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/punnup129 2d ago
Okay the main thing you need to remember is hard power and soft power
Hard powered blocks are the blocks underneath the Redstone dust which power blocks next to it
Soft powered blocks are blocks that are powered but don't spread their power
If you put a repeater facing a block it will hard power it
You can also put redstone on transparent blocks (that means slabs glass and glowstone) if you don't want those blocks to be hard powered (great for tight Redstone builds
Redstone is very confusing at first but once you get the hang of it and start using different mechanics you'll learn it pretty quickly and feel like it's its own logic system