Minecraft Round Up - Let's mod a Redstone Door
In our Minecraft Mod Club, we are starting a brand new mod series called 'Redstone Contraptions'
In our Minercraft Mod Club, we are starting a brand new mod series called 'Redstone Contraptions'. This series will focus on fun and practical mods; we will be creating Minecraft friendly machines which use redstone to operate them.
In this mod, we are using redstone to create our very own automatic door. This door is operated by the player standing on the pressure plates - just like the ones you see in the supermarkets! This mod uses 4 different functions; one which creates the base, one which installs the pistons, one which adds the redstone and finally one that places the pressure plates.
All functions are called simultaneously through our chat command to create our automatic door. You can easily mod this code to make it your own - try swapping out the birch wood planks block for something fun and colourful like the terracotta blocks! Or you can make the door smaller or larger by adjusting all the coordinates so it can fit into any space.
This mod is a great addition to add to any of your custom buildings in your Minecraft World.
Send us a picture through the blue chat bubble to show off how you used this redstone door in your own Minecraft builds!
Until next time, happy building everyone!
About Minecraft Mod Club
Minecraft Mod Club uses Minecraft Education Edition to teach real code. Children write mods rather than just playing: custom blocks, new behaviours, things the game does not do out of the box. For a child who would happily spend all weekend in Minecraft, it is usually the easiest way in.
It is included with every membership rather than sold separately. Sessions are one hour a week in a group of no more than six, with the same DBS-checked, STEM-certified mentor, and children build their own projects rather than following a set course. Most start in Scratch or MakeCode and move to Python and TypeScript when they are ready.
Modding is a good bridge because the feedback is immediate and visible: change the code, reload the world, see whether the block behaves. That makes the jump from block-based coding to written code less abrupt than it usually is, which is the point where most children stall when they are learning alone.
Mentors write a note on every child after every session, so we know when somebody is ready to move up a level or would rather stay put.
More than a third of our members are autistic or have ADHD, based on what parents tell us when they join, and in 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society. Children can keep the camera off, type instead of speaking, and take a break without it disrupting anyone.
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The blog is in two halves. Guides are the evergreen explainers written by the mentors who teach the clubs, covering the questions parents actually ask: what comes after Scratch, how to support a coding-mad child when you cannot code yourself, and what works for autistic and ADHD children.
Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what an hour actually looks like before you book anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
The first session is a free taster and we do not ask for card details. Book a free taster session, see what it costs, or read about support for neurodivergent children.
