NOT A TABLE OF CONTENTS MORE LIKE A LIST:
1. The Really Basic Basics
2. Getting Started
3. Basic Logic Gates
4. Not-Really-As-Basic Logic Gates
5. What You Can Do With Redstone
6. Things to Make Your Life Better
7. Transmission Through Blocks
1. The Really Basic Basics
Redstone in a nutshell is the everything of your machines in Minecraft. It affects objects when powered, such as opening doors, revealing staircases, activating hidden doors, etc. It is powered by an input, such as a lever, a pressure plate, a button, or a redstone torch. When powered by an input, redstone will carry an input for 15 blocks, then stop. The input will not travel any further after this. To counter this, place a repeater before the input stops. It will 'repeat' the input and allow the input to travel another 15 blocks.
2. Getting Started
To start, you usually need the following items:
- Redstone (mined from the underground)
- Redstone Torches (crafted with redstone and sticks)
- Some sort of trigger (button, lever, pressure plate, etc.)
- Repeaters (crafted with stone, redstone, and redstone torches)
- A solid block (anything to be honest)
- An output (a door, piston, TNT, whatever)
Start off by placing an input (say, a pressure plate) on the floor. Then place redstone next to the input and wire it to an output. Place something that works as an output (in this case a piston) at the other end of your redstone wire. The result should look something like this:
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As shown above, when you drop an item on a wooden pressure plate, the pressure plate gives off power to adjacent redstone wires, which will carry your input. From here, you can get more advanced.
3. Basic Logic Gates
To start off, make a simple NOT Gate, which inverts the signal. So whenever the input is on, the output is off. When the input is off, the output is on.
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Once you've made that, you can use those NOT Gates to make an AND Gate, which require both of two inputs to activate the output.
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