As I promised, here's part 2, in which I will cover basic prroperties of redstone.

Now, as mentioned previously, a redstone circut requires an input and an output. Let's use this scenario:

You want to make a door open at the flip of a swith [or lever in this case]. But, you want to activate it from a distance. So, you hook up your redstone from the lever to the door; boom, circuit. But what's this? The circuit stops in the middle? That's because redstone wires can only reach up to 15 blocks, but there are ways to extend it [more on that later].

So, you shorten it and it now works, but now your awesome hardwood floor is covered in redstone! What to do? Well, you can easily cover it up. Instead of starting the wiring NEXT to the lever, you can start it UNDER the block the lever is sitting on. The lever actually supplies power to the block it sits on, which powers the wire. Now, you have room for your redstone AND a way to keep it neat and hidden!

So you like the idea of using levers to open/close doors, so you place one on each side of a door. You flip one lever, go through the door, and flip the other lever. But what's this? The door dosn't close?That's because both levers must be supplying an off signal to close the door. So what do you do? Nothing! Sorry, but to my knowledge, there's no way to make a two-way lever door work properly.If you know how that doesn't involve a mod, post it in the comments and I'll credit you and mention it in the next blog.

Well, I think I'll break it here, see you next time where I'll possibly talk about repeaters.

Hope you enjoy this series so far!