Redstone is Minecraft’s wiring system. Here’s how to build your first simple circuit: a door that opens with a lever.

What you’ll need

  • Redstone dust
  • A lever
  • A door

Building it

Place the door, run redstone dust from a lever to the door, and flip the lever to see it open and close.

Diagram of a lever connected to a door by a line of redstone dust
Lever → redstone dust → door. The simplest circuit in the game.

Once this clicks, you’re ready to combine circuits — repeaters, comparators, and pistons all build on this same lever-to-dust-to-output logic.