Door

This article is about the block. For the music track, see Door (song). For the single block tall variant, see Trapdoor. For the feature in Minecraft Dungeons, see MCD:Door.

A door is a block that serves as a switchable barrier to entity movement.

Variants

• Wooden Door
  • Oak Door
  • Spruce Door
  • Birch Door
  • Jungle Door
  • Acacia Door
  • Dark Oak Door
  • Mangrove Door
  • Cherry Door
  • Pale Oak Door
  • Poplar Door
  • Bamboo Door
  • Crimson Door
  • Warped Door
• Iron Door
• Copper Door
  • Unoxidized Copper Door (Waxed)
  • Exposed Copper Door (Waxed)
  • Weathered Copper Door (Waxed)
  • Oxidized Copper Door (Waxed)

Obtaining

Crafting

All doors are made the same, with 6 of the same blocks or items making 3 doors of the type, also a copper door can be waxed.

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Matching Planks or  Iron Ingot or  Copper Ingot	333333333333333

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Matching Unwaxed Copper Door + Honeycomb

Usage

Placement

Doors must be supported by a full solid block face beneath them. The bottom half of the door is placed where the player is aiming, with the top half extending one block above. If there is not enough space for the door, or not an appropriate supporting block underneath the base, no action is performed.

Facing direction

When placed, a door occupies the side of the block closest to the player, or behind the player if placed in the player's own space.

Hinge placement

When placed, a door checks the blocks to its immediate left and right and uses the following rules to determine hinge placement:

• If another matching door is adjacent, with its handle side touching the newly placed door, a double door forms. This causes the new door to have its handle touching the existing door's handle, with hinges opposite.
• If there is no other matching door present, the hinge is placed on the side with the highest number of adjacent solid block faces.
• In Java Edition, if there are no blocks adjacent, or both sides fulfill a single other rule, the hinge is placed on the side closest to the players aim.

Behavior

Water and lava flow around doors.

Mobs can spawn in a space occupied by a door.

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

When placed using the /setblock command, only one half of a door is placed, because doors are actually two separate blocks. The lower half still works, but with graphical bugs, and the upper half does not. Redstone cannot be used because it updates the half, breaking it. The upper half does not drop anything when broken, the lower half drops a normal door. This implies that the upper half is dependent on the lower.

Barrier

A door can be used as a switchable barrier to entity movement. Although primarily used to block movement by mobs and players, a door can also be used to control the movement of boats (for example, a door placed in a two-wide water flow stops a boat when perpendicular to the flow, but allow it to move again when parallel), items and minecarts (a door can stop a falling item or minecart, then allow it to drop again when the door moves), etc.

In Java Edition, doors provide a breathable space if placed underwater. In Bedrock Edition, doors in water source blocks are waterlogged and do not displace water source blocks.

Doors are 0.1875 (³⁄₁₆) blocks thick (0.1825 in Bedrock Edition). The rest of a door's space can be moved through freely. A door occupies two block spaces and both halves normally act as a single barrier, although doors can be opened or closed with a player or mob occupying the bottom block of the door,^[1] in which case the player can jump up to land on the bottom half of the door and then again to land on top of the door.

Air pockets

Doors can be used as air pockets underwater in Java Edition as doors cannot be waterlogged. This method cannot be used in Bedrock Edition as doors can be waterlogged. In both editions, doors can be used to create air pockets in lava. Because there is no air around the door, wooden doors do not burn.

Fuel

Similar to planks, wooden doors can be used as fuel in furnaces.

Overworld wooden doors (oak door, spruce door, birch door, jungle door, acacia door, dark oak door, mangrove door, bamboo door, and pale oak door) can smelt 1 item per door.

However, Nether wooden doors (crimson and warped) and metal doors (iron and copper) cannot be used as fuel.

Sounds

Generic

Normal wood

Cherry wood

Bamboo wood

Nether wood

Iron

Java Edition:

iron sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.iron.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.iron.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.iron.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.iron.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.iron.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

iron sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.iron	​ ?	1.0	0.8
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.iron	​ ?	1.0	0.8
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.iron	​ ?	0.3	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	step.iron	​ ?	1.0	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.iron	​ ?	0.2	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Jumping from the block	step.iron	​ ?	0.12	1.1
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.iron	​ ?	0.4	1.0

Copper

Java Edition:

copper sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.copper.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed​[until: JE 26.4]	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.copper.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.copper.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.copper.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.copper.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

copper sound type
Sound	Closed captions	Source	Description	Identifier	Translation key	Volume	Pitch
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.copper	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.copper	​ ?	1.0	0.8–1.0
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.copper	​ ?	0.3	0.5
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.copper	​ ?	0.4	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Walking on the block	step.copper	​ ?	0.3	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Jumping from the block	step.copper	​ ?	0.12	1.0
	​Footsteps	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.copper	​ ?	0.22	1.0

Unique

Copper door waxing

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Other

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Historical sounds:

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:
Lower Door Block:

Upper Door Block:

Videos

History

This table lists changes that affect more than one type of door (wooden, iron, and copper).

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition

Legacy Console Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

Issues

Issues relating to "Door" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

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  All door types alongside their respective trapdoor counterparts (missing the Poplar Door and Poplar Trapdoor).

References

See also

• Door (disambiguation)