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How to Craft Iron Door in Minecraft

Iron Door in Minecraft, drawn from the game's own item texture. Secure building entrance that requires redstone to open.

Bring 6 Iron Ingots to a Crafting Table and you have Iron Doors. The grid takes six Iron Ingots in a solid 3x2 block in the left and middle columns. That comes out as 3 Iron Doors.

Iron Door Item ID and Give Command

The item ID for Iron Door is minecraft:iron_door. In commands the namespace may be left off, so iron_door works too. Checked against Minecraft Java 26.2.

Give yourself one
/give @p iron_door
Give a full stack of 64
/give @p iron_door 64
Give it to a named player
/give Steve iron_door 1

Cheats have to be on for Iron Door to appear this way, and the same command works on Bedrock Edition, where the name is written the same.

Overview

Iron Doors can only be opened with redstone power (button, lever, pressure plate). Mobs and villagers cannot open them. Iron Door uses a shaped recipe: the ingredients only work in the pattern shown.

The iron door was already in the game in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release with an English language file to read, so this recipe is at least that old.

The materials come together from a few sources: you will be working with iron ingot (smelt iron ore).

Per Stack

10 crafts drain a stack: 64 iron ingots become 30 iron doors. Left over: just 4 iron ingots.

Materials Needed

ItemAmountWhere to Find
Iron IngotIron IngotIron Ingot6xSmelt iron ore

Collect 6x Iron Ingot (smelt iron ore) first; the Crafting Table does the rest.

The Full Chain

6 Iron Ore makes 6 Iron Ingot, the one part of this you craft rather than gather. All in: 6 Iron Ore.

  1. 1
    6Iron IngotIron Ingot6Iron IngotFurnace, repeat 6x
  2. 2
    Iron DoorIron DoorIron Doorthis page

Gather this first

6Iron Ore

Step-by-Step Instructions

  1. 1

    Iron IngotIron Ingot6x Iron Ingot

  2. 2

    3x Iron Door

Minecraft crafting recipe for Iron Door: 6 x Iron Ingot in a crafting table, making 3 Iron Door.

Tips & Notes

  • One craft costs 6x Iron Ingot. Start with the Iron Ingot: smelt iron ore.
  • You get 3 Iron Door per craft, so divide whatever you need by 3 to know how many times to repeat it.

Uses for Iron Door

  • Secure building entrance that requires redstone to open
  • Mob-proof doorway

View detailed item stats, durability and properties for Iron Door on the Astroworld Items Database.

Frequently Asked Questions

What do I need to craft an Iron Door in Minecraft?
6 Iron Ingots at a Crafting Table: that is the whole shopping list for an Iron Door. Arrange them in the exact grid pattern shown above, and one craft produces 3 Iron Doors.
What do you need to make an Iron Door from scratch?
Gather 6 Iron Ore and you have everything an Iron Door needs. The in-between items are all crafted, 2 crafts from start to finish.
Where do you find the materials for an Iron Door?
Each ingredient in an Iron Door has its own source. Iron Ingot: smelt iron ore.
How many Iron Doors do you get from one craft?
The Iron Door recipe makes 3 Iron Doors in a single craft.
What is the item ID for Iron Door in Minecraft?
In Java 26.2 the Iron Door goes by minecraft:iron_door; iron_door without the namespace does the same job in a command.
What is the give command for Iron Door?
/give @p iron_door gives you an Iron Door. Swap @p for a player name to hand it to someone else, and put 64 on the end for a whole stack.
What version of Minecraft added the Iron Door?
The iron door was already listed in Minecraft Beta 1.0, the oldest release Mojang publishes with an English language file, so this one is older than the files can prove and there is nothing earlier to check against. Nothing about it has changed since: the pattern above is today's.

Sources

Grid, ingredients and yield
6 Iron Ingots in, 3 Iron Doors out, Crafting Table. Java 26.2, .
That Bedrock agrees
Bedrock 1.26.40.05, same ingredient.
How far back it goes
Present in Minecraft Java Beta 1.0, the oldest release that exists to check. From all 163 released Java clients, rd-132211 to 26.2.
Stack size
The Astroworld Items Database, built from the same jar.
The recipe book unlock
What unlocks it in the recipe book. Java 26.2.
The stack sum
Counted, not played: 3 Iron Doors per craft against the stack size.

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