So you might be thinking “Hasn’t this guy done Minecraft already?” Yes and no. That was the basics this is a whole different level. Redstone.

How you get redstone is you mine it. Redstone ore looks like stone with red specks. Redstone is the only thing that you mine that can make a circuit. Redstone dust is basically a one way wire. It looks like red dust when you place it. You can turn it on and off with a lever or a button. Redstone can connect a lever to a piston, sticky piston, powered rails and a Redstone lamp. A Redstone torch is a torch that is  basically is a lever that is always on. Redstone is important because you can build things like TNT cannons, fire arrow launchers, lighting, etc.

I found an awesome book about Redstone called the Minecraft Mojang  Redstone handbook. It has lots of cool Redstone stuff. For example clock circuits, deluxe lighting systems, classic Jeb door, duel shot cannon, lava pit trap, super stopwatch, color map display, 14 floor elevator, Gold Rush, zombie siege and a supercharged fire arrow launcher.

I think the coolest one is zombie siege because you are shooting arrows and TNT cannons. There’s different levels, in total there is 99 levels but no one has made it that far because it gets harder the higher the level.

The first one that I will make is the supercharged fire arrow launcher and shoot it and some helpless zombies, spiders and skeletons, and they will die happily ever after.

 

 

 

Source: Farwell, Nick,, et al. Minecraft Redstone Handbook. Updated edition. New York, NY: Scholastic Inc, 2015. Print.