Game Development Reference
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The Trapdoor
What it does:
Opens a hole in the ground wherever you'd like (in this case in front of a
Door) at the flick of a Lever. Beneath this hole that opens is a big pit and/or Lava, which
anything that was standing on the block above the hole will fall into.
How it works:
A Sticky Piston is attached to a block and extended over a pit, covering the
hole. The Sticky Piston is attached underground to a Redstone “gate” called a Not Gate (look
to the Gates chapter for further explanation of this), which goes beneath the wall of a house
using Redstone Wire. On the other side of the wall, a Lever on the ground surface turns the
signal for the Redstone wire on and off, causing the Sticky Piston to expose and to cover the
pit, alternatively. The whole contraption is hidden.
You'll Need:
1 Sticky Piston, 1 Lever, 1 Redstone Torch, 2 Redstone Wire, 2 Slabs of any
kind, 1 random block
1. Find yourself a nice Door.
This Door should be one which you would like to look out
of, see a Creeper, and then kill that Creeper by making it drop to its doom. Also works with
annoying players.
Diagram designed at
mordritch.com
