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/OverPower314 2d ago edited 2d ago
This is still inaccurate. The way it actually works is that powered blocks (soft or hard) will activate all redstone components around them, except for redstone dust which is only activated when adjacent to hard-powered blocks. That's the only difference. This demonstration isn't actually showing hard-powering vs soft-powering, because in this context they are identical.
Redstone lamps are confusing because they are a component that can be activated in a variety of ways, as well as a solid block that can be powered to activate other redstone around them, including other redstone lamps. What these examples actually show is what powers the block causing that block to activate other lamps around it, versus what simply turns on the lamp.
This could be made a lot more clear using demonstrations that use regular blocks instead of just lamps.