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Iron Door
Utility BlocksCraftable

Iron Door

A door that can only be opened by redstone power such as a button, lever or pressure plate. Crafted from iron ingots.

Stack Size

64

Durability

N/A

Category

Utility Blocks

Version Added

Alpha

Item ID

iron_door

Iron Door at a glance

Iron Door, a block out of crafting and naturally generated, sits under Utility Blocks. Carrying Iron Door is cheap: 64 to a slot, 576 across the hotbar, 1728 in a chest.

On the hardness scale Iron Door sits at 5. A pickaxe is the right tool for Iron Door, and any tier of it collects the block. It holds up against explosions exactly as well as it does against a pickaxe, and no better. It sits between Iron Block and Iron Trapdoor in Utility Blocks, number 156 of 340 there.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Iron IngotIron Ingot
Iron IngotIron Ingot
Iron IngotIron Ingot
Iron IngotIron Ingot
Iron IngotIron Ingot
Iron IngotIron Ingot
Iron DoorIron Door3

How to obtain

  • Crafting
  • Naturally generated

Notes

Cannot be opened by hand, mobs or villagers; requires a redstone signal. Generates in strongholds and villages.

Frequently asked questions about Iron Door

  1. Iron Ingot going into Iron Door, the recipe this answer describes

    How do you get Iron Door in Minecraft?

    Iron Door is crafted from Iron Ingot at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 3. It also comes from naturally generated, not just the recipe above.

  2. Iron Door coming forward out of the past, in the game since Alpha

    When was Iron Door added to Minecraft?

    Iron Door was added in the early Alpha development period.

  3. Iron Door on its own, since nothing in the game is crafted from it

    What is Iron Door used for?

    A door that can only be opened by redstone power such as a button, lever or pressure plate. Crafted from iron ingots.

  4. Iron Door as a block, next to the pickaxe its 5 hardness asks for

    How long does Iron Door take to break?

    Iron Door carries a hardness value of 5, and it stands up to explosions at 5. Matching numbers put Iron Door in the ordinary group, the group creepers get through, and it is no exception. A pickaxe is the right tool for Iron Door, and any tier of it collects the block. Java 26.2 is the release Iron Door was read from, figure by figure on it.

  5. 64 Iron Door drawn together, the full slot the answer counts

    How many Iron Door can you stack?

    64 Iron Door fills a slot, and that slot costs 132 Iron Ingot, since each one returns 3, which is 22 crafts at the crafting table.

Building with it

An Iron Door costs six iron ingots for three doors, and unlike a wooden one it cannot be opened by hand at all: it needs a button, a lever, a pressure plate or any other redstone signal. That is the whole reason to build one, since no mob in the game can open it either.