Redstone

[Greboth 2,721]

Morning all,

 

I have been playing around with trying to build some redstone contraptions but frankly I'm terrible at them.  The only thing I have managed to build is a flush piston door but that was only after following a video guide and even then getting it wrong several times still.  So is anyone here good at them?

 

Obviously we're limited to what we can build and the size of the builds on the server but I tend to plan builds out in a single player creative world so skies the limit there.  I thought this thread could be useful for anyone trying to learn redstone, having troubles with a redstone circuit or just to show off a redstone build.

 

For those looking an introduction, I found this video qute useful as he explains what the different things do and how they work etc.

 

 

[Plumbers Crack 4,062]

Ive started watching the video but after 14 minutes I had to stop thro brain overload....wish he'd speak slower as well

[Greboth 2,721]

Haha I know! I think I've watched the video 2 or 3 times and still not sure I have actually retained much of it.  Some of his other videos are crazy as he goes so fast though I think builds are aimed at much more advanced redstoners than ourselves.  Still, it is the best summary explanation of redstone that I have found so far.

[GazzaGarratt 11,049]

What is the deal with Redstone? Want to know some good things to make and build.

[Greboth 2,721]

So so much is the deal with redstone, more than I could type here and far more than I even know.  Basically it is like electricity, stuff can be turned on or off using it with the different things powered using redstone dust which is the equivalent to wires.  There are logic circuits you need to know like an 'and' or an 'or' gate etc. up to more complex circuits like pulse extenders and clocks to t flip flops and rising or falling edge monostable circuits.  Now these wont mean anything to you yet but you can start piecing them together to create more complex circuits as a pulse extender in a pop up bridge is the same as the one in a mob spawner.  If you get more in to it you will find that you stop thinking in terms of I need some redstone dust, 4 pistons, 3 blocks, 5 repeaters etc. and start thinking I need a t flip flop to power this pistone but also power a pulse extender which goes into an inverted falling edge monostable circuit.  The video my opening post really does do a good job of explaining the basic of redstone though expect to have to watch it several times, I did and I've played around with redstone in the past.

 

As for things to build, the most useful for any minecraft is semi or fully automated farms.  These can be simple food farms which allow you grow and harvest food very fast through to bigger animal farms or even massive mob farms.  Automatic sorters are useful too especially for big mob farms so all your zombie flesh goes in one chest, bones in another, gunpowder in a third etc. without you needing to do anything.