Tutorials/Redstone tips

This page is especially created for beginners, to help. If you are experienced with redstone this probably isn't a kind of page for you unless you still need tips to make your contraptions perfect. This page is not about how to make redstone circuits (see "See Also" for more), but it gives tips to improve redstone contraptions, and make it easier to remember what each part of the circuit does.

Colour coding
This is a simple tip especially if you create things that use a lot of redstone functionalities, like comparator clocks mixed with other redstone items. It is to use wool or terracotta. If you place all of the redstone on top of the same block, for example, out of dirt, soon you may completely forget how your redstone works. This is important if you want to show off all redstone contraptions on YouTube, so people can copy your design in their Minecraft world or you want to be able to go back to your project and understand what does what.

First in Creative Mode
If you want to make a complex redstone project in your survival world, it's always best to do it in creative mode first. When making complex projects, create a creative world, preferably a superflat, and set cheats on. You can build through the whole day, and when night starts to come, you can set the time to 500. Creative mode is a great for building, because you have an infinite number of blocks, you can break blocks right away, and you can fly around to look all around your structures. Once you have finished your redstone contraption, try to figure out where you can improve the contraption; maybe try to make it a little bit smaller. Then, all you have to do once in survival mode is gather the materials, and just copy what you did in creative mode.

Too much redstone
You cannot create too much redstone, such as 876 chunks for one contraption. The reason is that you might not have enough redstone ore in your world to make giant contraptions. Also, when a part of a contraption is too far away, it won't function, and if many complex redstone circuits are going on all at once, the computer could lag.

Forcing yourself in a space
You cannot create a fully functional redstone circuit in a small amount of space. For example, you cannot create a computer that can play Minecraft on it and has 478 frames a second in 1 chunk.

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