>"When players discovered Iron Doors" Man that takes me back, when things were added and not everything was announced. Such a magical time for Minecraft.
@@TheMisterEpic I've seen a video from an smp series where an op accidentally built an iron door trap at spawn because he forgot about spawn protection and then another player without op permissions walked into it and couldn't escape at all XD
@@charlestonianbuilder344 at that point you have a proper land mine that you can’t escape, although you gotta sacrifice 4 iron doors for it, and it’d be pretty easy to avoid.
The "idiot trap" really was an og trap that I use to see all the time but now haven't seen in almost a decade. I used to get PTSD whenever I saw a iron door because people got very creative in disguising this trap. You would think this trap would be pretty easy to spot, and most were, but some creative people were really dedicated to using this trap or at least something very similar to it.
2:30 Torches still have this "feature" you just have to place sand on top of a torch, not putting a torch underneath falling sand, this mechanic didn't change a bit. It works the same now as it did back then.
Also if I am remembering correctly, you can still place it under “falling” sand, as in you can place it under sand if you break a block and instantly place a torch before the sand actually starts falling and it will hold the sand up.
Yep. Sound-activated land mines are a favorite on a little SMP I'm part of. Also, for less destructive annoyances, a whole pile of shriekers under someone's base is hilarious.
I love that Mojang did add a trap block in the past update: the Powdered Snow. It shows that Mojang is still thinking of those people out there who enjoy setting up traps and figuring out new traps that they can add to Minecraft. Edit: Yeah, there are actually a lot of new traps coming out so Mojang really hasn't forgotten about how the community love making traps. Edit #2: Okay, there is a lot more Minecraft traps that I didn't think off the top of my head.
One of my favorite traps was used in a final fight during a german event called Varo. McExpert used stacked tnt carts hidden underneath the battleground that were remotely triggered by updating a dirt block with a hoe. It was designed to launch his enemies far enough into the air to kill them with fall damage.
8:37 I knew Etho invented the sand signs trap, but I didn't know that Grian invented the tnt version, kinda apt now that they're both playing on Third Life
I still think it's funny that back in the day when Minecraft was first popular I would do that without knowing the internet was even a thing... bruh I still wonder where I got that from
I remember when pocket edition didn't have redstone and players would make crazy huge adventure and puzzle maps that ran off of signs and torches to activate certain things
Traps have really come a long way. We've gone from placing pressure plates leading to TNT on the drop in a path to things like observer traps with TNT minecarts that are usually an instakill, traps that utilize game mechanics such as bed wake-up positions, and more.
I remember the hardcore faction days like it was yesterday. We'd often make pit traps as they were the most efficient and easy to build. We'd log on with piles of loot from people attempting to grief our base
The portal and bed trap is the scariest one, you wouldn't really know it's there and you would be able to escape it, anarchy server really build different
Back then in MC: Pocket Edition, there's no redstone, so we have to improvise by using sand, cactus and torch. That was an old style of using redstone. I discover it when I download some maps for MCPE and find how did they do the sand trick door.
4:44 Oh hell yeah Jerma! I’m so glad you used this glorious moment! Although, I’m kind of sad you cut off the part where he said “I thought it would spin” after stepping into the trap.
3:27 In earlier versions of Bedrock/ Pocket Edition, this trap was used by map creators as a replacement for redstone since redstone didn't exist in that version yet.
I figured out the nether trap one by myself and to this day I am so proud of that invention. In faction servers there is a way to raid by spawning a nether portal in the middle of the base. I built a nether trap near the center to defend against whoever tried it and turn the tables on them. Too bad I was later raided by a premium player that was basically in creative mode.
I remember when sand and gravel didn’t fall. I made a house out of sand. Update came and it fell when a block update happened. Also a tip to get out of traps and stuff easily. Chorus fruit. Doesn’t do damage unlike Ender pearls. Which is a big risk using a Ender pearl on low health plus it refills your hunger.
The iron door trap was OP on creative servers when you’d have a plot and you had to allow the person to build so ghey couldn’t destroy the pressure plate or doors
@@Firefly256 pretty sure you need both parts of your body under water. Besides, the moment there is the space above you to place a block, you would stand up instantly
Made an amazing drop down piston trap that removed an entire loot room on a server my friends and I made. If you read the signs that explained the commands you'd be able to get out but if not you'd be stuck. 100% success rate so far
I remember reading an onoffical minecraft book with a tree trap that would blow up tnt when a tree was mined and one that made you fall to death when opening the door with a pressureplate.
@@nevermore3055 Old TNT mechanic was that once placed, hitting it would trigger it to explode, so an old trap was to replace the top log of a tree with TNT so that when someone tried cutting it down, they would hit the TNT and trigger it. OP is saying it was described in an unofficial book. A pressure plate causing one to drop to their death is still possible by putting sand under the pressure plate, TNT under that, and a drop.
@@mystic-malevolence No I think there was redstone involved in the tree one I remember it, they had a lever on the bottom of a log which was deactivating redstone torches and when you mined the log the torches activated along with the tnt
@@mystic-malevolence that’s not it, it used a lever on the bottom part of the trunk with redstone torches connected to it so when the bottom block was broken it would activate a load of tnt around it
@@whwhwhhwhhhwhdldkjdsnsjsks6544 Interesting, I have trouble picturing how that would work without having the bottom block half-buried, but it at least doesn't rely on a tnt mechanic removed in Beta 1.7.
You can also place cobwebs in a way that makes the head of players stuck inside of the web, pretty much making them unable to hit you back (you can either crit them out then or proceed to obitrap then). This is very common in gamemodes like gommehd skywars and players like x-sus have mastered it. It also makes for good pvp clips. The german pvp community in general hasn't forgotten trapping unlike most of the others, it's needed for knockback bedwars, hg, skywars and a lot of 1v1 modes. For me it's just a normal part of pvp, and i was kinda surprised it's not used outside of uhc in the international scene.
*Yep. As expected, those traps went from "ah, nostalgic" "that'd be cool to use" "oh, interesting" to "....some people really do be evil like that, aye".* great video.
I love that you used footage from Evolution smp. It was a really interesting and fun series to watch. Sadly the members abandoned the series after they updated the server to release versions
Trapping in minecraft was one of the first things that got me into redstone, though back then we had to wait an exaggeratedly long time for lava to set off tnt in an era without redstone, so pitfalls were the go-to trap. Also, man, I was not expecting the old tnt explosion sound for the first time in like 10 years in this video.
My favorite Trap is placing sand on roses then string on top, the sand with the string floats until a player breaks the string by walking on it. The String updates the sand and it falld down.
for the portal trap, theres much more effective. most clients can disable the nausea effect so you can just mine out. in case you didn't think of this in advance, you can free cam and mine the block from the outside without having to worry about the portal restricting you
In the Minecraft minigame called ‘The Walls’ I always used to make a skybase with a staircase attached to it that went to the build limit. The staircase was made into a square (3x3) with a gap in the middle that led to the very bottom of the skybase with 1 block of water. I used to let people chase me on the stairs, went all the way up and fell down again to the bottom. Then I quickly removed the water so that the other player would fall to their death while following me. It was so much fun to do!
my favorite minecraft trap is the idiot trap variation where you get trapped in a small area by vertical pistons theres something weirdly satisfying about how its completely open but walls appear near you when you try to leave the area
Kiershar is a name I had long forgotten and never thought I would hear again. I was a wee lad when last I watched him, now I'm halfway through university ...
The Iron Door trap is probably the one that is the most used even to this day, especially on faction servers since if they are in a claim you can't really get out if you don't have pearls.
"The only worse punishment than being bed trapped is willingly playing league of legends" I've never been so offended by something I completely agree with
I still remember the lava trap I made for the entrance to my base on some Factions server many years ago. It was a ton of fun, and super rewarding when I finally got some kills with it.
Yo not sure if you were aware but “trap” is actually a derogatory term used against trans women when it’s used in the context of the “joke” in the beginning, and it’s best to not use jokes like that :)
it was in reference to an Astolfo skin, with character architypes like Astolfo being the origin of the word trap (as in people would look at a cishet male character like Astolfo, but due to their feminine appearance think the character in question is a girl. It would then be put in conjunction with admiral Ackbar from Starwars saying "it is a trap!", hence the term was coined). Trap is not and should never be used to refer to real people, it was originally meant to refer to cis male characters in anime who are outwardly feminine due to the fact they are often mistaken for girls by people who don't know the character's actual gender. This is the most common usage of the world outside of, well, traps like bear traps or the contents of this video. I think KorewaEden said it well. "I am neither of the ideology that the word trap is inheritely transphobic or can never be transphobic. I think using the word trap to describe real trans people is incredibly disrespectful and when it comes to just calling normal trans characters traps, at that point it's not even being disrespectful, you are just being wrong."
@@Expocat69420 I appreciate you telling me more of the history of the word than I originally knew, however that still doesn’t change the fact that the word is still used in an incredibly derogatory way towards trans people to this day. As a trans man I’m not comfortable with cis people jokingly calling anyone or anything a trap, because it’s origins are inherently trans/homophobic in nature.
@@BitterKatze I explained in the comment the origins and original usage of the term. Specifically how it relates to a character like, idk, Astolfo. Astolfo is a character from the Fate franchise who is a heterosexual, cis man who appears feminine. In other words, a femboy. And how did "trap" come to describe fictional characters like Astolfo? General Ackbar knows (as in it started as a meme for when people mistook the cishet male Astolfo for a girl). Meaning the origins are not homophobic/transphobic in nature, it originated from a god damn general Ackbar meme about Astolfo. And before you say it, I have a transfem friend who literally spends like atleast an hour a day explaining in her anime discord how in that context it isnt offensive. Why? Because she is a massive fan of anime traps and calls them that. I suppose this is where I say I am a femboy lol, me cute boy in skirt like Astolfo.
@@Expocat69420 Bro what’s not clicking here? It doesn’t matter that the character or person being described as a trap is cishet, it’s still actively harmful to the trans community. Real trans people are called traps every day in a derogatory way, especially trans women. The word trap literally directly contributes to violence against trans women. Femboy or not you’re still cis and you’re speaking over the trans community. Take a step back and acknowledge that you are telling me, a trans man who experiences transphobia and is called a “reverse trap” constantly by cis gay men, that I’m wrong. I don’t care if you use it within your own friend groups, but making jokes like the one in the video in front of potentially millions of people is crossing a huge line. More people are going to see this video and think these jokes are ok for them to make, further spreading it’s use and increasing the violence and hate against trans people. At this point I’m done wasting my breath speaking to you. I encourage you to do more research on the word and how it affects other real trans people, read about our experiences instead of using your own little echo chamber as your only source of information.
@@BitterKatze There is no echochamber, i actively avoid situations where I am only being fed one side of the story. The thing is that _you_, a trans person ive met over the internet have a problem with it, but _other_ trans people ive met over the internet (including in this comment section) have either continued to respecfully disagree or largely agreed that in the specific context of anime, non-real characters that it shouldn't be that big of a deal because most people should A. have the basic ability to separate reality from fiction B. not let internet humor guide or impact their decision making. Again pointing to the KorewaEden quote. There is also the fact that in many LGBT circles and groups on the internet, Trap is a *contentious* term, key word: contentious. It means that there is *disagreement.* Often you will get people say "Is trap a slur?" and most of the time you'll get a "Yes, it is." But if you ask the question "Is it a slur in reference to anime femboys?" then suddenly throw consistency out the window you got a debate on your hands. and mind you, I formed my opinions based on other people's perspective. A trans friend of mine moderates a public discord server that pertains to anime. They are generally very familiar with anime and internet culture. And her stance is basically identical to mine: "If you use it against a trans person, you're scum. If you use it against Astolfo, funny meme". Infact, this anime server is filled with trans and lgbt people yet you can't go 5 seconds after posting an astolfo pic before one of them post an ackbar gif. And before you say it, calling said people a trap will be easily the fastest way to get yourself banned. Trust me, ive witnessed it (though being known as a generally kind and respectful individual will just get you a warning as they assume you're misinformed) What this more tells me is that you aren't familiar with the culture and usage of terms in the anime community. A really dumb comparison here would be telling Spanish speakers to stop using "negro" because it is an offensive slur in English, even though in Spanish it is a perfectly harmless and normal word simply meaning the color black (though maybe it isn't as dumb of a comparison since "negro" and its... derivatives were introduced to the English language by the Portuguese and Spanish)
I feel like the trend of manhunts, death swaps, 2B2T, and other survival PVP situations gaining popularity recently, I feel like it opens up the opportunity for traps to come back!
One of my favourite traps, to this day, remains the sand pitfall. It's classic, and still works today. Even Dream used it in one of his Manhunts a while ago, and to pretty great effect iirc.
It really is the most satisfying trap! I like do use an ore with a torch on the back as bait, and the torch falls in a pressure plate that activates a piston to break the support torch.
I still to this day use the torch and sand method. I usually make the bait an ore with a torch on the unseen backside of it. When they mine the ore the torch drops onto a pressure plate that activates a piston which breaks the supporting torch and drops them into lava/cactus/obsidian rooom/ etc. Also instead of having the main torch in the center like in this video I start it from a low corner of the square so that there is a large area to fall into without a supporting block to land on. Oh, and one of my favorite simple traps is replacing a water source with lapis, or for an even older one, placing a ladder right above a water source that is commonly used as a landing spot. If they hit the top of the ladder it's a splat. Edit: A newer trap I enjoy is a normal chest and a comparator behind the wall. When they fill their chest to a certain amount, it activates whatever trap I want to connect to it. You can even make it activate multiple things over time for effect.. an explosion in the distance one day, and the sound of a monster getting attacked(dispenser+arrow+trapped mob) the next.
0:45 I don't know if you are aware, but the word 'trap' used in this way is considered a transphobic slur. Please do some research so you can understand why this word is offensive, and not use it like this again.
Please do some research before spreading misinformation. Trap has and always will refer to crossdressing males in anime. Literally use the search terms "anime trap" and you'll notice that almost none of the characters actually identify as the opposite of their birth gender. Trap being a transphobic slur is just an example of a misunderstanding getting out of hand. Now I'm gonna go back to reading doujins and watching videos praising traps.
@@trunguss I'm literally trans you don't get to tell me what is and isn't offensive to me, either listen to trans people or shut it, never speak for us
I designed a trap, back in the DAYS. Looked like pressure plates opened doors (which they did) but also opened one block floor gap between plate and door to fall to death. If feather falling or mlg, player was encased in obsidian and cobble generator would suffocate them endlessly.
My favourite trap has to be the 1 string connecting to a flying sandblock to block update and with TNT cars stacked. It's a really simple trap yet really strong as it can kill a fully kit diamond boy and the trap would just take 1.5×3 in space
it was in reference to an Astolfo skin, with character architypes like Astolfo being the origin of the word trap (as in people would look at a cishet male character like Astolfo, but due to their feminine appearance think the character in question is a girl. It would then be put in conjunction with admiral Ackbar from Starwars saying "it is a trap!", hence the term was coined). Trap is not and should never be used to refer to real people, it was originally meant to refer to cis male characters in anime who are outwardly feminine due to the fact they are often mistaken for girls by people who don't know the character's actual gender. This is the most common usage of the world outside of, well, traps like bear traps or the contents of this video. I think KorewaEden said it well. "I am neither of the ideology that the word trap is inheritely transphobic or can never be transphobic. I think using the word trap to describe real trans people is incredibly disrespectful and when it comes to just calling normal trans characters traps, at that point it's not even being disrespectful, you are just being wrong."
Back when I started playing Minecraft there was no redstone, regular doors or torches or pistons, traps involved /door_green, /rocketstart, /train, /cold_water, /hot_lava, /mb (message blocks), /shark and /zombie. You'd wire up green wool (door_green) to various glass blocks (rocketstart) or to door_cobblestone to make a disappearing floor that dropped you into /shark infested waters etc. Minecraft Classic traps and McForge commands are truly a lost art...
0:41 The word 'trap' is an insult that has been used for decades and is still used today to harass and discredit trans women. As a trans woman, I find it very sad that you are following this kind of rhetoric, since you otherwise seem like a friendly and chill person. Even if this was "just a joke", for people like me who have to live the reality of being called names and even having to face violence because of peoples hatred for your pure existence, this is just not funny, at least not coming from someone who has no experience with this. Very disappointed, I hope you can take this feedback to heart :/
[ it was in reference to an Astolfo skin, with character architypes like Astolfo being the origin of the word trap (as in people would look at a cishet male character like Astolfo, but due to their feminine appearance think the character in question is a girl. It would then be put in conjunction with admiral Ackbar from Starwars saying "it is a trap!", hence the term was coined). Trap is not and should never be used to refer to real people, it was originally meant to refer to cis male characters in anime who are outwardly feminine due to the fact they are often mistaken for girls by people who don't know the character's actual gender. This is the most common usage of the world outside of, well, traps like bear traps or the contents of this video. I think KorewaEden said it well. "I am neither of the ideology that the word trap is inheritely transphobic or can never be transphobic. I think using the word trap to describe real trans people is incredibly disrespectful and when it comes to just calling normal trans characters traps, at that point it's not even being disrespectful, you are just being wrong." ] - my response to someone who had a similar comment, but I would like to add a retort: No, "trap" was not initially used to refer to trans people. The comedic definition and origin (which I had outlined above) came first. It was transphobes who toom this comedic term and started using it to harass trans people, similar to how pepe was initially just a harmless funny frog character before far right people started using pepe for their own purposes. And similar to pepe, the comedic non-harmful usage is still much more common than the derogatory/offensive usage.
@@Expocat69420 glad to know that you are telling me, a person who had to deal with being called this insult and is trans, that this is not an insult. really makes me feel so much better. what do you think youre gonna achieve? its an insult, it was used as an insult here, and youre not gonna change that by lecturing me.
oh btw, the origin of the trap thing is not Astolfo, it was used waaaaaay before that lmao. and the actor that played the character in starwars said themselves that they dont like this meme because its transphobic. stop lecturing minorities about their experiences.
@@singingice I'm sorry but you can literally go back through the catacombs of the internet and the term trap originates with general ackbar memes about cismale anime characters like Astolfo. If you feel so strongly about a term, learn it's actual origin. The term was coined by the popularity of general ackbar memes pertaining to cismale characters who appear feminine. And mind you, you're not the only minority here. I have a trans friend (i know that sounds really cringe as the "mY blACK frIEND" arguement but listen please) who themselves was called a trap before, but the thing is: they went into the origins of the term and recongize the original usage of the term. They don't really use the term to refer to anime femboys, but they recongize the usage and, key word: don't get offended or assume malice in those who use the term to refer to fucking anime characters. Again, I will point back to that KorewaEden quote. And pointing back to myself: I am a femboy, akin to the likes of Astolfo or Hideri. Ive been called a trap, and I don't like being called one. But the thing is that, like in the quote, there is the harmless original usage referring to anime femboys that I, my trans friend, and half of r/asklgbt and r/trans appear to have no issue with (infact I bring it up all the time in those subreddits how inconsistent the view of the term trap is. Like I would be less likely to appose a term entering a realm of taboo if everyone agrees on it, but uhh... they don't. It is not uncommon for people to go onto those subreddits, ask "is trap a slur?" and by the flip of the coin you either get "yes" as the most upvoted comment or "yes if used to refer to actual trans people. No if uses to refer to anime femboys" as the most upvoted comment. If one ends up being the most upvoted, the other will be the 2nd most upvoted. Inconsistency! I love it /s!) And no I am not trying to demean your experiences. But you also have to seperate harmless usage from actual malice. If you don't learn this VERY IMPORTANT skill, eventually every single word in the English language and every other language will become taboo simply because some bigot got a bright idea. Don't let the bigots win, they tend to stop using a term if the target group stops caring about it, and will instead go into a different term that DOES make you mad. Wow it's almost like they don't care what the word is aslong as it makes you mad and feel bad, it could be pickle ffs and they would probably use it.
I love fall traps... They are just the best! There is a way with pistons and a slime block to make a sand block float and if you then place a string ontop of it it will get updated when someone walks over it. If you make some good ones in a dessert you can almost trap everyone because its just a piece of sand with a string ontop and no one is going to notice a random string in the middle of a random dessert
I made a trap in a survival server. Basically, you have a command to teleport, but it only works if you're not moving. Also, you can't destroy blocks of someone else's claimed territory. So, the trap is to have someone teleport to me. I use my command to teleport away and time it so I accept their teleport request just as they teleport to me. I teleport to the lever and activate it, leaving them stuck in an afk hopper with no way out.
I remember falling for an iron door trap in a creative plot server. I couldn't break blocks because it was some random guy's plot, so I was stuck until I found out that I could tp out
Portal trap is the most annoying one, personally hated playing multiplayer because of those, you never know when the other side of the portal is walled, plus on many servers there were "claim land" features with which you would not be able to touch anything even if you had super speed pickaxe, not even open chat
First trap and I'm hit by a nostalgia freight train. That tnt soud brought back memories of me blowing up my tree house because I didn't know that punching tnt would activate it.
Most portal traps on 2b2t don’t surround every block with obsidian to allow campers to kill players attempting to come through, which has allowed me to escape multiple portals by just waiting 4 minutes with a rebound mine button to break the obi
there was also an old trick where you'd put a lever at the bottom of a tree and activate it. then there would be a redstone dust underneath, attached to redstone torches with tnt or any trap that you could think of. once the bottom tree block gets broken, the lever breaks, and the redstone torches turns on. and with tnt minecarts in the game, now it's impossible to spot, unless the player digs the ground for some reason
I saw a trap on 2b2t once, where players got banned by receiving an overflown book. The client could not handle such amount of characters inside the written book and disconnects the player. Every try to relog in results in another dc. -> banned. (dont know if i descriped it exactly right, but thats what i remembered from the video. Probably one of FitMC's videos)
