness, and false forms. It doesn't pierce total cover or make you hear better.
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Can Detect magic see dragons?

Detect Magic also will often detect special effects associated with locations with arcane themes in adventures, whether official or homebrew. Demons, celestials, elementals, and fey are detected by Detect Evil and Good (as it happens, dragons are not).
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Can you block detect magic 5e?

The spell can penetrate most barriers, but is blocked by 1 foot of stone, 1 inch of Common metal, a thin sheet of lead, or 3 feet of wood or dirt.
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How does detect magic work 5e?

The detect magic spell description states: For the duration, you sense the presence of magic within 30 feet of you. If you sense magic in this way, you can use your action to see a faint aura around any visible creature or object in the area that bears magic, and you learn its school of magic, if any.
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Can Druids cast detect magic?

Druid. The caster detects any magic in the area, in the direction they are facing -- the caster can scan all around in 6 rounds. The spell is blocked by stone walls of more than 1' thickness, metal of 1/12' in thickness, and 3' of solid wood. DM Advice: Detects the presences of dim or strong magic in the area.
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Can you clone a simulacrum?

Yes, because the simulacrum is a creature. The points you present are plausible reasons for why a DM might disallow cloning a simulacrum in their own campaign setting, but a strict reading of the rules shows that you can clone a simulacrum.
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Can a simulacrum create a simulacrum?

Can I Make a Simulacrum of Myself? You sure can! And that's where things can get especially weird since as a wizard able to cast the simulacrum spell, your simulacrum will also be a wizard able to cast the simulacrum spell. We'll go into this more in a bit, but you can absolutely make a simulacrum of yourself.
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Can a simulacrum reproduce?

The Simulacrum is a Construct

As such, any human mating with a Simulacrum would not be the same species, thus rendering true reproduction impossible.
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Can Blindsight see invisible creatures?

But since an invisible creature only can't be seen and a creature with blindsight perceives its surroundings without sight, there is nothing about invisibility to suggest blindsight does not perceive it.
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Does Truesight negate blindness?

Yes, you can blind something with Truesight.

The only thing Truesight does in this case is magnify the ability that was lost to blindness: Truesight enhances one's ability to see: through magical darkness, invisibility, illusions, shapechanges, and into the Ethereal (PHB p. 185).
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What can Truesight see through?

Creatures with truesight could, out to a specific range, see in both normal and magical darkness. As well as that, they could see invisible creatures and objects and automatically see through visual illusions (to reveal the original form of a creature or shapeshifter).
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How do you reveal invisible creatures in 5e?

Signs like footprints on damp stone, the squeak of floorboards, the stir of tapestries, the twang of a bow, or the snicker-snack of a sword could all expose an invisible creature. The specific clues seldom matter, but unless invisible creatures attempt to sneak, something reveals their general location.
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How do you see invisible things in 5e?

See Invisibility
  1. Casting Time: 1 action.
  2. Range: Self.
  3. Target: Self.
  4. Components: V S M (A pinch of talc and a small sprinkling of powdered silver)
  5. Duration: 1 hour.
  6. Classes: Bard, Sorcerer, Wizard.
  7. For the duration, you see invisible creatures and objects as if they were visible, and you can see into the Ethereal Plane.
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Can you detect Nystul's magic aura?

The identify spell can tell if an object is under the effect of Nystul's magic aura. You often won't know to cast identify on the item, though, if Nystul's magic aura has made the item appear to be nonmagical.
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Can Detect magic sense undead?

No, it can't.

Animate dead and similar spells typically have a duration of instantaneous. This means the magic is only present at their creation (and for more powerful spells/spellcasters, an aura may linger for a time).
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How do I bring a golem to life?

The rabbi performs the great miracle of bringing a clay golem to life – by placing a magic word, the shem, in its mouth. Once brought to life, the golem is strong and protects the Jewish ghetto. It also performs all sorts of physical labor for its creator.
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What are the schools of magic 5e?

In D&D 5e, there are 8 different Schools of Magic:
  • Conjuration.
  • Necromancy.
  • Evocation.
  • Abjuration.
  • Transmutation.
  • Divination.
  • Enchantment.
  • Illusion.
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