#RedStone

[pokotate-mc]

demo of a drum machine I built in minecraft using redstone

getting this all in one take was SO HARD. there's a couple points where I'm just standing there trying to remember what to do next but I wanted to do it all without any cuts

full video on my youtoop

[jumpin--bean]

Nobody talks about this

[radar-of-the-stars]

oh, good for him

[madamepestilence]

The Chemical Structure of Redstone

So I was curious about what the chemical structure of Redstone looks like, and Minecraft Education Edition, albeit unintentionally, gives us a canon look into what Redstone is made of:

In Minecraft Education Edition, putting a Redstone Block into a Material Reducer shows that it's composed of 31 Carbon, 31 Uranium, and 38 Unobtanium, which we can assume to be measured in grams

Dividing the Redstone Block into Redstone Dust, each Redstone Dust is then composed of approximately 3.4 Carbon, 3.4 Uranium, and 4.2 Unobtanium

Again assuming that's measured in grams, that's 0.17 cm³ of Uranium, 1.496 cm³ of Carbon, and ???³ of Unobtanium per Redstone Dust

So what does this tell us about the chemical structure of Redstone? Basing this on Redstone Dust's composition, we can estimate that each Redstone molecule is composed of 3 Carbon atoms, 3 Uranium atoms, 4 Unobtanium atoms, a little under half of the time it binds to an extra Uranium and/or Carbon, and 20% of the time it binds to an extra Unobtanium

This also has some horrifying implications for how Redstone works:

Redstone would be extremely volatile as the radioactive decay from Unobtanium and Uranium would occasionally release Helium ions through alpha radiation, sometimes breaking apart Carbon into two Beryllium atoms (as it absorbs the extra proton and neutron from the Uranium) or merging into Oxygen

So Redstone should, in theory, be extremely flammable and potentially explosive, which implies that cave static, or the player mining Redstone with an Iron Pickaxe, could lead to a spark that causes an explosive cave-in

As Unobtanium is just a placeholder for unobtainable elements (hence the name), I'm going to estimate Unobtanium in this case as Unbinilium, the placeholder name for element 120

Why?

I'm estimating the Unobtanium as Redstone as being larger than the largest man-made element, Oganesson, which holds an impressive 118 protons

Each valence electron shell, from innermost to outermost, can bind with 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 18, and 8 shells respectively, so I'd like Unobtanium to be an element we haven't discovered yet, and consequently I'd like to jump up to the next shell

While I could estimate with element 119's placeholder, Ununennium, it would have one electron in the next shell, so Unbinilium allows for easier chemical binding

So what does this molecule look like then? Well, horrifyingly...

It looks like this. As Redstone forms in crystal lattices, and only two Carbon atoms are free to bind, I can absolutely see why it's so brittle that it breaks into powder.

This makes the structure of Redstone:

C3U3Uno4 (55% of molecules) C4U3Uno4 (13% of molecules) C3U4Uno4 (13% of molecules) C4U4Uno4 (7% of molecules) C3U3Uno5 (5% of molecules) C4U3Uno5 (3% of molecules) C3U4Uno5 (3% of molecules) C4U4Uno5 (1% of molecules)

An extremely radioactive, flammable, and explosive compound.

[an-evil-tomato]

Etho's redstone powered eye from the depths of my ethogirl phase (yesterday).

[gpanada]

Pearl's first redstone aka the start of it all!:

"My first redstone! is this the Hermitcraft Redstone season for Pearl?.... Probably not"

We love the Pearlstone Arc

[justarobowren]

I might end up revisiting this one! Day 2: machine!

This is Mumbo explaining to Etho how to program a song into his DDR machine :]

[diopsidez]

HE FREAKING WIPES HIS TEARS IN THE NETFLIX ADDITION HE MAKES ME ILL

[creative-cartoon]

some redstone dividers for all ur Minecraft needs. f2u, credit not required but appreciated

[cowprintsillies]

Love watching Mumbo Jumbo redstone videos because from where I am it just looks like a guy making random bullshit and saying made up words and then getting a cool thingamigig out of it. 10/10 what the fuck is a T flip flop

[kustarbush]

my doodle of doc in my sketchbook made with no name acrylic markers

[inkie-does-whump]

Good on Mojang for realizing how horrendously they screwed up and reverting the redstone change.

[femcubezero]

Oh my god, so according to the Education Edition devs, redstone is just fantasy upgraded uranium

[jeena-says-hi]

Minecraft: Adds autocrafting

Mumbo Jumbo:

[griffin-the-enderman]

Griffin got into the redstone

[obuqwe]

look out! there’s a new face on the.. block