Redstone Ore

Redstone Ore is commonly found deep underground. It currently is of no use except for illumination when mining in a dark place. You will be able to collect Redstone from the ore when Update 0.8.0 is released, but until then when it is mined nothing will be yielded.

Trivia

 * In Minecraft for PC and Xbox 360, redstone is used as the main power source.
 * Only jailbroken devices running iOS could recive Redstone for a limited time but it couldn't be layed out. If it was tapped on, your game would crash
 * Redstone Ore lights up for 45 seconds if tapped on by the player.
 * Redstone Ore was one of the first ores implanted into the game's code.