Iron Door

Iron Door

Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool
Blast resistance	5
Hardness	5
Luminous	No
Transparent	Partial
Waterloggable	No (Java Edition) Yes (Bedrock Edition)
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (Java)	6 METAL

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An iron door is a variant of the door made of iron that can only be opened using redstone. Iron doors are more secure than wooden and copper doors because they cannot be opened by hand and cannot be broken by zombies. They are also more resistant to explosions, and immune to fire and lava.

Obtaining

Iron doors are most commonly found in strongholds, where they generate often. They are also craftable by the player using 6 iron ingots.

Breaking

An iron door can be mined with anything, but pickaxes are the fastest. Pistons can also break doors by pushing the piston head or any block into the door.

Iron doors require a solid block beneath them for support. If that block is removed, the door breaks and drops itself.

Block	Iron Door
Hardness	5
Tool
Breaking time (sec)
Default	7.5
Wooden	3.75
Stone	1.9
Iron	1.25
Diamond	0.95
Netherite	0.85
Golden	0.65
Options
Efficiency	000
Haste	001 1JEBE

Legend

• drops nothing
• drops something other than the block itself
• drops the block itself
• italicized can be instant mined

Natural generation

Iron doors generate as part of:

• Prison rooms in woodland mansions
• Strongholds with a stone button to open‌

Crafting

Ingredients	[hide]Crafting recipe
Iron Ingot	3

Usage

Iron doors can only be opened with redstone power; players or wind charge blasts cannot toggle iron doors.

Barrier

Iron doors can only be opened and closed by a redstone signal. When an iron door opens or closes, it immediately changes its orientation without affecting anything in the space between.

Redstone component

An iron door is a redstone mechanism and can be activated by weakly powering any cardinally adjacent block.

When activated, the iron door immediately opens. When deactivated, it immediately closes.

Air pockets

Iron doors can be used as air pockets underwater in Java Edition because they can't be waterlogged. They can also be used as air pockets in lava in both Java and Bedrock Editions since they don't burn in lava.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

[hide] v t e iron sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.iron.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.iron.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.iron.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.iron.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.iron.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

[hide] v t e iron sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	break.iron	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	When the block is placed	place.iron	1.0	0.8
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.iron	0.3	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	step.iron	1.0	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.iron	0.2	1.0
	Players	Jumping from the block	step.iron	0.12	1.1
	Players	Falling on the block without fall damage	step.iron	0.4	1.0

Unique

Java Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Door creaks	Blocks	When an iron door opens	block.iron_door.open	subtitles.block.door.toggle​	0.9	0.9-1.0	16
	​Door creaks	Blocks	When an iron door closes	block.iron_door.close	subtitles.block.door.toggle​	0.9	0.9-1.0	16
	​Block broken	Hostile Creatures	Unused	entity.zombie.attack_iron_door	subtitles.block.generic.break​​​	None	None	None

Bedrock Edition:

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	When an iron door opens	open.iron_door	0.9	0.9-1.0
	Blocks	When an iron door closes	close.iron_door	0.9	0.9-1.0

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Item tags	[hide]Translation key
Iron Door	iron_door	Block & Item	doors	doors	block.minecraft.iron_door

Bedrock Edition:

Iron Door	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Block	iron_door	71	Block & Ungiveable Item	item.iron_door	tile.iron_door.name
Item	iron_door	372	Item	—	item.iron_door.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	[hide]Description
facing	north	east north south west	The direction the door's "inside" is facing. The direction the player faces while placing the door. For example, a door facing east occupies the west part of its block when closed.
half	lower	lower upper	Identifies which part of the door the block is.
hinge	left	left right	Identifies the side the hinge is on (when facing the same direction as the door's inside).
open	false	false true	True if the door is currently open.
powered	false	false true	True if the door is currently powered by redstone.

Bedrock Edition:
Lower Door Block:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	[hide]Description
direction	0x1 0x2	0	0 1 2 3	0 1 2 3	The direction the door's "inside" is facing. The direction the player faces while placing the door. For example, a door facing east occupies the west part of its block when closed. 0: Facing east 1: Facing south 2: Facing west 3: Facing north
door_hinge_bit	— [sic]	false	false true	0 0 [sic]	Identifies the side the hinge is on (when facing the same direction as the door's inside). false if hinge is on the left (the default), true if on the right. Lower door block has the same aux value when it is opened and closed.
open_bit	0x4	false	false true	0 1	True if the door is currently open.
upper_block_bit	0x8	false	false true	0 1	Always false for the lower part of a door.

Upper Door Block:

Name	Metadata Bits	Default value	Allowed values	Values for Metadata Bits	[hide]Description
direction	— [sic]	0	0 1 2 3	0 0 0 0 [sic]	The direction the door's "inside" is facing. The direction the player faces while placing the door. For example, a door facing east occupies the west part of its block when closed. 0: Facing east 1: Facing south 2: Facing west 3: Facing north Upper door block has the same aux value no matter what it faces.
door_hinge_bit	— [sic]	false	false true	0 Unsupported	Identifies the side the hinge is on (when facing the same direction as the door's inside). false if hinge is on the left (the default), true if on the right. Upper door block doesn't support aux value when its hinge is on the right.
open_bit	— [sic]	false	false true	0 0 [sic]	True if the door is currently open. Lower door block has the same aux value when it is opened and closed.
upper_block_bit	0x8	false	false true	0 1	Always true for the upper part of a door.

History

[hide]Java Edition Alpha
v1.0.1							Added iron doors.
							Iron doors can now be controlled by redstone power.
[hide]Java Edition Beta
1.8			Pre-release				Iron doors can now be found naturally in strongholds.
[hide]Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6				Iron doors are broken much faster using a pickaxe, and the mining speed is now tier dependent.
1.2.1			12w06a				Changed top model of iron door.
			12w07a				Zombies can no longer break iron doors.
1.8			14w10a				The models of iron doors have been changed.
			14w33b				All item textures for iron doors have been changed. Iron doors now have hinges on the left and handles on the right, existing iron doors have a slight item textures change as well.
1.9			15w43a				Iron doors now have different sounds than wooden doors.
1.11			16w33a				Iron doors no longer have a right-click action - previously they would result in the hand swinging, and would override other valid right click actions such as snowball throwing.
			16w39a				Iron doors now generate in woodland mansions.
1.14			18w43a				The textures of iron doors have been changed.
1.15			19w39a				Iron doors must now be mined with a pickaxe for it to be dropped as an item.
1.18			21w41a				Item textures for iron doors have been changed.
			Pre-release 5				Changed top and bottom models of iron doors. Changed iron door textures.
1.20.3			Pre-Release 3				An iron door can no longer drop as an item if the top half of the door is broken with anything in hands.
1.21.4			24w44a				Now drop when broken with any tool.
1.21.5			25w02a				Added new break, place, step, fall and hit sounds.
[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0							Added iron doors. The iron door items exist, but due to a bug in the code that renders items in the hotbar, they cannot be used.
v0.1.3							The models of iron doors have been changed to not display transparency on upper half.
v0.2.0							Added iron door inventory icons.
							The models of iron doors have been changed to display transparency on upper half.
v0.2.1 alpha2							The textures of iron doors have been changed.
v0.5.0							The models of iron doors have been changed.
v0.8.0			build 2				The textures of iron doors have been changed to before v0.2.1 alpha2.
v0.13.0			build 1				Iron doors are now available in the Creative inventory.
							A crafting recipe for iron doors has been added.
							Redstone mechanics added, making iron doors able to function normally.
			build 4				The item textures of iron doors has been changed.
[hide]Pocket Edition
1.1.0			alpha 1.1.0.0				Iron doors now generate in woodland mansions.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of iron doors have been changed.
1.16.0			beta 1.15.0.51				Zombies can no longer break iron doors.
1.18.10			beta 1.18.10.20				All item textures for iron doors have been changed.
1.21.20			Preview 1.21.10.23				An iron door can no longer drop as an item if the top half of the door is broken with anything in hands.
1.21.50			Preview 1.21.50.24				Iron doors no longer require a pickaxe to drop themselves, and are mined faster when using an improper tool.
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.25				Added new break, place, step, fall and hit sounds.
							Iron doors no longer have a right-click action - previously they would result in the hand swinging, and would override other valid right click actions such as snowball throwing.
[hide]Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU1	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added iron doors.
TU5							Iron doors can now be found naturally in strongholds.
TU14		1.04					Moved iron doors to the "Building Blocks" tab in the Creative inventory.
TU27	CU15	1.18	1.18	1.18			The crafting recipes of doors now yield 3 doors instead of 1.
?	?	?	?	?	?		Iron doors no longer have a right-click action - previously they would result in the hand swinging, and would override other valid right click actions such as snowball throwing.​
TU33	CU21	1.24	1.24	1.24	Patch 3		Changed the texture of the iron door item.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		The texture of the iron door item has been changed to how it looked like before TU33.
TU44	CU34	1.37	1.37	1.37	Patch 14		The texture of the iron door item has been changed back to how it looked like in TU33.
TU54	CU44	1.52	1.52	1.52	Patch 24	1.0.4	Iron doors now generate in woodland mansions.
			1.90				The textures of iron doors have been changed.
[hide]New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added iron doors.
1.9.19							Iron doors now generate in woodland mansions.

Data history

[hide]Java Edition
1.13			17w47a				Prior to The Flattening, the block ID was 71 and the item as 330.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.21.60			Preview 1.21.60.24				Doors now use the block state cardinal_direction (uses string values) instead of direction (uses integer values).

Issues

Issues relating to "Iron Door" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Gallery

Screenshots

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  Naturally occurring iron door in a stronghold.