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As the title suggests, I'd like to know your best traps for those mobs, whether to capture or kill them.

I'm looking for some idea's for my new world build, to 'protect' my castle.

So far I've designed a few. The first being to protect the long 'tunnel' that leads into my courtyard. The tunnel is 3 blocks wide, with a turning at the end leading to the courtyard. This turning has a metal 'gate' to stop anything getting in. At the end of the tunnel there are three dispensers containing arrows, activted by pressure pads in the tunnel. That should stop them.

I'm also thinking of a trap door leading to a lava pit. But that would destroy any gunpowder etc that the mobs drop.

What do you use?

fall pits that shoot fire arrows at you and crush you, then a piston on a timer stops everything and I get in my secret tunnel to it and collect their stuff.

I made a trapdoor drawbridge back in 1.6 that the mobs would drop down into a water pool that pushed them into a drown trap and delivered the item. I'm sure you could use pistons now but the trap is pretty simple if you just youtube it.

For me is to lead them to my trap house where I pull a lever which activates pistons to retract and drop mobs outside my door into a lava blade.