Forum: gaming.stackexchange.com
Tags: <minecraft-java-edition>
Title: What's the best way to protect your house from Endermen stealing your walls?
Question: Since Endermen are capable of picking up blocks, they can pick up your blocks from your house.   What's the best way to prevent Endermen from stealing your blocks?

Answers:
sents: text: Put vines on the outside of your house.
text: Instead of grabbing blocks from your house, they will grab the vines, and the vines will just grow back.
text: It's a self-preserving defense mechanism against endermen.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/1719/Invader Skoodge
score: 50
sents: text: Endermen take damage from water.
text: So: surround your house with a moat.
text: As long as every floor tile on the same side of the moat as your house is sufficiently illuminated (i.e., within 7 blocks of a torch, 8 blocks of glowstone, close to burning netherrack, etc.), Endermen should not be able to get to your house to disassemble it.
text: Bear in mind that, generally, the roof of your house is probably also a valid place for Endermen to spawn—put torches up there, too!
text: Note that lava is also an effective deterrent, but it will also destroy any dropped items from enemies. Update (October 3, 2012)
text: : a mere moat is no longer sufficient.
text: My current strategy for preventing harassment by endermen to build my house with a diagonally sloping roof and put a water source block at the uppermost point, completely submerging my house in running water; the interior contains only a nether portal in waist-deep water.
text: The nether portal emerges into an enclosed tunnel that spirals down into the depths of the nether and is heavily illuminated, where a second portal returns you to the real world in my actual subterranean home.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/11689/jsnlxndrlv
score: 42
sents: text: Endermen can't take some types of block, so make a wall around your house with those materials.
text: They can't take obsidian but it's hard to harvest, but if you wait for 1.9 Endermen won't be able to carry stone-type blocks.
text: (Already in 1.9 pre-release 2 they can't)
text: Last of all: don't look at them so that they won't teleport inside your house!
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/13156/Cabriolaile
score: 7
sents: text: It's possible to use a cobblestone generator and pistons to build a self-repairing house.
text: If you're clever with the redstone you won't spot where the pistons and circuitry is hidden.
text: Edit: Here is a video example of a stone self-repairing house.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/16142/Pureferret
score: 5
sents: text: Endermen are 3 blocks tall, so: Make a moat full of water as jsnlxndrlv's answer suggests.
text: Make your house interior
text: shorter than 3 blocks.
text: Not three blocks or less, but no higher than 2 blocks! Make your exterior walls from diamond blocks as chichiwauwa09's answer suggests.
text: They can't get to your house, can't steal blocks, and can't teleport into your house!
text: So do this, and you're Endermen-proof.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/33376/cassidy
score: 4
sents: text: As of Beta 1.8 or possibly earlier, Endermen cannot grab slabs.
text: Since you can make blocks out of two slabs stacked on top of each other, you can build structures using double slabs.
text: It is extra clicking, and slower, but it's Endermen-proof.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/14438/Broam
score: 3
sents: text: It might take a lot of looking (and sometimes hacking, depends which one you prefer) but Endermen can't pick up diamond blocks or bedrock.
text: Try making your house out of them.
text: (You can use inventory or map editors to get diamond blocks too, not just bedrock).
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/20476/chichiwauwa09
score: 1
sents: text: Enderman can only pick up a very limitted number of block types.
text: These include: Grass, Dirt, Mycelium, Sand, Gravel, Clay, Pumpkin, Mellons and TNT.
text: See the article on Enderman - Moving Blocks on the Minecraft Wiki ( http://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Enderman#Moving_blocks ) for a complete list.
text: Make you house out of any other block and Endermen will not be a problem when it comes to stealing your wall.
answer_details: author: gaming.stackexchange.com/users/12654/Thorsal
score: 0

Summary of the answers:
Build a wall outside your house out of materials that Enderman cannot pick up (diamond blocks or bedrock). You can also use a cobblestone generator to build a self-repairing house.
Certain types of block is the most valid option to prevent Endermen. Furthermore, moats and other structures could be useful.