Painful Lava Entrance
Channel: Eric Haines
Date: 25/03/2012

A clever idea on reddit, http://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/rck2h/how_to_make_a_cool_entrance_to_a_secret_room/. However, don't do what he said: don't use ladders. Well, you could make three out of four of them ladders, I guess, so that only you know the safe block to use.

You take about 8 out of 10 hearts of damage going through the lava.

I add a little fence gate trick from kmalgren, but it's a two-edged sword in that someone else could close the gates (even from the outside, from above) and you wouldn't know. I wish an opening gate had a different sound than a closing gate. Another advantage of fencegates is you can make the lava pit as large as you want, not just 2x2.

There's a followup video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTlWz1LRuOs, showing what happens if you drop in the lava.

Texture pack is Quandary Ancient Roots, location is X the Unknown in Vokselia, find both at http://vokselia.com