Minecraft Pocket, Windows 10 builds finally get redstone

News by Brenna Hillier Contributor

Published on Nov. 23, 2015

Minecraft players outside the mothership and console builds can finally get creative with one of the game's most powerful tools.

A new Minecraft update has rolled out to Pocket Edition and Windows 10 beta users. I had no idea these two ports were in lockstep, but there you are.

As well as redstone, something most Minecraft players consider pretty essential to the experience if you're interested in creative building, the update adds rabbits, makes a number of balancing changes and fixes many bugs.

Here are the full patch notes:

New Features

Redstone Circuits: Redstone Wire, Torch, Lamp, Levers, Buttons, Pressure plates, Tripwires, Trapped Chests and Detector Rails. Craft them all!
Cute, fluffy, crop-eating, bunnies
Desert temples
New types of wooden doors

Removed Features

Stonecutter (RIP)
Herobrine (RIP)

Tweaks

Redstone can be used to control doors, trapdoors, TNT and rails
Faster boats with improved handling
Increased item tooltip visibility time in Windows 10 Edition Beta
Stack count labels now use a bigger and more readable font
Slimes and Ghasts now actually spawn!
Hunger restored by food items now match the PC version
Flowers created by using Bone Meal on Grass now depend on the biome
Skeletons now run away from Wolves
Obsidian now breaks in 6.5 seconds rather than 3
Minecarts now stack on top of each other
Boats now stack
Beetroot soup now stacks
Fixed Curved Rail and Redstone behaviour
Improved Slime spawning
Block lag should be significantly reduced. Everything should feel more responsive now
Updated door textures all over the place
Even more Ghast and Slime spawning