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. “ minecraft , 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 minecraft 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. minecraft .

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Door
Wooden Door.pngSpruce Door.pngBirch Door.pngJungle Door.pngAcacia Door.pngDark Oak Door.pngIron Door.png







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Yes

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No

Blast resistance

15 (Wood)
25 (Iron)

Tools

This block can be broken with any tool, but an axe is the quickest

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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 minecraft

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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 minecraft

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 minecraft 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:

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 minecraft 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 minecraft 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 minecraft 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 minecraft
Iron Door Iron Ingot

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. “ minecraft , 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 minecraft , 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. minecraft .

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:

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 minecraft 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:

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 minecraft 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.

Upper Door
Bits Description
0x1 0 if hinge is on the left (the default), 1 if on the right
0x2 0 if unpowered, 1 if powered
0x4 (unused)
0x8 Always 1 for the upper part of a door.
Lower Door
Bits Description
0x1
0x2
Two bits storing a value from 0 to 3 specifying the direction the door is facing:
  • 0: Facing east
  • 1: Facing south
  • 2: Facing west
  • 3: Facing north
0x4 0 if the entire door is closed, 1 if open.
0x8 Always 0 for the lower part of a door.

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 minecraft 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 Olddoorsprite.png 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 Door iron old.png 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.
Door wood old.png 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 Door Spruce First.pngDoor Birch First.pngDoor Jungle First.pngDoor Acacia First.pngDoor Dark Oak First.png New types of wood doors added: spruce, birch, jungle, acacia and dark oak.
14w33a Original wooden door (Door) renamed to Oak Door.
Door spruce old.pngDoor birch old.pngDoor jungle old.pngDoor acacia old.pngDoor dark oak old.png 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 Grid Spruce Door.pngGrid Birch Door.pngGrid Jungle Door.pngGrid Acacia Door.pngGrid Dark Oak Door.pngGrid Oak Door.pngGrid Iron Door.png 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. minecraft .
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.0 Door wood old.pngDoor iron old.png 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 Grid Spruce Door.pngGrid Birch Door.pngGrid Jungle Door.pngGrid Acacia Door.pngGrid Dark Oak Door.png 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 Grid Oak Door.pngGrid Iron Door.png 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. minecraft .
Now have sounds when placed.
Console Edition
TU1 1.0 Patch 1 Door wood old.pngDoor iron old.png 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 Grid Spruce Door.pngGrid Birch Door.pngGrid Jungle Door.png 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 Grid Acacia Door.pngGrid Dark Oak Door.png 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

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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.

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Contents

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    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:

    Wooden Door
    x3
    Iron Door
    None
    Wood Planks
    Wood Planks
    None
    Iron Ingot
    Iron Ingot
    None
    Wood Planks
    Wood Planks
    None