Tutorials/Defense
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Minecraft introduces many threats to a player's creations in multiplayer and survival mode, being able to defend your belongings is almost as important as making them in the first place. Many methods have been invented to deal with these threats although there is no absolute solution other than sealing yourself in a bedrock box. Rather than focusing on one particular method use a variety of defenses to protect your creations.
Lava defense system
Lava defense is a good way to keep your house safe and light up your area. You simply have lava pouring from a perimeter wall. To prevent the lava from flowing in make sure that there is a ditch before you place the lava. The area will be too bright for any threats to spawn. The only problem is that this doesn't defend your house against lava.
Perimeter wall defense system
Perimeter wall defense system is simply just a wall made of Cobblestone, Wooden Planks, Stone, et cetera. If you want to make it explosion resistant build it out of Obsidian.
Golem defense system
A weak and resource-consuming defense is composed of creating an army of Iron and Snow Golems. If you make a perimeter defense system you can trap the golems in the courtyard. You can also make the ground out of a tough material, such as cobblestone, or perhaps a more expensive block such as obsidian to prevent the exploding creepers that are hit by snow golems to cause serious damage.
Trench Defense System
A deep trench is a very good defense system because nothing can get across (with the exception of Endermen, who can take blocks from the trench and flood the place). To make it even better you should make it flowing downward with Water or Lava so the mobs will die from drowning or burning.
Here is a side view of a Lava or Water trench:
0 = Air H = Solid Non-Flammable Block & = Water or Lava
H 0 0 0 H (top level) H 0 0 0 H (2nd level) H 0 0 0 H (3rd level) H & & & H (4th level) H & & & H (5th level)
Fire and Cactus defense consists of Cactus, Netherrack, and Fire. It is made like so:
F C . . . F = Fire C = Cactus . = Continued Pattern
Blender Defense System
Make a 10 by 10 hole in the ground 5 feet deep,then in the center put 4 blocks in a square.Then put blocks inside the hole by the edges on block high.Plant cacti on the blocks that were builts up,then fill in the rest of the hole with water. The current will push mobs in a circle and then mobs will touch the cactus,making it look like a blender.Keep doing the process until it surrounds your house.
Anti Monster Spawning
This simple defence is easy,requiring only torches.Just put a lot of torches around your house and basically everywhere on your island so no monsters will spawn,If your house isn't on an island then build a trench 5 feet deep to separate your house and the rest of your piece from the rest of the land so no monsters can get to your part of the land.
Alarm System
A good defence for people who have a lot of redstone. All it requires is a few noteblocks, some redstone and some wooden pressure plates. Set up the pressure plates around your house, then link some redstone back to a noteblock in your house. You may want to put some noteblocks in different parts of your house.
This also works well with the wall defence, you can set up pressure plates just in front of your wall, and then link redstone on the other side.
You may also want to put up a more complicated system with redstone torches on a board with numbered signs, corresponding to certain parts of your house and the surrounding area. This is better suited for experienced players.
