Traps

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Traps are mechanisms used to trap or harm players, mobs, or items without the use of traditional weapons. Traps are often constructed with redstone circuits, some being quite elaborate, and others being as basic as a pressure plate on top of a piston.

Trap Variants

Fall-Based Traps

Many traps use fall damage to harm or kill mobs or players. These traps are often constructed so that the target falls and goes down to half a heart, allowing for a single hit kill, keeping experience and item drops. It's worth noting that chicken, cats, and ocelots can't be hurt with these traps. This type of trap works best when dug under a skeleton or zombie spawner, due to the fact that it allows the player to harvest large amounts of the respective items in a short period of time.

Lava/Fire Based Traps

Traps also often utilize lava or fire damage. This has the advantage of getting cooked meat drops and is also often more vertically compact. These traps can burn items that are dropped, if not done properly. Mobs from the Nether cannot be farmed with these because of their immunity to fire. 

Suffocation-Based Traps

Traps may also use blocks of water suffocation based traps. These traps are often very compact and do not risk burning items like lava or fire.

Player Operated Traps

Some traps rely on players and will fail without help.

These traps are sometimes used in PVP.

Skywars carpet trap

If you build a bridge to another base and break a block and place a carpet on the block right and in the block left of the broken block. Wait until the other player cross the bridge, put a block when the enemy player jumps to the other side where you are.

NOTE:this trap is only used in skywars