(cid:53)(cid:46)(cid:47)(cid:38)(cid:38)(cid:41)(cid:35)(cid:41)(cid:33)(cid:44)(cid:0) GUiDeS Chapter 1 Bringing Creations to Life y ou’ve created huge buildings and mined rare gems You’ve walked through forests deserts and grasslands You’ve scaled mountains and swum through the ocean Your wheat potatoes and other crops are thriving Your livestock are healthy and growing in number What more could you ask for in your Minecraft life Plenty Minecraft doesn’t stop at constructing buildings 4
MINECRAFT Redstone and Transportation You can identify redstone ore by its red flecks Imagine there is a substance that can power the world around you You can lay it down like electrical wiring on any solid block Or you can add it to objects to make them light up move or explode This substance even brings a little bit of magic when mixed with just the right ingredients What is this wonderful material Redstone Nothing quite like redstone exists in the real world In some ways redstone works a lot like electricity does Both provide energy But unlike electricity redstone is a solid material Each piece of redstone produces a 5
(cid:53)(cid:46)(cid:47)(cid:38)(cid:38)(cid:41)(cid:35)(cid:41)(cid:33)(cid:44)(cid:0) GUiDeS Unlimited Possibilities Once you have redstone you can use it to build countless different creations You can power a cart or a sliding glass door You could build a sidewalk that lights up at night or a room where the lights turn on when you walk in Hook it up to a block of TNT and cause an explosion Or you can think even bigger One person constructed a working calculator What marvelous machines will you create signal At its full power of 15 the signal travels as far as 15 blocks to power a machine or light a lamp However the signal fades a bit with each block You can obtain redstone in a number of ways The most straightforward method is to mine it It is most often found deep underground where the rarest pieces of ore are more common You can recognize redstone ore by the flecks of red in the otherwise gray block To mine it it’s best to use an iron pickaxe or even better a diamond one One block of redstone ore produces four or five redstone dusts often simply called redstones You can also smelt redstone ore by burning it in a fur nace Any fuel works for this from coal or wood to lava Redstone also naturally appears in a few places Destroy a trap in any jungle temple and you’ll be able to gather the redstone that was powering it This can yield as many as 15 redstones If you find a chest in a 6
MINECRAFT Redstone and Transportation Dungeon chests sometimes contain redstone dungeon in a stronghold altar or storeroom or in an abandoned mine look inside There’s a small chance you’ll find redstone there You have the highest chance just over 50 percent of finding redstone in a dungeon chest However you’ll only find between one and four redstones at a time In other chests the chances of finding redstones are much lower but you could find as many as nine redstones at once You can also trade an emerald for redstone with a cleric in a village Another option is to gather it from witches Whenever a witch dies she drops between zero and six redstones 7
