How do you get Tripwire Hook in Minecraft?

Tripwire Hook is crafted from Iron Ingot, Stick, and Planks at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 2. It also comes from generated structures, not just the recipe above.

What is Tripwire Hook used for?

Tripwire Hook is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Crossbow.

When was Tripwire Hook added to Minecraft?

Tripwire Hook was added in version 1.3.

How many Tripwire Hook can you stack?

64 Tripwire Hook fills a slot, and that slot costs 32 Iron Ingot, 32 Stick, and 32 Planks, since each one returns 2, which is 32 crafts at the crafting table.

Where do you find Tripwire Hook in chests?

Tripwire Hook is chest loot in one place and one only: pillager outpost chests (about 31%, 1 to 3 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

RedstoneCraftable

Tripwire Hook

A block placed in pairs and connected with string to form a tripwire that emits a redstone signal when an entity crosses the line.

Stack Size

Durability

N/A

Tripwire Hook at a glance

Tripwire Hook comes from crafting and generated structures, and Redstone is where it sits as a redstone component. A single slot takes 64 Tripwire Hook, a hotbar row 576, and 3456 fill a double chest.

Tripwire Hook earns its place in redstone by what it does to a signal, and that behaviour is the building block under the farms, doors and machines that run without a player standing there. It additionally serves as a crafting ingredient for Crossbow. Nothing slows you down on Tripwire Hook; it is a zero-hardness block. Generated chests only ever hold Tripwire Hook in one place: pillager outpost chests (about 31%, 1 to 3 at a time). It closes the Redstone list, straight after TNT, 29 entries in all.

Crafting recipe

Crafting
Iron Ingot
Stick
Tripwire Hook2
Recipe data from Astroworld Crafting, where Tripwire Hook has the grid for Tripwire Hook

Used to craft

Only Crossbow uses Tripwire Hook as an ingredient, so this list runs to a single link. Each link below opens that recipe with Tripwire Hook in the grid.

Crossbow

How to obtain

Crafting
Generated structures

Notes

Two hooks must face each other connected by string up to 40 blocks apart. Used in jungle temple traps.

Frequently asked questions about Tripwire Hook

How do you get Tripwire Hook in Minecraft?
Tripwire Hook is crafted from Iron Ingot, Stick, and Planks at a Crafting Table, and each craft returns 2. It also comes from generated structures, not just the recipe above.
What is Tripwire Hook used for?
Tripwire Hook is a crafting ingredient, and it goes into Crossbow.
When was Tripwire Hook added to Minecraft?
Tripwire Hook was added in version 1.3.
How many Tripwire Hook can you stack?
64 Tripwire Hook fills a slot, and that slot costs 32 Iron Ingot, 32 Stick, and 32 Planks, since each one returns 2, which is 32 crafts at the crafting table.
Where do you find Tripwire Hook in chests?
Tripwire Hook is chest loot in one place and one only: pillager outpost chests (about 31%, 1 to 3 at a time). No other generated chest lists it, so that single structure is the whole search, and every other chest in the game will disappoint you.

Building with it

An iron ingot, a stick and a plank give a tripwire hook, and two hooks with string between them make a trap that fires when anything walks through. It is the quietest trigger in the game, since there is nothing to step on and nothing to see.

In practice

Two hooks with string between them cover up to forty blocks, and anything crossing the line fires the circuit. Shears cut the string without triggering it, which is the only way to disarm one safely and is worth knowing before walking into a jungle temple.

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