Minecraft Construction For Dummies, Portable Edition

Chapter 12

Implementing Redstone into Your Building

In This Chapter

Getting the redstone basics down pat

Adding redstone devices to the structure

Concealing redstone behind walls, floors, and ceilings

Redstone refers to an interesting group of items and blocks based around the versatile redstone dust item. Redstone-based blocks act as wiring and triggers — they let you create programs that run machines, move blocks around, and basically do some truly amazing things. You can use redstone to improve your buildings and make them more dynamic (and more fun) — this chapter shows you some ways to do that.

Understanding the Essential Concepts of Redstone

Redstone is cool because you can use it to add moving parts and automatic devices (such as pistons and elevators) to your buildings. These types of features make structures look a lot more interesting. You find redstone deep in caves and when you break it, it drops 4 to 5 redstone dust.

Before you jump in and start using redstone, you need to know two things: how the different redstone-based blocks work and what they can do for you.

After you get the hang of working with redstone, you can do some pretty complicated things with it. First, ...