Minecraft is a game with a simple art style. In the survival gamemode you are dropped alone into a wilderness to find food, find shelter, and survive. You will craft tools, build shelters, and have to mine, farm, and fight to stay alive.
Redstone is a special ore you find while mining deep underground. They are red speckled blocks that can only be broken with an iron mining pick (if you break it with a stone or wood pick, you won't get any dust). When broken you get dust.
This dust forms the basis for a sort of electricity in the world of Minecraft. This electricity can open doors, spring traps, turn on lights, move an entire stairwell. The possibilities are largely endless because there is a way to change, move, or alter most of the things in the world.
On a deeper level, red stone could be the basis for an electrical engineering degree. Players have made calculators, computers, digital clocks, and more just by combining red stone items to create things that exist within the electronics sitting on your desk or coffee table. Indeed, digital and analog circuits are in every piece of electronics you own.
Red stone is great because it can be as simple or complex as you want it to be. If you want to open a door with a level or a button, its as easy as pie. If you want to completely automate harvesting an entire farm of wheat, believe it or not it can be done.
My next post will start from the utmost lowest level of red stone. We'll start building your appreciation for this wonderful stuff.
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