To begin, the Redstone Engineering Division, or R.E.D. has been a pet project of mine for some time now, up until now, only existing on servers where I had the chance to establish it. I suppose the short description would be that R.E.D. is a small, mostly informal organization (for the moment) of like minded Redstone Engineers, looking for a bit of unity, comradery, and on occaision, assistance.

That being said, there's really a bit more to it than that, but really, that summed it up fairly well.

The first and foremost goal for R.E.D. beyond anything else, was to help expand the number of Redstone Engineers out in the community. To this end, in the past, I myself have taken on an occasional apprentice, training them in redstone engineering, before adding them to the Ranks. While I would encourage other engineers to consider taking on their own apprentices, I have recognized that there is in fact a fair sized demand for this sort of teaching, and as such, in my own server ,I have created an academy in the engineering and science oriented city of haearn, (it's a roleplay server, so this makes a bit more sense.) in order to teach players not only about the history and lore of the server, but also to teach any who wish to learn Redstone.

However, as time has gone by, R.E.D. has evolved into something more, into an organization of Redstone Engineers, like minded individuals, each of which enjoy redstone, and who want to help each other to improve their own redstone. To that end, R.E.D. DOES have some standard behavior expected of it's members when applicable, though these tend to be fairly minor acts that most people don't mind.

1. R.E.D. members are encouraged, though not required, to add goggles to their skin, with a single red pixel or block in the right side of the strap, the same shade as the redstone block, to act as a kind of proof of membership

2. R.E.D. members are encouraged, when applicable, to include two minor changes to their redstone engineering behavior.
Firstly, we encourage the placement of two signs, one above the other, on or next to the machinery, with the following information on it.

first Sign
Machine description/type/name (IE Digital Combo Lock, etc.)
Second sign
Last Maint.
[date of last inspection/maintinence]
Inspected by:
[username of last engineer to inspect it.]

The purpose behind these signs, put simply, is documentation, something that can prove to be very important. while I would also encourage a log be kept of glitches, breakages, and the like, as well as their fixes, in game, in a book, that tends to be a bit much to ask of players.

the other thing encouraged for this is that maintinence space be created for complex machinery to be accessed in survival mode, with the obvious safety features included, such as railing, ladders, etc, to facilitate safe inspection and access. this is not always applicable of course, but it is encouraged.

3. Finally, R.E.D. members are also encouraged to aid each other, sometimes even in game, with their respective work, and to maintain a certain level of professional pride and quality in their work, so as to keep the good name of Engineers.



That being said, I don't think I have much else to say except that at the moment, R.E.D. DOES have a base of sorts in my own server, in Haearn, the engineers focused city mentioned above.