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4. Making Things More Complex With A Repeater
We're going to look at a very basic example of how we can make a Redstone build more
complex for our final example. We'll need another Piston, another Lever and a Redstone
Repeater for this one. Move away from your other Redstone builds, and place your Lever
down on the ground. Put one dot of Redstone Dust adjacent to this Lever, and then stand on
that Dust so that you are facing the opposite direction of the Lever. Aim down at the block
on the opposite side of the Dust from the Lever while still standing on the Dust, and place
your Repeater down. Now place the Piston on the block just after the Repeater, so you have
a line of items that goes Lever>Dust>Repeater>Piston. Now flip the Lever. As you'll see,
the Redstone current will go through the Dust, hit the Repeater, and then a slight amount of
time later the Piston will fire. One of the features of Repeaters is that they output a signal
at a slight delay, which in this case causes the Piston to fire, but which also has many other
uses. We'll get to those later, but for now just notice how we can make the standard Red-
stone configuration more complex with other items.
Alrighty, we've done a little Redstone! That wasn't so bad, was it? Now you've got a
bit of experience with the stuff, are starting to understand how it works, and hey! You
can even tell your friends that you've started using Redstone. Good job miner!
