Trapdoor

For the two blocks tall variant, see Door.

A trapdoor is a solid block that can be used as an openable 1×1 block barrier.

Variants

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

Usage

Properties

A trapdoor overall acts like a horizontal and truncated form of its corresponding door type in terms of most of its behaviors, like how it opens and closes

Wooden and copper trapdoors can be opened and closed by players or redstone pulse. Iron trapdoors can be opened only by redstone pulse. Trapdoors can be opened or closed with a player or mob inside.^[1]

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 either occupies 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 opens downward. If placed on the bottom part of a block, it opens upward. A trapdoor's "hinge" is located on the block attached to it.

Trapdoors can act as a solid block when in the closed position, and thus certain items can be placed above or below it (depending on whether the closed trapdoor occupies the top half or bottom half of a block). When trapdoors are opened, they act like a non-solid block resulting as a non-placeable area. Lanterns, for example, can be placed on top of a closed trapdoor that occupies the top half of a block, and below a closed trapdoor that occupies the bottom half of a block.

Trapdoors can be moved by pistons. Trapdoors block flowing water and lava. Waterlogged trapdoors release water from all sides apart from the top in Bedrock Edition, or all sides apart from the side that is blocked by the trapdoor itself (and the top) in Java Edition.

Closing a trapdoor one block above the ground while standing under it causes the player to crawl, and continue crawling until reaching an area with at least 1.5 empty blocks above, at which time the player stands automatically. This can be used to enter small secret tunnels or otherwise inaccessible terrain.

In Java Edition, single trapdoors are climbable if they are open and placed directly above a ladder on the same side of a wall. This means if an open trapdoor is placed in the middle of two ladders, players can climb through the trapdoor directly as if it were another ladder. However, if there is more than one trapdoor between two ladders, players cannot climb through (they are stopped at the top of the first trapdoor).

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

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 stops 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 (³⁄₁₆) blocks thick‌^{[Java Edition only]} or 0.1825 (⁷³⁄₄₀₀) blocks thick.‌^{[Bedrock Edition only]} The rest of a trapdoor's space can be moved through freely and provides a breathable space if placed underwater and not waterlogged.

When a trapdoor opens or closes, it immediately changes its orientation without affecting anything in the space it "passes through". Flipping trapdoors doesn't push entities like pistons do. However, in Bedrock Edition, some entities attempt to resolve their intersection with the trapdoor by moving in the direction with the shortest distance required to exit the trapdoor's bounding box. This succeeds if the entity's new location is not occupied by additional collision boxes.

Mobs consider all trapdoors closed, resulting in pathfinding mobs falling through open trapdoors.^[2] A player can take advantage of this behavior to construct mob traps.

Redstone component

All types of trapdoors can be controlled with redstone power.

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

• an adjacent active power component, including above or below: for example, a redstone torch, a block of redstone, a daylight detector, etc.
• an adjacent powered block (for example, a block with an active redstone torch under it), including above or below
• a powered redstone comparator or redstone repeater facing the trapdoor
• powered redstone dust configured to point at the trapdoor or a single redstone "cross" next to it; a trapdoor is not activated by adjacent powered redstone dust that is configured to point in another direction, or a single redstone "dot" next to it.

When activated, a trapdoor immediately rotates 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 or copper trapdoor can still be closed by a player, and does not 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).

In Bedrock Edition trapdoors only activate on the input/consumer redstone tick (C-tick).

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

Videos

History

For changes that affect only specific types of trapdoors, see the "History" section in the respective pages (wooden, iron, and copper).

Java Edition

Java Edition Beta
1.6			Test Build 3				Added trapdoors. At this time, only one type (wooden) is available.
							Closed trapdoors always occupy the bottom of the block space.
Java Edition
1.0.0			RC1				The open and closing sounds of trapdoors have been changed.
1.4.2			12w34a				Trapdoors can now be placed on the upper side of a block in addition to the lower side.
			12w40a				Trapdoors can no longer be opened by left-clicking, only right-clicking opens trapdoors now.
1.4.4			1.4.3				Trapdoors can be placed on the sides of single slabs.
1.8			14w07a				Added iron trapdoors.
			14w08a				"Trapdoor" has been renamed to "Wooden Trapdoor".
1.9			15w31a				Trapdoors no longer require attachment blocks.
							An open trapdoor may now be climbed like a ladder if it is directly above a ladder and on the same side of the block.
			15w43a				Due to the addition of new sound events, trapdoors no longer make any sounds when opened or closed, since the sound files are missing.
			16w04a				Trapdoors now have sounds again, which are now different from the door sounds.
1.13			17w47a				Trapdoors now come in all 6 types of wood.
			18w10d				Trapdoors can now be waterlogged.
1.16			20w06a				Added crimson and warped trapdoors.
1.19			22w11a				Added mangrove trapdoors.
1.19.3 Experiment Update 1.20			22w42a				Added bamboo trapdoors behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
1.19.4 Experiment Update 1.20			23w07a				Added cherry trapdoors behind the "Update 1.20" experimental data pack.
1.20.3 Experiment Update 1.21			23w43a				Added copper trapdoors behind the "Update 1.21" experimental data pack.
1.21.2 Experiment Winter Drop			24w40a				Added pale oak trapdoors.

Bedrock Edition

Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.4.0							Added wooden trapdoors.
v0.12.1			build 12				Trapdoors can now be placed on the upper half of a block, opening downward, and can still be placed on the lower half, opening upward.
v0.13.0			build 1				Added iron trapdoors.
v0.15.0			build 1				Trapdoors no longer require attachment blocks.
Bedrock Edition
1.4.0			beta 1.2.14.2				Trapdoors now come in all 6 types of wood.
							Water can now be placed in the same block as trapdoors.
1.16.0			beta 1.16.0.51				Added crimson and warped trapdoors.
1.19.0			beta 1.19.0.20				Added mangrove trapdoors.
1.19.50 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.50.21				Added bamboo trapdoors behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
1.19.80 Experiment Next Major Update			Preview 1.19.80.20				Added cherry trapdoors behind the "Next Major Update" experimental toggle.
1.20.50 Experiment Update 1.21			Preview 1.20.50.22				Added copper trapdoors behind the "Update 1.21" experimental toggle.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.20				Added pale oak trapdoors.
26.60			Preview 26.60.22				Trapdoors now have snappable placement: holding the place block control while a trapdoor is selected will only place trapdoors in a fixed direction until the control is released.
							Snappable placement de-activates interaction with blocks until the placement interaction is completed.

Legacy Console Edition

Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added wooden trapdoors.
TU9							Trapdoors can be placed on the sides of single slabs.
TU25	CU14	1.17	1.17	1.17			Added iron trapdoors.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Trapdoors no longer require attachment blocks.
							An open trapdoor may now be climbed like a ladder if it is directly above a ladder and on the same side of the block.
							Trapdoors now have their own sounds.
TU69		1.76	1.76	1.76	Patch 38		Trapdoors now come in all 6 types of wood.

New Nintendo 3DS Edition

New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added two types of trapdoors: wooden and iron.

Issues

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

Gallery

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  All trapdoor types alongside with their respective door counterparts
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  Many trapdoors facing in many different ways in a inventory.

References

External links

• Taking Inventory: Trapdoor – Minecraft.net on October 19, 2018