Talk: Block of Redstone

At last!

Yes! At last, a storage block for redstone! Let's hope it has some other interesting properties too, but at least it exists now! --Mental Mouse 21:21, 3 January 2013 (UTC) ETA: On consideration, a piston-movable power source is actually pretty cool in its own right. Lots of potential there.... Still waiting to see about that BUD switch though. --Mental Mouse 01:35, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

What does ETA mean? HotdogPi ⑬㊲ 20:39, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Edited to add. 70.35.98.102 08:34, 12 January 2013 (UTC)

Blast Resistance

Yeah...Tested Blast Resistance...same as Stone Brick, so it's 30, too. PS: Build a tower of Redstone Blocks and but TNT at the side=easy TNT launcher 93.193.47.169 21:45, 3 January 2013 (UTC)Ie0n93.193.47.169 21:45, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Cobblestone is much easier. And redstone blocks would light the TNT. HotdogPi ⑬㊲ 20:39, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Chests can be opened from under them

I noticed that one can open ender chests, chests, and trapped chests from under these blocks. Once a trivia section is made, it'd be a good idea to add that. Elf03413 21:55, 3 January 2013 (UTC)

Done. Lennbot 17:32, 18 August 2013 (UTC)

Pickaxe

Does it need an iron pickaxe or better to mine? HotdogPi ⑬㊲ 03:53, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Nope. Wooden pickaxe is good enough. Remember that Coal Ore can also be collected with a wooden one. --mgr 04:05, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

But Redstone Ore can't... I'd call that a bug. --Mental Mouse 12:23, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

Yeah, that is kinda weird... 70.181.68.226 04:48, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Compressed Pulse?.

Using a sticky piston, 2 redstone dusts, and a redstone block would it be posible to make a super compressed pulse?

Dust | Piston

Dust | Redstone Block

Any | Air –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.149.168.140 (talk) at 02:18, 9 January 2013 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

If that's an overhead arrangement, the redstone wire won't configure itself to point towards the piston, so it won't activate it. But if you then remove the dust next to the block of redstone, the redstone wire next to the piston will still be briefly powered when it re-configures itself to a "dot" which will provide a 1-tick pulse to the piston, pushing the block of redstone away and not pulling it back. Is that what you mean? It's not very repeatable… —Munin295 · · 21:33, 7 January 2013 (UTC)

Mining this block

if this block is made of Redstone Dust, shouldn't you have to mine it with your hand? It is dust, and dust is soft, not hard. –Preceding unsigned comment was added by 68.149.168.140 (talk) at 02:18, 9 January 2013 (UTC). Please sign your posts with ~~~~

The in-game name for placable redstone is just called "redstone", not "redstone dust". "Redstone Dust" is just the wiki page. So it's not really made of dust. Also, I don't think anything that generates redstone power should be soft. And soft things don't need to be mined by hand. You can use a pickaxe on dirt and still get the drop. HotdogPi ⑬㊲ 20:39, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

If you /give yourself 55, you can see that what the wiki calls Redstone Wire has an in-game name of "Redstone Dust", so it's redstone in your hand and redstone dust on the floor. There's a project working on fixing those names on the wiki.

Some kinds of dust act like cement, so it's not unreasonable that a block of dust might need a pickaxe to mine. —Munin295 · · 21:31, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

Just from looking at things made with it, you can tell Redstone has self-adhesive properties. The dust sticks onto surfaces (including sides) of blocks and isn't disturbed when you walk through it, nor does rain affect it. A redstone torch is nothing but a glob of the stuff on top of a stick. Why do you think adding redstone to potions extends the potion effects? Because it makes the potion stick longer to your insides! ...Maybe. Long story short, it could definitely be aggregated into solid blocks. 173.21.57.231 12:47, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

Disappointing graphic

Like many, I've been hoping for a redstone block for a long time and I'm glad to finally see one but I am very disappointed with the appearance of the block. I was hoping for something sparkly like the redstone dust graphic that appears when you mine a block of ore. It's so pretty and I'd love to have a block that looks like that.

SingleStar 00:36, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

Why doesn't it glow?

Everything else about Redstone glows. The ore glows, the torches glow, the dust glows... except for this block. And yet it's still a power source. I guess I agree with the guy above: So much more could have been done with the graphic of it. Arguably this ought to rival torches or glowstone for brightness, or at least as bright as redstone torches. --129.49.21.169 04:31, 30 March 2013 (UTC)

My guess as to why they didn't make it glow, is to avoid massive lag: Redstone circuits are already notorious for producing lag. Moving light sources aren't notorious, but that's just because there are so few of them in Minecraft! (Also, there's usually little reason to move around a block of glowstone.) AIUI, redstone lamps had their response times nerfed because of precisely this sort of problem -- even being switchable is bad enough. --Mental Mouse 12:39, 12 April 2013 (UTC)

Suffocation

Should it be noted that this block doesn't suffocate the player (at least from my testing in 1.5.2) despite it's opacity?

I've done more testing on this block as well as others (Ice, TNT, and Glowstone) and have found the version that this block (14w02a) and the others (14w05b) change their behavior in this regard. I am unsure as to why the snapshots where these are changed is different for the Redstone Block compared to the others, but it is. I have updated the history section accordingly.
Remember this thing? Because I do. --Ninji2701 18:39, 18 December 2020 (UTC)

These are transparent

I had noticed that it allows a chest under it to open and that it does not suffocate the player and it also lets zombies see you through it as if it was glass.

Conclusion: It is transparent. 112.206.0.249 15:04, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Hey, good catch. One point: AFAIK, zombies can't see you through glass unless aggro'ed, when they can see you through anything. --Mental Mouse 22:26, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

There are many different aspects to opacity/transparency, and many blocks may act opaque in some ways and transparent in others. For the purposes of the Block template (that sidebar in the upper-right of the article), what matters is whether it allows light to propagate through it -- dig a hole, jump in, and cover the hole with the block: if it's dark, it's opaque. Blocks of redstone stop light, so for the purposes of the (simplistic) sidebar, they are not transparent.

—Munin295 · · 22:42, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Well, slabs are listed as "Partial (blocks light)". The redstone behavior is clearly moot here, but between non-suffocation and not blocking chests, I'd say the BRS clearly fits in that category. --Mental Mouse 11:00, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

So redstone blocks act like TNT and glowstone? J192 13:39, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

I just saw that it was changed from "No" to "Partial" like the two I mentioned. J192 13:41, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

That was me. And yeah, similar behavior, I figure that's the category. I assume it would be a diode too, if it weren't a power source. (As would TNT, if power didn't convert it into an entity. :->) --Mental Mouse 15:10, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

I also noticed that Note Blocks don't the Redstone Blocks as stone blocks, it doesn't play the low-pitch sound when placed on top of a Redstone Block. J192 06:15, 11 July 2013 (UTC)

Actually, note blocks don't play anything when they are placed on a BRS, which is interesting in itself. But if you put the BRS under the note block, you get the "all other blocks"/"piano/harp" timbre.

ETA: Presumably they react to a rising edge, and a apparently being placed into a powered location doesn't count. Compare to redstone torches, which require a 1-tick pulse. --Mental Mouse 01:33, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Note blocks not playing on Redstone Blocks isn't actually that interesting, the note block is just always powered. It's like trying to use a note block with a constant Redstone signal going into the side. || Remember this thing? Because I do. --Ninji2701 03:37, 27 December 2020 (UTC)

glowing?

hey one of you guys said why dont glow???? well............ it glows!!!!!!!!!! i saw it!!!! myself -mrtnt eat more burgers!!!!!!

That would be the drugs, dude. --Mental Mouse 01:35, 18 July 2013 (UTC)

Cauldron as movable redstone power source?

Under "Usage" it says:

A block of redstone is one of two redstone power sources which can be moved by a piston (the other being a minecart on a detector rail).

Since detector rails aren't power sources alone and have a specific requirement in order to become power sources, shouldn't filled cauldrons be mentioned, too? They have the requirement of comparators taking input from them. It can come in really handy sometimes because they can be next to pistons without “BUDing” them or even powering them (or other redstone-related blocks for that matter) at all. --Papersphere (talk) 13:55, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Good point. I suspect that statement was written before 1.6 was released; comparators didn't produce signals from filled cauldrons until then, while blocks of redstone and detector rails were available in 1.5 . -- Orthotope^talk 18:46, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Nope, I just forgot about cauldrons. Fixed. —munin · · 20:49, 3 February 2014 (UTC)

Not working

I saw a picture of a piston that was next to a block of redstone, facing the block of redstone, but the piston was retracted. Why?71.35.109.25 18:08, 21 February 2015 (UTC)

Pistons cannot be activated by any power source directly in front of them. I'll fix the article to reflect this. —munin · · 18:17, 21 February 2015 (UTC)