The Redstone Starter Document
Welcome to the Redstone Starter Document. This place is meant to show off a little bit of everything that’s going on in the redstone community from tutorials to help you get started, to active servers, to dozens of redstone content creators. The goal is that you discover a side of redstone you might not have seen before and get engaged with what’s going on. This document only covers the tip of the iceberg when it comes to redstone, so get exploring!
Last Update: 2026/03/09
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Starter Tutorials and Guides 2
Starter Tutorials and Guides
This is a table with a bunch of tutorials to help you get started in a specific subsection of redstone. It is assumed you already have a basic understanding of each component, and these videos will help you create your first circuits, make starter builds, and showcase what is possible with redstone. Use ctrl F to search for specific things you want to look for.
Video | Category | Description |
Doors | This is an old 3x3 piston door built before observers, the wiring is relatively simple and non-dense making it easy to navigate for a new redstoner trying to break it down. | |
[1.16+] TUTORIAL: 4x4 Piston Door [Fast | Synced | Compact | Cheap] | Doors | This is an old observerless 4x4 piston door that can be used by new redstoners to dissect and break down. |
Minecraft: Survival Friendly 4x4 Piston Door Tutorial [1.5+] | Doors | Another 4x4 piston door. This design is made by DicoTheRedstoner and uses different techniques in its circuitry. The wiring is airy, letting players fly through it easily. |
Tiny, Fast and Super Sync 4x4 Piston Door for 1.11-1.16.3+! Tutorial! [180 Blocks!] [Java Edition] | Doors | A 4x4 piston door made with observers. Very small, very fast, but still easy to understand. |
Doors (0-tick) | A comprehensive guide to 0-tick mechanics. | |
Doors (0-tick) | A short guide video walking through the process of designing a 0-tick door. | |
Doors (0-tick) | A showcase of the best piston doors from 1x1 to 10x10 that balance size and speed. | |
Doors | Walking through the process of building a 3x3 piston door for the first time. This can be useful for new redstoners to see the designing process live. | |
Doors | Walking through the process of building a 4x4 door for the first time. This can be useful for new redstoners to see the designing process live. | |
Slimestone | Walking through the process of building a flying machine door for the first time. This can be useful for new redstoners to see the designing process live. | |
Slimestone | A brief overview of how to build large slime block flying machines. | |
Controllable Walking Robot with TNT Cannon [No Commandblocks/Mods] in Minecraft | Slimestone | One of the first large scale walking mechs made in Minecraft. |
Ultimate Slimeblock Tutorial (Part 1): Piston Engines and Attachments | Slimestone | Part 1 of a 3 part tutorial series going over the basics of slimestone. |
Slimestone | Tutorial for a working missile. | |
Slimestone | Showcase for a flying machines that can go in 4 directions | |
Slimestone | Showcase for a flying machines that can go in all 6 directions | |
Slimestone | A tutorial for a simple 3x3 flying machine elevator. | |
Computational | Series going over computational redstone | |
Introduction to Computing - Let's Make a Redstone Computer #1 | Computational | Series going over how to build a computer in Minecraft. |
Technical Minecraft (Farms) | A guide that goes through mob spawning mechanics and how to use them to make your own mob farm. | |
Technical Minecraft (Farms) | A guide that goes through piglin mechanics and how to use them to make your own gold farm. | |
Technical Minecraft (Farms) | A guide that goes through villager mechanics and how to use them to make your own iron farm. Note that this video has a follow up with certain corrections. | |
Technical Minecraft | Practical Redstone Reloaded is a series that teaches players how to do redstone for the latest versions of Minecraft. | |
One-Hit, No Endermite Enderman Farm for Minecraft 1.20+, 1.21 | Technical Minecraft (Farms) | A tutorial for an enderman farm that also goes through previous designs and their evolution. |
Minecraft Elegance: Instant Guardian XP Farm, No Drain (180k XP/h and 90k drops/h, Java 1.16+*) | Technical Minecraft (Farms) | A simple guardian farm. |
Minecraft Elegance: Iron Farm on Day 1 of Survival, Java 1.16+ | Technical Minecraft (Farms) | A simple iron farm. |
Minecraft - Tutorial: Quick & Easy Item Sorter (With Overflow Protection) | Technical Minecraft (Storage) | A simple sorting system. |
Minecraft - Wall multi-item sorting system. Basics (part 1/2) | Technical Minecraft (Storage) | A more advanced sorting system that lets you sort multiple types of items per chest. |
This table may get longer in the future with more tutorials but hopefully this gets you some basic functioning builds in your Minecraft world for you to pick apart and put back together.
Servers and Communities
This table will point you to different redstone communities that exist on the internet. Most are Discord servers, but some may come with a website or Minecraft server. The categories are very generalized and may help narrow down your options, but the description will probably be the most useful box (most are taken from the servers themselves).
Links | Java/Bedrock | Category | Description |
Java | Computational | A Minecraft and Discord server for computational redstoners. | |
Java | Computational | An archive of computational redstone components. | |
Java | Slimestone | Dedicated space for people seeking help with slimestone. | |
Java | TMC | This server focuses on archiving complete Java Minecraft systems in an easy, organized manner, catering especially to those with limited knowledge. | |
Java | TMC | Dedicated space for automatic storage systems. | |
Java | TMC | A tree farm focused server, mainly for farm development. | |
Java | TMC | The cart cultists, everything related to minecarts and the tech you can make with them. The place for piston bolts and all cart based storage tech. | |
Java | TMC | The fungus enthusiasts, the home to nether tree and foliage farm development. | |
Java | TMC | The place for all wither related tech, useful for those who don't like TNT duping and don't mind enslaving a boss mob. | |
Java | TMC | Community of Russian-speaking redstoners and translators of posts from this catalogue. Explanations for terms in Russian are also available. | |
Java | TMC | The server for all things tnt (mainly cannons) and projectile physics. | |
Java | TMC | The place for light and update suppression setups. | |
Java | TMC | For everything related to crafters and the old auto crafting table mod. | |
Java | TMC | The Discord server for the SciCraft SMP community | |
Java | TMC | The ProtoTech SMP community server. | |
Java | TMC | A general archive of many technical Minecraft builds where anyone can post. | |
Java | TMC | The Chronos SMP community server. | |
Java | TMC | The WaveTech SMP community server. | |
Java | TMC | A Chinese technical Minecraft community. | |
Java | TMC | The largest Japanese technical Minecraft Discord community created by Taichi | |
Cloud Town Exquisite Craft | Java | TMC | The Cloud Town Exquisite Craft SMP community server |
Java | TMC | A website for technical players to post their builds and schematics for other players to share and download. | |
Synergy (join synergyserver.net on your server list and do /discord) | Java | Doors | A Minecraft and Discord server for piston door redstoners. |
(Reddit) | Java | Misc | The community for the r/redstone subreddit. |
Java | Misc | A community for Minecraft trappers. | |
Java/Bedrock | TMC | A Discord server that links to dozens of other servers that may or may not be listed here. | |
Java/Bedrock | TMC | The central hub for all things technical Minecraft. | |
Java/Bedrock | Doors | A server for the categorisation and archival of piston doors and their world records | |
Java/Bedrock | Misc | Server that archives redstone videos from BilliBilli | |
Java/Bedrock | Misc | A Twitter account that posts videos from dozens of redstone channels. | |
Bedrock | TMC | The TechRock SMP community server. | |
Bedrock | TMC | Place that archives technical redstone builds for Bedrock edition | |
Bedrock | TMC | A server that unifies many smaller Bedrock tech SMP communities into one technical server. | |
Bedrock | Doors | A community for Bedrock edition piston door creators |
Content Creators
This section will cover dozens of different redstone content creators across different niches and languages. The channels that are listed follow the same subscription list as the Redstone Content Feed. Not all are active anymore, but old redstone videos can still serve as a good learning tool!
Click on an image to go to a channel/video. You might find your new favourite redstone creators!
Channel | Example Video |
2no2name | How to BOOST Your Beacon |
_Methodzz | GHAST THEFT AUTO |
ACTennisAC | Minecraft Time Machine |
Activation123 | How I Got 1,000,000,000 Items In Survival Minecraft |
Adi7811 | GRANJA DE ORO Y XP !!!! MINECRAFT BEDROCK |
Armadillo28 | We mined BITCOIN in Minecraft! |
avogaado | Building Clickbait Thumbnails with No Mods |
bennyscube | Building a minecraft computer tutorial pt1 |
Ben-The-Human | Building my FIRST 5x5 Piston Door on Minecraft Bedrock! |
bigbooty17 | Fast Simple Oozing Slime Farm for Minecraft 1.21+ |
CNBMinecraft | How to Build a Digital Clock in Minecraft, Part 1 |
CodeCrafted | Minecraft in Minecraft |
Comet 107 | Coffin Dance Meme with Slimeblock Flying Machines in Minecraft |
CraftyMasterman | How I Made Geometry Dash In Minecraft |
Cubehamster | Controllable Battle Robot in Minecraft |
cubicmetre | Introducing the Orbital Strike TnT Cannon |
DicoTheRedstoner | Fastest Possible 4x4 Piston Door |
docm77 | Hardcore Skyblock - Hermitcraft Season 10 |
DylanD | Minecraft: Realistic Submarine Tutorial |
EagleEye621 | Faster Than 0-Tick (Forced Update Farm - Shaky-Sand) |
Earthcomputer | The Mess Detector - Cracking rng with Redstone |
ElRichMC | Cómo conseguir BEDROCK en modo supervivencia |
Elyrio3 | Collecting 5 Million Gold/h At The World Border |
Emdy | W.A.I.F.U. - A NEW ERA of Minecraft Iron Farms |
EthosLab | Etho Plays Minecraft - Episode 550: World Tour |
Fallen_Breath | Space-based Dragon Slayer | 1.13.2 never4get |
Fed X Gaming | 10 Easy Ways To Build Secret Rooms In Minecraft |
FloppyDonkey | Expert Level TNT Dispenser Grid Minecraft |
FVDisco | Minecraft The Temple Of Notch |
FX - PR0CESS | Item Shadowing Explained - Wireless item transfer |
GaRLic_BrEd | The ULTIMATE Stacking Raid Farm [2.2 MILLION DROPS PER HOUR] |
gerg | I made an Overly Complicated Minigame |
gnembon | Simple Hostile Mob Farms, Minecraft 1.12 - 1.16+ |
ianxofour | Minecraft Elegance: Versatile Tree Farm |
Igna778 | Shulker Suppression - The Ultimate Update Bug That Can’t Be Patched! |
ilmango | ULTIMATE Minecraft MINING Machine |
impulseSV | Minecraft - Tutorial: Quick & Easy Item Sorter |
jazziiRed | Designing the SMARTEST Metro System in Minecraft! |
JKM | This Project Made Us The Richest Server In Minecraft |
JL2579 | Minecraft Science: Explosions (How to blow up Bedrock - Explanation) |
justwhitevoid | instant kill horizontal arrow railgun |
Kairyu | Magnum Opus: creating the most advanced storage system |
Kwipla | Minecraft How to Make a Spiral 3x3 Piston Door |
legomasta99 | Quad-Core Redstone Computer v5.0 |
LogicalGeekBoy | Creeper Gunpowder Farm Tutorial |
Lord Jon25 | I Played the HARDEST Skyblock |
lum3nd0 | New Smallest 0.9s 5x5 Piston Door |
Maizuma Games | ReCategorizer: Tutorial + Download |
Malorem | Minecraft 1.20 REVOLUTIONIZES Anti-Elytra Technology |
mattbatwings | I Made an AI with just Redstone! |
Matthew Bolan | How To Find Diamonds Mathematically |
Michael2_3b | This 0-Tick Machine Sorts Falling Blocks |
Mod Punchtree | I built the BIGGEST redstone computer in Minecraft. |
Mr_Korwaldski | 16KB RAM Has Redstone Surpassed Rocket Science |
MrCube6 | I rigged their casino so I always win |
Mumbo Jumbo | I made a Walking House in Minecraft 1.14 |
MythicalPingu | Redstone Millennium Falcon! |
NASA ツ | Redstone Connect-4 AI |
navynexus | Xploit Server Tour |
Nico is LOST | Using Science to MAXIMIZE the Mob Spawning Algorithm |
Panda4994 | How to kill a Wither in 3.8 seconds (fast, easy, safe) |
peterjiangTW | Wooden Water Decimal Adder | Wooden Water Circuit |
pi314159etc | Minecraft: Bomber (1.9 +) |
potato_noir | You're Being Lied To About Minecraft Mob Farms |
ProfessorTNT | I put MODDED TNT in MODERN TNT Cannons |
Purplers | I Asked AI To Make Redstone For Me |
ragou42 | [SciCraft] Epsiode 001 - The Crew |
RaPsCaLLioN1138 | Multi-Item Sorter V5 [Moony MIS] |
Redkill | Labocraft Series (no longer makes redstone content) |
RedstoneInnovation | Tiny And Fast 4x4 Door! [Tutorial] *10x3x9! |
RexxStone | Compact & Customizable Slot Machine |
RubixTheSlime | How to cross wires, without crossing any wires |
sammyuri | I made Minecraft in Minecraft with redstone! |
SethBling | I Added Realistic Physics to Minecraft |
Sidney600MC | Extremely Tiny 10x10 Seamless Piston Door! |
silentwhisperer | 10 Simple & Useful Commands |
Skyflip | MINECRAFT Tutorial: SMALLEST Flush Triple Piston Extender |
Sloimay | What My First 2 Years of Redstone Looked Like |
SpaceWalker | Fastest Seamless 5x5 Door |
Squibble | This Invention Will Change Minecraft Forever |
TangoTek | How to Play Decked Out 2! |
The Bow Tie Man | Minecraft BE PERFECT 3X3 PISTON DOOR! |
TheJoCraft | Das Redstone Kreuzfahrtschiff |
TomcoTwo | The BEST 4X4 PISTON DOOR! [Minecraft Bedrock 1.21] |
Torb | I built a 1Hz Redstone Computer... |
Towsti | Self-Building House In Minecraft |
TrazLander | Nothing's Impossible |
Tsskyx | Minecraft - UPDATED Fast Piston Elevator |
vinnicius13 | 1 HORA de Casa Automática - Minecraft Em busca da casa automática |
WhiteStoneJazz | A sculk-sensor computer |
Xcom6000 | Faster Than Light |
xisumavoid | Minecraft : The Evolution Of My Minecraft Bases |
Taichi | 【マイクラ】古代の残骸を1万個集めようとした結果【たいち鯖】 |
脏小豆 | We built an indestructible, all-encompassing machine! But the price was... |