Crimson Trapdoor

Overview

Crimson Trapdoor is one of the 14 variants of this shape in the game. What changes between them is the material, and with it the hardness, the drops, the durability and the recipe — so every figure on this page is this variant's own. Oak Trapdoor is the same shape in a different material.

In Minecraft 1.21.4, Crimson Trapdoor is a Nether block. Crimson Trapdoor is made at a crafting table. Hardness 3 puts it in the middle of the pack for mining speed.

It drops as the same block you mined. Light passes through it, so it will not darken the space behind it. Sixty-four fit in one inventory slot.

The recipe calls for Crimson Planks. It is not used in any crafting recipe.

About the crimson set

Crimson is not wood at all — it is fungus, harvested from the huge crimson fungi that grow on nylium in the crimson forest — and that biology gives the whole set its defining property: crimson blocks are completely fireproof. They will not burn, fire will not spread across them, and lava will not set them alight, which makes crimson and warped the only sensible building materials anywhere near lava or in the Nether generally. The set covers planks, stairs, slabs, fences, gates, doors, trapdoors, signs, hanging signs, buttons and pressure plates, but there is no crimson boat, because a stem is not a log. Crimson stems strip with an axe like a log and the planks are a deep maroon-red found nowhere else. Bone meal on crimson nylium grows a new huge fungus instantly, so the set is fully renewable from one nylium block.

How long it takes to break

Crimson Trapdoor has a hardness of 3. By hand that is 4.5 seconds per block; with the correct tool at netherite tier it is 0.5 seconds.

Iron manages 0.75 seconds and diamond 0.6, which makes iron the tier that changes how this block feels.

There is no tier requirement to worry about. Any tool, or none, returns the drop; the numbers below just say how fast.

The Efficiency formula is level² + 1 added to tool speed — at V that is about 3.3 times the unenchanted rate.

Tool	No enchantment	Efficiency III	Efficiency V
Hand	4.5 s	4.5 s	4.5 s
Wooden	2.3 s	0.4 s	0.2 s
Stone	1.2 s	0.35 s	0.15 s
Iron	0.75 s	0.3 s	0.15 s
Diamond	0.6 s	0.25 s	0.15 s
Netherite	0.5 s	0.25 s	0.15 s
Golden	0.4 s	0.25 s	0.15 s

Properties

Crimson Trapdoor has a blast resistance of 3, so a nearby explosion will usually destroy it. It lets light through and emits no light of its own. One inventory slot holds 64, the normal full stack. The block is tagged for axes, and only that class gets the speed bonus; everything else mines at bare-hand rate.

Transparent: Yes
Required tool: Any