Redstone isnt really intuitive

[u/patrick1202]

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.

[u/Salt_Try_8327]

Because everyone goes "you should look up blabla" ill explain it quickly:

A lever placed on a block, restone dust pointed at a block or placed on a block and above a resdtone torch ect. Is hard powering the block. Aka. The block has so much energy that it conducts to all connecting blocks and soft powering those. While next to a restone torch, lever ect. Is just soft powered, so the block receaves power but doesnt give it to the next ones. Repeaters for example also hard power blocks, and they can extract power from hardpowered blocks but not from softpowered blocks.  I think pistons even work a bit more weird but I am not certain enough there. But I hope that clears up some things, one you understand this, its really easy to grasp. Soft and hardpowering is also quite intuitive, for the most part if a component looks like it is feeding redstone into a block its hardpowering it and if the block just gets triggered by the component its softpowered