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Ever wanted to prank your friends? How about strangers you don't even know? Just wanted to see reaction or just for fun? This will tell you how to make the simplest trap in Minecraft.
Steps
Obtain four sand blocks and 5 gunpowder to make some TNT.- To obtain sand blocks, find beaches and deserts. They are most likely to have sand.
- To obtain gunpowder, kill a Creeper (don't let it explode), Ghast, or find some in chests, usually found in dungeons.
Get two stone blocks. You get stone by mining cobblestone and smelting it in a furnace. The cobblestone will turn into regular stone. Craft a stone pressure plate by placing two stone blocks next to each other in the crafting space in your inventory or a crafting table.- To open your inventory, press E.
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Place the block of TNT anywhere.- Make sure it isn't next to one of your creations.
Place the pressure plate directly on top of the TNT block that you placed. Wait for someone to step on it. It will explode, killing or hurting them.
Try experimenting. There are lots of different ways to customize simple traps. Make sure to clean up the mess you might have caused experimenting or else it would seem to obvious what was going to happen to the victim!
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1Place a Pressure Plate.
2Place 4 iron doors around the plate. If you use wood doors, it is very easy to break and your trap will only last a few seconds. Unless the person trapped has a pickaxe, it could take a while to get out.
3Place a block of Obsidian on top of the doors. If you are unable to get obsidian, use another hard to break item. Bedrock would be ideal, but since there is no way to get it in survival mode, obsidian is the easiest.
4Lure someone into the trap. Once they step on the plate, the doors will close and they will be stuck inside. Since the only way to press the button again is to step off the block and back on it, since they cannot jump up or go forward, the doors will remain closed indefinitely. You can also place TNT under the pressure plate so when someone gets trapped, the TNT will go off.
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- QuestionHow do I escape from the trap?
Community AnswerFor trap one: be careful and break any pressure-plates visible. For trap two: break the block above you and jump (it will de-activate the pressure-plate and open the door); before you fall, try to go out of the door. You can also try breaking the door or the pressure-plate. - QuestionHow do I get someone in the trap?Community AnswerTry disguising the trap so that the person don't realize it's there. You can also trick the person into walking onto the pressure plate.
- QuestionHow do I build a better trap in Minecraft?
Community AnswerYou want to make the trap in a way that the victim does not know it is, in fact, a trap. One example is that is a pressure plate can be easily seen, so try another method of activating the trap that's less obvious, such as a tripwire.
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Tips
- Experiment with traps. Instead of TNT, you could make a dirt block move when stepped on, causing them to fall into a deep lava pit!Thanks
- To make it less obvious, don't write extreme things on the signs, like free diamonds. Only noobs would fall for it! Instead, make the house look unprotected and filled with chests, a temptation to griefers, but perfect for revenge! Make the sign say "Press for redstone".Thanks
- To make the pressure-plate hard to see, try camouflaging it (put a wooden pressure plate on an oak wood block, or a stone pressure plate on a stone block). They won't ever guess!Thanks
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Warnings
- Be careful on servers, as you may get banned for griefing in extreme cases.Thanks
- Decide if you really want to this, you don't want to regret later on.Thanks
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