Fence Gate

Fence Gate

Transparent	Yes
Luminance	0
Blast resistance	15
Tool
Renewable	Yes
Stackable	Yes (64)
Flammable	Yes
Sounds	Close Open
Drops	Itself
Data values	See § Data values
Namespaced ID	See § Data values

A fence gate is a block that shares the functions of both the door and the fence.

Obtaining

A fence gate can be broken with anything, but an axe is fastest.

Block	Fence Gates
Hardness	2
Tool
Breaking time
Hand	3
Wooden	1.5
Stone	0.75
Iron	0.5
Diamond	0.4
Golden	0.25

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Stick + Matching Planks

Natural Generation

Dark oak fence gates naturally generate in woodland mansions.

Oak fence gates naturally generate in plains villages.

Acacia fence gates naturally generate in savanna villages.

Spruce fence gates naturally generate in taiga, snowy tundra, and snowy taiga villages.

Jungle fence gates naturally generate in desert villages.

Usage

Placing

A fence gate can provide access to a fenced-in area.

A fence gate can be used as a switchable barrier which can be opened and closed by hand or by redstone power.

To place a fence gate, use the Place Block control while pointing at a block facing the space the fence gate should occupy. When placed, a fence gate will automatically face towards the player who placed it, regardless of any other fences around it.

A fence gate can be placed whether there is a solid block beneath it or not.‌^{[Java and Legacy Console editions only]}

Fences, nether brick fences and cobblestone walls will connect to fence gates, but glass panes and iron bars will not. If placed and not connected to anything else, a fence gate will appear to be floating.

Barrier

Closed fence gate.

Opened fence gate.

A fence gate can be used as a switchable barrier.

To open or close a fence gate, use the Use Item control. When a fence gate opens or closes, it immediately changes its orientation without affecting anything in the space it "passes through"—moving fence gates don't push entities the way that pistons do. When opened by hand, a fence gate always opens away from the player.

Although a fence gate appears to be only one block tall, a closed fence gate is a barrier one and a half blocks high—most mobs cannot jump over a fence gate, and entities on top of the fence gate stand half a block above it.

An open fence gate is completely non-solid, including the open gates. Multiple open fence gates next to each other can be passed through as if the entire space is open.

Hostile mobs recognize closed fence gates as a block and will not detect players through it unless they were already detected.

The sound of opening and closing of a fence gate can be heard up to 16 blocks away, like most mob sounds.

Redstone component

See also: Redstone circuit

A fence gate can be controlled with redstone power.

A fence gate is a redstone mechanism and can be activated by:

• an adjacent active power component, including above or below: for example, a redstone torch, a block of redstone, a daylight sensor, etc.
• an adjacent powered block (for example, a block with an active redstone torch under it), including above or below
• a powered redstone comparator or redstone repeater facing the fence gate
• powered redstone dust configured to point at the fence gate or a directionless "dot" next to it; a fence gate is not activated by adjacent powered redstone dust which is configured to point in another direction.

When activated, a fence gate will immediately open. When deactivated, a fence gate immediately closes.

An activated fence gate can still be closed by a player, and won't re-open until it receives a new activation signal (if a fence gate has been closed "by hand", it still needs to be deactivated and then reactivated to open by redstone).

Fence gates can be moved by pistons. When an activated fence gate is moved by a piston to a position where it shouldn't be activated, it doesn't change its state until it receives a redstone update.

Fuel

Fence gates can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per fence gate.

Data values

Java Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID
Oak Fence Gate	oak_fence_gate
Spruce Fence Gate	spruce_fence_gate
Birch Fence Gate	birch_fence_gate
Jungle Fence Gate	jungle_fence_gate
Acacia Fence Gate	acacia_fence_gate
Dark Oak Fence Gate	dark_oak_fence_gate

Bedrock Edition:

Block	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID
Oak Fence Gate	fence_gate	107
Spruce Fence Gate	spruce_fence_gate	183
Birch Fence Gate	birch_fence_gate	184
Jungle Fence Gate	jungle_fence_gate	185
Acacia Fence Gate	acacia_fence_gate	187
Dark Oak Fence Gate	dark_oak_fence_gate	186

Block data

See also: Data values

In Bedrock Edition, fence gates use the following data values:

Bits	Description
0x1 0x2	Two bits storing a value from 0 to 3 specifying the direction the gate is facing: 0: Facing south 1: Facing west 2: Facing north 3: Facing east
0x4	0 if the gate is closed, 1 if open.
0x8	If 1, the gate is lowered by three pixels, to accommodate attaching more cleanly with normal and mossy Cobblestone Walls.

Block states

Main article: Block states

Java Edition:

Name	Default value	Allowed values	Description
facing	north	east north south west	For an open gate, the direction the gates swing open. For a closed gate, the direction the player was facing when the gate was placed, or the last direction the gates have swung.
in_wall	false	false true	If true, the gate is lowered by three pixels, to accommodate attaching more cleanly with walls.
open	false	false true	If true, the gate is opened.
powered	false	false true	If true, the gate is receiving redstone power.

History

Java Edition Beta
November 29, 2010					Fence gates were first mentioned on Get Satisfaction, then confirmed by Jeb on Twitter.
1.8		Pre-release			Added fence gate.
Sound Update					Fence gate opening and closing sounds have been changed.
Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 5			Updated the texture as a result of updating the planks texture.
1.1		?			Fence gates can now be opened and closed with redstone, and closing on block updates.
1.8		14w11a			The inventory icon changed texture for the fence gate now shows the two holes.
		14w32b			Added birch, spruce, jungle, acacia, and dark oak fence gates. The recipe now requires 2 plank blocks of the same species, but a gate and a wooden fence can connect without matching.
					Fence gates can now catch fire.
1.9		15w43a			Fence gates now have their own sounds.
1.13		17w47a			The oak fence gate ID has been changed from fence_gate to oak_fence_gate.
					Fence gates can now be placed without a block below them.
					Prior to The Flattening, these blocks' numeral IDs were 107, 183, 184, 185, 186 and 187.
Pocket Edition Alpha
0.2.0					Added oak gates.
0.10.0		build 1			Added birch, spruce, jungle, acacia and dark oak variants.
					The fence gates' inventory models are more akin to the old Java original model.
					Renamed fence gate to oak fence gate.
0.13.0		build 1			Fence gates can now be opened and closed with redstone.
Pocket Edition
1.1.0		alpha 1.1.0.0			Dark oak fence gates now generate naturally in woodland mansions.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			Oak, spruce, jungle, and acacia fence gate generate in new villages.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		Added fence gates.
TU9					Fence gates can now be opened and closed with redstone.
TU25	CU14	1.17			Added spruce, birch, and jungle fence gate variants.
					Renamed fence gate to oak fence gate.
TU27	CU15	1.18			Added acacia and dark oak fence gates to the creative inventory.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0					Added Fence Gates.

Issues

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References

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