Andy's Better Double Doors

Overview

Andy's Better Double Doors makes the matching vanilla entrances you already build feel like one complete doorway. Use one half of a valid double door, double fence gate, double trapdoor, or 2×2 quad trapdoor, and the whole set opens or closes together.

It's made for survival bases, multiplayer towns, Realms, servers, and redstone builds — a polished vanilla-plus improvement with no custom door blocks, recipes, tools, or experimental gameplay.

Features

• Opens and closes valid matching double doors with one interaction.
• Supports matching double fence gates, double trapdoors, and 2×2 quad trapdoors.
• Requires exact matching variants — wood species, copper oxidation stage, and waxed state all matter.
• Requires matching adjacent same-facing door columns, end-to-end gates, and opposing-hinge trapdoors.
• Keeps a set synchronized after a valid action repairs an external mismatch.
• Supports wooden, copper, and iron doors according to their normal vanilla rules.
• Synchronizes permitted redstone-driven actions when Redstone Synchronization is enabled.
• Optional per-set proximity opening and closing.
• Operator-only global configuration plus player-accessible per-set configuration.
• Multiplayer, Realm, standard graphics, and Vibrant Visuals ready.

How it works

Build a valid matching set — synchronization is on automatically. Use any member of an enabled set normally and the whole entrance responds.

If a set is invalid, incomplete, mismatched, or deliberately disabled, every member stays completely vanilla. Iron doors retain their normal hand-use restriction, so redstone drives them. Proximity-driven movement plays one positioned vanilla-style open or close sound for the whole set rather than a sound per member.

Proximity

Any player can enable Proximity for an individual set by crouch + using a vanilla stick renamed DoorControl on it.

• Doors and double gates use a two-block zone directly in front of and behind the joined entrance; it never extends sideways beyond its width.
• Double and quad trapdoors use a complete one-block perimeter, including corners.
• A proximity event is one open → exit → close cycle, with a brief exit grace period, so it doesn't repeatedly re-open while players pass through.
• Redstone and Locks & Keys policy take precedence where necessary.

Administrator controls

Rename a vanilla stick AdminDoorControl in an anvil. Crouch + use it in air to open global settings, or on a valid set to configure that set. /scriptevent andydoors:admin settings does the same.

Any player may crouch-use DoorControl on a valid entrance for that set's controls; only operators may use AdminDoorControl for global controls.

Global settings:

• Enable Better Double Doors — master enable, on by default.
• Redstone Synchronization — mirrors permitted redstone state changes, on by default.

Per-set settings:

• Synchronization — on by default.
• Proximity — off by default.

Locks & Keys compatibility

Andy's Better Double Doors never guesses permission or bypasses a lock. With a compatible release of Andy's Locks & Keys installed:

• Proximity opening is authorized by Locks & Keys using the same owner, bound-key, Master Key, shared-player, group, and public rules as a normal open action.
• Security locks remain fail-closed.
• Secured redstone synchronization is available only when the lock is set to Redstone Allowed.
• Separately locked adjacent blocks remain separate; different Lock IDs are never merged.

Without the companion update, automatic actions on a secured set fail closed rather than risking a bypass.

Installation

1. Download the latest release from CurseForge and open the .mcaddon with Minecraft Bedrock.
2. Wait for both packs to import, then create or edit the target world.
3. Activate Andy's Better Double Doors [BP] under Behavior Packs, and confirm Andy's Better Double Doors [RP] is active under Resource Packs.
4. Enter the world and build a valid matching entrance.

Xbox, PlayStation, and Nintendo Switch — consoles generally cannot import local .mcaddon files directly. Import and activate on Windows or mobile, upload the prepared world to a Realm, then join that Realm from the console.

Back up an important world before installing or updating any add-on. CurseForge is the authoritative source for supported versions and files.

Compatibility & limitations

• Supports vanilla Bedrock doors, fence gates, and trapdoors. Third-party custom entrance blocks are not promised for this release.
• A matching set must remain complete — breaking one member clears any saved settings, and replacing it creates a fresh default-on set.
• The add-on uses stable Script APIs only; no experiments are required.
• Minecraft scripts cannot enumerate every block in every loaded chunk. Nearby player activity discovers ordinary redstone sets, while configured proximity sets are persisted and monitored directly.

Credits & license

Created by Andy The Maker. Copyright © Andy — All Rights Reserved. Players are welcome to use Andy's Better Double Doors in personal worlds, multiplayer worlds, Realms, and servers, and content creators are welcome to use, review, stream, and showcase the add-on in videos, livestreams, screenshots, articles, and social posts, including monetized content. No one may modify, reverse engineer, extract, repackage, re-upload, sell, mirror, or redistribute the add-on or any of its files without prior written permission — link viewers and players to the official CurseForge release.

Minecraft is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation. This project is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Microsoft or Mojang Studios.