Just a little something I thought to ask. Personally I recall being horrible at it, and having no idea how to burn a torch out. I watched a tutorial at some point, but after that I have no idea what I built anymore.
At most I think I tried to build a piston trap or something; other than that, I completely ignored redstone. At this point though, I am quite good with it, but I have no idea how that happened.
How about you guyz, oh fellow disciples of the ultimate ore?
It took me about two months before I became fluent with redstone. I didn't quite know binary or any bit-wise operations, but I knew enough to make two doors open from one lever, which is why I began to toy with it. Then my friend dared me to make a calculator, so Wikipedia became my best friend! Now I'm here!
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The first thing I built was back last year in July... I have no idea when I started to get good enough to build circuits that were entirely mine or modified versions of others work.
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Poll needs a "It took time but I got the hang of it"
Same. Once I disovered that torches get unpowered whe the block its conmected to is powered, and that a power source will supply power trough a block, I understood. But then it took me some time building small things before building the big ones.
Originally when I found it I had no idea what TO do with it. I was playing single player and was both afraid that if I put some down, I wouldn't be able to get it back (sort of like glass) so I didn't fool around with it (that, and not seeing a need to use the stuff).
Then I joined a SMP server. Dug around, helped build a subway system (not fancy), built some giantstatues, and in the process of trying to wire up stops for the subway I built a monostable circuit (long before pistons and repeaters, so the thing was huge!) and then repeaters and powered rail came along and we added more locations on our subway, so the track got more complex and I built more switching stations* with smaller monostables.
Then I built some Jeb doors.
Then I wired up a jeb door (inside the skull) to an Ethos light sensor.
Then I went looking for how to do a very long delay monostable (so day/night switch would open the door for ~2 minutes), found it, built it.
And from there I had a pretty good handle on things.
I'd had prior experience dealing with logic gates in college, so it wasn't new stuff to me; I knew what an RS-NOR latch was, etc., but I do still look up how to build some circuits in MC, especially compactly. I know what I need, but don't always know the best way to build it.
*Every time the track came to a corner there were a series of buttons that could be spam-pressed depending on which direction you wanted to go: no button meant you went one way, hitting one or more buttons made you got the other way (no presses the entire length would take you by every stop until you returned to the central hub).
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Apparently I'm a complete and utter jerk and come to this forum just like to make fun of people, be confrontational, and make your personal life miserable. If you think this is the case, JUST REPORT ME. Otherwise you're just going to get reported when you reply to my posts and point it out, because odds are, I was trying to be nice.
when i decided to start out trying to build a diagonal 2x2 door trap. once i created that i just used parts of it to create everything else i've made and currently made. (note: current project is a casino game, it's 90% complete).
i started having no clue what to do. i was on a server one day, and we use the towny plugin for bukkit, and i wanted to make something epic for the town i just started. so i start making this massive tower, about 80 high. i get to the top, and i ask myself " What the hell is going up here?" then it hit me, a dispencer machinegun with a lava-fall. and so started my advances with redstone up until i made the automatic cobblestone factory
hehe...I just love manipulating redstone...my house is packed with moving walls and secret passages...oh, and I can make the whole thing sink into the ground if I really feel like it.
Well when I learnt there was an inverter rather than just wire and diodes...that just changed everything! From then one it's just been easy(ish) to build whatever I want (within reason). But when pistons are combined with RS you can do so so so much more...
I used to suck at redstone. I thought an overly-compact contraption that blocks a redstone signal forever was great. The sad part is that that wasn't too long ago (earlier this year I recall) v.v. And then all of a sudden I wanted to make a redstone computer and learned, like everything. I still can't make a computer, but I'm pretty "good" at redstone.
So, two months ago.
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If you can't count up to 2,047 on your fingers, you're an idiot.
I remember previous to 1.8 I was relatively ignorant to redstone, yet somewhat fascinated in all the creative traps you can make with it. I guess I wasn't clueless, but didn't have any real knowledge. Then one day shortly after 1.8 was out I decided to build a sticky piston door. It was the bulkiest, most complicated mess of redstone and unnecessary logic I have ever built. I remember thinking to my self somewhere along the lines of "Wow, I fail." Then a little later I tried again, and I still use that design today. Afterwards I decided to start making some more random stuff, and with practice I became what I am today.
Incredibly enough my first contraption was a button-based 7 segment display. Then it broke with the dot of redstone...
The Dot did not break your ****. Redstone properly connecting to the output side of a repeater did. The dot has the same old functionality that it used to have.
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Apparently I'm a complete and utter jerk and come to this forum just like to make fun of people, be confrontational, and make your personal life miserable. If you think this is the case, JUST REPORT ME. Otherwise you're just going to get reported when you reply to my posts and point it out, because odds are, I was trying to be nice.
At most I think I tried to build a piston trap or something; other than that, I completely ignored redstone. At this point though, I am quite good with it, but I have no idea how that happened.
How about you guyz, oh fellow disciples of the ultimate ore?
Poll needs a "It took time but I got the hang of it"
Playing Minecraft since [Friday, March 19, 2010, 9:20:21 PM] (First indev world save)
Same. Once I disovered that torches get unpowered whe the block its conmected to is powered, and that a power source will supply power trough a block, I understood. But then it took me some time building small things before building the big ones.
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Curse PremiumThen I joined a SMP server. Dug around, helped build a subway system (not fancy), built some giant statues, and in the process of trying to wire up stops for the subway I built a monostable circuit (long before pistons and repeaters, so the thing was huge!) and then repeaters and powered rail came along and we added more locations on our subway, so the track got more complex and I built more switching stations* with smaller monostables.
Then I built some Jeb doors.
Then I wired up a jeb door (inside the skull) to an Ethos light sensor.
Then I went looking for how to do a very long delay monostable (so day/night switch would open the door for ~2 minutes), found it, built it.
And from there I had a pretty good handle on things.
I'd had prior experience dealing with logic gates in college, so it wasn't new stuff to me; I knew what an RS-NOR latch was, etc., but I do still look up how to build some circuits in MC, especially compactly. I know what I need, but don't always know the best way to build it.
*Every time the track came to a corner there were a series of buttons that could be spam-pressed depending on which direction you wanted to go: no button meant you went one way, hitting one or more buttons made you got the other way (no presses the entire length would take you by every stop until you returned to the central hub).
So, two months ago.
Incredibly enough my first contraption was a button-based 7 segment display. Then it broke with the dot of redstone...
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Curse PremiumThe Dot did not break your ****. Redstone properly connecting to the output side of a repeater did. The dot has the same old functionality that it used to have.
That's my response.