It’s tricky to get hold of redstone ore blocks, because usually they crumble into dust when mined. To obtain the block itself, you’ll need a silk touch pickaxe. You can then smelt those blocks into a single piece of redstone if you like, but it’s a much better idea to break it instead, because you’ll get a lot more redstone.
When you do give it a whack, you’ll notice that redstone ore gives off red particles – these high-energy dust motes are as bright as three lit candles. You might think that’d make them good for mood lighting in your base, but the light goes out again after a short while as the energy burns away. To activate it again, you’ll need to hit it again, or have a creature disturb it in some other way.
I wonder what that feature could be used for? Perhaps as an early warning system for a hidden underground base? Or maybe as a dimly-let entrance to a buried temple. Or maybe as a challenging puzzle for visitors to your base to solve – try to get across the room without lighting up a redstone ore block!
As always with Minecraft, the possibilities are pretty much infinite.
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