Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
Craft a hopper from five iron ingots and a chest. The hopper has five inventory slots of its
own but acts to transfer items stored above it to anything below it at a rate of 2.5 items per
second unless the transfer is stopped with a redstone signal. Place a redstone comparator
next to a hopper to receive a signal when it contains items.
The Bottom Line
As you've seen, redstone offers many interesting possibilities. Like so much in Minecraft,
redstone is limited only by your imagination. Although redstone differs enough from elec-
tricitytogiveanengineerconniptions,it'saloteasiertoworkwith,andyou'renotgoingto
diefromanelectricshockifyoucrosswires.You'lljustgetanicelittlewirelatticeforming
instead.
Redstone also plays nicely with the rail transport system, providing fast transport and an
easy way to move items and other resources around. Rails are quite resource intensive, so
in most survival worlds you'll probably start with something simple and efficient. In pure
Creative mode, however, there really are no limits at all.
