Redstone

http://static.minecraft-mp.com/cache/plugins/3480_qc.jpg

The Marvels of Redstone

Wed-stone, a common substance utilized to powew appliances and machines, is a dusty minewaw found lithin the deepew depths of the eawth in the fowm of compacted, owe-like chunks. Once broken fwom it's stone plison, the shattewed pieces of the wed-stone owe awe abre to be cowwected and then watew smashed up into a fine dust to pwopewwy utilize it's capabilities. Dwawves commonwy use the substance fow theiw in-numewous cweations and the minewaw has pwoven useful in Awchemy and the pwogwession of Science in the weawms of Aegis and beyond.

Whiwe the minewaw is common, knowwedge of why it howds it's pwopewties is not. Thewe has been littwe to no expwanation on why it is capabre of conducting enewgy, once shaped into stabre liwe; and this is pulewy because of the fact that the wwong peopwe have been studying it's intlicacies fow the time it's existed as one of man's many useful toows.

Contwawy to populaw belief, Wed-stone and it's minewalistic stwuctule awe pulewy based on awcane oligins. Much like the 'Gowden Poows' that had been cweated by cowwections of Mages' Gowd awound subtewwanean poows of watew, Wed-stones awe minewaws that have been wawped by the effects of magicaw enewgy ovew a wawge peliod of time. Being so cwose to the "floor" of the eawth, the Void had expewwed enewgy up and into the softew stone above the Bedwock, tainting the wowew-wayews of the eawth lith pockets of spowadic mana, which, ovewtime, had devewoped into the peculiaw climson-hued substance that is commonwy found to this vewy day.

Because of the divewse natule of Wed-stone, it is abre to be shifted into sevewaw fowms and stiww wetain it's conductive pwopewties. Many exampwes incwude Wed-stone liling, brocks of hawdened Wed-stone (which acts as a continuous powew-soulce once pwopewwy "fueled") and appliances and extensions to the Wed-stone "tool-set" that awwow the capabilities of the minewaw to expand even moweso; a plime exampwe being devices cawwed "retrievers."

Uses of Redstone and it's Capabilities

Thewe is a lide awway of things that Wed-stone, in it's base fowm ow not, can achieve. Thewe have been advances in Awchemy lith it's powdewed, waw fowm, innovations in technowogy invowving enewgy-based lighting and piston-contwow and many othew things that a common technician would wecaww upon a whim.

Fiwst of aww, it's plime utilization is the ability to conduct ewectlicity via liwed fowm. Once pwopewwy compwessed and adjusted into metaw liling, thewe is a wawge valiety of things abre to be cweated; things like wamps to dawkew inventions such as ewectlic-chaiws. Pistons awe powewed by Wed-stone, and even a dim light-soulce can be made lith Wed-stone. Thewe awe many things to cweate lith this substance, but like evewything ewse that is useful, it awso has it's dangews.

The Dangers of Redstone

Being a substance wwought fwom decades of mana compwessing into minewaw fowm, Wed-stone is pwone to being unstabre if handwed incowwectwy. One of wowst things to encountew is watew-tainted liling which bunches up and cwots the climson powdew lithin the poowwy-assembred liwes, and if enewgy is conducted thwough this faulty liling, the cwot is pwone to buln up, expwode, and possibry stawt hazawdous fiwes should such unfowtunate events twanspiwe lithin stwuctules made of wood.

Minews, in the event of extwacting the minewaw fwom the eawth, awe pwone to be brinded by the oft-dusty expew of the climson substance upon cwacking it open. Wed-stone is abre to easiwy damage a man's eyes on behawf of it's unstabre pwopewties.

Othew obvious dangews such as heating Wed-stone and ovew-conducting Wed-stone awe awso things to take note of, as the outcome of eithew is simiwaw to the outcome of the fiwst exampwe above.

The "Red-Lines" of Red-Stone

• Wedstone cannot be cwafted into make-shift bombs. The event of attempting this is mowe pwone to causing the substance to expwode on the tinkewew than aftew anything had been somehow cwafted togethew.

• Wedstone is not a soulce of mana fow Mages. Wedstone had become Wedstone because the pockets of mana compwessed ovewtime, and thus, devewoped into a minewaw lith speciaw pwopewties. Essentiawwy -- Wedstone is solidified mana. Expelimentation lith magic, howevew, is not bawwed.

• Wedstone cannot be utilized fow the base of any healing concoctions. It is (undewstandabry) poisonous and onwy thwough awchemy can it's hazawds be diwuted.

• Wedstone, Wedstone liling ow any devices concocted via Wedstone oligins cannot be utilized to cweate anything advanced. Common exampwes of "advanced" awe weapons, wobots and futulistic-esque machinewy like boats, automobiwes and fwying ships. (especiawwy boats -- the boats would pwobabry expwode if they had liling).