- [Skip The Tutorial] 23 Ways
to Hide From Your Friends and Enemies in Minecraft. With just a composter and a trapdoor, you have an easy way to hide yourself. But unfortunately, just like this, it's not the most effective. You can see yourself
popping out of the sides. But nothing to worry about
because if you place blocks on the other sides of
the composter like so, we're actually able to
hide the player model from clipping out. It just might require some fine tweaking so then you actually
get the right rotation. Oh, and while this seems hidden enough, if there's one last thing
you should remember, it's that you need to hold sneak even while you're in this cramped spot. Otherwise, your name tag
is gonna show up on top. I guess crawling isn't
the same as sneaking. Go figure. Perhaps the most classic way
of keeping yourself hidden is to dig yourself down
to a three-block pit and then put the top most
block back into place when you're down there. After that, you know
the rest of the story. You hold down the sneak key and you're about as good as hidden. That is until your
friend decides to just do one block's worth of mining,
and your secrets revealed. So maybe it's worth sticking to one of the other entries on this list if you're looking for something
a little bit more permanent. Camouflage skins are
nothing new to Minecraft, but what we're camouflaging
might be a new touch since the particular choice here to use a deep slick camouflage
skin can work really well with how dark it gets in the lower levels. And then from there, hitting the sneak key will
make you even more invisible. And now the big problem you're
gonna have to worry about is making yourself look too invisible. Now your friends think it's safe enough to use a tunnel bore. In that case, you might be better off
safe rather than hidden. Without a doubt, the most effective way of hiding yourself is with
an Invisibility Potion. I mean, the name kind of gives that away. Well, that doesn't mean that you shouldn't still avoid these dead giveaways such as never holding an item in your
hand while you're invisible, taking off all of your armor, and then perhaps the biggest
yet is that you really gotta make sure that you're
not moving around so much that the particles are
getting dispersed everywhere. If you're playing on a server
with a bunch of PvPers, then without a doubt, the people on Lifesteal
know what to look for, so stay safe and stay hidden even if you got this Get
Out of Jail Free card. In this case, maybe you don't have to
be the one that's hidden, but rather you're going
into a hidden spot. And an effective way of
entering that secret area is to use something like Chorus Fruit. That way, the only
possibility of your friend trying to track you in is if they themselves have
this rare-to-hold item. And while it will admittedly
take a few attempts to make sure that you teleport
exactly where you want to go, for the ability to stay especially hidden, I think that's a minor cost to shoulder. And besides, if you wanna
increase your chances of teleporting in just right, then you could always just clear
up the interior of the base and then you'll have more
blocks to actually teleport too. By linking nether portals
in a specific way, we're able to make it so
that we can give one portal two destinations depending
on where you stand on it. Man, this is gonna
become a lot more obvious if we use something like
a tall nether portal. Because here, we could have it on if we stand at the top of the
portal with a secret place, then that'll be the only way
we teleport to our secret base. But if you go through it normally, you go to the standard
location of another fortress. Besides, whoever wants to teleport through the top half of the portal anyway? If you design it right, they'll just think that you
made a tall nether portal for shell and your
secrets' safe from there. From where we're standing, this base doesn't look that hidden. But from the ground level, these shulker boxes
that we used as a floor actually start to disappear. And the reason is that block entities like shulker boxes and chests stop rendering when you're 64 blocks away. So if you put some of these
up near the top of the sky, they'll only render if
someone gets within range. So unless they got an Elytra and they're flying pretty
high up, might I add, they'll be none the wiser
that you're hiding out here. And hey, with all those shulker boxes, you got built-in storage too, so there's worse blocks that
you could be stuck with. If you're looking to hide
from friends and foes, then a pretty decent spot is going to the bottom of a lake or an ocean, but that just caused one issue, how do you not drown? Well, luckily, using
something like a banner, we can give ourselves that air pocket to hang out underneath the ocean. And if you really wanted to be sneaky, you could take that composter
and trapdoor from above ground and put them to even better
use on top of the ocean floor. Granted, it's a little
cramped in either example, but it's both safe and hidden. And as far as I'm concerned,
that's what we're looking for. If we break two of the
leaf blocks on this tree and then place a trapdoor like so, we can use that to crawl
inside of the tree. And then, once we're inside
of the tree's canopy, we can break that trapdoor and
replace it with a leaf block. And then, partnered with how
busy the leaf texture is, especially if they're playing
with low graphic settings, we can really disappear into this canopy. Or if you don't have a tree
yet and still want to do this, then by placing a leaf
block and a setup like this with a sapling underneath,
you can Bone Meal the sapling, and as soon as it grows, you'll actually be hidden
just where you want to be. And while birch is the easiest
tree to pull this off with, you might wanna try a few times to actually get a tall oak tree. They're rare, but they're
a lot easier to hide in. If you're trying to get out of Dodge, then Elytra and Rockets
can do that pretty well. But once you're up well past build limit hiding from everyone else, how do you stay hidden and make sure that you don't
just fall down into the Earth? Well, if you took the time to brew up some Slow Falling Potions
down on the surface, then chugging a couple of those
partnered with your Elytra can slow your descent down to a crawl. And from there, we can
leisurely enjoy our safety right up above the clouds. Just make sure to also get
Unbreaking 3 on your Elytra. Now, that's gonna ruin your disguise more than falling out of the sky and standing in front of your
friend as a pile of items. I'll be honest, hiding in a secret room
behind a painting is old hat. And unfortunately, too many players know to
check behind these things. Over just a few minor tweaks, we could still teach this
old dog some new tricks. Like for example, using
things like trapdoors or slabs that you have to jump
or maneuver your way in, those can really impact the effectiveness of one of these designs. And that way, the only chance
of someone getting through is if they know that it's there. And to be honest, if it's
a secret, they shouldn't so you should be fine. And if you want to get
even more particular and a bit more cruel, you could set up another
painting with a cactus behind it. That way, they try to go through that one, they'll be deterred from
trying to enter the other. Powdered Snow isn't exactly
a comfortable hiding spot. Well, the only thing that's
keeping you from jumping face first into a pile of
white powder is the law. No. (laughs) It's four leather and a crafting table. Since strangely enough, all it takes is a pair of
leather boots to make yourself completely immune to freezing even when you're completely
submerged in Powdered Snow and you'll see as much if we
sneak behind this armor stand. And then, if you keep holding sneak, no one will be any of the
wiser that you're down there. Trapdoors are a common decoration block which, lucky for us,
means that there's plenty of these tiny crawl spaces
that we can get into. Like, take this house, for example. By flipping open some
of the spruce trapdoors and the pillars, we can tuck ourselves
away from any passerby, even if it's their house. Or if they happen to use
trapdoors in their floor design, then even better. You can hide into that too. And even if your friend
doesn't have trapdoors in their base, it would
look better if they did. So I'm sure if you added some of these in to help them decorate,
they'd be appreciative and none the wiser that
you're actually using it as a new hiding spot. You might not see this secret entrance, but that's kind of the point. Since if you were to
go find yourself a spot inside of a snowy area, dig down into a pit and then place scaffolding
back up to the surface, then even when we cover our
tracks with a snow layer on top, we'll still be able to
memorize where we go and sneak right into the location. Well, that's the key part. You gotta remember where you're hiding, 'cause otherwise it
might look a little weird if you just keep crouching
in the pile of random snow. And the last thing you want is to draw any suspicious eyeballs to your new base. It's best to log the coordinates
if you really need to. The trick to this secret entrance is that there isn't an entrance. But rather by aiming an Ender Pearl Throw just the right way, we're
able to teleport ourselves through a one-block thick surface. And as you can see from the example, if we aim the Ender Pearl just right to where the wall meets the ground, then we can reliably clip through the wall and get over to our base. And while the Ender Pearl might hurt you a little bit to get inside, it's a lot better than having
to stay out in the open to your enemies so I'd
rather take this damage than leave myself susceptible
to more on the outside. If you only need to hide
yourself for a few minutes, then it's hard to beat a lava pool. Since with a Fire Resistance
Potion and some Redstone, we can buy ourselves some valuable time to hang out at the bottom of a lava lake. And there, even if anyone
notices that you're down there, it's not like you'll be easy to get to. But I will warn obviously
that if you try this, you might wanna have a
stopwatch next to you, or the very least, another
potion so that you can re-up it. After all, the brewing
stand makes three of them, so you could use all of that
to get yourself 24 minutes at the bottom of a lava lake. And at that point, if they're still waiting
up there to catch you, they deserve to. They clearly have patience. The only way to get to
my secret base is to die. And no, it's not heaven. But the truth is that this
base is only accessible through a respawn. That way, after stashing your stuff inside of an Ender Chest,
we take care of ourselves and through the help of a bed
respawn where we want to be. But then the question is, if you have to die to get
in, how do you get out? Well, through the help of an
Ender Pearl stasis chamber, we could set up an Ender
Pearl just like this and then when it's time to escape, press the button and
then reset up the systems that we can use to get back out. And this might just be one
of the most effective ways to hide yourself, because even if your
friend knows how to get in, chances are they don't have
their spawn set to your bed. So even if they off themselves
to reach the other side, you can rest assured that that'll be on the other side of your base's walls. If you're trying to
hide from your friends, then a silly way to do it might just be getting
yourself a carved pumpkin. Now, not to say that your
friends are Endermen, but what you might see is
that if we actually put on one of these and then crouch
next to a pumpkin patch, without our name tag, we do tend to blend in
with the other textures. Is it stupid? Of course. But if it works situationally, that's good enough for
me because remember, it only has to work once
for it to be worth it. And if everything goes wrong
and they still catch you, you could always craft up
yourself an Iron Golem. Lord knows you'll have the pumpkin. Sometimes the best way
to hide from your friends is to hide in plain sight. And while the camouflage skin can do that, there's a way for us
to camouflage in game. And through the help of some
very specific dye leather armor and a mob head, we can sneak into a crowd of zombies and blend in quite perfectly. Besides if your friend's
trying to chase after you, the odds are they don't
want deal with zombies that they don't have to anyway. So if you get in with a crowd
of them, you'll be safe. And better still, is that
by wearing a zombie head and having that Potion of Invisibility, even the zombies aren't gonna attack you. So as far as they're concerned,
you blend in with them too. If your friend's got
another portal like this, then you're in luck since all those extra
decorations are gonna offer us the perfect hiding space, and all we need to do to use this facade is to go through the nether
portal and then come back. Since when we return to the Overworld, we're not just gonna be teleported back to the other dimension. Granted, we are gonna have this annoying warbly effect when we come back, but if you turn off Distortion Effects in the Accessibility tab, then you do have the option
to be just fine here. And as long as you don't
leave the nether portal again, it won't be able to teleport you back. So if you wanna trick them into thinking that you went to the nether but leave them no clue
as to where you went, I think this does the trick and then some. Unlike in real life, in Minecraft, you're not
safe under the covers. You're quite literally out in the open. But by opening up this
trapdoor underneath my bed, that'll give us access to the
secret minecart underneath. And then, by having that minecart placed on top of an activator rail, we have a quick and easy way to get in and out of our secret base. And this works particularly well especially because if
you have a bed up top, it already looks like you have a base, and I doubt very many
people are gonna be checking underneath your beds for
any kind of monsters. And then when you're ready to leave, use the same minecart and
it'll shoot us right up top. In order to get to our secret base, you might wanna turn on chunk borders because when you're
flying over the End void, it can be tough to tell
which way you're flying, whether that's up or down, and you definitely don't
want it to be down. But once we follow this Lodestone Compass, that'll take us right to our secret base out in basically the middle of nowhere because very rarely do people check between the main island and
the outer islands of the End. Really, if you don't get there
with a gateway or portal, most people don't explore
that part of the End, which means that if you
have the time to set it up, this could be the perfect
location for your hideout. Just make sure that you
fully stock that hideout with plenty of rockets to
get back with your Elytra. Otherwise, you might be stuck
in secrecy for quite a while unless you wanna take the short way out. This isn't an armor
stand, but rather it's me because by putting on
the same set of armor and then drinking an Invisibility Potion, we can do something of a mannequin prank and hide in plain sight. And while this will definitely
fool someone at a glance, the key thing to note
is that interestingly, the player is shorter than the armor stand even if you equip with the same armor. So I definitely wouldn't wanna hide next to other armor stands when you do this. Those static statues
could be a dead giveaway. And if you're worried
about the potion particles that are coming off of your body, then I mentioned that it
helps to do one of these next to an area with beacon beams. Since then, the players are already used to potion particles
coming off of themselves, it's not gonna strike them as abnormal. And with that, folks, YouTube thinks that you
might like this video so see if they're right and
have a good one, all right?
