Redstone was added to Minecraft Alpha version 1.0.1_01. Redstone itself is a kind of “electricity” in Minecraft.
Red dust can only be mined using an iron or diamond pickaxe.
Redstone is found at levels from 1 to 20.
After destroying Red Ore (Zhel. or Alm. Pickaxe), 4-5 red dust falls out.
Red dust can be used in circuits.

Redstone crafting and item history:

Redstone block.

Was added in version 1.5 (Redstone Update). It is a block of permanent redstone signal.
It does not turn off when an external signal is applied to it. It is very beneficial to use for storing large volumes of red dust.

Red Torch/Redstone Torch.

Appeared since version Alpha 1.0.1. It is used to permanently activate the redstone wire, but it can be turned off if an external signal source is connected.
Also, a redstone torch is not able to melt ice. Because the glow is too weak.

Repeater.

It is used in most cases as a signal amplifier, because Redstone wire cannot send a signal more than 15 blocks. In order to increase the radius, a repeater is used.

Also, most often, a repeater is used to create a delay in the signal. The delay can be adjusted by right-clicking on the repeater.
Each click on the repeater sets a delay of 0.1 second. A total of 4 positions can be set, from 0.1 to 0.4 seconds.
For a longer signal delay, two, three or more repeaters can be used. To create a delay of one second, 3 repeaters are required.
To do this, you need to install repeaters one after another. Two repeaters (repeaters) should be set to a delay of 0.4 seconds, and one repeater to a delay of 0.2 seconds.
Creating a delay of one second:

The redstone repeater has one more feature. It can block the signal of another repeater.
In order to block a repeater, you need to bring another activated repeater to the side of the repeater.
This will cause a line of bedrock to appear across the blocked repeater.
Also, blocking has its own characteristics. They are shown in the picture.

Comparator.

Officially appeared in version 1.5 (Redstone Update)
A comparator is a special block for creating complex redstone circuits. The comparator allows you to compare signals, check the fullness of chests, hoppers, ejectors, etc.
To compare signals, the comparator has two inputs. One at the back, one at the side.

There are two signal comparison modes.
First mode: The torch on the comparator does not light. Therefore the mode is set by default. This means the comporator calculates the signal from behind with the signal from the side. At the same time, it passes the signal from behind only if (signal from behind? signal from the side). If the signal from the side is stronger than from the back, then the output will be zero.
Second mode: The torch on the comparator is lit. Therefore, the comparator subtracts the signal at the side from the signal at the rear. And then at the output it produces a signal difference with the strength. [Back - A; Side - B] (A - B)

Redstone in potions.

Redstone plays a big role in potion making, it is used to increase the duration of the potion.
It is also one of the main ingredients for the "Unremarkable Potion".
If redstone is added to a level 2 potion, the red dust will weaken the potion.

All potions that can be enhanced by adding redstone:

1. An unremarkable potion
2. Fire resistance potion - Insensitive to fire and lava.
3. Regeneration Potion - Restores 2 hearts in 2.4 seconds
4. Potion of Strength - Adds 130% damage to attack, from weapon or hand.
5. Acceleration Potion - Increases the player's movement speed. Also increases the player's running speed and jump length by 20%
6. Potion of night vision - Gives “cat-like vision”, that is, you see very well at night.
7. Potion of invisibility - Allows the player to become invisible to others. The potion does not affect: blocks, objects, weapons, armor (except horse armor).
8. Jumping Potion - Allows the player to jump higher by half a block.
9. Potion of poisoning - Poisons the player for 2 minutes, taking away half a heart in a second, but does not completely kill, leaving half a heart.
10. Slow Potion - Slows down the player's movements for 4 minutes.
11. Potion of Weakness - Reduces all player damage in melee by half for 4 minutes.

If you are planning to become an expert in the world of Minecraft, then you simply must know all the crafting recipes, which are the main component in the game. We have collected for you absolutely all Minecraft recipes that exist in the game. Thanks to this, you can always learn how to make a map or portal in Minecraft, as well as many other useful blocks. Crafting (or crafting) in Minecraft is the main method of obtaining and creating new blocks that exists in the game. To craft items, you use the crafting grid in your inventory or a workbench, with the help of which most of the game items are created. So, how to make a workbench in Minecraft? To do this we will need 4 blocks of boards and a crafting window available in the inventory. A workbench in Minecraft is created according to the following scheme:

By the way, a workbench can be created from any type of boards. In order to make colored boards in Minecraft, we will need different types of wood.

From the boards you can create sticks, which will be useful for crafting torches, tools, signs, ladders and a number of other items.

To prevent the nights in the game from seeming too dark, we will need a torch. See below for how to make a torch in Minecraft.

The longer you play Minecraft, the more items you will find. In order not to carry all the items with us, we will need to learn how to make a chest in Minecraft, where we will put all our game items. By the way, it is better to make more chests in advance and group the contents in them. You can use any type of board to create a chest.

Some blocks and items need to be crafted (melted) in a furnace. For example, the furnace is used to craft food and smelt various ores and minerals. The recipe for crafting a stove is presented below.

There is another chest in Minecraft called the End Chest (or Ender Chest). Its difference from a regular chest is that, having two such chests, you can leave items in one place and pick them up in another. To craft an end chest, we need obsidian and an enderman's eye.

Not long ago, magic was added to Minecraft, with which you can improve items and inventory. To do this, you need to create a table for spells. The recipe for creating a spell table can be found in the image below:

Minecraft blocks

Precious metals, emeralds and diamonds can be combined into blocks for more convenient storage. In order to create a block of diamonds or emeralds, you need to place objects throughout the grid in the workbench. As an example, take a look at our images.

To illuminate the surrounding space in Minecraft, you can use not only torches, but also a glowing block that is created from light dust. Light dust, in turn, can only be found in Hell, to access which you need to create a portal from obsidian and activate it.

There is also wool in Minecraft, which is needed to create a bed or paintings. Wool can be collected from sheep using scissors, or wool can be crafted from threads.

To destroy terrain and create cunning traps, you can use dynamite in Minecraft, which requires gunpowder and sand to craft. You can see how to make dynamite in Minecraft below.

To decorate buildings and make movement more convenient in Minecraft, there are various plates. Slabs can be created from wood, stone, brick and a number of other blocks. You can see how to create slabs in Minecraft in our examples.

To quickly move vertically and climb in your buildings, you can use steps, which are created in Minecraft in a very simple way. In addition, steps can be crafted from various blocks, so you can beautifully fit them into the style of your building.

To build beautiful buildings in Minecraft, you can create different blocks such as brick, clay or snow blocks and many other items.

To create a brick block, we will need clay, which must be melted in a furnace into brick ingots, and from the brick ingots we can craft a brick block.

Sand in Minecraft can be used to create sand blocks and steps. If you love the Egyptian style, then you simply must know how to create new sand blocks in Minecraft.

Another block that will help you decorate the interior of your buildings is a bookcase. In order to create a bookcase in Minecraft, we will need books and boards. The recipe for crafting a bookcase is presented below.

There is another block in Minecraft that can be used to illuminate the area. We have already shown you how to create a torch and a glowstone, and now we invite you to familiarize yourself with the recipe for crafting a glowing pumpkin.

Minecraft Tools

In Minecraft there are a huge number of tools with which you can mine new ores or items. At the beginning of the game you will have to create your first wooden tool, which includes an axe, shovel, pickaxe, hoe (and even a sword). Below you can find recipes for crafting wooden equipment.

After some time, you will obtain the first resources, which will include broken stone (cobblestone). From cobblestone you can create stone equipment, which is more durable and has a greater number of uses (only a pickaxe) than wooden objects. Recipes for crafting stone equipment are presented below.

Using stone tools, you can mine new ores, which include metal. The metal must be smelted in a furnace into metal ingots, after which it will be possible to create new iron equipment from them.

As soon as you get your first gold blocks, you can use them to craft new gold equipment. To do this, gold blocks must be melted into ingots, after which they can be used for crafting. Gold inventory has a higher rate of resource extraction, but gold items are not very strong, which is why many people prefer not to use them.

However, the best items are traditionally those made from diamonds. Such equipment is characterized by a high speed of resource extraction and is the most durable of all existing ones. The recipe for crafting diamond equipment is identical to the previous recipes.

To activate the portal to Hell, as well as to set fire to the area in Minecraft, there is a lighter. You can see how to create a lighter in Minecraft below.

If you want to transfer water or lava from one place to another, you will need a bucket. The recipe for crafting a bucket is not so complicated and is presented in the image below.

You can use coordinates to navigate the world of Minecraft, but real Minecraft fans create a compass and map for this purpose. We showed how to make a map or compass in Minecraft using these crafting recipes.

If you spend a lot of time in caves looking for resources, then you probably want to be aware of what time of day it is on the surface. For these purposes you can make a clock.

Scissors have been added to Minecraft to collect wool and obtain foliage blocks. Their crafting recipe is shown in this image.

In order for your game character to always remain full, you need food. One type of food is fish, which can be caught by making a fishing rod in Minecraft.

An analogue of a lighter can be a fireball, which is created from gunpowder, coal and fire powder. The fireball can set the area on fire when you right-click, or can be used as a projectile for a dispenser.

Carrots and a fishing rod make a great tool for controlling pigs. To do this, you need to craft a fishing rod with carrots, the recipe for which is incredibly simple.

An anvil can be used to repair tools in Minecraft 1.4. It is notable for the fact that weapon upgrades on it are not reset, but, on the contrary, they are superimposed on each other. Also on the anvil you can rename any item. Crafting an anvil is quite simple, although it will require quite a bit of iron.

Weapons in Minecraft

Since there are aggressive mobs in Minecraft, you will have to defend yourself from them. For this purpose, there are weapons in Minecraft that can be used in melee combat or attacks from a distance. For close combat you need to create a sword, which can be wooden, stone, metal, gold or diamond. The better your sword, the more damage it will deal.

For long-range attacks in Minecraft, a bow is used. The recipe for crafting a bow and arrow can be found below.

Armor in Minecraft

There are several different types of armor available to protect your in-game character in Minecraft, each of which is crafted from different materials and has varying degrees of protection. For example, diamond armor will provide you with the most protection, but it requires quite a lot of diamonds to create it. You can find recipes for crafting a helmet, bib, pants and boots from different materials below.

The next strongest armor is metal armor.

Gold armor protects against damage better than metal armor, but wears out the fastest.

The strongest armor in Minecraft is armor made from diamonds. Recipes for crafting diamond armor:

Don't forget that you can combine different types of armor. For example, you can use a diamond breastplate, a leather helmet, and metal pants and boots. However, in this case, your defense will be summed up from the characteristics of each piece of equipment.

Trolleys and rails

To move around the world of Minecraft faster, there are a number of items with which you can create your own railway or subway. To begin, you will need to create rails, which are divided into regular rails, electric rails, and push block rails.

Electric rails can be connected to redstone torches, thanks to which they will speed up your trolley while moving.

Rails with a pressure block allow you to transmit a reston signal as soon as the trolley passes along them.

Trolleys in Minecraft are also divided into several types. A regular minecart allows you to move around in it and is created as follows.

The furnace minecart allows you to move other minecarts by placing coal in the furnace.

A trolley with a chest can transport things over long distances and is created using a box and a regular trolley.

For lovers of sea travel in Minecraft, you can make a boat with which you can surf the ocean in search of new islands and biomes. See below for how to make a boat in Minecraft.

Items with redstone

Any building in Minecraft must have an entrance, and any entrance must have a door to keep strangers out. There are two types of doors in Minecraft - wooden and metal. You will find how to make a wooden door or a metal door in the following images.

If you prefer dugouts or vertical entrances instead of standard doors, then you can make a hatch in Minecraft and use it as the entrance to your building. The hatch can be made from boards of any color.

The only movable block in Minecraft that can also move other blocks is the piston. See below for how to make a piston in Minecraft.

In addition to a regular piston, you can make a sticky piston in Minecraft that can return blocks to their starting position. To craft a sticky piston, you need to combine a standard piston and slime.

To activate pistons or other active blocks, we need redstone. You can also create various items from redstone, with which you can control circuits from a distance and so on.

As decorative items, or for creating interesting redstone circuits, traps and anything else you have enough imagination for, Minecraft has many blocks that can also be activated using redstone circuits.

Another block with which you can illuminate the surrounding space is a lamp. To create a lamp we need a glowing block and some redstone.

To activate redstone circuits or various blocks, you can use levers, buttons or pressure plates.

Not long ago, tripwires were added to Minecraft. You will learn how to do stretching in Minecraft from the picture below.

Food in Minecraft

Any living organism has a need for nutrition, and the main character of Minecraft is no exception and also has a feeling of hunger. But for this in Minecraft there are a huge number of recipes for preparing various foods that you can learn about.

First, you should know that any raw meat can be cooked in the oven, after which it can be eaten. But if you want to cook something more interesting in the game, our Minecraft recipes will help you!

To cook a baked potato, you need to put it in the oven and wait for it to cook.

The recipe for making golden carrots is one carrot, surrounded on all sides with gold nuggets.

To make pumpkin pie you will need pumpkin sugar and an egg.

Various blocks and items

Minecraft has the ability to create books to further create bookcases or record your stories and notes right in the game. To do this, you need to make paper, and from paper you can make a book in Minecraft.

To decorate your home, you can craft paintings that you can hang on the walls. See below for how to make a painting in Minecraft.

To make the night in Minecraft go by faster, you can make a bed to sleep on.

In Minecraft you can create signs on which you can write your own text. How to make a sign in Minecraft is shown below.

To move vertically, you can create a ladder.

In Minecraft there is a wooden fence, as well as a gate to it. You will find how to make a fence and gate in our crafting recipes.

In addition to the standard block of glass, which is created by melting sand in a furnace, you can make glass panels in Minecraft, which are also called thin glass.

The Eye of Ender can be crafted as follows.

The recipe for crafting new pictures or frames for items in Minecraft 1.4 is very simple. We will need 8 sticks and 1 leather.

Flower pots are another decorative block with which you can decorate your buildings. You can plant almost all types of plants in flower pots, from red or yellow flowers to tree sprouts.

In order to craft a flower pot, we need 3 bricks. The recipe for crafting a flower pot is shown below.

In addition to ordinary fences, there are also stone ones. Recipe for crafting a stone fence:

Dyes in Minecraft

In Minecraft, there are a huge number of dyes in a wide variety of colors that you can use to recolor wool blocks or leather armor. Bone meal is not only a white dye, but also allows plants to grow instantly when applied to a seedling or seed.

Wool dyeing

In Minecraft you can dye wool using dyes. Colored wool is used to create interesting and unusual buildings, as well as to create pixel art designs in-game.

Magic and potions in Minecraft

Magic in Minecraft allows you to create various potions, with which you can gain new abilities such as increasing movement speed and so on. To create potions you will need a number of items, the crafting of which we will now show you. The basis for crafting potions are flasks. How to make a flask in Minecraft:

Any preparation of potions takes place at a brewing stand, the crafting recipe for which is below.

There is also a cauldron in Minecraft, but it has no use yet.

Potions Ingredients:

Leather painting

Since Minecraft version 1.4.2 we have been able to dye leather armor. An interesting fact is that when painting, you can mix any dyes.

In Minecraft 1.4 you can dye not only leather armor, but also your pet's collar. To do this, you need to take any dye in your hands and use it on your dog.

Fireworks and Fireworks Minecraft

On New Year's Eve, Minecraft received an update that introduced the ability to create festive fireworks and fireworks. We have already dedicated this event, in which you can learn how to create different types of fireworks, and on this page we will show you crafting recipes.

First, you need to learn the recipe for crafting a star, with which you can set the fireworks light.

As soon as the star is ready, you need to craft a salute or fireworks, which can then be launched into the sky. Recipe for crafting fireworks:

In the Minecraft 1.5: Redstone Update, a huge number of new blocks and items were added that are somehow related to redstone. Just below you can find all the crafting recipes from Minecraft 1.5 so that you are ready to create new items and blocks.

In Minecraft 1.5, you can find new hellish blocks with white splashes in the nether world. These are quartz blocks and can only be mined in hell. Quartz can be used to create some useful items, as well as decorative blocks, half blocks and steps. In order to obtain pure quartz, you need to place blocks of quartz in a furnace and smelt them into ore.

After you receive quartz, you can craft new blocks and columns from it. Recipes for crafting items from Kravets are below.

Minecraft 1.5 introduced a light sensor that can send a signal to the redstone during daylight hours. Recipe for crafting a light sensor:

A comparator, which will be useful to all fans of redstone circuits, can be crafted as follows:

A trap chest capable of transmitting a signal when opened has the following crafting recipe:

New pressure plates made of gold and metal are capable of changing the signal strength depending on the number and weight of objects located on them.

The Ejector is another new block that appeared in Minecraft 1.5 and can be crafted as follows:

To collect items and distribute them into chests, a funnel was added to Minecraft, which has the following crafting recipe. Using a funnel, you can craft a trolley with a funnel that can distribute objects even when moving.

Well, now you can make a whole block from redstone, which will stably emit a strong redstone signal.

Minecraft Crafting Recipes 1.6.1

In the new version of Minecraft 1.6.1, codenamed " Horse Update“The main focus of the game was on adding a new mob - lashes, therefore the crafting recipes for Minecraft 1.6.1 are mostly related to this. However, the new version of the game will not be without new blocks, the crafting recipes for which you can find a little lower.

So, in Minecraft 1.6.1 a block of coal was added, with which you can light a furnace to cook food and smelt ores. A coal block has the following crafting recipe:

A new decorative block that appeared in Minecraft 1.6.1 is a haystack. Using a haystack you can decorate barns, farms or other buildings of yours. A haystack can be crafted from 9 units of wheat.

Clay in the new version of Minecraft 1.6.1 has the ability to be colored, just like wool. You can apply any known dye to get a new clay color. To do this, you need to place a block of raw clay in the oven, thereby crafting baked clay that can be painted.

Another innovation in Minecraft 1.6.1 is carpets. The recipe for crafting carpets is very simple: just use 2 blocks of wool (you can use colored wool) arranged horizontally to get 3 pieces of carpet. The color of the carpet will depend on the color of wool you use when crafting.

Let's get to the fun part, the horses! Minecraft 1.6.1 features a huge number of new horses, donkeys and mules that can be tamed. And on horses you can put not only a saddle, but also armor! Many players ask how to craft armor for horses? The fact is that in the final version of Minecraft 1.6.1 the recipe for crafting armor for horses was cut out, and the only way to get it is to explore caves and mines.

The Tag is another new item that does not have a crafting recipe and can only be found in dungeons. The tag is used to rename mobs, and you can rename absolutely all mobs except the Dragon and civilians! In order to rename a mob, you need to give a name to the tag on the anvil, after which it can be used.

Using a lasso, you can lead mobs behind you or tie horses to wooden fences so that they do not leave the parking lot. The lasso can be crafted using the following recipe:

Redstone (Red Dust) is used in recipes for many mechanisms, as wires conducting the redstone signal for mechanisms, and also as an ingredient in potions in potions, red dust increases the duration of potions, for convenience, the note “enhanced” is added to such potions in parentheses . You can get red dust underground using a pickaxe. One red ore drops 4-5 units, requires an iron pickaxe or higher. Red dust is also sold by villagers for emeralds; it drops from witches upon death. Red dust can be "packed" into a red dust block and unpacked back. Red ore mined using a pickaxe enchanted with silk touch can be smelted in a furnace to produce red dust.

How to get red dust

4-5 units of red dust are mined if you break red ore, which is found at a depth of 1 to 17 blocks, mined with an iron pickaxe or a stronger pickaxe. In order to get the most red dust, go down to depth 10 and dig forward, but be careful, there is also lava at this depth.

Uses of red dust

• Craft: compass, clock, electric rails, sensor rails, red torch, music note block, dispenser, ejector, repeater, piston, lamp
• Potions: Mundane Potion (Enhanced), Potion of Fire Resistance (Enhanced), Potion of Regeneration (Enhanced), Potion of Strength (Enhanced), Potion of Swiftness (Enhanced), Potion of Night Vision (Enhanced), Potion of Poison (Enhanced), Potion of Slow (Enhanced) , potion of weakness (enhanced)
• "Wires" for mechanisms

Crafting Recipes with Red Dust

Name	What do you need	What will happen	Description
Compass	Iron Ingots and Red Dust		Points to the spawn location (player spawn point).
Watch	Gold bars and red dust		Shows the positions of the sun and moon (you can determine the time of day).
Electric rails	Gold bars, sticks, red dust		Used to speed up or slow down carts.
Rails with sensor	Iron Ingots, Stone Pressure Plate and Red Dust		A button that is activated by the cart.
Red torch	Red dust and stick		Used to transmit constant charge or as a transmitter/receiver when connected to a unit. Can be used as lighting.
Note block	Boards and red dust		Allows you to create music.
Dispenser	Cobblestone, red dust and onion		Drops items in a random order.
Ejector	Cobblestone, red dust		Throws items as if you press the “Q” key.
Repeater	Stone, red dust and redstone torch		Used as a repeater and diode.
Piston	Cobblestone, red dust, planks and iron ingot		Pushes blocks.
Lamp	Red Dust + Glowstone		This lamp can be turned on and off using red dust and levers.

Red Dust Potions Recipes

Name	Ingredients	Recipe	Effect
Mundane Potion (Enhanced)	Red dust + water bubble		No
Fire Resistance Potion (Enhanced)	Red dust + Potion of Fire Resistance		Immunity to fire and lava for 8 minutes
Regeneration Potion (Enhanced)	Red dust + Regeneration Potion		Restores player's health for 2 minutes

Redstone is perhaps the most necessary thing in the game. Minecraft would be completely different without him. At first, redstone will seem like a completely unnecessary thing to you, and you will throw it away, but in fact, it should be protected like the apple of your eye. If you are a true mechanic by vocation, then you should know that there is never too much redstone. You can make various traps from red stone, from the simplest mine to the most complex mechanisms. Below we will look at almost everything that a red stone is needed for.

Redstone circuits and mechanisms are something that requires little to no effort to use, but requires a lot of effort to build. For example, a piston door is an interesting invention, although you just need to think carefully about how to give the signal correctly. Or, for example, the “Diamond Generator” trap. At first glance, nothing complicated - they simply push the player down. And, in fact, this is one of the most difficult traps. Now I’ll tell you about it.
Attention: the trap is only available for versions 1.5+. First, you need to dig a 3*2 hole 25 blocks deep (more is possible so that the player with zero-gravity boots also crashes). On both sides of 3 blocks we remove the upper blocks, place sticky pistons and blocks on them. Everything should look like this:

It is also necessary to place a chest in the hole and bring funnels to it, so that when the player falls, his drop will fall into the chest. Next, we place 2 pistons at the back of the building and one on the right side.


We place the ejector and pour water in front of it, having previously blocked the water’s path with signs.

Now we make a chain of ejectors. It is important that they are directed towards each other:

Next, we direct funnels into the ejector located below and make the following diagram.




Now you need to connect the mechanical part, namely the pistons. We do it this way:


Then we connect the other side. It will look like this:


Next you need to dig a small hole and place 2 capacitors there, directed in different directions, connecting them with a redstone circuit. It looks like this:


Now you need to throw any object (preferably a diamond) into the funnel. The diamond will not disappear anywhere, it will simply pass through the chain of ejectors. In general, the finished trap will look like this:


Also, a new wireless redstone recently appeared in the game. It does not require redstone dust; it can be used to make mechanisms and launch them from great distances. It is done using a command block (a command block can only be obtained in a creative using the command /give nickname 137
Let's make, for example, a wireless light bulb. We place a row of any blocks, a command block on them, a capacitor in front of it, after the capacitor, and a light bulb behind the repeater. Behind the command block we place a block that passes current, then a capacitor, and behind it 2 funnels. Place any block or object into the funnels, and place a lever on the final funnel. The command block must be given the command scoreboard objectives remove wer (wer can be any combination of letters). Next, we retreat to any distance and place another command block. We put a button on it and set the command scoreboard objectives add wer (in place of wer there should be the combination of letters that you assigned to 1 block). Voila, you're done! Now when you press the button, the light will light up.
In circuits, redstone is an important component. Without it, not a single redstone circuit will work, since it needs to be given the initial power. It is not recommended to use a redstone torch as lighting, since it is expensive to craft and provides very little light.
There are many mods related to redstone. There are global ones, such as Industrial Craft 2, BuildCraft. And tightly bound to the red stone. One such mod is Wireless Redstone. This mod will allow us to create wireless redstone not only in creativity, but also in survival! The main elements of the mod are a transmitter and a receiver, they allow you to transmit information (circuits from redstone without using it) to 1000 channels.
In the BuildCraft mod you can see some engines and redstone pipes. These pipes allow you to conduct energy to the devices, but let’s talk about engines in more detail. There are 3 types of these engines. 1. Mechanical redstone engine, steam engine, and internal combustion engine. Read more about the mechanical engine. This engine is the simplest and cheapest, requiring a little wood and one glass. Unlike others, it can only supply voltage to wooden pipes (from version 1.4 it does not transfer energy to wooden pipes). It does not require fuel (it is turned on by a redstone signal) and takes a long time to warm up. Its power is not enough for other complex devices to operate from its energy, but still it is the only engine that does not require cooling.
It is crafted this way:

This is not all the information on the red stone, there is much more, but it is impossible to fit all the information into one article. Good luck and more diamonds!

At first glance, Minecraft may not seem like the most intricate game. Make tools, kill animals, collect plants, get resources, defend yourself from attack. Everything seems quite ordinary and not particularly impressive. But as soon as you try to play, you will immediately understand that everything is not as simple as it seems at first. After all, Minecraft provides you with a huge variety of opportunities and means of implementing them. Before you know it, you’ll get deeper into the game and realize that everything here is much more complicated. A new world will appear before you, in which a variety of things and actions will be available, including even electricity. You will be able to create electrical circuits and use them to operate mechanisms. But instead of wires, red dust is used here, which is also called redstone. It is here that it acts as a conductor of electricity, but can also be used for other purposes. Therefore, it is important for every gamer to know how to make red dust in Minecraft.

Resource extraction

Redstone here acts as a resource that you can mine yourself. In order to learn how to make red dust in Minecraft, you will have to arm yourself with a pickaxe and find deposits of red ore blocks. One such block drops up to five units of redstone, so this resource cannot be called rare. Red ore is available in sufficient quantities in various areas of the world, so mining it is unlikely to be a problem for you. Now you know how to make red dust in Minecraft, but if you have no desire to find the necessary blocks, then you can try other options.

New ways to obtain dust

Not every player imagines himself as a miner who goes to the mountains and works with a pickaxe. Many people prefer other methods, so you can’t limit yourself to one option on how to make red dust in Minecraft. There are alternatives, and they may appeal to those gamers who consider themselves warriors or merchants. In the first case, you need to go on a foray into the habitats of witches, because it is from these mobs that red dust can fall. But the drop rate is not as high as we would like, so there is no point in killing witches solely to get redstone, especially considering how easily it is obtained naturally. Just keep in mind that killing witches can net you extra resources. But there is another way, it relates to trading. If you find a village in your Minecraft world, you won't need to know how to make red dust. The fact is that the merchant sells it there at a fairly reasonable price. But this does not mean that you should only buy resources, because you can spend your money on more useful items.

How and for what is redstone used?

As was said earlier, if you want surprises, take a look at Minecraft. The red dust block in this game represents one element of an electrical circuit that conducts energy through itself. This makes the functioning of energy-dependent mechanisms possible. You just need to draw a strip of red dust from one element of the mechanism to another to connect them together. But at the same time, it’s always worth remembering that redstone in Minecraft transmits electricity only to fifteen blocks, so your circuit won’t be very large. But there is nothing to worry about here, because over time you will discover ways to extend the chain, such as using a repeater. As a result, you get the opportunity to use mechanisms that you could not even dream of before. Therefore, you need to know in detail all the main places in your Minecraft world - where to find red dust, where to find other important resources, where specific animals and mobs are found. All this will allow you to create incredible things from simple blocks that previously seemed primitive.

Crafting from red dust

However, redstone is used not only as an electrical conductor - it also has other applications. For example, with its help you can craft some very useful items whose recipe includes it. A compass, a clock, rails, even the same repeater that will later be used in the circuit - all this is done using red dust. Therefore, do not spend the entire resource on creating conductors - leave a little for crafting the necessary tools.

Use in potions

In addition, redstone is one of the key alchemical elements that will come in handy when creating most potions. Red dust serves as an additive that prolongs the duration of the potion, so it can be very useful. But be careful, because if you add it to a second level potion, it will return to its original state. This is sometimes useful when you need a regular rather than enhanced potion, but in many cases this function can be harmful.