All about Redstone

1. Redstone dust is very much the cornerstone of circuitry in 'Minecraft'. Typically, you will have a source of power with redstone dust leading away from it, transmitting the signal.

Without the aid of other mechanisms or items, will power travel through a redstone "wire" consistently for an unlimited number of blocks?

• Yes

• No

2. Redstone repeaters have a few uses, including adding delays to your circuit. A redstone repeater has four different delay settings that you can toggle, each one increasing the signal delay by how long?

• 0.1 seconds

• 0.5 seconds

• 1 second

• 2 seconds

3. Redstone torches, while they can be used as light sources (albeit weak ones), are, for a 'Minecraft' electrician, a source of power. However, you can toggle a redstone torch's state by doing what?

• You can't change a redstone torch's state; it's always on, no matter what

• Providing power directly to the torch itself

• Providing power to the block it is on

• Attaching the torch to the side of a glass block

4. If you want to get into advanced wiring, you're probably going to have to learn about logic gates. If you needed to invert the signal in a section of a circuit, for instance, what sort of logic gate would you need to create? Assume this is a simple situation with one input and one output.

• AND gate

• NOT gate

• OR gate

• XOR gate

5. Many blocks and mechanisms can be affected by redstone. Which of the following is not one of those?

• Switching a block of glowstone on and off

• Opening and closing a fence gate

• Activating a sticky piston

• Setting off a block of TNT

6. Pressure plates come in two flavours: standard and weighted. Which of these statements is true with regards to weighted pressure plates?

• The output signal from a weighted pressure plate is affected by the size of the entity(ies) on it.

• A player standing on a weighted pressure plate will have no effect on the output signal

• A weighted pressure plate can only be activated by a player standing on it

• The output signal from a weighted pressure plate is affected by the number of entities on it

7. Unlike other minerals like iron and diamond, you cannot combine redstone dust to create a redstone block.

• True

• False

8. Suppose you fill a dispenser with arrows. A redstone circuit would be able to fire out arrows from the dispenser. What mechanism would you use instead if you want the items inside to simply be dropped out, in the same manner as if you'd just thrown them out of your inventory?

• Hopper

• Dropper

• Stopper

• None of the above

9. Redstone comparators are curious little mechanisms that do exactly what you'd expect: compare incoming signals and produce a certain output. But, which of these functions is not part of the comparator's repertoire?

• Producing an output signal proportional to how full a container is (like a chest)

• Comparing two input signals and producing an output signal equal to the difference between the two inputs

• Comparing two input signals and producing an output signal based on which input is strongest

• Refreshing a single input signal back up to maximum strength, like a redstone repeater

10. Which of these scenarios is not possible by utilising redstone and redstone components?

• Sending a minecart along a track

• Toggling the state of a lever

• Controlling a set of doors based on light level

• Playing a tune on a series of note blocks