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!

Minecraft Items!

Items and Blocks make up all of the usable resources in Minecraft. Items appear as two-dimensional sprites in the player's inventory, only appearing slightly three-dimensional when in the player's hand (as opposed to Blocks, which take on a three-dimensional appearance in both the player's hand and inventory).  Below are some all the items which are included into minecraft, and above the items icons is the item ID.

Minecraft Environment/Blocks

Blocks are the only place able items in the game. If anything is places in the 3D environment then it will be a block of some sort. Blocks build the game environment and can in some cases be mined and utilized in various different ways. Blocks are cubes with each face being 16x16 pixels; each block adds up to 1 cubic meter in real-life. Most blocks are static although water, lava, portal and fire blocks which all have animated patterns for each face.

Here are all of the blocks currently in the minecraft 1.0.0 release.

What is Minecraft then?

This is the Logo fot the famous "Minecraft" game!

Minecraft is a sandbox building independent video game written in Java by the now millionaire and famous creator Markus "Notch" Persson and due to this fame he now has his own company called Mojang.

The game is currently mainly creative building and exploration, this allows the players to make what they want and have no restriction to it except the height and depth of the map. The game is made up of millions of textured cubes in a 3D environment. Two version have been released by its creator, they are the Classic (Free) and the fully released version (Paid). The paid version is a mix of Creative and survival. The two modes can be chosen when starting a new world. Creative is where the player has an unlimited supply of resources and the ability to fly and infinite health, very useful if planning to build something quickly. Survival however requires the player to acquire resources by themselves or with others on the multiplayer servers and they must look out for Mobs (Creatures) due to having a limited health now.

Click HERE to go to the official minecraft website!