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FIGURE 9.3
Blocks can break a wire's current: the block on the left prevents the current
from flowing down and to the glowstone lamp, while the slab on the right (taking up just
half an actual block space) allows the power to flow through it and down to the ground,
lighting up the lamp. Replace the interfering block with a slab if keeping a similar texture
is important, or a transparent block.
Powered Blocks
Redstone power propagates from the source as
strong
power. Strong power can light up
redstone wire and activate devices. Feed strong power into a normal opaque block such as
dirt, cobblestone, or wood, and that block will propagate
weak
power, which can only ac-
tivate devices. Basically, it's not strong enough to reconnect with a redstone wire and con-
tinue acting like a partial insulator.
Figure 9.4
illustrates this concept.
