Redstone and what is it?

Redstone circuitry allows for intricate Redstone wire based mechanisms to be created by players. Redstone circuitry is similar to digital electronics (based on boolean algebra) in real life.It's also possible to use pistons in redstone circuits. The great thing about it is that real life items like screen displays and even the game PONG can be implemented into minecraft useing redstone circuitry. However a vast knowledge of logic gates and a good understanding of redstone is needed to be able to make it work properly.

Redstone wire

Redstone wire is basically the same as a piece of wire in real life. However this redstone has a resistance, when placing multiple pieces of redstone dust down on the floor to act as the wiring, you can see that when powered it will only travel 15 blocks before the power ends. This can be excluded by adding a redstone repeater but due to this it will add some delay. if using redstone to make a signal from one place go far away to another. then putting repeaters would be the best way, however repeaters have some delay before the power is boosted, you can see this by simply right clicking a redstone repeater on the ground and it will change timing settings, the two torch like blocks on the repeater will spread apart, the further apart the torches then the longer the delay will be.

Logic Gates

Logic gates are the advanced part of redstone. Many different logic gates exist and they can all be seen on the Minecraft Redstone Wiki CLICK HERE TO GO THERE

Below are some example of "Simple" versions of the most used logic gates!