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Sliding and folding doors
Create adds five doors that do not swing like a wooden door: they slide into the wall or fold like an accordion. They open by hand or with redstone, pair up into double doors, and above all, placed on a train or a lift, they open on their own when it stops at a station.
Quick facts
- Category
- Decoration
- Sliding
- Brass Door, Train Door, Framed Glass Door
- Folding
- Andesite Door, Copper Door (two leaves folding like an accordion)
- Opening
- By hand or with a redstone signal; about 7 ticks (0.35 s) to open
- Travel
- The leaf slides 13/16 of a block toward the hinge, into the next wall
- Crafting
- One wooden door + the matching casing or glass, shapeless
- Trains
- Open when stopped at a station, following the station door setting
- Version
- Create 6.0.8 · Minecraft 1.21.1
Train Door (shapeless)
→ 1 Train Door
Five doors
Each door is shapeless: any wooden door plus the matching material, andesite, brass, copper or train casing, or framed glass. They are two blocks tall like a vanilla door and work with a right-click, no tool needed.
Sliding or folding
The brass, train and framed glass doors slide sideways, toward the hinge, by 13/16 of a block: the leaf goes into the next wall and only a thin edge sticks out. The andesite and copper doors fold into two leaves that turn over each other. Either way, the leaf first pops out by a thirty-second of a block, then speeds up: the motion follows the square of time.
Double doors
Two identical doors side by side, with opposite hinges and facing the same way, make a double door: opening one opens the other. A redstone signal on either one powers the pair. In the loop, the wooden button powers the wall; the door touching it gets the signal, its twin follows, and both close after the button's 30 ticks (20 for a stone button).
Framed glass
The Framed Glass Door lets light and the view through: ideal for a shop window or a station platform. It has a matching Framed Glass Trapdoor, just as the Train Trapdoor goes with the train doors; both trapdoors open like vanilla trapdoors.
On a train or a lift
A door placed on a train moves with it. It only opens once the train has stopped: at a station, the station decides with its door setting (all, none, or only the doors on one side: north, east, south or west). On an elevator pulley, the contact of the arrival floor decides. When a train door opens, a platform door facing it on the same axis opens too.
Tips
Since the leaf slides into the next block, keep a solid wall on both sides: against empty space, the open door shows from the side. Villagers can open them like wooden doors. For a base door, a Redstone Link on the next wall opens it from afar.
Which one to pick
For a train, the Train Door matches the carriages' train casing. For a factory, the andesite or brass door matches the machines. For a shop or a station hall, the framed glass door shows what is inside. Folding doors need less room in the wall: their leaves stay inside the opening.
Common mistakes
Two doors that do not open together either have the same hinge side or do not face the same way: place one of them again. On a train, doors that stay shut at a station usually come from the station setting, left on « none » or on the wrong side.
Redstone control
A lever, a button, a pressure plate or a link receiver against the door, or against the block touching it, keeps it open as long as there is power. Pressure plates react to anything passing over them, players, mobs and items: handy for an automatic factory door.
Related pages
Sources for the numbers (Create 6.0.8 code)
- Recipes: crafting/kinetics/andesite_door.json, brass_door.json, copper_door.json, train_door.json, framed_glass_door.json (wooden door + casing or glass)
- Types: AllBlocks (SlidingDoorBlock.stone / metal / glass, folds = true for andesite and copper)
- Animation: SlidingDoorBlockEntity (chase 0.15 per tick), SlidingDoorRenderer (slide v² × 13/16 + 1/32 outward; folding leaves 91° and −181° × v²)
- Double doors and redstone: SlidingDoorBlock.isDoorPowered; wooden button 30 ticks, stone 20 (BlockSetType)
- Trains and lifts: SlidingDoorMovementBehaviour, DoorControl (ALL, NORTH, EAST, SOUTH, WEST, NONE), DoorControlBehaviour
- Scene written for this wiki (Create has no Ponder scene on this topic): make_wiki_serie7.py, rendered by our engine; speeds recomputed by WIKI/redstone_sim.py (rotation propagation from Create's code) (door openings played by the scene; animation from SlidingDoorRenderer)
Original texts and animations by Create France, rendered from the mod's Ponder scenes. Create is a mod by the Create Team, not affiliated with Create France.