Redstone Engine

Redstone engines are the cheapest of the type of Engine. They use wood instead of stone or iron in their crafting and are the least powerful of the three types of engine. These engines will not overheat if they are connected to a pipe.Otherwise they will overheat. If your engine core turns red it needs to be turned off or it will explode. If the engine has nothing to expend its energy on it will explode. When flashing yellow and red the engine is producing its maximum power output. It will only flash if it is connected to a load, otherwise it will stay red until it explodes.

Redstone engines seem to gain strength as they heat up. The most notable proof of this is the solid line of single items moved through pipes after the engine has been on for some time.

== Recipe &nbsp== A recipe requires:

■3 Wooden Planks ■2 Wooden Gears ■1 Piston ■1 Glass Block

Power Source
Redstone engines get all their power from redstone/levers and do not need refuelling. They require a direct link to redstone and will not be powered by redstone wire running past them on the same level.

Uses
Redstone engines are most often used for powering things like wooden pipes when it's not necessary to move many items at once because they are cheap to produce and maintain. The engine will not overheat and explode if it is powering an object, but if left on while not connected to an object it will explode. The easiest way to work around this is to use a redstone repeater circuit to power the engine, thus giving the engine time to power down between redstone pulses. Redstone engines are at their best used as powering for extractor (wooden) pipes, for solid items or liquids. They are sufficient to execute this task and don't need a significant installation to function. The minimum configuration takes only two blocks (engine itself and a switch ).