Simple Key Gates
A simple mod for modpack makers that adds color-coded keys, keyholes, and gate blocks.
Key Features
- Color Matching: Each keyhole needs a key of the same color.
- Unbreakable: Gate blocks and keyholes cannot be broken.
- Single-Use: Keys disappear after one use.
How It Works
- Place Gate Blocks to make a door.
- Place a Gate Keyhole touching the blocks.
- Right-click the keyhole with the right Key.
- The key, keyhole, and all connected gate blocks disappear forever.
Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Ships as simplekeygates-1.0.0.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 45 KB
- Download link checked 14 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.