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Duncan Geere Mojang avatar

Trapdoors have been in Minecraft since Beta 1.6 in 2011, when they were added alongside maps, grass and dead bushes. Originally they only opened upward, but that was later fixed so they opened down too, and the ability to climb them as a ladder was added. A bunch of different types of trapdoor have been added in the last few years - one for each type of wood, and also one made of iron that can only be opened with redstone power.

Duncan Geere[1]

A trapdoor is a solid, transparent block that can be used as an openable barrier.

Obtaining

Wooden trapdoors can be mined with anything, but an axe is fastest. Iron trapdoors require a pickaxe to mine. Trapdoors will remain in place if their attachment block is moved, removed, or destroyed.

Block Wooden Trapdoors Iron
Hardness 3 5
Tool
Breaking time[A]
Default 4.5 25
Wooden 2.25 3.75
Stone 1.15 1.9
Iron 0.75 1.25
Diamond 0.6 0.95
Netherite 0.5 0.85
Golden 0.4 0.65
  1. Times are for unenchanted tools as wielded by players with no status effects, measured in seconds. For more information, see Breaking § Speed.

Crafting

Name Ingredients Crafting recipe
Wooden Trapdoor Matching Planks
Iron Trapdoor Iron Ingot

Natural generation

An oak trapdoor may be found leading to igloo basements. Various wooden trapdoors (except acacia trapdoor) generate on a shipwreck.

Oak trapdoors generate naturally in plains villages.

Spruce trapdoors generate naturally in taiga and snowy taiga villages.

Jungle trapdoors generate naturally around composters in desert villages.

Usage

See also: Trapdoor uses

Properties

Wooden trapdoors can be opened and closed by players. Iron trapdoors can only be opened with redstone power.

To place a trapdoor, use a trapdoor item while pointing at the block it should be attached to. Once it is placed, the attachment block can be removed without breaking the trapdoor.

When placed, a trapdoor will either occupy the top or bottom part of a block, depending on where the player placed the trapdoor. If a trapdoor is placed on the top part of a block, it will open downwards. If placed on the bottom part of a block, it will open upwards.

A trapdoor's "hinge" will be on the block it was attached to.

Trapdoors can be moved by pistons. Water can flow through trapdoors, but lava cannot. Lava can create fire in air blocks next to wooden trapdoors as if they were flammable, but the trap doors will not burn up (and can't be burned by other methods either).

An open trapdoor may be climbed like a ladder if it is directly above a ladder and on the same side of the block.

The sound of opening and closing of a trapdoor can be heard up to 16 blocks away, like most mob sounds.

Trapdoors are able to be opened or closed with a player or mob inside.[2]

Barrier

A trapdoor can be used as a switchable barrier to entity movement. Although primarily used to block movement by mobs and players, a trapdoor can also be used to control the movement of boats (for example, a top trapdoor placed in a two-wide water flow will stop a boat when closed (extended out into the water flow), but allow it to move again when open), items and minecarts (a trapdoor can stop a falling item or minecart, then allow it to drop again when the trapdoor opens), etc.

Trapdoors are 0.1875 (316) blocks thick. The rest of a trapdoor's space can be moved through freely and provides a breathable space if placed underwater and not waterlogged.

To open or close a wooden trapdoor, use the Use Item/Place Block control. When a trapdoor opens or closes, it immediately changes its orientation without affecting anything in the space it "passes through". Moving trapdoors don't push entities the way that pistons do.

Iron trapdoors can only be opened with redstone power (a button, a redstone circuit, etc.).

Mobs pathfinding considers trapdoors to always be closed, whether they are open or not. This often result in mobs falling through open trapdoors.

Redstone component

Both wooden and iron trapdoors can be controlled with redstone power.

A trapdoor is a redstone mechanism and can be activated by:

When activated, a trapdoor will immediately "rotate" around its hinge side to its open state. When deactivated, a trapdoor immediately returns to its closed state. Each change of state takes one game tick.

An activated wooden trapdoor can still be closed by a player, and won't re-open until it receives a new activation signal (if a trapdoor has been closed "by hand", it still needs to be deactivated and then reactivated to open by redstone).

Fuel

Wooden trapdoors can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per block.

Data values

ID

Trapdoor/ID

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, a trapdoor's block data specifies its orientation, positioning, and activation status:

Bits Values
0x1
0x2

A two-bit field storing a value from 0 to 3:

  • 0: Trapdoor on the south side of a block
  • 1: Trapdoor on the north side of a block
  • 2: Trapdoor on the east side of a block
  • 3: Trapdoor on the west side of a block
0x4 If this bit is set, the trapdoor is on the top half of a block. Otherwise, it is on the bottom half.
0x8 If this bit is set, the trapdoor is open.

Block states

See also: Block states

Java Edition:

Name Default value Allowed values Description
facingnortheast
north
south
west
The direction the trapdoor swings open.
The opposite from the side its hinge is attached to.
halfbottombottom
top
Whether the trapdoor occupies the top or bottom part of a block.
openfalsefalse
true
True if the trapdoor is currently open (may differ from powered).
poweredfalsefalse
true
True if the trapdoor is currently powered (may differ from open).
waterloggedfalsefalse
true
Whether or not there's water in the same place as this trapdoor.

Bedrock Edition:

NameMetadata Bits Default value Allowed valuesValues for
Metadata Bits
Description
direction0x1
0x2
00
1
2
3
0
1
2
3
The direction the trapdoor is facing.
  • 0: Trapdoor on the west side of a block
  • 1: Trapdoor on the east side of a block
  • 2: Trapdoor on the north side of a block
  • 3: Trapdoor on the south side of a block
open_bit0x8falsefalse
true
0
1
True if the trapdoor is currently open.
upside_down_bit0x4falsefalse
true
0
1
Whether the trapdoor occupies the top or bottom part of a block.

Video

History

beta
1.6Test Build 3Oak Trapdoor Added wooden trapdoors.
1.8?Before this update, dropped trapdoor items looked larger than most other blocks, a bug shared with cactus.
Sound UpdateTrapdoor opening and closing sounds changed.
Java Edition
1.3.112w22aInventory sprites for blocks were flipped from left to right, changing to .
1.4.212w34aTrapdoors can be placed on the upper half of a block, opening downward, and can still be placed on the lower half, opening upward.
12w40aTrapdoors can no longer be opened by left-clicking, only right-clicking opens trapdoors now.
August 8, 2014Ryan Holtz indicated that trap doors for all types of wood were discussed internally, and agreed to.
1.814w07aIron Trapdoor Added iron trapdoors.
14w08aIron trapdoor's name corrected from "tile.ironTrapdoor.name" to "Iron Trapdoor".
Changed the name of the regular trapdoor to "Wooden Trapdoor".
1.915w31aTrapdoors no longer require attachment blocks.
An open trapdoor may be climbed like a ladder if it is directly above a ladder and on the same side of the block.
15w43aA wooden trapdoor has a 50% chance of generating under igloo carpets, leading to a basement.
April 26, 2017Jeb stated that trap doors for all types of wood were still on the to-do list.
1.1317w47aThe oak trapdoor ID has been changed from trapdoor to oak_trapdoor.
Birch TrapdoorSpruce TrapdoorJungle TrapdoorAcacia TrapdoorDark Oak Trapdoor Trapdoors now come in all 6 types of wood.
Renamed to <wood type> trapdoor.
Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 96 and 176.
18w10dWater can now be placed on the same block as trapdoors.
1.1418w43aFile:Oak Trapdoor Texture Update.png Changed the textures of oak trapdoors.
18w47bFile:Spruce Trapdoor Texture Update.png Changed the texture of spruce trapdoors.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.4.0 Added wooden trapdoors. They were only available in creative mode.
0.5.0Added crafting recipe for wooden trapdoors.
0.12.1build 12Trapdoors can be placed on the upper half of a block, opening downward, and can still be placed on the lower half, opening upward.
0.13.0build 1 Added iron trapdoors.
0.15.0build 1Trapdoors no longer require attachment blocks.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0alpha 0.17.0.1A wooden trapdoor has a 50% chance of generating under igloo carpets, leading to a basement.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0beta 1.2.14.2 Trapdoors now come in all 6 types of wood.
Water can now be placed in the same block as trapdoor.
Trapdoor now generate in Shipwreck.
1.10.0beta 1.10.0.3Oak trapdoors now generate in the new plains village.
Spruce trapdoors now generate in the new taiga and snowy taiga villages.
Legacy Console Edition
TU1Patch 1 Added wooden trapdoors.
TU9Trapdoors can be placed on the upper half of a block, opening downward, and can still be placed on the lower half, opening upward.
1.0 Added trapdoors to PlayStation 3.
CU1 1.00 Added trapdoors to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita.
TU25CU14 1.17 Added iron trapdoors.
TU46CU36 1.38 Patch 15Trapdoors no longer require attachment blocks.
TU69CU57 1.76 Patch 38 Trapdoors now come in all 6 types of wood.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0Added Trapdoors.

Issues

Issues relating to "Trapdoor" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Gallery

References

  1. https://minecraft.net/en-us/article/taking-inventory-trapdoor
  2. MC-11075 – "Trapdoor Colliding With Player" resolved as "Won't Fix"
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