Redstone Ore

 For the advanced Redstone circuitry, see Redstone circuits. Redstone ore is the form that Redstone takes when generated in a Beta map. The block was added on Alpha version 1.0.1 (Seecret Friday update 3) on July 3, 2010.

Redstone ore drops 4 - 5 piles of Redstone Dust when mined with an Iron Pickaxe or better. Redstone ore forms in veins made up of 1 - 10 blocks. This makes it relatively easy to obtain large amounts of Redstone.

If a player left or right clicks on, or an Entity moves or falls on Redstone ore, the block will emit level 9 light for 3 seconds.

Redstone ore veins form at the bottom 16 layers of the map. Below row 14, it can be found in 1.025% of stone. There are an average of 25 redstone ores per chunk.



Trivia

 * Though it is called an "ore" it cannot be smelted into a pure substance.
 * When added to the game, all Redstone related blocks had no official name. In 1.0.4, July 9, 2010, the name Redstone was given by Notch after demands from the community.
 * With the Silk Touch enchantment, this ore can be collected as an item. It cannot be smelted into Redstone dust, but it can be used for decoration, especially for its unique glowing trait.
 * It updates when activated. Because of that, it can be used in traps and secret entrances.
 * Before 1.9 Prerelease 6, Redstone Ore took far longer to mine compared to other ores (4.5 seconds with iron pickaxe). As of 1.9 Prerelease 6, it now has the same mining time as other ores.
 * if redstone ore is hacked into the player's inventory it can be used to create a device called a particle update detector.

Related pages

 * Redstone
 * Redstone (Wire)
 * Redstone Dust
 * Redstone (Torch)
 * Redstone circuits
 * Mechanisms
 * Traps

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