Redstone in Minecraft is most commonly found deep underground in the form of Redstone ore. When mined, it gives Redstone Dust which can be used by players to create complex redstone circuits.
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How can I randomly power one of several wires in Minecraft?
Given 5 wires (possibly more), I want to press a Reset button, and have exactly one of those wires, randomly selected, become active - and remain that way (until the next button press). What is a ...
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How can I preserve an active redstone circuit when I leave the chunk it's built in?
When I set up a redstone circuit for rotating blocks (with pistons) or flashing redstone lights, everything's fine, but when I exit that zone, the current is not saved, and when I return later, the ...
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In Minecraft how do I randomise the output in a redstone circuit?
I have 5 buttons and only one of these can be correct, all others must be false.
These 5 outputs will go into 2 outputs, in between there needs to be a circuit which changes which single button out ...
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How do redstone torches (circuits) work in Minecraft?
I tried reading the minecraftwiki page on the subject, but without an understanding of precisely how the torches work, none of it makes sense. I have a lot of questions, so even an article explaining ...
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How can I get my redstone to activate adjacent pistons?
I'm trying to create my first circuit in minecraft:
a - pressure plate
p - piston
d - dirt
- or | - redstone
a----dddd
pppp
Pistons are placed over the dirt and there's water under ...
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How do you lengthen a redstone button signal in Minecraft?
I made a little redstone circuit to open a door (using pistons) with a button, but I was wondering how I could make the door stay open a little longer. I don't want to use a lever as I want it to ...
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How to find a player's redstone clock (or other aggressive circuitry)?
I'm an admin for a minecraft server where I suspect one of the players has set up a fast cycle redstone circuit. The reason is the server uses what seems to me to be too high of cpu for only one or ...
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Is Minecraft Turing-Complete?
Minecraft has the redstone wires mechanism that can be used to build circuits. Is Minecraft Turing-Complete, i.e. can it be used to simulate a Turing Machine (if we ignore the problem of infinite ...
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Keep some chunks loaded in Minecraft SMP
I am looking for a mod or something which would allow me to keep some chunks loaded on the SMP server I administrate.
In fact, it is a redstone circuit including a clock under a huge mob trap which ...
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Is there a more efficient way to wire a row of pistons?
I want to create two sets of two adjacent pistons with a two block gap between them for a melon farm. It seems as though I'm using a prodigious amount of redstone for each section. This is my first ...
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A more efficient mob pushing redstone circuit?
I am trying to build a mob system where the pistons push the mobs. The screen shot below shows my current design, but I'm thinking there has to be a more space/redstone efficient way to get at this. ...
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How can you turn a rapid pulser on and off?
We have built a number of large rapid pulsers for Floor D of Fosco's server's community wiki.
D, obviously, is for disco.
Disco seen from the deejay's point of view, with two jukeboxes. I just wish ...
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How can I get this redstone blast door to do what I want?
I'm working on expanding my Minecraft Redstone experience and contraptions. Here, I have a 2 blocks high x 3 blocks wide section of a tunnel with a track approaching it that is meant to act as a ...
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Fixing permanently dead redstone torches in Minecraft?
There seems to be a newish bug in Minecraft where redstone torches burn out sooner than they ought to, and never recover. (I think I heard that this can happen if you use /time set, but this is a ...
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Is there a maximum limit to the number of blocks a piston can push?
For example: could you effectively push a line of blocks off into the distance? Is it limited by the loaded chunks? Or a shorter upper limit countable in blocks?
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Is it possible to lift a block from the bottom of the map to the top using pistons?
Can you raise/lower a single block by an arbitrary distance using pistons? Will this work with chests?
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Gate to allow only one player to pass through
On my server I have a quiz which you need to take before you can go to most of the areas, build etc... However, sometimes people try to cheat by going with friends into there. I want some kind of ...
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How do I power Redstone through a block?
I have seen this in YouTube videos: a person places a Redstone Torch on the wall like in the picture, and it activates a circuit. No matter how many layouts I have tried I can't seems to get a power ...
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Minecraft save-all timer
I have recently found that my MC world does not auto-save (Don't answer on how to do that), so I have to /save-all every 5 minutes or so.
However, I have created a timer hooked up to a /save-all ...
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Activating one piston while deactivating another at the same time?
I just wondered if it is possible to activate one piston while deactivating another (activated) piston with the same lever. The idea is to pull some blocks into the wall while other blocks are pushed ...
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Why does Redstone turn into obsidian? [closed]
It appears that if you have redstone wires with water next to them and lava on top, they turn into obsidian. This probably isn't intended, but I was wondering why this happens, and if there is ...
