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Redstone dust[Java Edition only], or simply redstone[Bedrock and Legacy Console editions only], is a mineral that can transmit redstone power when placed as a block.
Obtaining
Redstone dust can be obtained by mining or smelting redstone ore, destroying jungle temple traps, crafting it from blocks of redstone, killing witches, or by trading with villagers. It can also be found in chests that spawn in naturally generated structures.
Breaking
Redstone dust can be broken instantly using any tool, or without a tool, and drops itself as an item. Its hitbox may only cover part of the surface below, depending on the orientation of the redstone.
Redstone dust will also be removed and drop as an item if:
- its attachment block is moved, removed, or destroyed
- water flows into its space
- a piston tries to push it or moves a block into its space
If lava flows into redstone dust's space, the redstone dust will be destroyed without dropping itself as an item.
Crafting
Redstone can be crafted from blocks of redstone.
| Ingredients | Crafting recipe |
|---|---|
| Block of Redstone |
Drops
A single witch will drop 0 to 6 redstone when they die, even when not killed by the player. The drop chance can be increased to 0–15 using the Looting enchantment.
Mining
A single redstone ore will yield 4–5 redstone when mined with an iron or diamond pickaxe. With the Fortune enchantment, additional redstone up to the enchantment level may be dropped (e.g. 0–3 extra will be dropped with Fortune III).
Natural generation
15 lengths of redstone dust are naturally generated as part of the trap in each jungle temple. 5 lengths of redstone dust can be found in one type of jail cell room in a woodland mansion.
| Item | Structure | Container | Quantity | Chance |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Java Edition | ||||
| Redstone Dust | Dungeon | Chest | 1–4 | 26.6% |
| Mineshaft | Chest | 4–9 | 14.5% | |
| Stronghold | Storeroom chest | 4–9 | 18.6% | |
| Altar chest | 4–9 | 12% | ||
| Village | Temple chest | 1–4 | 44.8% | |
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1–4 | 26.6% | |
| Bedrock Edition | ||||
| Redstone Dust | Dungeon | Chest | 1–4 | 26.6% |
| Mineshaft | Chest | 4–9 | 14.5% | |
| Stronghold | Storeroom chest | 4–9 | 15.2% | |
| Altar chest | 4–9 | 11.6% | ||
| Village | Temple chest | 1–4 | 44.8% | |
| Woodland mansion | Chest | 1–4 | 26.6% | |
Smelting
| Ingredients | Smelting recipe |
|---|---|
| Redstone Ore + Any fuel |
Trading
Clerics can offer to trade 1 to 4 redstone for an emerald as one of their second-tier trades.
Usage
Redstone dust is used for brewing, crafting, and in redstone circuits by placing it on the ground to create redstone wire.
Brewing ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Brewing recipe |
|---|---|---|
| Mundane Potion | Redstone Dust + Water Bottle |
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| Increased Duration | Redstone Dust + Potion of Fire Resistance or Potion of Invisibility or Potion of Night Vision or Potion of Poison or Potion of Regeneration or Potion of Slowness or Potion of Strength or Potion of Swiftness or Potion of Water Breathing or Potion of Weakness or Potion of Leaping |
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| Decreases Level | Redstone + Potion of Harming II or Potion of Healing II or Potion of Leaping II or Potion of Poison II or Potion of Regeneration II or Potion of Strength II or Potion of Swiftness II |
Crafting ingredient
| Name | Ingredients | Crafting recipe | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Block of Redstone | Redstone Dust | ||
| Clock | Gold Ingot + Redstone Dust |
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| Compass | Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust |
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| Detector Rail | Iron Ingot + Stone Pressure Plate + Redstone Dust |
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| Dispenser | Cobblestone + Bow + Redstone Dust |
The bow can be of any durability. Enchantments on the bow do not affect the resulting dispenser. | |
| Dropper | Cobblestone + Redstone Dust |
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| Note Block | Any Planks + Redstone Dust |
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| Observer | Cobblestone + Redstone Dust + Nether Quartz |
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| Piston | Any Planks + Cobblestone + Iron Ingot + Redstone Dust |
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| Powered Rail | Gold Ingot + Stick + Redstone Dust |
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| Redstone Lamp | Redstone Dust + Glowstone |
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| Redstone Repeater | Redstone Torch + Redstone Dust + Stone |
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| Redstone Torch | Redstone Dust + Stick |
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| Target | Redstone Dust + Hay Bale |
Redstone component
When placed in the world, redstone dust becomes a block of "redstone wire", which can transmit redstone power.
Placement
Examples of redstone wire configuration. Top Left: Redstone wire will connect diagonally vertically through non-opaque blocks. Top Right: Redstone wire will not connect diagonally vertically through opaque blocks. Center: Redstone wire gets darker as its power level drops, to a maximum of 15 blocks from a power source.
- Redstone dust can be placed on opaque blocks as well as glowstone, upside-down slabs and upside-down stairs, and hoppers (but not sea lanterns[2]). Only in Bedrock Edition can it also be placed on transparent blocks.
- Redstone wire will configure itself to point towards adjacent redstone power components and transmission component connection points. Redstone wire will also configure itself to point towards adjacent redstone wire one block higher or lower – unless there is a solid opaque block above the lower redstone wire, or if the higher redstone wire is on a transparent block such as glowstone, an upside-down slab or stairs, or a hopper.
- If there is only one such adjacent redstone component, redstone wire will configure itself into a line pointing both at the neighbor and away from it. If there are two or more such adjacent redstone components, redstone wire will point at them, forming a line, an "elbow", a "T", or a cross. If there are no such adjacent redstone components, redstone wire will configure itself into a directionless "dot",[Computer and Legacy Console editions only] or a plus sign,[Pocket Edition only] both of which can provide power in all four directions.
- Redstone wire will[Pocket Edition only] or will not[Computer and Legacy Console editions only] automatically configure itself to point towards adjacent blocks or mechanism components. If such a configuration is desired, the other neighbors of the redstone wire must be arranged to create it.
- When redstone wire is reconfigured after placement, it will not update other redstone components around it of the change unless that reconfiguration also includes a change in power level or another component provides an update. This can create situations where a mechanism component remains activated when it shouldn't, or vice versa, until it receives an update from something else – a "feature" of redstone wire that can be exploited to create a kind of block update detector.
Behavior
- Redstone wire can transmit power, which can be used to operate mechanism components (doors, pistons, redstone lamps, etc.).
- Redstone wire can be "powered" by a number of methods:
- from an adjacent power component or a strongly-powered block
- from the output of a redstone repeater or redstone comparator
- from adjacent redstone wire. The powering dust can be a level higher or lower, but with restrictions:
- Redstone dust can be powered by redstone dust which is one level lower, or on an opaque block one level higher. A transparent block cannot[Computer Edition only] pass power downward.
- The block "between" the two dust blocks must be air or transparent. A solid block there "cuts" the connection between the higher and lower dust.
- The "power level" of redstone dust can vary from 0 to 15. Most power components power-up adjacent redstone dust to power level 15, but a few (daylight sensors, trapped chests, and weighted pressure plates) may create a lower power level. Redstone repeaters output power level 15 (when turned on), but redstone comparators may output a lower power level.
- Power level drops by 1 for every block of redstone wire it crosses. Thus, redstone wire can transmit power for no more than 15 blocks. To go further, the power level must be re-strengthened – typically with a redstone repeater.
- Powered redstone wire on top of, or pointing at, an opaque block will "weakly"-power the block. A weakly-powered block will not power other adjacent redstone wire, but will still power redstone repeaters and comparators and activate adjacent mechanism components. Transparent blocks cannot be powered.
- When redstone wire is unpowered, it will appear dark red. When powered, it will turn bright red at power level 15, fading to darker shades the lower the power gets. Powered redstone wire also produces "reddust" particles of the same color.
Data values
ID
Redstone Dust/ID
Block data
In Bedrock Edition, redstone wire uses the following data values:
| Bits | Values |
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| 0x1 0x2 0x4 0x8 |
A four-bit field storing a value from 0 to 15 specifying the redstone dust's current redstone power level. |
Block states
| Name | Default value | Allowed values | Description |
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| east | none | nonesideup | The way redstone dust connects to the east, side can also mean down. |
| north | none | nonesideup | The way redstone dust connects to the north, side can also mean down. |
| power | 0 | 0123456789101112131415 | The redstone dust's current power level. |
| south | none | nonesideup | The way redstone dust connects to the south, side can also mean down. |
| west | none | nonesideup | The way redstone dust connects to the west, side can also mean down. |
| Name | Metadata Bits | Default value | Allowed values | Values for Metadata Bits |
Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| redstone_signal | 0x10x20x40x8 | 0 | 0123456789101112131415 | 0123456789101112131415 | The redstone dust's current power level. |
Achievements
| Icon | Achievement | In-game description | Actual requirements (if different) | Gamerscore earned | Trophy type (PS4) | |
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| PS4 | Other | |||||
| Dispense with This | Construct a Dispenser. | — | 20G | Bronze | ||
Video
- Note: These videos do not show all uses for redstone in crafting and all methods of obtaining.
Redstone Dust/video
History
| May 21, 2009 | Notch shows interest in adding wire-type blocks. | ||||
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| alpha | |||||
| v1.0.1 | Added "Red Ore Dust" (item) and red ore dust (block). Red ore dust in its item form is used to craft redstone torches. | ||||
| v1.0.2_01 | Red ore dust now won't connect through solid blocks diagonally down. | ||||
| Art tweaks to the dust. | |||||
| Walking on Red ore dust no longer breaks it. | |||||
| Red ore dust now gives off particles. | |||||
| v1.0.4 | Renamed to Redstone. | ||||
| In this version or prior, added redstone to dungeon chests. | |||||
| v1.1.0 | Redstone is now used to craft compasses. | ||||
| v1.2.0 | Redstone is now used to craft clocks. | ||||
| beta | |||||
| 1.2 | Redstone is now used to craft dispensers and note blocks. | ||||
| 1.3 | Redstone dust will get darker the farther away it is from a source of power. (previously, it was fully on until it reached its limit) | ||||
| Redstone is now used to craft redstone repeaters. | |||||
| 1.5 | Redstone dust can be placed on snow. | ||||
| Redstone is now used to craft powered rails and detector rails. | |||||
| 1.6.6 | Changed the material of glowstone from "glass" to "stone", allowing redstone dust to be placed on it. | ||||
| 1.7 | Redstone dust now will connect to a repeater without the dust being explicitly pointed at it. | ||||
| Redstone is now used to craft pistons. | |||||
| 1.8 | Pre-release | Redstone can be found in the new stronghold storeroom chests, and in the new abandoned mineshaft chests. | |||
| Java Edition | |||||
| 1.0.0 | Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3 | Redstone can now be brewed in a water bottle to create a mundane potion. | |||
| It can now be found in the new stronghold altar chests. | |||||
| It now extends the potions of Fire Resistance, Slowness, Swiftness, Poison, Weakness and Strength. | |||||
| Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 | Redstone now extends the new potion of Regeneration. | ||||
| RC1 | Changed redstone dust placement on one block from a "+" to a "•" shape. | ||||
| 1.2.1 | 12w07a | Redstone is now used to craft redstone lamps. | |||
| 1.3.1 | 12w21a | Redstone can now be bought from priest villagers, at 2–4 redstone for 1 emerald. | |||
| 12w22a | Redstone dust now generates in jungle temples. | ||||
| 12w25a | Redstone dust can now be placed on top of upside-down slabs and stairs. | ||||
| 1.4.2 | 12w34a | Redstone now extends the new potions of Night Vision and Invisibility. | |||
| 12w38a | Witches are added. They sometimes drop redstone when killed. | ||||
| 1.5 | 13w01a | Redstone is now used to craft blocks of redstone and droppers. | |||
| 1.7.2 | 13w36a | Redstone now extends the new potion of Water Breathing. | |||
| 13w37a | The item form of block ID 55 (redstone wire) was removed from the game. It can no longer exist in inventories, only as a block in the world. | ||||
| 1.8 | 14w02a | Trading changed: cleric villagers now sell 1–4 redstone for 1 emerald. | |||
| 14w25a | Redstone dust no longer changes to obsidian when lava flows into it. | ||||
| 14w27a | Redstone now extends the new potion of Leaping. | ||||
| 1.9 | 15w31a | Redstone can no longer be added to extended potions or tier-II potions. | |||
| 15w44a | Cut average yield from dungeon chests by more than half, and increased yield from mineshaft chests. | ||||
| 15w46a | The hitbox now only covers part of the surface of the block below, based on the orientation of the redstone. | ||||
| 1.11 | 16w39a | Redstone dust can now be found in woodland mansions. | |||
| Redstone is now used to craft observers. | |||||
| 1.13 | 17w47a | Renamed the item to redstone wire. | |||
| Prior to The Flattening, this block's numeral ID was 55, and the item's 331. | |||||
| 17w48a | Renamed again to redstone dust. | ||||
| 18w07a | Redstone now extends the new potion of the Turtle Master. | ||||
| Pocket Edition Alpha | |||||
| 0.8.0 | build 2 | Added redstone as an item. | |||
| Redstone is now dropped when mined from redstone ore. | |||||
| Redstone can be used to craft compasses, clocks and powered rails. | |||||
| 0.11.0 | build 1 | Redstone is now used to craft redstone blocks. | |||
| 0.12.1 | build 1 | Added redstone to the creative inventory. | |||
| 0.13.0 | build 1 | Redstone dust can now be placed. | |||
| Redstone is now used to craft redstone lamps, note blocks, detector rails and redstone torches. | |||||
| 0.14.0 | build 1 | Redstone is now used to craft dispensers and droppers. | |||
| 0.15.0 | build 1 | Redstone is now used to craft pistons and observers. | |||
| Pocket Edition | |||||
| 1.1 | build 1 | Redstone dust can now be found in woodland mansions. | |||
| Legacy Console Edition | |||||
| TU1 | CU1 | 1.0 | Patch 1 | Added redstone. | |
| TU3 | Redstone dust now will connect to a repeater without the dust being explicitly pointed at it. | ||||
| New Nintendo 3DS Edition | |||||
| 0.1.0 | Added Redstone Dust. | ||||
Issues
Issues relating to "Redstone", "Redstone dust", or "Redstone wire" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.
References
- ↑ "Block of the Week: Redstone" – Minecraft.net, March 2, 2018
- ↑ MC-70057