Door

Obtaining

Doors can be obtained by crafting, and can be found in villages Village Biome Plains, desert, savanna, taiga Consists of See Structure Can generate post-generation No First appearances See History See villages. For how to build the natural village style, see Village Blueprints. “ , strongholds Stronghold Portal Room Biome Any Consists of See Structure First appearances See History Strongholds are structures that occur naturally underground, and are primarily important because they house end portals. Strongholds can be located using eyes and woodland mansions Woodland mansion Biome Roofed Forest Consists of See Structure. Can generate post-generation N/A First appearances See history This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. .

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Door

Transparency When leaves are opaque (in "fast" graphics), they completely block rendering. When leaves are transparent (in "fancy" graphics), the world behind them is also rendered. Opacity (and its inverse, transparency) are properties of blocks with	Yes
Luminance Light (or lighting) in Minecraft affects visibility, mob spawning, and plant growth. Contents 1 Brightness 1.1 Spread 2 Sources of light 2.1 Blocks 2.2 Other 3 Light-filtering blocks 4 Effects of light 4.1 Mobs 4.2	No
Blast resistance	15 (Wood) 25 (Iron)
Tools
Renewable A renewable resource (as opposed to a non-renewable, or finite, resource) is a resource that can be recreated indefinitely in survival without exploiting glitches or using commands. While running out of resources isn t likely to	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Iron: No Wooden: No, but catches fire from lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still
Drops See the items that drop from entities and blocks. For drops as in falls, see Fall Damage. Typical drops from a skeleton: experience orbs, an arrow, and bones. Drops are items that	Itself
Data values	See Data values
Name See values from the latest PCPersonal Computer version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	See Data values

A door is a block that can be used as a switchable barrier.

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Trivia

• Iron doors have a scar where the handle would be, as they are merely a resprited oak door.
• If the player stands inside the door`s hitbox, you can jump twice to get on top of the door.

Breaking

To break a door, attack it. An iron door removed by hand will not drop itself as an item.

Block	Wooden	Iron
Hardness	3	5
Tool
Breaking "Punch" redirects here. For the enchantment, see Enchanting#Punch. The Player punches trees and gets wood (click to view animation). Breaking, digging, punching, or mining is one of the most fundamental activities in Minecraft, performed (by time
Hand	4.5	25
Wooden	2.25	3.75
Stone	1.15	1.9
Iron	0.75	1.25
Diamond	0.6	0.95
Golden	0.4	0.65

1. ⃢₆ₑ Times are for unenchanted tools in seconds.

A door will also be removed and drop itself as an item:

• if the block beneath the door is moved, removed, or destroyed
• if a piston Piston Transparency Yes Luminance None Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Pistons are blocks capable of pushing most blocks, depending on tries to push the door (trying to pull a door does nothing) or moves a block into its space

Crafting

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	Ingredients	Crafting Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and materials are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, players must move items from their inventory to a crafting grid. A 2×2 crafting grid recipe
Wood Door Door Transparency Yes Luminance No Blast resistance 15 (Wood) 25 (Iron) Tools Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Iron: No Wooden: No, but catches fire from lava Drops Itself Data values See Data values Name	Matching Wood Planks Wood Planks Transparency No Luminance No Blast resistance 15 Tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable Yes Drops Itself Data value dec: 05 hex: 5 bin: 101 Name planks Wood planks are common blocks used in many crafting	3 3 3 3 3 3
Iron Door	Iron Ingot	3

Natural generation

Oak, acacia and spruce wood doors are generated on buildings in villages Village Biome Plains, desert, savanna, taiga Consists of See Structure Can generate post-generation No First appearances See History See villages. For how to build the natural village style, see Village Blueprints. “ , forming the entrances to the majority of buildings. The doors used in the village depends on what biome the village generated in.

Oak wood doors and iron doors generate naturally in strongholds Stronghold Portal Room Biome Any Consists of See Structure First appearances See History Strongholds are structures that occur naturally underground, and are primarily important because they house end portals. Strongholds can be located using eyes , with the latter having a stone button to open. Dark oak wood doors and iron doors generate in woodland mansions Woodland mansion Biome Roofed Forest Consists of See Structure. Can generate post-generation N/A First appearances See history This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. .

Usage

Wood doors can be opened and closed by players and villagers, and can be broken by zombies in Hard difficulty. Iron doors can only be opened with redstone power.

Placement

Doors must be "attached" to a block beneath them. To place a door, use a door item while pointing at the top of the block it should be attached to. A door can be attached to:

• the top of any full solid opaque block (stone, dirt, blocks of gold, etc.)
• the top of an upside-down slab or upside-down stairs
• the top of a slime block, hopper, or downward-facing piston Piston Transparency Yes Luminance None Blast resistance 2.5 Tool Any tool Renewable Yes Stackable Yes (64) Flammable No Drops Itself Data values See Data values Pistons are blocks capable of pushing most blocks, depending on

When placed, a door will occupy the side of the block towards the placing player`s back ⃢₀ₔ if a player places a door in front of them, the door will occupy the side of the block closest to them (and open away from them); if a player places a door in their own space, the door will end up behind the player (and open through them).

By default a door`s "hinge" will be on the left side and its "handle" on the right side (from the placing player`s point of view), but the hinge can be forced to the right side by:

• placing a door to the right of another door (creating a double door where both doors open away from each other)
• placing a door to the left of a full solid opaque block (top or bottom), making the hinge appear to attach to the side block.

Behavior

Water and lava Lava Transparency Yes Luminance Yes, 15 Blast resistance 500 Tool Renewable No Stackable N/A Flammable No Drops None Data values Flowing Lava dec: 10 hex: A bin: 1010 Still Lava dec: 11 hex: B bin: 1011 Name Flowing Lava flowing_lava Still will flow around doors. Lava can create fire in air blocks next to wood doors as if the wood doors were flammable, but the doors will not burn up (and can`t be burned by other methods either, except throwing them into lava).

Doors do not prevent mobs from spawning on their coordinates.

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 will be placed, since doors are actually two seperate blocks. The lower half will still work, but with graphical bugs, and the upper half will not. Redstone cannot be used because it updates the half, breaking it. The upper half will not drop anything when broken, the lower half will drop 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 instance, a door placed in a two-wide water flow will stop 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.

Doors are 0.1875 (³⃢₁₄₁₆) blocks thick. The rest of a door`s space can be moved through freely and provides a breathable space if placed underwater. A door occupies two block spaces and both halves normally act as a single barrier, but if a player is occupying the space a door moves to, the player can jump up to land on the bottom half of the door and then again to land on top of the door.

To open or close a wooden door, use the Use Item/Place Block control. When a door opens or closes, it immediately changes its orientation without affecting anything in the space it "swings through". Moving doors don`t push entities the way that pistons do.

Villagers can open and close wooden doors, but only do so with doors they consider part of their village (including player-placed doors within range).

Some zombies can break wooden doors in Hard difficulty, but only do so to reach targeted players or villagers. Zombies have only a 5% chance to spawn with the ability to break doors, and will only attempt to break wooden doors which are in their "closed" state, even if a door is placed so that its "open" state blocks access (for instance, by facing sideways when placing a door so that it allows passage when closed and blocks passage when open).

Iron doors can only be opened with redstone power (a button, a redstone circuit, etc.). Villagers and zombies cannot affect an iron door except by stepping on a pressure plate or by triggering a tripwire.

Redstone component

See also: Redstone circuit

Both wood and iron doors can be controlled with redstone power.

A door is a redstone mechanism component and can be activated by:

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

All methods of activating a door can be applied to either the top or bottom parts of a door.

When activated, a door will immediately "rotate" around its hinge side to its open state. When deactivated, a door immediately returns to its closed state.

An activated wood door can still be closed by a player or villager, and won`t re-open until it receives a new activation signal (if a door has been closed "by hand", it still needs to be deactivated and then reactivated to open by redstone).

Fuel

A wooden door can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1 item per door.^{Java⃂edition only}

Data values

A door`s type is defined by its ID name, and its orientation and status are stored in the block data of its top and bottom halves. A door also has a block state which is expected to replace the functionality of block data in a future version.

ID

A door`s ID defines what type of door it is.

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	ID Name	Block ID	Item ID
Oak Door	wooden_door	64	324
Spruce Door	spruce_door	193	427
Birch Door	birch_door	194	428
Jungle Door	jungle_door	195	429
Acacia Door	acacia_door	196	430
Dark Oak Door	dark_oak_door	197	431
Iron Door	iron_door	71	330

Block data

See also: Data values

A door specifies its hinge side in the block data of its upper block, and its facing and opened status in the block data of its lower block.

Block state

See also: Block states

Name See values from the latest PC version of Minecraft. For values from Classic, see Data values/Classic. For values from Indev, see Data values/Indev. For values from the Pocket Edition, see Pocket Edition	Value	Description
facing	north south east west	The direction the door`s "inside" is facing. The direction the player faces while placing the door. For instance, a door facing east will occupy the west part of its block when closed.
half	upper lower	Identifies which part of the door the block is.
hinge	left right	Identifies the side the hinge is on (when facing the same direction as the door`s inside).
open	true false	True if the door is currently open (may differ from powered).
powered	true false	True if the door is currently activated (may differ from open).

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History

Infdev
Jun. 7, 2010					Added wooden doors. Side used wooden planks texture and inventory texture did not have holes.
Jun. 8, 2010					Doors got smarter rotation logic.
Alpha
1.0.1					Added iron doors.
					Before this update, wooden doors had two textures. One for facing left, and one for facing right. The one facing left was replaced with the iron door texture; doors now reverse the facing right texture for other directions.
					Inventory texture changed to make it match with the actual door in general.
?					Door opening and closing sounds changed.
Beta
1.7.3					Doors no longer produce missing texture particles while being mined.
1.8					Doors would not make a sound when opened or closed.
					Doors occur naturally in villages and strongholds.
Sound Update					Door opening and closing sounds changed.
Official release
1.2.1			12w05b		Villagers can now open and close doors.
			12w06a		Zombies can break wooden doors.
					Doors have been changed to properly detect if they are open or closed. Placing two pressure plates directly in front of doors and stepping on them will open them correctly.
1.7.2			13w37a		Block IDs 64 (wood door) and 71 (iron door) were removed from the /give command.
1.8			Dec. 13, 2013		Jeb tweeted an image showing that the crafting recipes for doors will be changed so that 3 doors are crafted at once. Doors will also be stackable to 64.
			14w02a		Doors are stackable to 64.
					Crafting recipe now yields 3 doors instead of 1.
			Aug. 8, 2014		TheMogMiner tweeted an image showing new types of wood doors.
			14w32d		New types of wood doors added: spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak.
			14w33a		Original wooden door (Door) renamed to Oak Door.
					Item textures of new doors changed to match the dimensions of oak and iron doors.
					Jungle and acacia door block textures no longer have inner faces in the holes in their models.
			14w33b		All item textures changed, now have hinges on the left and handles on the right.
1.9			15w31a		Shading on the block textures of acacia, birch, dark oak and jungle doors are changed, so that the shadow is in the upper left and the highlight is in the lower right.
			15w47a		Now makes sounds when placed.
			15w49a		Doors are now placed facing left/right depending on which half of the block you click on, unless neighboring doors cause them to place a certain way.
			16w04a		Doors now have sounds for placing and different sounds for opening and closing
					Iron doors now have different sounds than wooden doors.
1.11			16w33a		Wooden doors can now be used to fuel furnaces.
			16w39a		Dark oak doors and iron doors now generate in woodland mansions Woodland mansion Biome Roofed Forest Consists of See Structure. Can generate post-generation N/A First appearances See history This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. .
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.0					Added oak and iron doors, the latter unobtainable and featuring a bugged "cracked" texture.
?					Doors no longer close/open when updated.
0.8.0			build 2		Updated iron door texture (pre-1.8).
0.11.0			build 1		Door renamed to Oak Door.
0.12.1			build 1		Doors are stackable to 64.
					Crafting recipe now yields 3 doors instead of 1.
					Zombies can now break down wooden doors.
					Oak doors can now be opened by villagers.
0.13.0			build 1		Added spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak doors.
					Iron doors are now available in the Creative mode inventory.
					Added crafting recipe for iron doors.
			build 2		Spruce, birch, jungle, acacia, and dark oak doors can now be opened by villagers.
			build 4		Updated oak and iron door item texture.
Pocket Edition
1.1			build 1		Dark oak doors and iron doors now generate in woodland mansions Woodland mansion Biome Roofed Forest Consists of See Structure. Can generate post-generation N/A First appearances See history This article may need cleanup to comply with the style guide. Please help improve this if you can. .
					Now have sounds when placed.
Console Edition
TU1		1.0	Patch 1		Added doors and iron doors.
TU14		1.04			Doors being broken by zombies now show damage.
	CU1	1.00			Added doors to Xbox One, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation Vita.
TU25	CU14	1.17			Added spruce, birch, and jungle door variants.
					Crafting recipe now yields 3 doors instead of 1.
					Original wooden door (Door) renamed to Oak Door.
TU27	CU15	1.18			Added acacia and dark oak doors to the creative inventory.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Acacia Doors and Dark oak doors are now obtainable in survival mode.

Issues

Issues relating to ⃢₀ₜDoor⃢₀₝ are maintained on the issue tracker. Report issues there.

Pocket Edition

• Standing in the center of a door will mean that you can punch blocks on the other side of the door without any interference.
• Doors actually have durability bars that deplete when using the doors as tools. It is unconfirmed if this is a bug or a feature.
• Players standing inside the visible, solid part of a door cannot see the door.

Gallery

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  Naturally occurring iron door in a stronghold.

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  First picture of new 1.8 variants of doors.

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  All 7 types of doors with their respective trapdoors.

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  Arrows shot into a door wh

Contents

Source

Doors generate naturally within Villages and Strongholds, but they can also be crafted.

Mechanics

There are two varieties of doors: wooden, and iron. Wooden doors can be crafted using wooden planks of any of the Wood varieties. They can be opened and closed by both players and Villagers. Iron doors are made with Iron Ingots, and can only be opened by activating a Button, Lever, Pressure Plate, or another connected Redstone source. These same devices can also be used to open wooden doors, instead of manually opening them. Doors are hinged on one side and have two states: rotated clockwise and rotated counter-clockwise.

As of update 1.3, Zombies have the power to knock down wooden doors in Hard difficulty, by repeatedly slamming against the door, until it eventually breaks.

Since update 1.8, doors now come in spruce, jungle, dark oak, and birch varieties. Each variety of door functions the same, but they each have their own unique style, color and texture.

Wooden doors can be smelted, albeit inefficiently: one door yields one smelting operation, which is a third of a wooden plank`s smelting potential on a per-wood block basis.

Crafting

The crafting for both types of doors: