Minecraft castle door designs

Home security is very important in Minecraft, so leaving the front entrance of your castle wide open overnight isn’t a great idea.

Security isn’t all that matters, however. What’s arguably more important is making your home base look cool and creative, and a portcullis entrance to your castle would do exactly that, on top of securing your fort.

Here’s how to build a working portcullis for your castle entrance in Minecraft, including all of the crafting parts you’ll need.  

How to Build a Portcullis Door in Minecraft

For those playing Minecraft Bedrock Edition, don’t worry; this design will work for you.

Redstone is notoriously buggy in Bedrock Edition, but this design opens slowly enough for it not to be an issue. Those playing on Java may be able to safely speed up the design by reducing the tick counts on the repeaters, but Bedrock users should avoid doing this.

This design is for a three-block-tall portculli

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