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I can wire lights, and powered rails, but most redstone gadgetry makes my eyes cross. My friend loves to play with it, however, so my boxes of redstone serves to keep him happy.
I use it quite a lot in survival for automatisation. It is part of my laziness. However, there has to be some form of purpose to the contraptions I make, otherwise I don't do it.
I mine enough to make several stacks of redstone torches to line a path to cave exits and then only mine if I want to make powered rails and pretty blocks to decorate with.
I got tired of the ever on lights in my village. I wired up a redstone circuit connected to a daylight sensor/inverter. Now when the night comes the lights go on and when morning hits the lights go off.
Just for fun here's an air shot of my base from a pile of dirt.
Redstone lighting all around the walls and center area hooked to a light sensor and crops all wired to sticky pistons to harvest at the flick of a single switch for stuff that doesn't need the ground tilled. Not pictured is the gateway to this compound which is wired to pistons and redstone switches. Finally there's an underground redstone egg harvester with chickens gallor.
In survival,i often us redstone just for piston doors,powered rails and redstone blocks,but in creative i like to play around with redstone and making machines like my ''Cat Annihilator'':
I`m glad the redstone block came finally I could do something else then a one wired contraption. If you end up with to much redstone in survivial you can simply use redstone blocks instead of redstone torches.
You don't "bother with it" It sounds more to me like you don't understand it so you are trying to dismiss it as unimportant.
I stopped reading there.
1. Get over yourself.
2. "Understanding it" is neither here nor there. I just don't partake in it much beyond the most rudimentary of contraptions. I am quite confident that the more advanced applications would be well withing my understanding. So please do not insinuate that I am put off by it. I simply have more fun making things a little more difficult. And I never said one thing about whether it is "important" or not. You are getting much, much more out of what I said than you ought to be. Which again leads me to say...
I just use it for rails and piston doors. I don't really see the need to use it for anything more complex.
To me, it just gets convoluted after a while. I mean, I'd much rather just put down stairs or a ladder, than make a complex piston elevator that uses enough redstone to pave my house in redstone blocks five times over...
You don't "bother with it" It sounds more to me like you don't understand it so you are trying to dismiss it as unimportant.
You don't make rail lines with powered rail? You don't make doors that open when you press a button? You are missing out on one of the greatest features of the game. The area I am building on on the server I play on covers thousands of blocks squared and all of my walkways have lights that turn on at night just before it is dark enough to spawn zombies and turn off in the morning when the light returns. I have melon farms that harvest and collect the goods once a day. If I need another stack of food I simply go to my storage room and pick it up. I also have a chicken farm that catches eggs from source chickens and loads them into dispensers which then shoot the eggs against a fenced in area that keeps my chickens for future slaughter.
All of these devices were fairly simple to setup and creates a whole new challenge/aspect of the game.
Not using redstone in minecraft is like playing BF3 and not using guns.
You're extremely exaggerating that last part. BF3's main aspect is literally its guns, as is with most first-person-shooters. Minecraft's main aspect is building. Redstone is in no way required, unlike guns are in BF3 (unless you're some kind of demolitions guy using nothing but grenades and satchels).
A better comparison would be... Playing Skyrim without using magic, or playing a Metroid game without ever using the screw attack. Playing Half-Life 2 without using the alternate fires on any of the guns.
It's in no way required, but it makes it more fun for a lot of people.
My Minecraftian world is very low-tech. I've done absolutely nothing with redstone, pistons and the like. Nothing against 'em. High-tech just doesn't much interest me.
hmm....on second thought, I do have an Obsidian Generator, built next to my fortress keep early on. Requires seven (?) restone be placed for each usage. Haven't used it in ages. These days I prefer to transform cave / ravine / mineshaft lave pools into Obsidian and harvest 'em during mining / spelunking expeditions.
Oh... I think I made a couple of redstone torches once ... just to say I did and could.
I have nearly three double chests of redstone in storage. Nowadays I don't bother mining it unless it is directly in the path of a branch-mine shaft.
I used redstone this weekend to help me make an ocean based mob grinder in the sky. Setup a 20 block drop on to extended pistons to damage the mobs and I toggle a switch quick and the mobs fall through to the collection point where a quick punch kills them and gets me their drops and XP.
The key to using redstone I think is not to use it unless you have a really good itch to scratch. That is when it becomes very handy I think and not just something to have a measuring stick contest with other people. I imagine at some point you will take to redstone when you see something you really want to try.
I've tried making various redstone things, but somehow they always seem to not work. The closest I've come to something that works is putting a redstone torch next to a powered minecart rail.
I am that type of redstoner, that does not build computers or games with redstone, I am the type of redstoner, that uses redstone to ease tasks, that get boring over time or are just neat to watch. For example I built a machine, that brews and delivers potions on buttonpress.
I have stacks and stacks of it and I never use any of it, just never. I suck at redstone and I keep finding constantly while mining. Exp is the only reason I mine it and I throw it into lava afterwards. I must get 3 stacks every caving trip, I hate it.
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I am currently lurking more than I am posting. I haven't gone anywhere.
I don't use it very often, even though IMO it's the best aspect of the game. I do use it on the occasion, for an example to make a piston door, but other than that, nope.
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Did something happen to you in your childhood to give you this unreasonable fear of rutabaga?
In survival, I use redstone for automatic farms, powered rails, as well as the occasional home defense system, but other than that... it's not something I'm particularly interested in.
I do have a super flat world that I use for redstone contraptions, but I rarely play it.
I am VERY happy to have a redstone block now. Finally a reason to mine the stuff.
Just for fun here's an air shot of my base from a pile of dirt.
Redstone lighting all around the walls and center area hooked to a light sensor and crops all wired to sticky pistons to harvest at the flick of a single switch for stuff that doesn't need the ground tilled. Not pictured is the gateway to this compound which is wired to pistons and redstone switches. Finally there's an underground redstone egg harvester with chickens gallor.
I stopped reading there.
1. Get over yourself.
2. "Understanding it" is neither here nor there. I just don't partake in it much beyond the most rudimentary of contraptions. I am quite confident that the more advanced applications would be well withing my understanding. So please do not insinuate that I am put off by it. I simply have more fun making things a little more difficult. And I never said one thing about whether it is "important" or not. You are getting much, much more out of what I said than you ought to be. Which again leads me to say...
3. ...get over yourself.
To me, it just gets convoluted after a while. I mean, I'd much rather just put down stairs or a ladder, than make a complex piston elevator that uses enough redstone to pave my house in redstone blocks five times over...
You're extremely exaggerating that last part. BF3's main aspect is literally its guns, as is with most first-person-shooters. Minecraft's main aspect is building. Redstone is in no way required, unlike guns are in BF3 (unless you're some kind of demolitions guy using nothing but grenades and satchels).
A better comparison would be... Playing Skyrim without using magic, or playing a Metroid game without ever using the screw attack. Playing Half-Life 2 without using the alternate fires on any of the guns.
It's in no way required, but it makes it more fun for a lot of people.
hmm....on second thought, I do have an Obsidian Generator, built next to my fortress keep early on. Requires seven (?) restone be placed for each usage. Haven't used it in ages. These days I prefer to transform cave / ravine / mineshaft lave pools into Obsidian and harvest 'em during mining / spelunking expeditions.
Oh... I think I made a couple of redstone torches once ... just to say I did and could.
I have nearly three double chests of redstone in storage. Nowadays I don't bother mining it unless it is directly in the path of a branch-mine shaft.
The key to using redstone I think is not to use it unless you have a really good itch to scratch. That is when it becomes very handy I think and not just something to have a measuring stick contest with other people. I imagine at some point you will take to redstone when you see something you really want to try.
I do have a super flat world that I use for redstone contraptions, but I rarely play it.
I am VERY happy to have a redstone block now. Finally a reason to mine the stuff.
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