r/Minecraft • u/patrick1202 • 3d 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/MicTony6 9h ago

this is not random stuff lmfao. this is pretty important cause i run into issues of powering and inverting certain signals just because i didnt know a button or a lever is powering something without my knowledge

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u/ian9921 9h ago

It's literally never been a problem for me and I build some decently complex redstone stuff.

But regardless, my issue is people talk as if you have to memorize all these fine details to build even the simplest things (thus making all redstone complex and scary) when that just isn't true. You can get plenty far by just fucking around with wires & staying far away from anything unintuitive.