Minecraft Redstone For Dummies, Portable Edition

Chapter 3

Using Redstone to Power Mechanisms

In This Chapter

Activating redstone devices

Powering mechanisms through redstone

Building mechanisms with minecarts

Designing simple machines

Chapter 2 introduces the various ways to transmit and manipulate redstone power. This chapter focuses on the application of these ideas. You can use many different physical machines to create power in circuits, from buttons and levers to tripwires and sensors — and many other machines can be affected by the output of these circuits. This chapter shows you what these machines are and the ways in which you can apply them.

Using Mechanisms to Activate Redstone Devices

You can use many different power-producing blocks (such as levers or buttons) to power nearby redstone devices. These mechanical blocks can be activated by players, entities, or other properties of the Minecraft world, and they can provide power in various ways.

All mechanisms described in the following list can be triggered by entities (such as a player, a chicken, or even an experience orb, depending on the mechanism) and can be placed ...