How To: Create a Hidden Piston Door in Minecraft

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A Minecraft house can have little else cooler than a hidden door. Indeed nothing quite screams accomplished potion master like a hidden lab behind a retractable bookcase. With the advent of pistons many hidden things are possible, like the hidden staircase we did a few weeks ago. Some piston doors are overly complex and and built with miles of redstone running amok, but this isn't necessary. With a bit of redstone ingenuity a hidden redstone door can be a thing of convenience and ease!

Step 1 Place and Activate the Pistons

How to Create a Hidden Piston Door in Minecraft — (1) To begin, decide where you want your hidden door. The final aparatus will only take up about a 6 by 12 space. Place three sticky pistons spaced four blocks apart. (2) Place your desired hidden door material in a two by four pillar between the pistons with a space between the hidden door and pistons.

Step 2 Connect the Piston Activators with Redstone

Step 3 Connect Redstone to the Opposite Side of the Hidden Door

Step 4 Cover Up the Door and Place Pressure Plates

There's no need to place miles of redstone to create an excellent hidden door. As you can see, this type of piston door can be easily integrated into your home, hidden temple, potions lair, modern building, or whatever you can dream up.

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13 Comments

There are also other ways of making them come back from the wall and then in, but those are far more complex, if anyone wants to see the redstone in those, just come find me on the server and illl show u a made one. Ps, t FlipFlops are very useful in this instance

Is there any way one of you redstone gods could post an "exhaustive guide to redstone" or something on the matter? I'm way behind on this. If not, NP.

K, ill try today niko. but we had some voxel greifing.

you can do it shorter with less delay

There is a much more compact way of doing this with a mod, the wireless redstone mod, and it is not in a dent in the wall, so it is much less noticable. I'll post it somewhere.

Can't Get the door to open? :/

Did you ever manage to get the doors open?

Do they have to be sticky pistons? orrr?

Quite a simple door to make really. But I really like the constructions where there is no way you can predict there's a door hidden. Like this.

I did everything in the photos down to the T
but i can't seem to get the doors open unless i wipe out the two redstone torches to the sides

can someone HELP!

Step 3 1/2

There are red stone torches under the original torches in step 1

Ah that makes sense
Thank you so much!

This one doesn't work at all. I tried it on various Platforms, (Windows 10, pc, PE, etc.).

It appears that when you put the redstone torch 1 block under the 1st torch, the piston 'door' reverts to 'open', and when the rest of the redstone/torches are added along with pressure plates, the doors never close.

Please update or revise this "How-to" and add etter images so we can see clearly how it is done.

Thanks.