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Routing power shouldn't be 90% of the difficulty of redstone (bedrock)

I'm a new player (bedrock edition), and I've just started experimenting with redstone, mostly building piston doors. I started with a 2x2, which seemed like it would be fairly simple: one set of pistons pushes out another set of pistons, then that set of pistons pushes out the door blocks, mirrored on both sides of the opening, with the two sets of pistons on an ABBA switch. Not complicated. Once I started building it, however, I realized I had no idea how to actually get power to all the pistons because of the absurd mechanics of transferring power with redstone.

This really, really shouldn't be the case. The operational parts of the circuit should be the hard part, not routing the power. Specifically:

  • Why does redstone dust connect everywhere it can, rather than being switchable between several connectivity states? It shouldn't be impossible to run two independent redstone lines on adjacent blocks.
  • Why can't redstone be placed on the sides of blocks? Why should I have to make a staircase just to run power upwards?

Something simple like a 2x2 piston door shouldn't take a PhD and ~800 cubic blocks of space to create, and a 2x3 piston door certainly shouldn't be outright impossible to create without quasi-connectivity. I feel like at one point there was a push to make redstone more accessible to new players (which involved things like removing QC and sticky piston spitting), but frankly, this kind of stuff is a big reason the system is so inaccessible.

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    Lee20Three commented
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    Redstone could be so much better and I agree with you. But oh no big YouTubers would be upset or something so I guess it can't change. 

    But I don't think these changes would even break anything, at most make redstone more intuitive (although for some reason people are against that). So I will upvote and follow.

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    foot head commented
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    Nah it’s easy to transfer redstone power I have been with bedrock since the beginning and I have figured out ways, but there would be so much more potential if you could toggle redstone dust to connect to certain points instead of the game doing it

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    DRON3 ignite commented
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    I agree with you. However there are still ways to get around it, and sometimes you can even get more compact contraptions than Java edition!
    I feel the only problem is the fact Java can do much more than bedrock, I hope we will see more redstone components to facilitate these needs. I would also like to point out that the same appears to apply to commands in bedrock.☹️