Redstone Dust

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Redstone dust is a mineral used in crafting, brewing, trimming, and as a placeable wire.

Redstone wire is a non-solid block that can transmit a redstone power signal up to 15 blocks in distance; signal strengths below 15 have reduced distance. Redstone wire can power blocks it is placed on or pointing at.

Redstone dust is immediately destroyed when broken.

Redstone dust is removed and drops as an item if:

• its attachment block is moved, removed, or destroyed
• water or lava flows into its space
• a piston tries to push it or moves a block into its space

Redstone dust drops itself when destroyed.

Redstone ore mined using an iron pickaxe or higher drops 4 or 5 redstone dust (or more with Fortune, averaging at 6 redstone dust with Fortune III). If mined with Silk Touch, the block drops itself instead of redstone dust. When the ore itself is clicked on/touched, it emits a light level of 9 and glows.

15 lengths of redstone dust are naturally generated as part of the trap in each jungle pyramid. 5 lengths of redstone dust can be found in one type of a jail cell room in a woodland mansion. In ancient cities, multiple pieces of redstone dust can be found integrated into circuitry. 1 piece of redstone dust can be found in the "Encounter 4" room in trial chambers.

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Bedrock Edition:

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{ "item": "Redstone Dust", "stacksize": "1–4", "chance": 0.44775753383680095, "structure": "Village", "container": "Temple chest" }

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Redstone dust can be crafted from blocks of redstone.

In Java Edition, when the player has the Hero of the Village status effect, clerics might throw that player a redstone dust as a gift.

Redstone dust is used for brewing, crafting, and in redstone circuits by placing it on the ground to create redstone wire. It can also be used to power redstone components.

Trim color palette

The following color palette is shown on the designs on trimmed armor:

When placed in the world, redstone dust becomes a block of redstone wire, which can transmit redstone signal.

Redstone dust can be placed on conductive blocks as well as glowstone, upside-down slabs, glass, upside-down stairs, and hoppers. It can also be placed on some non-conductive blocks; see Opacity/Placement for more information. It cannot be placed suspended in midair, even with commands.^[1]

Redstone wire configures itself to point toward adjacent redstone power components and transmission component connection points. Redstone wire also configures itself to point toward adjacent redstone wire one block higher or lower – unless there is a conductive block above the lower redstone wire.

If there is only one such adjacent redstone component, redstone wire configures itself into a 👁 BlockSprite redstone-dust.png: Sprite image for redstone-dust in Minecraft
line pointing both at the neighbor and away from it. If there are two or more such adjacent components, redstone wire connects them in the form of 👁 BlockSprite redstone-dust.png: Sprite image for redstone-dust in Minecraft
, 👁 BlockSprite redstone-dust-upleft.png: Sprite image for redstone-dust-upleft in Minecraft
, 👁 BlockSprite redstone-dust-t-up.png: Sprite image for redstone-dust-t-up in Minecraft
, or 👁 BlockSprite redstone-dust-cross.png: Sprite image for redstone-dust-cross in Minecraft
as needed.

When there are no adjacent components, a single redstone wire configures itself into a 👁 BlockSprite redstone-dust-cross.png: Sprite image for redstone-dust-cross in Minecraft
plus sign, which can provide power in all four directions. By right-clicking, it can be changed into a 👁 BlockSprite redstone-dust-dot.png: Sprite image for redstone-dust-dot in Minecraft
dot, which does not provide power to any of the four directions.‌^{[Java Edition only]}

Redstone wire does not automatically configure itself to point toward mechanism components; the only exceptions are the back and side faces of pistons and sticky pistons in Bedrock Edition. If such a configuration is desired, the other neighbors of the redstone wire must be arranged to create it, i.e the redstone dust must be placed in a way that it would be pointed at the block’s location even if it were not there.

When redstone wire is reconfigured after placement, it does not update other redstone components around it of the change unless that reconfiguration also includes a change in power level or another component provides an update. This can create situations where a mechanism component remains activated when it shouldn't, or vice versa, until it receives an update from something else – a "feature" of redstone wire that can be used to make a block update detector.

Redstone wire can transmit power, which can be used to operate mechanism components (doors, pistons, redstone lamps, etc.). Redstone wire can be "powered" by a number of methods:

• from an adjacent power component or a strongly-powered block
• from the output of a redstone repeater or redstone comparator
• from adjacent redstone wire. The powering dust can be a level higher or lower, but with restrictions:
  • Redstone dust can be powered by redstone dust that is one level lower, or on a conductive block one level higher. A non-conductive block cannot‌^{[Java Edition only]} pass power downward.
  • The block "between" the two dust blocks must be air or non-conductive. A conductive block there "cuts" the connection between the higher and lower dust.

The "power level" of redstone dust can vary from 0 to 15. Most power components power-up adjacent redstone dust to power level 15, but a few (daylight sensors, trapped chests, and weighted pressure plates) may create a lower power level. Redstone repeaters output power level 15 (when turned on), but redstone comparators may output a lower power level.

Power level drops by 1 for every block of redstone wire it crosses. Thus, redstone wire can transmit power for no more than 15 blocks. To go further, the power level must be re-strengthened – typically with a redstone repeater.

Powered redstone wire on top of, or pointing at, a conductive block provides weak power to the block. A weakly-powered block cannot power other adjacent redstone wire, but can still power redstone repeaters and comparators, and activate adjacent mechanism components. Non-conductive blocks cannot be powered.

When redstone wire is unpowered, it appears dark red. When powered, it becomes bright red at power level 15, fading to darker shades with decreasing power. Powered redstone wire also produces "dust" particles of the same color.

While redstone wire always provides power to the directions it points into, it can still point into directions in which it cannot give power. If redstone wire comes in the form of a cross, the player can right-click to toggle it between a cross and dot. A redstone dot does not power anything adjacent to it, but powers the block under it.

Redstone dust is destroyed when a piston tries to push it. It can't be pulled by sticky pistons.

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Issues relating to "Redstone", "Redstone dust", or "Redstone wire" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

• Five updates for Windows 10 released from 2016 to 2018 were codenamed "Redstone", referencing Minecraft.^[4]
• The block has 1,296 possible block state combinations in Java Edition, the highest of all blocks, exceeding fire's 512 and note block's 1150.
• According to the Material Reducer in Minecraft Education, redstone dust is 31% carbon, 31% uranium, and 38% some unknown element.
• In the trailer for the Village and Pillage update, a blue piece of redstone dust (dubbed by the community as "bluestone") can be seen among the gifts the villagers throw into the air.

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• 👁 Giant Redstone Dust past 1,073,741,824 on both axes, it is actually 128 blocks big because of floating point precision loss.
  
  Giant Redstone Dust past 1,073,741,824 on both axes, it is actually 128 blocks big because of floating point precision loss.

• 👁 A screenshot of a trail of redstone dust forming the words "redstone dust".
  
• 👁 An example of a redstone machine in Minecraft.
  
• 👁 First image of redstone dust on top of slabs and stairs.
  
  First image of redstone dust on top of slabs and stairs.
• 👁 Olivia using a scarce amount of redstone dust.
  
  Olivia using a scarce amount of redstone dust.
• 👁 Sunny using a very long strip of redstone dust.
  
  Sunny using a very long strip of redstone dust.
• 👁 The inside of a redstone elevator.
  
  The inside of a redstone elevator.

• 👁 Children and an agent building with redstone in real life.
  
  Children and an agent building with redstone in real life.
• 👁 Pixel art of redstone dust.
  
  Pixel art of redstone dust.
• 👁 Redstone dust in A Minecraft Movie.
  
  Redstone dust in A Minecraft Movie.
• 👁 Official T-shirt artwork "Powered by Redstone" made by JINX.
  
  Official T-shirt artwork "Powered by Redstone" made by JINX.
• 👁 Redstone as seen in Minecraft Earth
  
  Redstone as seen in Minecraft Earth
• 👁 Redstone dust as seen in Minecraft: Story Mode
  
  Redstone dust as seen in Minecraft: Story Mode

• "Taking Inventory: Redstone Dust" by Duncan Geere – Minecraft.net, April 26, 2025.