Redstone

Redstone is a Collection item in the  category. It can be obtained by mining in the, , , killing , and purchasing form the. It is the largest Collection in the game, going up to Tier XVI (16). It is usually advised to have a during the early game, in order to upgrade the.

Collection
Collecting increases the player's  Collection, which grants useful items and perks upon collecting certain amounts of redstone.

Natural Generation
Redstone ore spawns naturally in the, where it can be mined and collected by the player. Normally, it drops a number of redstone pieces and grants +7 XP. However, mining it this way attracts to attack to player, making it inconvenient to collect. The player can collect the directly with a  pickaxe, then bring it back to their island to mine afterwards. Although this does not grant mining XP, do not appear to be aggravated at players who mine  in this way, and it also saves valuable inventory space. will only attack you if you have at least 1 stack of redstone in your inventory; mining with a mining sack with more than 64 redstone will not attract the attention of. Redstone dust can also be safely collected via mining the redstone, then crafting it into a.

There are also a few spots in the and  with with redstone ore that respawns quickly, however, these spots are much less common than other ore nodes. One location in the where redstone can be found is at -102, 181, 40. Ender pearls are required to access this location.

Mob Drops
Redstone is also a common drop from, although it aggravates nearby pigmen.

Purchasing
is able to be purchased from the on the bottom floor oh the 's house each day.

Redstone Meter
Redstone functions similar to how it does within vanilla Minecraft, although certain items, such as Pistons and Dispensers, are inoperable, and there is a limit to the amount of active redstone a player can have on their. This limit is displayed on the side scoreboard, but only when any amount of redstone is being used, and it disappears when none is being used. Redstone is more likely to be used as a crafting ingredient due to a lack of operable inputs and outputs.

Selling
Redstone can be sold to any Merchant for a piece.

Brewing
It can be used in Brewing to boost potion duration to 8 minutes, (splash potions halve the duration, unless brewed with enchanted gunpowder) with your level boosting it further. provides a boost of up to 16 minutes, and the will bring it up to 40 minutes.

Trivia

 * While Redstone may be seen as the hardest collection to max, seeing as to do so 1.4 million Redstone needs to be collected, it is actually significantly easier than it may appear, due to the fact that each block-breaking action of a collects up to 5(citation needed) redstone dust.
 * With 16 tiers, Redstone has highest amount of tiers in a single collection with the, and  collections tying for second place with 12 tiers.

Bugs

 * The Spelunker perk from the Mining Skill does not apply to Redstone, regardless of the way in which it is mined or where it was found. The reason is unknown, and this is likely a bug.

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