Triumph Books - The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Circuit Power!: Minecraft®TM Redstone and the Keys to Supercharging Your Builds in Sandbox Games

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Do you like Minecraft? Do you think it would be cool control electricity? Have you ever wondered how a computer works? Would you like to design and build worlds that move and interact however youd like them to?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you would undoubtedly enjoy the powerful world of Redstone.

Redstone is a special system of power and mechanisms that is part of the worlds most popular video game, Minecraft. Essentially, Redstone simulates a (slightly) simplified version of real-life electricity, which players of Minecraft can use to power infinite creations of their own designs. These creations can do just about anything you could want in the game of Minecraft, from reducing previously tedious tasks like farming and hunting into things that happen at the push of a button, to creating devastating player-vs-player weapons, to even virtually simulating massively complex real-life electronic machines such as computers.

From concise and useful builds like the hidden tree door on the left to the monster, super-complex, fun builds like the piano on the right, Redstone is a fascinating material with near infinite uses.

Redstone is, to be blunt, the most powerful and creative tool ever created inside of a video game. Learning how to use Redstone is not only what separates a well-versed Minecraft player from a true expert, its also just a step away from learning how electrical engineering works in reality. In fact, as a system that relies on rules grounded in the real-world concepts of logic and electrical systems, Redstone is a system that is both incredibly fun to learn, and which will seriously stretch the brain of anyone who takes the time to dive into it and learn its mighty secrets.

And thats where this book comes in. As a system whose basic rules are simple, but which is certainly one of the hardest things to learn in all of video games, Redstone engineering is quite intimidating when you first come across it. This book is here to show you that not only is learning Redstone possible for any video game player out there, its also a heck of a lot of fun, and something which you can start learning in just a few minutes.

That being said, becoming a true master Redstone engineer who can craft up mind-boggling works of mechanical and logical genius is a task that takes time, dedication, and not just a little bit of trial-and-error. With this book, however, were going to start you off on the path to Redstone mastery the right way, easing you into the subject and teaching you all of the tricks and lessons of the great Redstone creators so that, by the end, youll be well on your way to creating such awesome constructs as slick automatic doors, devastating rapid-fire scattershot TNT and, yes, even simulations of actual computer systems inside of a video game.

Its an epic task, but one thats guaranteed to leave you smarter, not to mention turning you into the best Minecraft player of anyone you know.

If youre ready to start thinking in a new way and to begin to control the fabric of the virtual world of Minecraft, turn these pages and start getting familiar with Redstone- the most powerful and complex system that ever existed inside a video game.

Ready to start your journey to becoming a master of all that is Redstone? Well then, lets dive right on in and get familiar with the basics of the Redstone world!

Before we do so, however, lets talk for a moment about how to best use this book to get the most out of it and to become the most knowledgable Redstone engineer you can:

Redstone is a massive topic, almost infinitely so because there are always players finding new ways to use it, and also because it often gets updated when Minecraft itself gets an update. This book is not meant to contain every single piece of information about Redstone, as that would be impossible, at the worst, or require a book that was a few thousand pages longer at best.

What this book is meant to do is to give you all of the basic information you need to begin learning how to use Redstone in the easiest and most pain-free way we can teach it to you. We want to make Redstone fun and inviting, and to dispel the air of intimidation and difficulty that often surrounds the subject.

Well take you from the very most basic concepts of Redstone, starting here in this chapter, and as we go through the book, well add a little more with each chapter, stopping along the way to test out the ideas we present with some fun builds and cool applications.

We suggest that you approach this book from one end to the other, working through each chapter in turn and learning its lessons before moving on to the next. By the end of the book, well have you building some pretty highly advanced Redstone constructions and starting to think like a real Redstone engineer!

That being said, these concepts are also very complex, and theres a lot of information to internalize, so wed also make one more suggestion for how to have the best and most successful Redstone learning experience:

Dont worry about getting it all perfect. Even the best Redstone engineers out there took a long time to understand and memorize this information, and theres no rush to do so. The best way to learn Redstone is to read through this book and test out the different builds, and then to just keep messing around with the stuff, referring back to the book when you need to know something. Over time, youll start to naturally remember the nitty gritty details of Redstone items, rules and concepts without having to look them up, so theres no need to get discouraged if you keep having to look back at the book as you go.

In fact, wed even suggest seeking out more resources on Redstone as well, such as watching videos online or finding other players to learn from. This book is meant to be your introduction to the world of Redstone and a handy reference guide, but we wont have our feelings hurt if you need to seek out a little extra help! The goal here is to help you learn Redstone, and we are simply trying give you as many resources in these pages as possible to help you do that.