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2. Trying A Mechanism
Now flip your Lever OFF, and then put a Piston into your inventory. Place the Piston down
adjacent to the Redstone Dust you placed next to your Lever, and then flip the Lever ON.
As you can see, as soon as you flip the Lever, the Piston will activate, extending. This is the
simplest form of a Redstone build (perhaps your first ever!). All that's happening here is that
the Lever is providing a signal, the Dust is carrying the signal to the Piston, and the Piston
is recognizing that it is powered and is firing. Though most Redstone builds get much more
complicated than this, essentially this is what is happening at the basic level in almost all
Redstone creations.
