Grimm – The Absolute BASICS of Redstone in Minecraft!

So if you’ve been watching the channel for a while now you know and uh no i’m not i’m not i’m talking to you freaking bandwagon all right you know one thing right redstone it’s my baby so today i figured i figured i would bestow upon thee i would maketh a greatest i would

Teach thy children the absolute basics of redstone so if you are like brand spanking new to this game i will be linking down below a link to my redstone academy series which i would highly recommend just in general if you want to get the best experience with redstone go watch that

That is the most in-depth series that i’ve ever done on redstone on my channel and i’d really just appreciate it if you could watch it and like it because it’s really underrated and not very many people actually know about it so there’s obviously a lot to go over and yeah but i’ve decided

To hit the most important things in my opinion today in this video right here right now that you must know about redstone Now redstone is automatically given a signal of 15 when it is hooked up to a full strength power source now i will lose one signal strength on each block that it travels it will travel up to 15 blocks without a repeater at that point it requires one now this will

Bring me on to my next category Tools as i like to call them are things that i use to either extract or in attract uh put put power in a block versus taking it out i’d i don’t know man redstone much like your game works on series of ticks so you want to make sure

That you are using the least amount of tools as possible in your line to help it to not lag behind or get off tick now your tools are your torches repeaters comparators pistons and piston accessories observers and other things but those are really just the main ones

Unless you uh you don’t want to get exotic i mean we got we got cakes uh these give off signal that’s fun now each tool carries one tick of delay on it however each repeater will cause one to four ticks a delay based on where you decide to put the

Torch closer together is faster and farther apart is slower now for the comparators ah Block powering now in minecraft blocks realistically have three states they have powered unpowered and activated now in the powered state there is a hard and soft powered so let’s go ahead and just start off with the simplest all right unpowered i need you to pay close attention right you see this dirt

Do you see this dirt right freaking there do you see it yeah that’s on power block right there man you’re seeing it live now for power it may get slightly confusing here but just bear with me there’s three main types of powered blocks but there’s two that will actually

Power the blocks next to it now that is going to be hard and soft powered now soft powered blocks are the blocks that are indirectly powered by redstone this could be running redstone on top running it into just running from the these are all soft powered

Now to get an actual powered block you need to use a tool this could be a repeater comparator observer and actually can be made by switches and buttons these will all hard power block now if you are still confused onto what i mean by hardest off what’s the difference and just

Everything in general this is for you now a good way to test and understand this is to build this twice make one line out of pure redstone and another line how to pure redstone but put a repeater at one of the ends flip the lever and see what happens

Do you notice anything a soft powered block does not power a json redstone but powers a block and repeater now this is due to each powering source let’s start with the lamps these are activated this is the state where the block is powered but under no circumstances can it power a block

Next to it soft power blocks will always activate all adjacent blocks but cannot make a new signal without a tool hard powered blocks will activate all blocks around it including redstone and has the ability to make a new signal without a tool basically with salt powered you actually need to

Use a tool to extract the power when using hard power it’s a freaking free flow understanding blocks is honestly probably the most crucial step to knowing how to build compact and generally making things work so i would just try and study this specifically now just one more thing

Inside of the three types of powering there’s actually three types of blocks all right those three types of blocks are opaque transparent and immovable now opaque is your basic block everyday things with transparent you can staircase upwards but you cannot staircase downwards redstone signal cannot harder soft power

This black and it cannot be activated by any kind of redstone source it cannot carry a freaking signal and the immovable objects they don’t move Computers now comparators actually are not that scary now for your use specifically you really only need to worry about taking outputs from full containers now this is usually just chest shulkers uh but can be cauldrons brewing stands exotic kind of stuff you know cake however it has two main primary or

Usings now for the more advanced redstone community we actually use it for comparing and contrasting subtracting subtracting now when it comes to comparing signals it’s simple if the signal is stronger going into the side than the back then the signal stops if the signal is stronger going into the back than the side

The current continues when subtracting however you must flip the switch to where the torch is on if the signal is stronger going into the back it will subtract the strength going into the side from the strength of the back now to make this simple you have a strength of 15 repeater

Going into the back and you have a strength 14 going to the side your output is 1. 15 minus 14 equals 1. now you have a repeater strength of 5 going in the side and you have a repeated strength of 15 going in the back you have an output of 10 because 15

Minus 5 is 10. now just a side note most comparator circuits can be locked very easily with the very simple use of a repeater in the side just something to think about Observers now these are also seen as uh scary now i mean i i guess i can see why at first because i didn’t understand them now observers are a freaking necessity their basic task is to detect block updates this could be placing a block a piston moving or water flowing this little guy

Always give off a one tick pulse every time block is placed updated but that’s the key right there anytime if you place a block he’ll update and if you break the block it’ll update sometimes it’ll give off two updates thus giving an undesired result so yeah um

I mean that’s that’s really all that these guys do uh i don’t really know what else to go into i mean i guess they’re pretty cool once you learn them and you can do cool things but like i don’t really know what what else to talk about them with you