Minecraft Wiki: Redstone mechanics

Cite as: Minecraft Wiki: Redstone mechanics
Original: https://minecraft.wiki/w/Redstone_mechanics
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Archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20261017052423/https://minecraft.wiki/w/Redstone_mechanics
Accessed: 2026-10-26
Licence: CC BY-NC-SA 3.0
Credit: Minecraft Wiki editors; the opening and signal sections are used here.
Notes: Describes redstone as the game's analog to electricity, with a signal strength of 1-15 and dust that loses one level per block, so a line reaches 15 blocks.

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Redstone is Minecraft's loose analogue of electricity: some blocks make a signal, others act on one, and players combine them into circuits for farms, item sorters, and flying machines. A signal has a strength from 1 to 15 that drops by 1 for each block of redstone dust it crosses, so dust alone carries it 15 blocks; repeaters and comparators carry it farther. The strength doesn't change how a mechanism acts: a piston pushes the same at 1 as at 15.	`leadRedstone signalTransmission, redstone dust`	Wiki