Tutorials/Secret door

On most multiplayer servers, protecting your house is a must. One way to protect your house is to prevent people from even knowing where your house is. To accomplish this, one should use a hidden door. Ranging from a hole in the ground to an elaborate piston contraption, building a secret door can be as easy or as hard as you want it to be. Some hidden doors are more reliable than others, but it is up to you to decide which door to make. Extra security measures can be added to any of them, and several hidden doors can be combined, but most of these doors have some sort of drawback. This article will aim to cover the basics of a few types of hidden doors.

Fishing in lava door
First off, you need a lava pool. This can be either natural or artificial. If you are, make it look natural. Put a WOODEN pressure plate somewhere at the bottom of the lava pool. Remember where it is. After this, you must dig under the lava pool, and put redstone wiring beneath the pressure plate, connecting it to a piston secret door. When you wish to enter your base, fish at the wood pressure plate. If the fishing bobber hits, the plate will activate a redstone current, opening the door. To close the door after entering, retract the bobber. A button can be used to get out. But then again, people will question why you're fishing in lava.

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Piston Hidden Door
For secret doors involving pistons, see the Piston Uses tutorial.

Underwater Hidden Door
Doors and entrances can actually be hidden underwater. This is accomplished via the use of water blocking objects such as trapdoors, ladders, signs etc. Many players prefer to hide these underwater entrances in man-made fountains, bodies of water or behind/in waterfalls. When creating an entrance in the base of a body of water dig a small hole, 1 block only is hidden the best. Then place a ladder at the entrance of the hole, you should see that this will block out the water, leaving an air pocket. You can now continue this ladder shaft down into your base. Be careful when placing torches or light sources to not make this hole easily noticeable.

This secret door can be coupled with a piston and a wooden pressure plate to make your base hidden even better. The player tosses an item into a hole a short distance away from the door. This hole can either have the pressure plate in it, or can have a water stream to move the item, and be either above or below water. When the item lands on the pressure plate, a redstone signal retracts the piston, opening the door. After entering, the player can collect the dropped item to close the door. A button can be used to open the door for enough time to swim out.

Lava Door
Minecarts can be used to teleport through lava, and your player will instantly be inside the minecart without actually having to go through the lava. This can be used to your advantage. First, make your doorway (at least 3 layers) of blocks as the door frame. Then place one minecart rail on the floor outside the doorway directly in front of it, and another inside, directly behind your doorway. On each of these rails, place a minecart. Optionally, half steps may be placed around the rails to keep the minecart from being pushed. Remove one block from the top middle layer of the door way, and remove one directly below this hole on the floor as well. Then get a bucket of lava, and place the lava into the top gap inside the doorway, being careful to move out of the way immediately to avoid getting a faceful of lava. You can now use your Lava Door by clicking through the lava to the minecart on the other side.

Optional:

On the side of the doorway that is open to the rest of the world (aka the people you're trying to keep out), remove the previously mentioned half slabs and build a convincing minecart track off of where the minecart sits. this ensures people won't wonder why a random minecart is sitting next to a lava flow, as they will probably assume that it is a minecart incinerator rather than a secret entrance. one problem with this is that the minecart may be acidently pushed into the lava by another player while you are inside your base, thus trapping you inside. a way to fix this is to set up a redstone torch to turn on while a cart is sitting on a detector rail in front of the entrance so you know if it's safe to attempt teliporting through to the outside. to throw off even the smartest people who would question why you have a detector rail in front of your supposed minecart incinerator, you should also wire up the detector to a mechanism that looks important to the automation of the system, which, once again, is supposed to be a minecart incinerator. please note that it may be more convenient to build your secret entry way into an actual minecart incinerator than to build a fake minecart incinerator around your pre-existing secret entry way as this optional step describes.

Lava and Water Entrance
This entrance is extremely dangerous, as the player is required to go into lava briefly. In addition, it is impossible to exit, unless the player uses a fire resistance potion. However, an inefficient exit may be formed by making a 1-way portal to a very high platform, and then jumping into water below the platform. Dig a 1*1*5 hole in the ground. Place a sign inside the hole, 1 block below the opening and 3 blocks above the bottom of the hole. Place another sign one block above the bottom of the hole. Fill the lower 1*1*1 gap fully with water, and fill the top with lava. The signs hold the water and lava in position. When you enter, you fall through the lava into water, then into a 1*1*2 hole. You can use this to continue building a passageway.

OPTIONAL: Build a 5*5 hut around it with a door, with a sign labeled "Trash Deposit" to fend against anyone thinking that there is a secret base in there. The lava will also trick them! You should also place a door in front of the lava so the lava doesn't flow out.

WARNING: Make sure to wear armor, or use a potion of fire resistance! If you do not, the lava will kill you and your inventory will fall in the lava!

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