Security Gear

Security cameras with live monitors, laser tripwires, bombs, pit traps, prison walls, winding bridges, guard towers, guards and guard dogs.

⬇ iPad, phone, console & Windows: Bedrock ⬇ Mac & PC: Java Edition All versions

Which one do I need? Playing on an iPad, iPhone, Android, Xbox, PlayStation, Switch or Minecraft for Windows? That is Bedrock Edition – take the first download. Playing on a computer with the Minecraft Java Edition launcher (Mac, Windows or Linux)? Take the Java download. Not sure? If you bought Minecraft in the App Store or Google Play, it is Bedrock.

Latest version: 0.3.0

Install

Install on iPad, phone, console or Windows (Bedrock)

  1. Download SecurityGear.mcaddon on your Windows PC, Android phone or tablet, or iPhone or iPad.
  2. Open the file. Minecraft starts and imports both packs.
  3. Create or edit a world. Under Behavior Packs, turn on Security Gear. The resource pack is added automatically.
  4. Find the gear in the creative inventory, or craft it. Needs Minecraft 1.21.130 or newer.

Running a server? Use the separate behavior pack and resource pack. Xbox, PlayStation and Switch can’t import add-ons from files, but you can join a world or Realm that has the add-on.

Install on Mac or PC (Java Edition)

  1. Install Fabric Loader for Minecraft 26.3.
  2. Download SecurityGear-fabric.jar, plus Fabric API and GeckoLib.
  3. Put all three files in your mods folder and start Minecraft with the Fabric profile.
  4. Find the gear in the Security Gear creative tab, or craft it.

Upgrading to a new version

  1. Download the new version and open the file. A newer version replaces the one you have, and your worlds use it the next time you load them.
  2. Still running the old version? (or Minecraft says it is already installed): go to Settings → Storage, delete Security Gear under both Resource Packs and Behavior Packs, then open the new file again.
  3. Check the world: in the world’s Edit screen, under Behavior Packs and Resource Packs, make sure Security Gear is active. A world you imported or downloaded can carry its own old copy: deactivate it there, save, and activate the new one.

On a server, replace the add-on’s folders in behavior_packs and resource_packs with the new ones and restart it.

Java Edition: delete the old Security Gear jar from your mods folder and put the new one in its place. Keep only one version in the folder. If the new version needs a newer Fabric API or GeckoLib, update those too.

Surveillance

Security Camera

Hangs on a wall or from a ceiling and pans slowly from side to side. Sneak and use it to make it hold still.

Security Monitor

Java: shows a live picture from the camera, right on the screen. Use it to look through the camera, sneak and use it to switch camera. Bedrock: use it to look through the camera.

Camera Linker

Use it on up to 8 cameras, then on a monitor, to link them.

Searchlight

Powered, it sweeps the yard and really lights up where the beam lands. An inverted daylight sensor switches it on at night.

Lasers and alarms

Laser Tripwire

A red beam up to 16 blocks long. When something crosses it, a Laser Receiver at the far end gives a redstone pulse. Redstone switches the laser off.

Laser Fence

A blue beam that also burns whatever walks through it.

Laser Receiver

Gives a redstone pulse while its beam is broken.

Motion Sensor

Gives a signal while it sees a creature within 8 blocks. Sneak past it and it won’t notice you.

Alarm Siren

Flashes red and wails while powered.

Access control and prisons

Keycard Reader

Swipe a Guard, Officer or Warden keycard. With enough clearance it opens the cell door next to it. Sneak and use a Warden card to change the level.

Keycards

Guard (blue), Officer (orange) and Warden (purple) clearance.

Cell Door

A barred iron door. Only redstone or a keycard reader opens it.

Prison Bars

Thick steel bars that join up like iron bars.

Prison Wall and Reinforced Concrete

Very hard and blast proof.

Barbed and Razor Wire

Slows you down and cuts.

Traps and bombs

Pit Trapdoor

Looks just like stone bricks. Step on it and the whole pit swings open, then closes again.

Timed Bomb

Use it to choose a 5, 10, 30 or 60 second fuse, sneak and use it (or power it) to arm it. It beeps as it counts down. Shears defuse it.

Tripwire Bomb

Strings a thin wire up to 8 blocks. Crossing it, or a redstone signal, sets it off.

Bridges, towers and guards

Bridge Winch

Powered, it winds out a rope bridge, one plank at a time, up to 12 blocks. Without power it winds it back in.

Blueprints

Build a guard tower (with searchlight and guard), a prison cell with an inmate or a gatehouse with a laser fence, right in front of you.

Security Guard

Patrols, fights hostile mobs and is friendly unless you hit it.

Criminal

Someone to lock up: a striped convict, an inmate in an orange jumpsuit, a masked burglar or a gangster. Keeps away from guard dogs, hits back when hit, and guards leave them alone. The prison cell blueprint comes with one.

Brute

The big one: a muscular inmate in a tank top. Twice as tough as the others, hits hard, is hard to push back and is not afraid of guard dogs.

Guard Dog

Tame it with bones. It follows you, sits on command and goes for monsters.

Baton

A hit slows the target down.