How to Have a Safe Shelter in Minecraft
Replace wooden doors with iron doors or blocks to keep out zombies if you are playing Hard mode or Hardcore., Light up the area around your house., Build some walls around your house., Put a moat of water around your house., Have a watchtower to...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Replace wooden doors with iron doors or blocks to keep out zombies if you are playing Hard mode or Hardcore.
In either one of these settings, they will break down the doors. -
Step 2: Light up the area around your house.
Bad mobs like creepers, zombies, and skeletons can't spawn somewhere where it is too bright. , Make them three high with a one block over-hang so that spiders can't get over. , Make the water flows away from your house to push away enemies. ,, Keep it stocked with armor,weapons and food. ,,,, Creepers are afraid of cats and this will keep them away.
Keep some dogs, too, so you can kill off any mob who manages to enter your house faster., You'll be able to easily jump over the moat if it's only one block wide, but mobs will just fall in, because they keep walking towards your house.
For extra security, you could put this moat a little closer to your house than your water moat, in case any mobs succeeded in getting past the first one., If you have any windows in your house, fill them with glass so skeleton arrows don't come through., If you don't have the advantage RUN! If your house is invaded, don't go up against them with a wooden sword and half hunger. -
Step 3: Build some walls around your house.
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Step 4: Put a moat of water around your house.
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Step 5: Have a watchtower to spot mobs from in your shelter.
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Step 6: Have a bunker under your house to go to if your house is invaded.
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Step 7: Always have a second way out of your house: preferably underground.
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Step 8: If you're good with redstone
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Step 9: hook up a trapdoor bridge over your moat.
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Step 10: If you're really serious about defending your shelter consider putting in some flood gates to flush out Endermen who teleport into your base.
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Step 11: If you can
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Step 12: keep some cats.
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Step 13: Put a one-block-wide moat of lava around your house.
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Step 14: Don't leave windows open.
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Step 15: Always the golden rule of PVE (player vs enemy).
Detailed Guide
In either one of these settings, they will break down the doors.
Bad mobs like creepers, zombies, and skeletons can't spawn somewhere where it is too bright. , Make them three high with a one block over-hang so that spiders can't get over. , Make the water flows away from your house to push away enemies. ,, Keep it stocked with armor,weapons and food. ,,,, Creepers are afraid of cats and this will keep them away.
Keep some dogs, too, so you can kill off any mob who manages to enter your house faster., You'll be able to easily jump over the moat if it's only one block wide, but mobs will just fall in, because they keep walking towards your house.
For extra security, you could put this moat a little closer to your house than your water moat, in case any mobs succeeded in getting past the first one., If you have any windows in your house, fill them with glass so skeleton arrows don't come through., If you don't have the advantage RUN! If your house is invaded, don't go up against them with a wooden sword and half hunger.
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