You Are Not Alone

I'm Harlow, a 19 y/o Minecrafter who uses they/them and he/him pronouns! I've been playing Minecraft for about ten years, so if you need Minecraft advice, shoot an ask into my inbox! I will also post about my Minecraft book, The Destiny Chronicles, which features many fantasy themes and adds onto Minecraft and fills it with new cultures!

[brightgoat]

Something possessed me and I was like "I must come up with in-world symbolism of colours from the perspective of the Overworld (so illagers and villagers).

It would be different from Nether's perspective, perhaps I'll do that later.

[teachiisan]

👁

Redraw of my gameplay screenshot from 2021 when i was playing survival with herobrine mod

[redavexat]

[teachiisan]

WAIT THIS IS MY TWEET HELP MEE

[teachiisan]

I've been into liminal spaces lately

[mousegirlheart]

[mousegirlheart]

[lonely-boiii]

that's only one mice?

[mousegirlheart]

[the-agender-ender]

Only had the creek for ten minutes and I’m already making extensive lore and characters for the biome

[majormeilani]

THIS COMMENT IS MAKING ME CRY LAUGHING HELPP

[artist-gogh]

The Sorrowful Truth

June of 2020

[illwilledomen]

Alex and Steve

[luciifruit]

It’s Minecraft’s quinceañera, rejoice!

[madamepestilence]

The Chemical Structure of Redstone

So I was curious about what the chemical structure of Redstone looks like, and Minecraft Education Edition, albeit unintentionally, gives us a canon look into what Redstone is made of:

In Minecraft Education Edition, putting a Redstone Block into a Material Reducer shows that it's composed of 31 Carbon, 31 Uranium, and 38 Unobtanium, which we can assume to be measured in grams

Dividing the Redstone Block into Redstone Dust, each Redstone Dust is then composed of approximately 3.4 Carbon, 3.4 Uranium, and 4.2 Unobtanium

Again assuming that's measured in grams, that's 0.17 cm³ of Uranium, 1.496 cm³ of Carbon, and ???³ of Unobtanium per Redstone Dust

So what does this tell us about the chemical structure of Redstone? Basing this on Redstone Dust's composition, we can estimate that each Redstone molecule is composed of 3 Carbon atoms, 3 Uranium atoms, 4 Unobtanium atoms, a little under half of the time it binds to an extra Uranium and/or Carbon, and 20% of the time it binds to an extra Unobtanium

This also has some horrifying implications for how Redstone works:

Redstone would be extremely volatile as the radioactive decay from Unobtanium and Uranium would occasionally release Helium ions through alpha radiation, sometimes breaking apart Carbon into two Beryllium atoms (as it absorbs the extra proton and neutron from the Uranium) or merging into Oxygen

So Redstone should, in theory, be extremely flammable and potentially explosive, which implies that cave static, or the player mining Redstone with an Iron Pickaxe, could lead to a spark that causes an explosive cave-in

As Unobtanium is just a placeholder for unobtainable elements (hence the name), I'm going to estimate Unobtanium in this case as Unbinilium, the placeholder name for element 120

Why?

I'm estimating the Unobtanium as Redstone as being larger than the largest man-made element, Oganesson, which holds an impressive 118 protons

Each valence electron shell, from innermost to outermost, can bind with 2, 8, 18, 32, 32, 18, and 8 shells respectively, so I'd like Unobtanium to be an element we haven't discovered yet, and consequently I'd like to jump up to the next shell

While I could estimate with element 119's placeholder, Ununennium, it would have one electron in the next shell, so Unbinilium allows for easier chemical binding

So what does this molecule look like then? Well, horrifyingly...

It looks like this. As Redstone forms in crystal lattices, and only two Carbon atoms are free to bind, I can absolutely see why it's so brittle that it breaks into powder.

This makes the structure of Redstone:

C3U3Uno4 (55% of molecules) C4U3Uno4 (13% of molecules) C3U4Uno4 (13% of molecules) C4U4Uno4 (7% of molecules) C3U3Uno5 (5% of molecules) C4U3Uno5 (3% of molecules) C3U4Uno5 (3% of molecules) C4U4Uno5 (1% of molecules)

An extremely radioactive, flammable, and explosive compound.

[pinemangoart]

Haven’t properly drawn the default skins since they were announced, decided to upd their designs :3 Alex n HB are early designs w/in the long n needlessly elaborate MC lore I’ve built up in my head for years

[vruzzt]

I want all 3... I know it won't happen, but at least the ones that don't win aren't discarded, and can be added to future updates…

[made-nondescript]

gamers!!!

[absolutelynotsanebaby]

Alex n Steve from the hit game minecraft

[w31rdb0x]

I am,,, probably sane and completely normal about them. Yeah.

Those convos are me and my little brother when we played lеgo Minecraft. The way we played made some dumb interactions that I wanted to capture >< My Steve is dumb and naive and my brother's Herobrine is...... desperate for any kind of affection :D I am so sorry about the Skibidi toilet............................

This is not the way I see them, it's just how they turned out to be while I played with my brother qwq

i also drew them as ponies cuz i love ponies

[ilovestevemc]