Simple Traps In Vanilla Minecraft (1.9)

After my creation of Vanilla C4 using Armour Stands with particle effects, I had wanted to make some kind of "Trap" mechanism with the mini-blocks. So I did, I'm not great at backstory. These were designed for Survival in Singleplayer and Multiplayer (though you'll need to change and add parts of the machine for each trap-user).

Bounce:

Spoiler: Bounce Trap

The Bounce trap resembles a Slime Block, and has an effect radius of 8. In order to place a bounce trap, you'll need to place a Slimeball in your off-hand slot (Default Key F) which will consume it, placing down a Bounce Trap. The Bounce trap will launch players and mobs near it high into the sky.


Now you can make your dreams of being a Slime come true!

Slow:

Spoiler: Slowness Trap

The Slowness trap resembles a Soul Sand block, and has an effect radius of 8. In order to place a Slowness trap, you'll need to place a Clay Ball into your off hand slot. Doing so will consume the Clay Ball and place down a Slowness trap. The Slowness trap will slow mobs and players near it to a snails pace.

Warning: May make you feel like you've broken your legs.

Blind:

Spoiler: Blindness Trap

The Blindness trap resembles an obsidian block, and has an effect radius of 6. One of the more powerful traps, it can be created by placing a Nether Brick (from smelting Netherrack) in your off-hand. Any mobs or players caught in the trap will be blinded.

You can only see the HUD. It's not fun.

Poison:

Spoiler: Poison Trap

The most powerful and expensive trap in the set, the poison trap resembles a Chorus Flower and has an effect radius of 6. it can be created by placing some Dragon's Breath in your off-hand slot. Any mob or player unlucky enough to get caught in this trap will suffer Wither 1 and Hunger 2.

The breath in that bottle is VERY powerful.

Break Traps:

Spoiler: Break Traps

Traps, once placed, cannot be broken by normal means. There is a way to destroy them though. For the cost of 16 Chorus Fruit, any traps within a 15 Block radius will be destroyed. In order to destroy traps, you'll need to place 16+ Chorus Fruit into your offhand, they're only consumed if a trap is destroyed.

The reason it's chorus fruit, and costs 16 is for 2 reasons: 1. So traps become an "End Game" type item, and people on Multiplayer cannot easily destroy traps. 2. Chorus Fruit is quite abundant, so 1 would be too little.

The "Machine":
Important: Do not claim the command blocks' code or the "Machine" as your own, please give credit to me when using in areas such as Mini Games or Multiplayer Servers.

Spoiler: Guide to the Machine

I'm not the greatest at tutorials, nor at condensing an entire machine of command blocks into a single line of code, but here's a guide I typed up:

Vanilla Traps Command Guide:


Item Detection Machine:

ITEM: Bounce: slime_ball Slow: clay_ball Blind: netherbrick Poison: dragon_breath

/testfor @p {Inventory:[{Slot:-106b,id:"minecraft:ITEM"}]}
Repeat,Active

COMPARATORS TO:

Sounds:

SOUND and PITCH: Bounce: mob.slime.attack, 0 Slow: mob.spider.step, 1.4 Blind: mob.endermen.hit, 1.4 Poison: mob.enderdragon.growl, 1

/execute @p ~ ~ ~ /playsound SOUND @p ~ ~ ~ 1 PITCH 1
Impulse


Trap Item Use:

ITEM: Bounce: slime_ball Slow: clay_ball Blind: netherbrick Poison: dragon_breath

/clear @p minecraft:ITEM -1 1
Impulse


Silverfish Summon:

NAME: Bounce, Slow, Blind, Poison
/execute @p ~ ~ ~ /summon Silverfish ~ ~ ~ {CustomName:NAME,Silent:1,NoAI:1}
Impulse

Silverfish Machine:
NAME: Bounce, Slow, Blind, Poison
/testfor @e[type=Silverfish,name=NAME]
Repeat,Active

COMPARATOR TO:

NAME: Bounce, Slow, Blind, Poison
/execute @e[type=Silverfish,name=NAME] ~ ~ ~ /summon ArmorStand ~ ~-1.3 ~ {NoBasePlate:1,NoGravity:1,Invisible:1,CustomName:NAME}
Impulse
COMPARATOR TO REPEATER TO:

NAME: Bounce, Slow, Blind, Poison
/kill @e[type=Silverfish,name=NAME]
Impulse

Effect Machine (Bounce and Slow):

NAME: Bounce or Slow
/testfor @e[type=ArmorStand,name=NAME]

COMPARATORS TO:

Bounce:
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Bounce] ~ ~ ~ /effect @e[r=8] levitation 1 25 true
Repeat

execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Bounce] ~ ~ ~ /particle slime ~ ~1.5 ~ 2.5 0 2.5 0 5
Repeat

/replaceitem entity @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Bounce] slot.armor.head slime
Repeat

Slow:
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Slow] ~ ~ ~ /effect @e[r=8] slowness 1 5 true
Repeat

execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Slow] ~ ~ ~ /particle cloud ~ ~1.5 ~ 2.5 0 2.5 0 5
Repeat

/replaceitem entity @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Slow] slot.armor.head soul_sand
Repeat

Effect Machine (Blind and Poison):
NAME: Blind or Poison
/testfor @e[type=ArmorStand,name=NAME]

COMPARATORS TO:

Blind:
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Blind] ~ ~ ~ /effect @e[r=6] blindness 2 0 true
Repeat

/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Blind] ~ ~ ~ /effect @e[r=6] night_vision 2 0 true
Repeat

execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Blind] ~ ~ ~ /particle mobSpell ~ ~1.5 ~ 2 0 2 0 5
Repeat

/replaceitem entity @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Blind] slot.armor.head obsidian
Repeat

Poison:
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Poison] ~ ~ ~ /effect @e[r=6] hunger 1 1 true
Repeat

execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Poison] ~ ~ ~ /particle dragonbreath ~ ~1.5 ~ 2 0 2 0 5
Repeat

/replaceitem entity @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Poison] slot.armor.head chorus_flower
Repeat

WITHER EFFECT:
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Poison] ~ ~ ~ /testfor @e[type=Player,r=6]
Repeat

COMPARATOR TO:
/effect @p wither 1000000 0 true
Impulse
NOT GATE (Comparator,Repeater,Block with Redstone Torch Opposite Repeater, Command Block) TO:

/effect @p wither 0 0
Impulse

Break Traps Machine:
/testfor @p {Inventory:[{Slot:-106b,id:"minecraft:chorus_fruit"}]}
Repeat,Active

COMPARATORS TO:

NAME: Bounce, Slow, Blind, Poison
/execute @p ~ ~ ~ /kill @e[type=ArmorStand,name=NAME,r=15]

POINTING TOWARDS CHAIN:
/clear @p minecraft:chorus_fruit -1 16
Chain,Conditional,Active
POINTING TOWARDS CHAIN:
/execute @p ~ ~ ~ /playsound random.break @p ~ ~ ~ 1 2 1

Spoiler: Customisation

The code can be customised to change the effects and looks, and (for multiplayer) add players to the list of people who can use the traps.

In order to add a player, you'll need to change all "@p" to the name of the player. You'll then need to duplicate these (and their respective parts) and add a new name in place of your name. This method isn't great for larger servers, but can be used on private servers with small amounts of players.

In order to change an effect, you'll need to edit this piece of code:
/execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=NAME*] ~ ~ ~ /effect @e[r=6**] EFFECT*** 1****1***** true******
*This is the name of the armour stand, it's used to differentiate one armour stand to another
**This is the radius that the effect will affect. This changes how far or close a player must be to the "Trap" to gain it's effects.
***This is the effect itself, changing this to "regeneration" for example, would give nearby players regeneration
****This is how long the effect will last. In this context, 1 means the effect will disappear as soon as a player leaves the area, 10 means that the player will have the effect for another 10 seconds after leaving, etc.
*****This is the strength of the effect. Effects such as Speed will give faster speed the higher this is, while effects such as night vision will not be affected. If at 0, it will give the level 1 of the effect.
******This is whether or not to show the particles from the potion effect. If "True" then no particles will be shown (you can't tell what effect a player has) if "False" or not entered, then it will default to showing particles as normal.

In order to change the looks of a trap, you'll need to edit these codes:
execute @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Bounce] ~ ~ ~ /particle PARTICLE* ~ ~1.5 ~ 2.5** 0 2.5** 0 5***
*This is the particle that will be shown, a list can be accessed by typing "/particle" and pressing Tab.
**This is how far the particles will travel across the X and Z axis. The higher the number, the further they'll travel.
***This is the number of particles shown, the higher the number, the denser the particles will be.

/replaceitem entity @e[type=ArmorStand,name=Poison] slot.armor.head ITEM*
*Entering the name of an item here will change the look of the "Trap". Setting it to tnt for example, will make the trap look like a mini-block of TNT. In order to get the coded names of items, hold down F3 (FN/Cmd + F3 on Macs) and press H, and then mouse-over an item. A gray tag will display it's name at the bottom.

 

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