Anti-mob houses in Minecraft? [duplicate]
What are good defenses for a house in Minecraft? I know cactuses work well. Anything else?
Anti-Mob House
General
- Don't build out of wood
- Use a fence or a wall to keep all mobs except spiders and spider jockeys off your lawn
- You can create Iron Golems to defend your territory
Use a cactus fence built from two rows of cacti, like this:
A C A C
C A C AA - Air C - Cactus (view from the top)
- Build a ditch deep enough that the mobs who fall in can’t get out anymore, which is either filled with lava or streaming water
- Keep your home area well lit. Mobs only spawn if the light level is below 7
- Mobs don't spawn on water
- A door made of pistons keeps you hidden from mobs almost all the time
Anti Creepers
- Build a wall at least two full blocks tall
- Build your home sufficiently lit
- Two block thick cobblestone will resist most explosions.
- Obsidian is explosion-proof
- Cats are a good defense, as creepers will run away if they are in a short distance of one.
Anti Spiders
- Build a lipped wall, this lip can have 1-block wide gaps in it, since spiders require a 2 block wide space to climb
- Fences can also work as a wall-top
- Completely cover it with a roof
- Dump buckets of lava around your house
- Build your buildings underground. As long as the entrance to the underground building is only 1 block wide and/or completely enclosed with trapdoors, no Spiders will be able to get in
You can keep spiders from climbing walls using glass panes/iron bars to create an edge
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CC - Cobblestone G - Glass pane
Anti Skeletons
- Fill open gaps with any of certain translucent blocks such as slabs, fence or glass to make windows
- Build low walls or fences in places where you may be in range of a skeleton, since they will only fire arrows at you if they can see you.
Spider Jockeys
- Combine your defensive strategies for both skeletons and spiders
Zombies
- Walls or pits will be enough to keep them at bay
- If you're in hard, you can make a piston door so that zombies cannot get through
- Iron door with a button on each side
- Zombies will not jump over gaps, so you can use lava trenches
- You can also use traps such as pits, landmines