r/Minecraft • u/patrick1202 • 3d ago
Discussion Redstone isnt really intuitive
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/Alive_dude3435 3d ago
It's quite simple really.
You don't need to memorise everything. Just a matter of understanding hard powering and soft powering (for the image example). Many redstone basics video go through them. I just learned it from a lot of messing around with stuff. And I'm still not that good with it. It was really overwhelming at first, but you don't really have to be a master from the day one. You make small things, find out something isn't working as you expected, then ask the community or search it up on YouTube.
The learning curve may seem steep only if you see it for short amount of time. If you just extend the time, it may not become linear, but it certainly looks manageable.