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Traps in Minecraft are useful tools for dealing with pesky mobs or intrusive players. They tin exist used to either capture or kill your prey or protect any valuable goods that you may want to keep hidden from prying eyes. There are many different types of traps, from explosives to water to lava. Of all of these dissimilar methods, here are some of the all-time, and easiest, traps to make in Minecraft.

Long Hall Trap

This is a unproblematic trap only it is guaranteed to do serious harm. Place TNT underneath a long hallway. At the finish of a hall, place a pressure plate backside a doorway. Once the player steps on the pressure plate the timer for the TNT will start, naturally a player volition effort to run away but since the dynamite covers the entire distance of the hallway, there is no way they volition escape the explosion. This is meant to prey on players who volition blitz around buildings while attempting to steal loot.

Simulated H2o Pitfall

Dig a pigsty 2 blocks wide and roughly thirty blocks deep, or enough to bargain lethal autumn damage. At the lesser place either blue stained glass or bluish wool. This will give the illusion that this is water and is prophylactic to spring down. Another addition to brand information technology more than believable is to create a doorway to nothing, creating the idea that there is loot or a hidden room down in that location. When a player jumps down to investigate they will end up falling to their death.

Piston Push Trap

Uncomplicated merely effective, a push trap's goal is to push your target into a pit or lava. You tin create a push trap by connecting a pressure plate to a piston. In one case the target steps on the plate the piston will push whoever is standing in a specific location. Put that trap next to lava and any intruder should face up the music.

Snowball Knockback Trap

Pistons tend to be a scrap obvious as traps go, this is why players can opt to use the snowball knockback trap instead. This follows the same basic principle equally the piston push except rather than a pressure plate being continued to a piston, a tripwire will activate a dispenser that fires a snowball at the actor. This volition knock them in the direction it was thrown, and if information technology works as intended, correct into their demise.

Replace Tripwire/Dispenser for Piston and Pressure level Plate for the Push Trap

Evil Monologue Trap

Dig a hole 3 blocks deep, placing lava at the bottom. Place spider webs (collected past using shears) on the remaining 2 blocks in the hole, any player who steps onto this will exist stuck and autumn downwards into the lava without being able to escape. Identify it correct after a door to hide it more effectively. While it isn't the nigh secretive trap, the Evil Monologue Trap lets players really savor the moment as their victim descends into a lava death.