How to make hidden traps in minecraft

This article is about how traps are designed. For a list of various designs, see Tutorials/Traps.

Traps deal damage to the target without the assistance of the player. Not all traps are hidden and visible traps can induce a sense of safety in the target before they trigger the main one.

In the following, the target is either the player or a mob, and not all traps are equally effective against them.

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Trap Parts[]

There are three or four parts that can be seen in most traps:

• Trigger.

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The trigger is what starts the trap. It tends to be triggered by the target.

• Complication. These make the trap more efficient, but are not strictly necessary.
• Method. The method is the way the target is dispatched.

  The method is how the damage is dealt.

• Bait.
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  This is usually how you lure players in. This can be, for example, valuable objects, or it can be something highly visible, like black wool in the desert. This can be added to your trap or incorporate a small modification to a building being trapped.

Trigger[]

A trigger is what activates the trap.

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