Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
How to Use This Topic
Redstone is a massive topic, almost infinitely so because there are always players finding
new ways to use it, and also because it often gets updated when Minecraft itself gets an up-
date. This topic is not meant to contain every single piece of information about Redstone,
as that would be impossible, at the worst, or require a topic that was a few thousand pages
longer at best.
What this topic is meant to do is to give you all of the basic information you need to begin
learning how to use Redstone in the easiest and most pain free way we can teach it to you.
We want to make Redstone fun and inviting, and to dispel the air of intimidation and diffi-
culty that often surrounds the subject.
We'll take you from the very most basic concepts of Redstone, starting here in this chapter,
and as we go through the topic, we'll add a little more with each chapter, stopping along the
way to test out the ideas we present with some fun builds and cool applications.
We suggest that you approach this topic from one end to the other, working through each
chapter in turn and learning its lessons before moving on to the next. By the end of the topic,
we'll have you building some pretty highly advanced Redstone constructions and starting to
think like a real Redstone engineer!
That being said, these concepts are also very complex, and there's a lot of information to
internalize, so we'd also make one more suggestion for how to have the best and most suc-
cessful Redstone learning experience:
Don't worry about getting it all perfect. Even the best Redstone engineers out there took a
long time to understand and memorize this information, and there's no rush to do so. The
best way to learn Redstone is to read through this topic and test out the different builds, and
then to just keep messing around with the stuff, referring back to the topic when you need
to know something. Over time, you'll start to naturally remember the nitty gritty details of
Redstone items, rules and concepts without having to look them up, so there's no need to get
discouraged if you keep having to look back at the topic as you go.
In fact, we'd even suggest seeking out more resources on Redstone as well, such as watching
videos online or finding other players to learn from. This topic is meant to be your introduc-
tion to the world of Redstone and a handy reference guide, but we won't have our feelings
hurt if you need to seek out a little extra help! The goal here is to help you learn Redstone,
and we are simply trying give you as many resources in these pages as possible to help you
do that.
