Tutorials/Rube Goldberg machine

A complex redstone device might not be every miner's cup of tea, but a giant chain reaction device can be a quite entertaining thing to build and test, and you can learn a lot from it. On this page are some ideas and tips that could make your RGM one to be noticed.

Zombie Maze
Show off zombie path finding by making a small maze with a trapped villager at the end. Near the end, make the zombie step on a pressure plate. Variation: make one exposed to the sky so they burn, causing them to find shelter with pressure plates.

N-ice items!
Droppers can be used to shoot items over ice that has water on top. Make an item slide onto a pressure plate that triggers another dropper to shoot more in a different direction.

Yes you can-non
Sand and gravel cannons could shoot a block over to an area that has a powered repeater with a redstone dust missing. Once the block falls in place it will be electrified and will conduct power.

Greenstone
A neat type of wiring can be made with cactus, sand and torches. Place a cactus, add sand on top, add a torch in the sand, and place a sand on the torch. Where the sand will fall, add another cactus. Rinse and repeat.

Bluestone
Water can knock out torches. Use a water device that knocks out a torch supporting sand/garvel, making it fall 2 blocks. This will continue the water flow.

Sandstone
A piston pushing sand over a hole with a powered repeater on one side of the sand's destination before it falls and a line of repeaters on the other side can make some short pulses, especially if a lot of sand is used.

Oh, shoot.
Make a dispenser shoot an arrow/snowball/egg/potion/anythingelsethatisshotasaprojectilewhenputinapowereddispenser at a painting or item frame. This will knock it off onto a pressure plate/comparatored hopper, sending redstone signal to the next part of the contraption.

Tips and tricks

 * On Xbox 360 edition, you can exit without saving after testing the RGM so you don't need to reset it.