Minecraft: A Guide to Redstone Comparators
The Redstone comparator is Minecraft’s most complex Redstone component. Unlike other components that are fairly obvious and upfront with their functions, the comparator’s functions are not as easily understood by simple observation. Redstone is Minecraft’s electricity. Players are able to use Redstone components to make contraptions and mechanisms to assist them with tasks, to ensure security, or just to make something cool.
The level of simplicity or complexity used with Redstone is up to the player. Players have been able to make automated item sorters, secret passages, and even a functioning graphing calculator. With the comparator’s complexity, possibilities open up even further, however, even approaching this device can be intimidating. This guide will go through all the functions the comparator can do.
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Minecraft players will need three Redstone torches, three stone, and one nether quartz to make a comparator. The player will also need a crafting table. In the 3x3 crafting menu, the player must place the three stones in the three bottom slots, place the quartz in the center, and place the three torches are placed on the left, right, and top slots.
The comparator looks similar to a Minecraft repeater, being a flat slab with Redstone torches. The comparator, however, has three torches instead of two. When the comparator is placed on the floor, the main input is the side with two torches and the output is the side with one torch. Unique to this component, the comparator also has two secondary inputs—one on the left and one on the right. A small side note players should know is that the comparator will only use one of these inputs at a time, that being
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