For the engineers among you, using a Redstone Repeater in Minecraft will always be necessary for your larger builds. They extend the range of any Redstone signal by 14 blocks and add at least one Minecraft tick (which in real time is one sixteenth of a second). This is the most efficient way to expand your build to give you more space, and therefore make your redstone build neater and easier to understand. Barish is there to guide us.
How to Create and Use a Redstone Repeater in Minecraft
Before you begin, you will need the following items in your inventory:
- A crafting table
- A red stone dust
- Deux torches Redstone
- Three Stone Blocks (NOT Cobblestone!)
Once you have all of this ready, you are good to go. It only takes few seconds!
Step One: Open a Crafting Table
You need to use a 3 x 2 crafting section for this, so you'll need to open your crafting table. If you're in Survival mode, you should always have a crafting table in case you need to craft something quickly, so we assumed you already have it ready.
Second step: insert the recipe
Above is the Redstone Repeater recipe. Three stone blocks below, then a single piece of Redstone Dust between two Redstone Torches above. If you can click fast enough, you could probably do it in two to three seconds. Barish did it in a second. Can you beat that?
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Step Three: Place Where Needed
This is where it gets a little trickier, but not terribly. As mentioned earlier, the primary use of the Redstone Repeater is to extend your Redstone signal as efficiently as possible. A signal will only travel 14 blocks of Redstone Dust before losing power, so anything beyond that and you'll need a repeater. As shown above, the signal goes through 14 blocks, but stops before the plunger and does not energize it. However, look at the next photo!
Look at this! The Redstone signal now easily reaches the plunger and powers it up, while only adding a single Minecraft tick to the wait time.
Step Four: Adjust Signal Speed
If you need to slow down the signal a bit more, the Redstone Repeater can do it! Right-clicking the Redstone Repeater moves the notch between one of four possible positions, adding between one and four Minecraft ticks to the signal speed. If you're good with fractions, you'll notice that the longest time a repeater can add to the redstone signal is a quarter of a second. This can be extremely useful for redstone engineers who need to make a signal source do several things.
That's it! You have finished. You now know how to craft and use a Redstone Repeater. Check out some of the creations made by other players or create your own. You can do amazing things with Redstone.
There are other guides for making tools on the Pro Game Guides! You can craft a forge table or craft useful armor!
