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In June 2016, I shut down Powered by Redstone, a Minecraft blog I had been running since 2011. I tried to reboot it as Redstone Central a month later, but for a variety of reasons (that you can read about here), I decided to end that a few months later.

I have moved the Redstone Central site, which contains all the posts from it and Powered by Redstone, to redstonecentral.blogspot.com.

I plan to keep the archived site on Blogger as long as possible, but I'm not sure how long I will keep the old Powered by Redstone and Redstone Central domains.

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  1. Thanks. I appreciate your hard work.

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  5. Thank you. For all the work you have done. It would have been nice if you could one day try this again. That would be cool. If not, I get it. I might have done the same. As always, good things must come to an end. Anyway, good luck for that job u have. Adios:)

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  6. I miss you Corbin. I miss logging on and reading the well-put-together articles. I miss commenting and I miss you. But, it's okay. All good things must, sadly, come to an end. I'll keep updated on Twitter. Thanks for the memories.

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