Talk:Redstone Dust/Archive 1

Red stone ore & Irone ore
You know?, it's a little curious but because of his conductance properties and its use in electric circuits I would say that the red stone could make reference to copper, but the red stone ore seems more like some iron ores and the iron ore seems like containing pure copper.--Namredne 03:14, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Wire / Dust
What about Redstone Wire? Does this along with Redstone Dust since the wire is made from the dust? --Psych 19:34, 12 July 2010 (UTC)


 * Redstone Wire, as a "block" (that is, on the ground) is kind of a technical block, like the arm and plunger of a piston. You can't have it in your inventory without cheats or craft with it, unlike Redstone (the dust). I believe the wiki is specific enough to have separate articles for the two. - Apollyna (T 21:44, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Multiplayer dupe bug
Placing Redstone dust and Torches onto leaves places it, but doesn't take from your stack, duping it. --Vipermagi 19:16, 4 November 2010 (UTC)


 * Is this still a glitch? - Apollyna (T 21:44, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

This bug is possibly only clientside, try to open a chest after doing this... This will sync the inventory with the server. C ali nou - talk × contribs » 21:58, 2 October 2011 (UTC)

Redstone/Monster Spawner
I used TooManyItems mod to get a pig spawner, then was able to place red stone on it. Is this a bug or not? Just wanted to report it. --Throex 21:38, 4 October 2011 (UTC)

It is not a bug; its normal. You can place torches on it too. I see how you think of it as a bug due to a monster spawner being transparent. Pigisdeado 14:13, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

90.194.204.253's revisions
User "90.194.204.253" was helpful enough to put redstone't use in potions, but 1.9 hasn't come out yet. I've cut out that part and put it here for future use. - Apollyna (T 02:42, 7 October 2011 (UTC)


 * Now, as of beta 1.9 pre-release 3, it can be brewed with a "Water Bottle" to create "Mundane Potion" Mundane Potion has no effect, and can only be brewed with a fermented spider eye to make "Potion of Weakness." This makes Mundane Potion useless and time-consuming, except to save fermented spider eyes.

Smelting
I think Redstone Ore can't be smelted into Redstone Dust. This is a contradiction to Redstone_(Ore), where is said: Though it is called an "ore" it cannot be smelted into a pure substance. --80.171.116.250 11:36, 17 December 2011 (UTC)

You can smelt redstone ore into redstone dust. But you can only obtain redstone ore through the silk touch enchantment and it is inneffecient anyway... Pigisdeado 14:19, 12 April 2012 (UTC)

Block of Redstone
There should be a block of redstone, like diamond blocks. It would be very useful as storage because I find redstone a lot and have two chests full of it. -- Pigisdeado 22:27, 20 March 2012 (UTC)

Good idea, but this isn't the forums. user:Noobnathan

12w15a
12w15a has a bug where if you use the new creative mode pick block function on redstone dust (placed) it gives you the technical block for wire.--Pigisdeado 18:15, 13 April 2012 (UTC)

Block?
I think that there should be a block of redstone, all the other minerals have it, even lapis, which is nearly useless, so shouldn't redstone get it's own block of nine minerals? Oh Boy this is a signiture of sorts, oh and I like Pokemon 20:22, 9 June 2012 (UTC)

The wiki is not venue for suggestions. C ali nou - talk × contribs » 21:02, 16 July 2012 (UTC)


 * Well, now it has happened. Check out the latest 1.5 snapshots for the Block of Redstone Numbermaniac 07:25, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Finding your way in caves
In the trivia, it says: "Another good use for redstone, as people generally accumulate too much of it while exploring natural dungeons, is to use it as a way to find your way in a cave, so that you do not get lost. By placing redstone dust on the right- hand side of the cave, you can find your way out again by keeping the placed dust on your left."

I don't think this belongs there. You can do this method with almost every other material in the game, so I don't think it really belongs on this page only.

Would history be a good addition?
I've seen different versions of Minecraft. Some allow some items to be made and others not. Would it be good to have a short block for when each items was introduced? Many other items have a history block, so why not redstone? 216.114.226.156 07:30, 11 September 2012 (UTC)


 * This may be another page in which the history table template wasn't created at the time of publishing this article. At least now it does have a table. Numbermaniac 07:27, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

Fullmetal Alchemist reference
Redstone could very well be a reference to redstone in the manga/anime Fullmetal Alchemist, where it is a liquid that can be solidified into a rock that can mimic the effects of a philosophers stone. Seems equally "semi-magical" like the redstone in Minecraft. 24.132.21.185 22:12, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

Real life reference
Now that you mention it, the red stone is real, the true alchemists created an alloy that had properties that are very similar to gold's and I think that its named alchemist's gold, although I think that it's very expensive to produce and doesn't share gold's conductivity properties, because of that must be unpractical.--Namredne 03:06, 26 February 2013 (UTC)