How to make Animal Traps in Minecraft!

I think it’s safe to say that animals in minecraft are relatively unpredictable things i mean i can remember a large number of occasions where i’ve been trying my best to get them to go into their various pens and it just never goes to plan does it i mean some of them

Always die some of them just travel off into the distance never seen again so today i’m going to be showing you guys how to use redstone to make the process of catching animals and mobs just a tiny bit simpler i hope that tickles your fancy this is just a warning for those

Of you who are like super professional minecrafters this is quite a simple video if you enjoy slightly more complex videos then i’d suggest watching this it’s absolutely crazy just tons of redstone so this first design is probably about as old as minecraft itself all you need is a pressure plate

And then four iron doors and that’s it you’re good to go so you just chuck in your pressure plate like this and then you place your four iron doors making their way around just like that so you should have something that looks a little bit like this now when you stand

On the pressure plate you should see that all of the doors will close around you however you might end up with something like this happening and that’s not brilliant okay because we’re not trapping anything there so what you need to do is you need to break those doors

And you need to change at the orientation so just chuck in the door like that and then maybe rotate this one right here as well and then you should have something that works perfectly so if something was walking past an animal or a mob and they stood on this pressure

Plate they would then be trapped inside the iron doors until you let them out now this is good if you only want to catch one thing however it’s not brilliant if you want to catch lots of things so let’s move on to the next design now this next design is a tiny

Bit bigger and also a tiny bit more complicated than the previous one but it is very good at catching large quantities of animals and mobs which could be very useful for you so the first thing we’ve got to do is create a little pit right here i’m going to go

Three blocks down two blocks across and four blocks long just like this and then on either end i’m just going to chuck in at two blocks like that and two blocks like that with tripwire hooks on both of those blocks and then on either side of our pit we’re going to throw in

A bunch of trapdoors so one set of trapdoors on that side and one set of trap doors on that side and make sure that you actually place the doors on the blocks because otherwise they will open inwards as in in towards the center which will look very silly and also

Won’t do a particularly good job at catching any animals but anyway they need to hold down the shift click button and throw in some string just like that and everything should connect up then grab yourself some redstone and just run it all the way around just like this now

What that means is is that if anything walks on top of this string everything will open up and they will drop down to the bottom those first two designs are fantastic if you just want to catch any old animal or any old mob you can just throw it down and then it

Will catch anything that walks past however you might want to catch something specific say for example a zombie well the good news is is that zombies are attracted to villagers and you can use those villages as bait to get tons and tons of zombies down into

Your system all you have to do is create a 3×3 fence area like this then throw in a few villagers from your villager breeder and now we’re going to have to dig a relatively big trench so once again we’re going to be going three blocks down and we’re going to be

Creating a two wide area all the way around this thing so you should have something that looks just a little bit like this now we’re going to be popping down to the bottom and doing some modifications we just need to clear out all of the area underneath our villages

So now they’re sort of hovering up in the sky like that and in the central block you just want to place in a fence gate and we’re going to be opening that up then underneath the fence gate you want to take out a few blocks so that’s

Where all of your zombies are going to be falling and in each of the corners we’re going to be placing in some water so some water there some water there and some water there and that will push any zombies that fall into the system towards this central block and then

They’ll drop down to the bottom now we have got quite a bit of trapdoor placing to do the first thing you’ve got to do is place in all the trap doors on the central section and then you guessed it you’ve got to place in a bunch of trap

Doors on the outer section as well and this thing right here is what you should be left with a little trapdoor area with some hovering villages in the middle and some water down underneath now if we sell ourselves into hard mode for example everything will start spawning

In we’ll see some zombies and eventually they will begin to make their way towards our villages i think we’re going to speed up the process a little bit by placing in a few of them and as you will see they all walk straight towards the center fall straight into the water and

Then goes straight into that hole there i mean it’s perfect it’s extremely efficient and if you wanted to you could sit down at the bottom and use this thing as an xp farm if you’re really fancy because i’m sure it would do incredibly well so we have it guys that

Rounds up today’s super simple video on how to do a bunch of different animal and mob traps in minecraft there hasn’t been too much redstone involved but hopefully that has taught you a thing or two about the way mob catching and things like that worked now obviously if

You do have some other suggestions let me know down in the comment section because i know there’s some fantastic designs out there but unfortunately ladies and gents that’s all i’ve got time for today i hope you enjoyed this video if you did be sure to hit that

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