User:JellyfishGreen/Anti-creeper

How to make sure you never get ganked by Creepers (those bastards):
Adrian says: September 22, 2010 at 3:20 am

1. Build your door from OUTSIDE the structure, rather than inside. It gives you a sheer facade to your building from outside (where the baddies are) and a one block threshold inside from which you can launch an attack. 2. Create a wooden switch (three planks, in a horizontal row on the crafting table). From INSIDE your structure, one block behind the fully-opened door, place the switch on the ground. Now, every time you leave the house, the door will automatically close behind you. You will have to manually open the door from the outside (which is what you want) but as soon as you step on that plate, it’ll close behind you! 3. Build some damn fences (six sticks, three across on top of three across) and block off an area of at least five blocks around your building front! They can’t blow up your entire freakin house if they can’t reach it. I’ve been ambushed but I thankfully survived by doing this – also by building really high up, with a narrow staircase so as to keep them single file and to not get surrounded, and with all exterior walls being at least double-thick stone on major settlements. Try it and avoid losing everything you’ve worked so hard for. :)