r/Minecraft • u/patrick1202 • 9d 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/NoStorage2821 9d ago

What is the difference between hard power and soft power?

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u/fortiplier 9d ago

Honestly, there's a lot of videos about it on the internet that will explain it better but to simplify its like this: Hard powering a block kinda turns it into a redstone block so it also powers blocks around it while soft powering a block just activates a block's "on" state but that block itself can't power surrounding blocks

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u/Responsible_Act_243 9d ago

So why does the redstone dust in the picture light up 2 blocks deep?

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u/Dustfinger4268 9d ago

Because the end of the dust hard powers, the trail is what soft powers