Top 5 Best Methods To Defend Your Base In Minecraft

Base defenses are very important in Minecraft. It allows players to protect their base from hostile enemies in single players and other players in Multi. A good base defense alow players to farm raids easily. In this article, we are going to list out the top 5 best methods to defend your base in Minecraft.

1. Iron Golems
2. Cactus
3. Burning netherrack/magma
4. Cobweb/Soul Sand
5. Waterfall

1. Iron Golems

If you can farm enough iron ingots and pumpkins, mass iron golems are the perfect defense. They have a whopping 50 hearts and can kill most hostile mobs in 1-2 hits. You might need to replenish their number after continuous raid farming, however.

To prevent them from wandering away, players can put them inside a trench surrounding the base (at least 2 blocks wide and 4 blocks deep). Alternatively, players can also leash them to a fence using leads.

2. Cactus

Cactus deals damage to all mobs on contact. Because of that, building a ditch filled with cacti or a wall of cacti around your house would be deadly, as they will deal damage and severely hinder any mobs that are trying to cross.

Furthermore, the cactus ditch can also be used as a cactus farm when they grow.

Minecraft Cactus 3 — Cactus can be pretty deadly when used right.

3. Burning Netherrack/Magma

When netherrack's top is lit on fire, the fire burns indefinitely. Players can enhance the base and top of their walls and ditches with these blocks. Mobs running into the wall will stand in flames, while those that make it pass would get burned on the way.

Players can place the burning blocks right before the ditch or inside the ditch to burn the mobs. However, a burning ditch is not recommended, as it would destroy item drops. Magma blocks work the same way.

Magma Block — Magma can deal a lot of damage over time.

4. Cobweb/Soul Sand

Cobweb and soul sand are great delaying mechanisms. Mobs are greatly slowed down in soul sand and stuck in cobwebs, immobilizing them to be killed. Players can build ditches with these two materials.

While soul sand only slows enemies, players can enchant their boots with soul speed to move around a lot faster. Unlike cobwebs that only need one block to be effective, players need a strip of soul sand that has a minimum of 3 blocks wide. It is possible to combine both cobweb and soul sand for even more slow.

Cobweb Traps — Create cobweb traps to slow down mobs from getting near.

5. Waterfall

Creating a waterfall wall is a very effective way to protect your base. By using an overhang, a player can run a waterfall down the wall of their base. A one block deep ditch as wide as the waterfall will prevent the water from flowing in unwanted directions.

If a creeper, skeleton, or zombie walks into the waterfall, they will be pushed down into the ditch, effectively stopping them.