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I had a few too many last night and made a ton of iron bars... I'm more or less a farmer, not a prison warden... Any idea what I could do with all of them? I plan on working on a village soon, maybe something there?

Hahaha! Damn that sucks.

Make the shelter around your Nether portal (in the Nether) out of iron bars. They're essentially like a much stronger glass pane, so you'd be able to see all around you. And I'm pretty sure ghasts can't destroy them. I just use them for windows in my Nether base, otherwise I never use them.

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Make the shelter around your Nether portal (in the Nether) out of iron bars. They're essentially like a much stronger glass pane, so you'd be able to see all around you. And I'm pretty sure ghasts can't destroy them. I just use them for windows in my Nether base, otherwise I never use them.

they don't see you if you are hidden behind them, but they can destroy them.

You'd be surprised by how many uses iron fences have... in both urban and decorative sense. But in farming... perhaps used for blades in a combine harvester? Or as water tower/windmill supports. Field and farm fencing perhaps. Chicken cages?

I've used them for a different type of iron door, but it takes sticky pistons too.

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Make the shelter around your Nether portal (in the Nether) out of iron bars. They're essentially like a much stronger glass pane, so you'd be able to see all around you. And I'm pretty sure ghasts can't destroy them. I just use them for windows in my Nether base, otherwise I never use them.

I don't even really go into caves in fear of getting lost and then falling into lava. I don't see myself building a portal to hell anytime soon. Good suggestion though

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Chicken cages?

Yes, I will use them in my breeding rooms for chickens. I call them rape factories, but yes, chicken cages.

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. . . Chicken cages?

Yep. My chicken coop is mostly iron bars.

Just remember that they're not like fences, they are exactly one block high... so everything can jump over them if you only have one block around a coop.

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Just remember that they're not like fences, they are exactly one block high... so everything can jump over them if you only have one block around a coop.

Which is why you make them 2 blocks high, and sink the inside floor one block deep into the ground for good measure. For some reason, the chickens never hop up to the blocks with the iron bars (at ground level). They stay down that one extra block.

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Which is why you make them 2 blocks high, and sink the inside floor one block deep into the ground for good measure. For some reason, the chickens never hop up to the blocks with the iron bars (at ground level). They stay down that one extra block.

I always build all my coops for all farm animals 2 deep from surface. I've had too many animals glitch through fences when only 1 deep.

How about light post for a rail line or street lamps in the village. In ravines I also use iron rails as the sides for bridges crossing the ravines. You can use them as rebar in a large structure and smooth stone as concrete.

Make the most unnecessary walkway-parkour path to your home/garden.

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I don't even really go into caves in fear of getting lost and then falling into lava. I don't see myself building a portal to hell anytime soon. Good suggestion though


Yes, I will use them in my breeding rooms for chickens. I call them rape factories, but yes, chicken cages.

The nether is nothing like hell but the scenery. I have more trouble avoiding creepers on the surface then doing anything else

Barbed wire fence around your farm? I find that iron bars are good for large gates or enclosures. They might also work as scarecrow poles
Or tractor windows.

I saw someone do up a BF map, and they made suspension cables with it. I think it would look cool to do up a bridge. Something else is put chimineys on all you're structures, and use it for smoke. Not sure how many you made, may need to model the brooklyn bridge or something.

Stack two of them and put netherrack on top and light it. Gives that Barbarian Kingdom feel immediately. Makes nice railings for balconies and porches too.