Minecraft Redstone FOR BEGINNERS! 15 Builds to Learn!

Let’s be totally honest when you’re just starting out with redstone it can be a little bit tricky to get the hang of and sometimes you could really do with a helping hand so today we’re going to take a look at 15 different challenges that you can take on as a redstone

Beginner now this video is going to work a little bit differently to my standard ones in that the first thing i want you to do is download this world that you can find down in the description because you’re actually going to be playing along with me today what i’m going to do

Is explain a problem that i want you guys to solve you’re then going to pause the video go over to this world and build it yourself then come back to the video and see the solution that i’ve come up with now our solutions are probably going to look just a little bit

Different maybe i’ll use some different techniques or build it in a certain way that you haven’t done but as long as your solution works then that’s the correct answer and if you haven’t got it right and you haven’t managed to get it to work then hopefully you can

Understand my solution and take that knowledge forwards into other redstone contraptions right i think that just about covers everything let’s get into this so the first project that i want you to take on is to power these two doors at exactly the same time from these pressure plates so we stand on the

Pressure plate and the doors will open up now i don’t want any exposed redstone i don’t want to see any redstone lines running out from these pressure plates all of the redstone needs to be happening underneath the ground as i say both doors opening at exactly the same time And this is my solution so underneath these pressure plates i’ve got myself a redstone line which gets powered when we stand on top of the pressure plate and then as you can see the repeaters then power these blocks with the redstone dots on top now the interesting thing

About a redstone dot is that it powers all of the blocks around it so that will power this block this block this block and also this block but this blocks the most important because it’s directly underneath our door which means that when that block is powered the doors

Will open and they’re all perfectly in sync and they’re looking good the only thing is you kind of have to run through because they close relatively quickly moving on to our next challenge i want this redstone lamp to flash on when i flick this lever so when i flick the

Lever that redstone lamp should flash now when i turn off the lever absolutely nothing should happen now if you’re a little bit confused i’d suggest looking into monostable circuits Now there are tons of different monostable circuits you could have used but this one is my personal favorite the sticky piston with the block on top when we power this block right here you can see the block gets powered sending a redstone signal through to this repeater

But then the piston extends cutting off that signal meaning the signal only travels through for one tick and what that means is is we get a flash through the repeater which in turn means that we get a flash through the redstone lamp now as i say there’s loads of different

Designs that you can use for monostable circuits some of them involving observers some of them involving droppers and hoppers it just depends whatever you really fancy this next one could be a bit of a tricky one but inside this dropper we’ve got a whole bunch of iron blocks and when we hit

This button i want six iron blocks to be shot from the dropper now there are a handful of different ways that you can do this but for me personally i’m going to be using a pulse extender that runs it into a toggleable redstone clock which is then going to running into our

Dropper that’s going to be my personal plan of action so go away and try it for yourselves And this is the functioning design as you can see when we hit the button we get our six items being shot through and of course the way that it functions is using the pulse extender and the toggleable redstone clock now this is the pulse extender and it may look a

Little bit strange to someone who hasn’t seen one of these before but this is known as a comparator pulse extender and it’s probably one of the most useful circuits i know you just run comparators kind of back and forth facing around in this cyclic formation and what it will

Do is just extend out your redstone pulse which of course you then run out into a redstone torch which unlocks this hopper allowing an item to bounce back and forth between the hoppers which will send an output through the comparator and into this dropper now the pulse has

Been extended to the perfect length to allow the item to go back and forth between the hoppers six times giving us six items from this dropper anyway moving on from that one now what i want you to do is push this diamond block back and forth so when i flick this

Lever this piston needs to fire pushing these blocks across and then when i turn off the lever this piston over here needs to fire pushing the blocks back in this direction it’s going to be interesting and once again i’d suggest looking into monostable circuits for this one So on this side we’ve got what’s known as a rising edge monostable because it activates when the pulse starts on the rising edge of the pulse so we flick the lever and that activates that piston over there then on this side we have got what’s known as a falling edge

Monostable circuit because this one a stable circuit activates when we turn off the pulse the pulse is coming from the lever so when we turn this off you can see that this monostable circuit fires and then we get the output through that piston which means that when we flick the lever either way

Each different piston will fire on to the next challenge then inside this dispenser we’ve got ourselves a bucket of water and what i want you to do is make it so that when we flick this lever the water is dispensed and then when we turn off the lever the water is

Retracted so the water should only be flowing out from the dispenser when this lever is activated And the way that i’ve done that is by using what’s known as a dual edge monostable circuit now a dual edge monostable circuit will activate on the rising edge and also activate on the falling edge and these used to be relatively big but ever since the observer has come along that’s

Essentially a dual edge monostable circuit inside a block so if you flick the lever you can see we get a flash through that redstone lamp which is just there for demonstration purposes and we also get a flash through the redstone lamp when we turn this lever off and

Obviously that redstone lamp is powering this dispenser which means that when we turn on the lever we have water and when we turn it off we don’t this next one is a bit of an interesting one because i want you to make it so that this piston

Detects when a block has been placed in front of it and then it extends pushing it out the way and then it retracts so that we can place another block in front of it so we place in the block it gets pushed over here we place in the block

They get pushed over here and so on and so forth it’s known as a smart piston And they are incredibly incredibly simple so when we place in the block this block will then get powered powering this redstone dot which will then power this block powering the piston extending the piston which will then move the block away from this redstone torch unpowering this redstone

Dust which will then unpower our piston as you can see here happens very quickly and works very nicely disco lighting is always cool i mean there’s no time that disco lighting isn’t cool so what i want you to do is create your own disco lighting circuit now what i mean by this

Is i want a redstone pulse to travel down through this line of redstone lamp so each one of these redstone lamps should power one after the other and they should unpower one after the other just going down like this For those of you who recently watched my observer video this will make a whole lot of sense for those of you who haven’t seen my observer video this is going to look like nonsense i’m sure if you haven’t seen the observer video you had a set up with repeaters going into

Blocks which then go into the redstone lamps and that’s a perfectly good way to do it that’s a great solution but this one is just really cool you just run observers going across then observers running out of those they’re detecting the updates from each of the observers

And you get a chain that looks a little bit like this and it works perfectly as i say watch the observer video it’s a good one so earlier on in the video we were confronted with the idea of pulse extenders well now i want you to create

A specific pulse extender i want this redstone lamp to stay activated for two seconds now as a top tip there are 10 redstone ticks per second so this redstone lamp needs to stay activated for 20 total ticks And this is my solution for it now for those who don’t know when you press a stone button it stays pressed for 10 redstone ticks or one second so what i’ve done is i’ve run that output through into this redstone dust right here so this gets powered for 10 ticks

Then 10 ticks later another 10 tick long redstone pulse comes through and powers it so just before this thing’s about to be unpowered it gets another 10 tick poles and two 10 tick pulses lead to 20 ticks which leads to two total seconds so if we hit the button you can see that

This redstone lamp gets powered for exactly 20 redstone ticks anyway that’s enough ticks and tens and everything like that because that was starting to make my head hurt it’s time to move on to the next challenge which is to make a sand double piston extender now this is

Slightly simpler than a regular double piston extender because obviously the sand is a gravity block so it actually takes some of the complexity out of it but as you can see we’ve got repeaters lined up into the pistons and for this one you are going to have to do some

Thinking we need this piston to extend and then this piston to extend but then on the retraction we need the top piston to retract first and then the bottom piston to retract hmm and the answer once again relies on pulse extenders down at the bottom here we’ve got ourselves a baby little pulse

Extender which makes sure that our bottom piston stays extended for longer than our top piston so if you flick the lever you can see that the redstone dust which powers this block which powers this piston activates the piston before this top piston can be activated because

This has got one tick of delay so one tick later this piston gets extended mean that we get our double extension working properly but then that repeater is very important because it makes sure that this top piston can fully retract before this bottom piston gets fully unpowered meaning that this will retract

And then this will retract it downwards just like that i hope that made sense next up i want you to move this block of glass from this location over here over to this location over here at the press of a button so once you press that button these pistons should activate in

Sequence moving that glass block across like this and over to this gold block how hard can it be So making use of the monostable circuit that i provided if we place in our glass block you can see that everything happens very quickly and that’s because we’re dealing with a very short redstone pulse now the reason that i thought i’d issue this challenge is because it

Teaches you how to deal with piston timings and how long it takes for pistons to extend and retract and how to chain piston movements together so what we’ve got is a snaking line of redstone which goes through powering all of our pistons in the correct sequence you can

See that one gets powered and then that powers this redstone which then finally powers this regular piston and it works perfectly the block moves incredibly quickly and it’s very satisfying to watch this one is going to be a bit of a challenge but i wanted to include it in

The video because they’re so incredibly useful i want you to create a slime block triple piston extender now triple whistle extenders without slime blocks are very complicated but because of slime blocks you can actually make piston extenders really really simple and that’s because pistons get dragged

Along with the slime block so you can see those pistons are being moved so i’d suggest making use of these blocks right here and powering them accordingly And here it is all working now you may be surprised to see just how simple it is but let me just explain the mechanics so the idea is is that this block gets powered then this block gets powered then this block gets powered now at this point in time there’s no sticky pistons

Over the tops of these blocks but as soon as this block gets powered that will then power this sticky piston which will then push this sticky piston over the top of this block which is already powered so then that sticky piston will extend which will pull this sticky

Piston over the top of this block which is already powered so then that one will extend pushing out all of our slime blocks as you can see right here now on the retraction it’s kind of the opposite way around so this block is the first block to be unpowered so this sticky

Piston will retract pulling all of our slime blocks back then this block is the second block to be unpowered which will then retract this piston pulling all of our slime blocks back including this sticky piston so this sticky piston will then be moved to back here and then

Finally this block gets by unpowered which means that this piston will retract pulling all of our slime blocks back again with our two other pistons as you can see right here anyway that’s enough slime block extender nonsense how about we move into some proper extender nonsense now this is a double piston

Extender which are very simple circuits to build and i’m sure you’ve all seen designs before but today you’re not allowed to use one you can’t use the two tick four tick no tick rule because although that works perfectly it doesn’t allow you to understand how the double

Extender works what i want you to do is make use of the inputs that i’ve provided and also the falling edge monostable circuit which is going to help you retract that block from here back to here and all of this should be activated by a leafer So the first thing that we do is we power this block right here and then we power this block now the reason we’re doing this is actually fairly similar to this circuit over here is so that we can extend this back piston and then extend this front piston by pushing the piston

Into the power but then we can retract that front piston and then retract that back piston in sequence according to the timing as you can see like this now the falling edge monostable circuit is to retract this block once this piston gets pulled back to here and that fires once

The lever is turned off and then as i say it will shoot a pulse through this piston pulling back that block so that is the timing circuit for a full double piston extender that is the way that the mechanism works so hopefully you understand it now i feel like things are

Getting a little bit serious there so i think we should have a little bit of fun here we have a dispenser that’s filled with villagers and what i want you to do is dispense a villager launch it upwards then push it across like this launching it into the distance now this is going

To involve a few little timing circuits and just syncing up pistons with other things going on Three two one go go what a score wait that went straight through the hole or would it be called a swoosh or a hoop i don’t know i’m from i’m from england i don’t play basketball i don’t know what these things are called anyway aside from that over here is the redstone and

As you can see it’s simple timing so the first thing that we do is we power the dispenser that block then powers this redstone dust two ticks later this sticky piston extends pushing the slime block up shooting our villager upwards and then three ticks later this sticky piston gets pushed across here pushing

Our villager across shooting him in this direction and apparently scoring him into the next challenge which is to make a flush piston door also known as a gem door the idea is is that these sticky pistons push these sticky pistons and these blocks across into the center then these sticky

Pistons extend creating a flush with the wall if the wall was here door so it’d be completely hidden away it’s a bit of a tricky one and there’s plenty of different ways to do it so try your best But this is by far the most simple design involving six bits of redstone dust and two redstone repeaters i’m sure you’re just scratching your head thinking i’ve spent an hour and a half building this monstrosity of a piston door that’s absolutely enormous and you’re telling me i could have built it

This simply but once again this just relies on the principle of pushing pistons into power so the first thing that we do is we power this redstone line right here which is powering nothing nothing is being powered by this but then two ticks later all of these

Pistons extend which will push this unit across underneath these sticky pistons which will then cause them to push out their blocks just like this that all looks good and then for the retraction this redstone gets unpowered these pistons will retract all their blocks and then two ticks later all of these pistons retract

Pulling those pistons and their blocks back into the walls just like that and for the final redstone challenge what i want you to do is build a computer i want you to build a computer that you can play minecraft on with a working version of youtube on it so i can upload

Youtube videos of me playing minecraft inside that computer inside minecraft so crack on Now i’m gonna be totally honest and you can call me lazy for this but i i didn’t create a working solution for the final design but however if you have if you have managed to create one at home then just please send it to me because i would love to see that

If you had actually managed to pull it off then i would obviously love to see it and also side note what are you doing watching a redstone for beginners video you’re definitely not a beginner at redstone if you’re building that sort of thing anyway ladies and gentlemen i hope

That you enjoyed this video if you did please real to that like button and if you really loved it then make sure to subscribe but thanks for watching guys this has been mumbo and i’m out i’ll see you later You