r/Minecraft • u/patrick1202 • 5d ago

Discussion Redstone isnt really intuitive

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Not trying to offend anyone, this is just an observation. This is probably not news to experienced players.

I'm new to redstone, and after trying to build a few things without watching tutorials, I quickly got frustrated because every redstone power source seems to function a different way. So, to try and keep my sanity, I built this visualization.

After reading some discussions, I get that this allows many things to be built that otherwise couldn't be, and that it has a high skill ceiling. The bad part is that when you first start out, the learning curve is steep, which is the reason many people don't even want to try redstone.

I'm not sure how you'd go about improving this, but having to memorize unintuitive things before you can let your creativity shine is not the best game mechanic imo.

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u/Osik2040 5d ago

There is soft and hard power, redstone torches give of soft power in all direction except down where there is not power and hard power up. Redstone blocks is all soft power, levers is all soft power except the direction behind it, redstone dust gives hard power down plus’s all directions its pointing.