Redstone mechanics

Redstone mechanics provide Minecraft with a loose analogue to electricity, which is useful for controlling and activating a variety of mechanisms. Redstone circuits and devices have many uses including automatic farms, controlling doorways, changeable or mobile buildings, transporting players and mobs, and more. Some relevant pages include:


 * Redstone Dust is the core of redstone mechanics. Mined from Redstone Ore, the dust can be placed to form "redstone wires" to carry signals, or crafted into other devices.
 * Redstone Circuit s covers the basics of redstone circuitry, including summaries of the basic circuit types and the blocks (e.g., doors, pistons) which can be controlled by redstone.
 * Tutorials/Mechanisms lists and describes a variety of more complex projects that can be made with redstone.