Redstone Torch

Obtaining

Redstone torches can be broken instantly using anything, and drop themselves as an item. To remove a redstone torch, use the attack control Minecraft uses the standard control scheme of mouse and keyboard controls as input. The game cannot be played using only a mouse or only a keyboard using the default control scheme. The controls menu is button .

A redstone torch will also be removed and drop itself as an item:

• if its attachment block is moved, removed, or destroyed
• if water Water Transparency Partial (-2 to light) Luminance No Blast resistance 500 (Flowing) 500 (Still) Tool Renewable Yes Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Water dec: 08 hex: 8 bin: 1000 Still Water dec: 09 hex: 9 bin: 1001 flows into its space
• if a piston Piston Transparency Yes Luminance None Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Pistons are blocks capable of pushing most blocks, depending on tries to push it or moves a block into its space

If lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still flows into a redstone torch`s space, the redstone torch will be destroyed (burned) without dropping itself as an item.

Info

Redstone Torch

Transparency When leaves are opaque (in "fast" graphics), they completely block rendering. When leaves are transparent (in "fancy" graphics), the world behind them is also rendered. Opacity (and its inverse, transparency) are properties of blocks with	Yes
Luminance Light (or lighting) in Minecraft affects visibility, mob spawning, and plant growth. Contents 1 Brightness 1.1 Spread 2 Sources of light 2.1 Blocks 2.2 Other 3 Light-filtering blocks 4 Effects of light 4.1 Mobs 4.2	Yes, 7 (when on)
Blast resistance	0
Tool	Any tool
Renewable A renewable resource (as opposed to a non-renewable, or finite, resource) is a resource that can be recreated indefinitely in survival without exploiting glitches or using commands. While running out of resources isn t likely to	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	No
Drops See the items that drop from entities and blocks. For drops as in falls, see Fall Damage. Typical drops from a skeleton: experience orbs, an arrow, and bones. Drops are items that	Itself
Data values	See Data values
Name See values from the latest PCPersonal Computer version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	See Data values

A redstone torch is a non- solid Comparison of the solid stone and liquid water blocks Solid blocks are a category of block. Contents 1 Properties 2 List of solid blocks 2.1 List of non-solid blocks 3 Height 4 Video 5 History block See the various blocks found in Minecraft. For the blocking with shields that reduces damage when performed, see Blocking. All blocks Blocks are the basic units of structure in Minecraft. Contents 1 that can be used as an invertible redstone power source.

Videos

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe
Redstone⃂+ Stick

Natural generation

Redstone torches can be found in igloos Igloo Biome Ice Plains, Cold Taiga Consists of Snow White Carpet Light Gray Carpet Ice (Packed Ice in Pocket Edition.) Redstone Torch Furnace Bed (Brown Bed, Light Blue Bed or White Bed) in Pocket Edition. .

Usage

Redstone torches can be used as crafting ingredients or redstone components.

Crafting ingredient

Redstone torches can be used to craft activator rails Activator Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name activator_rail An activator rail is a type of rail that , redstone comparators Redstone Comparator Transparency Yes Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Redstone Comparator (1) Data values See Data values Name , and redstone repeaters Redstone Repeater Transparency Yes (partial) Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Availability Survival, Creative Drops Redstone Repeater (1) Data values .

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	Ingredients	Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe	Description
Activator Rail	Iron Ingot+ Stick+ Redstone Torch	6 Activator Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name activator_rail An activator rail is a type of rail that
Redstone Comparator Redstone Comparator Transparency Yes Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Redstone Comparator (1) Data values See Data values Name	Redstone Torch+ Nether Quartz+ Any Stone		Can use stone and its variants interchangeably. Pocket Edition only.
Redstone Comparator Redstone Comparator Transparency Yes Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Redstone Comparator (1) Data values See Data values Name	Redstone Torch+ Nether Quartz+ Stone		Can use stone only, no variants. Computer and Console Edition only.
Redstone Repeater	Redstone Torch+ Redstone+ Stone		Can use stone only, no variants. Computer and Console Edition only.
Redstone Repeater	Redstone Torch+ Redstone+ Any Stone		Can use stone and its variants interchangeably. Pocket Edition only.

Redstone component

See also: Redstone circuit

Redstone torches can be used to power blocks and transmission components such as redstone dust, activate mechanism components such as pistons, or invert redstone signals like a NOT Gate.

Placement

Examples of redstone torch placement and behavior.

To place a redstone torch, use the Place Block control Minecraft uses the standard control scheme of mouse and keyboard controls as input. The game cannot be played using only a mouse or only a keyboard using the default control scheme. The controls menu is while aiming at the surface to which the redstone torch should be attached.

A redstone torch can be attached to:

• the top or side of any full solid opaque block (stone, dirt, blocks of gold, etc.), including full-block mechanism components (command blocks, dispensers, droppers, note blocks, and redstone lamps)
• the top only of a hopper, cobblestone wall, fence, glass, nether brick fence, an upside-down slab, or upside-down stairs

Redstone torches cannot be attached to the bottoms of any blocks.

Attempting to attach a redstone torch to an invalid surface can cause it to "snap" to a valid surface adjacent to the same space. For instance, if a fence is on the ground, attempting to attach a redstone torch to the side of the fence will cause the redstone torch to be attached to the top of the ground next to the fence instead.

See also: Torch placement

Activation

A redstone torch is active unless the block it is attached to is powered. Effectively, a redstone torch inverts the signal applied to its attachment block: power level 0 is changed to 15 and power levels 1 to 15 are changed to 0 (for an alternative that produces a greater range of output power levels, consider a redstone comparator in subtraction mode).

Walls, fences, glass, slabs, and stairs cannot be powered so redstone torches attached to them cannot be deactivated. Hoppers can be activated but cannot be powered (in the sense that they would power redstone dust next to them), so redstone torches attached to hoppers also cannot be deactivated.

A redstone torch takes 1 redstone tick (2 game ticks, or 0.1 seconds barring lag) to change state and won`t change state unless the signal change to its attachment block is at least 1.5 redstone ticks long (unless the change is caused by the redstone torch itself in a "short-circuit"). For instance, a redstone torch won`t turn off if its attachment block receives a 1-tick or shorter pulse.

Behavior

While active, a redstone torch:

• powers adjacent redstone dust to power level 15, including beneath the redstone torch if it is attached to the side of a block
• powers adjacent redstone comparators Redstone Comparator Transparency Yes Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Redstone Comparator (1) Data values See Data values Name or redstone repeaters Redstone Repeater Transparency Yes (partial) Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Availability Survival, Creative Drops Redstone Repeater (1) Data values facing away from the redstone torch to power level 15
• strongly powers a full solid opaque block See the various blocks found in Minecraft. For the blocking with shields that reduces damage when performed, see Blocking. All blocks Blocks are the basic units of structure in Minecraft. Contents 1 above the redstone torch to power level 15 (but not next to or below it)
• activates adjacent mechanism components, including above or below, such as pistons, redstone lamps, etc.
• produces "reddust" particles

A redstone torch never affects the block it is attached to, even if it is a mechanism component. For instance, a redstone torch attached to a redstone lamp will not activate the lamp.

A redstone torch will "burn-out" when it is forced to change state (by powering and de-powering the block it`s attached to) more than eight times in 60 game ticks (three seconds, barring lag). After burning-out, a redstone torch will produce a "smoke" particle and a hiss similar to an extinguished fire, deactivate, and will then ignore attempts to change its state until the number of state changes in the last 60 game ticks drops to fewer than eight ⃢₀ₔ after that it will re-activate when it receives a block update (an adjacent block changing its state) or a redstone update which wouldn`t normally deactivate the redstone torch. There is no limit on how often a single redstone torch can burn out.

Data values

A redstone torch is defined by its ID and block data. A redstone torch also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.

ID

A redstone torch`s ID specifies whether it is active or not.

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	ID Name	Block ID
Redstone Torch (active)	minecraft:redstone_torch	76
Redstone Torch (inactive)	minecraft:unlit_redstone_torch	75

Block data

See also: Data values

A redstone torch`s block data specifies its orientation.

Block state

See also: Block states

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	Value	Description
⃂facing	up north east south west	The direction the top of the torch is facing.

History

Alpha
1.0.1					Added redstone torches.
1.1.0					Redstone torches can no longer be placed on tree leaves, but only in fancy mode.
1.0.2_01					Redstone torch, NOT gates, only signal into blocks above them or next to them.
1.2.0_02					Redstone torches no longer duplicate in SMP.
Beta
1.2_01					Fixed redstone torches acting really weird when placed.
1.3					Redstone torches are now used to craft redstone repeaters Redstone Repeater Transparency Yes (partial) Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Availability Survival, Creative Drops Redstone Repeater (1) Data values .
1.6.6					It is now possible to place redstone torches on glowstone.
1.7.3					Corrected a redstone torch duplication bug when using pistons.
Official release
1.2.1					`Burnout` time reduced from 100 ticks to 60 ticks.
1.3.1					Redstone torches can now be placed on upside-down slabs and stairs.
1.4.2					Redstone torches are destroyed when an anvil falls on them.
1.5			13w01a		Redstone torches are used to craft redstone comparators Redstone Comparator Transparency Yes Luminance No (7 when powered, in Pocket Edition) Blast resistance 0 Tool Any tool Renewable No Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Redstone Comparator (1) Data values See Data values Name and activator rails Activator Rail Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 3.5 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name activator_rail An activator rail is a type of rail that .
1.7.2			13w37a		Block ID 75 (inactive redstone torch) was removed from the /give command.
1.8			14w07a		Redstone torches attached to the wall are now simply rotated versions of upright redstone torches, rather than having their own block model.
			14w25a		Burnt-out redstone torches no longer randomly fix themselves.
1.9			15w43a		A redstone torch generates as part of igloos Igloo Biome Ice Plains, Cold Taiga Consists of Snow White Carpet Light Gray Carpet Ice (Packed Ice in Pocket Edition.) Redstone Torch Furnace Bed (Brown Bed, Light Blue Bed or White Bed) in Pocket Edition. .
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.13.0			build 1		Added redstone torches.
Pocket Edition
1.0			build 1		A redstone torch generates as part of igloos Igloo Biome Ice Plains, Cold Taiga Consists of Snow White Carpet Light Gray Carpet Ice (Packed Ice in Pocket Edition.) Redstone Torch Furnace Bed (Brown Bed, Light Blue Bed or White Bed) in Pocket Edition. .
Console Edition
TU1	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added redstone torches.

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