Minecraft Legends follows a brave adventurer on their quest to rid the Overworld of the Piglins that recently invaded. Much of the game requires the player to recruit various mobs in order to take down Piglin strongholds, but recruiting them requires certain materials to be acquired first.
In Minecraft, Redstone can be used to create a variety of useful and functioning contraptions, and though it can be used similarly in Minecraft Legends, it also serves another purpose. Redstone is an extremely valuable resource to have, but it isn't always easy to find.
What Does Redstone Do In Minecraft Legends?
When obtained, Redstone can be used to create helpful contraptions like Battle Drums and Redstone Launchers, both of which can be used while attacking Piglin Outposts and strongholds and also while defending villages.
Redstone can also be used to create Zombie Spawners, useful devices that, when used, can spawn Zombies to aid the protagonist in their endeavors. Before players can create this device, however, they will first need to travel to the Zombie Homestead to defend the Zombies from attacking Piglins. After the battle, they will be able to create Zombie Spawner for 25 Wood, 25 Stone, and 5 Redstone. Spawning Zombies themselves required 2 Redstone, 2 Lapis, and 1 Flame of Creation.
How To Find Redstone In Minecraft Legends
In Minecraft, if players wanted to collect Redstone, they would need to find some by exploring the vast world before harvesting it with a Pickaxe. In Minecraft Legends, players also need to find Redstone by exploring the map but harvesting it requires a different approach.
During the tutorial, the game will teach players how to harvest Wood and Stone by using the Allays. When deployed, Allays will collect whatever materials they are assigned to, so long as said material is near where the player commands them to search. The same process can be used to collect Redstone, but players won't be able to command their Allays to collect any until they have first placed an Improvement: Gather Redstone Melody at the Well of Fate.
Building an Improvement: Gather Redstone requires 100 Stone and 100 Prismarine. Once the Improvement: Gather Redstone Melody is in place, the "Gather Redstone" icon can be assigned to the hotbar, making it possible for the protagonist to send their Allays to search for some. To collect Redstone, all the player needs to do is locate a vein of it in the Overworld and command their Allays to harvest it.
Like most resources in Minecraft Legends, however, Redstone tends to only appear in specific regions, so players might have a hard time finding any if they are aimlessly exploring. Those hoping to obtain large amounts of it need to focus on searching the Jungle and Swamp biomes on the map. If the protagonist has already defended a village in one of these biomes, they can fast-travel to the village itself and begin searching from there.
Redstone can also be obtained from Village Chests. To find a village that produces Redstone, the player should examine the world map and hover the cursor over each village. The resources each village will produce will then be visible in the information box on the right side of the screen.
Minecraft Legends is now available on PS4, PS5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PC, and Nintendo Switch.