How to Make a Ladder in Minecraft

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Ladders are wooden blocks used to climb inside structures and caves in Minecraft. They can also be used as decorative features if that suited your structure's appearance. They're very easy to make.

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Finding the Materials

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  1. To do this:
    • Chop down a tree to get wooden planks.
    • Place a wooden log into your crafting box to get a plank.
    • Place a wooden plank on top of a wooden plank to get 4 sticks.
    • Repeat to get another 4 sticks.
    • Use 7 of the sticks to craft the ladders.
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Crafting the Ladders

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  1. Arrange as follows:
    • Place 3 wooden sticks down the left column slots of the grid
    • Place 3 wooden sticks down the right column slots of the grid
    • Place 1 wooden stick in the center. The top and bottom center slots are left clear.
  2. You'll get 3 ladders.
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Placing the Ladders

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Ladders are used for climbing both vertically and horizontally.

  1. Bear in mind the following though:
    • Ladders can only be placed on sides of other blocks
    • A ladder will occupy one block from the side on which it is placed
    • Ladders cannot be placed on glass, ice, leaves or glowstone blocks.
    • Ladders will resist water and create an air pocket.
    • Ladders will resist lava; if used instead of glass, this can allow lava light to shine through a ceiling.


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    How do I use ladders in Minecraft?
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    After placing them against a building, move next to them, and you'll start to go up. Keep holding the button you use to walk forward until you reach the top of the ladder.
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    How can you climb Minecraft ladder in bedrock edition?
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    Walk up to the ladder and keep holding down the forward walk button while facing the ladder.
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    How do you use a furnace without coal?
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    You can use some other fuel sources besides coal, like charcoal, wood blocks and tools, buckets of lava, dried kelp blocks, blaze rods, saplings, wool, sticks, beehives or nests, banners, mushroom blocks, noteblocks, and jukeboxes.
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      • Ladders will cushion you from the impact of a free fall.
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      • It's a good idea to make quite a few ladders before you build a tall structure, so that you can get to the top of it.
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      • Library rooms in strongholds will contain naturally occurring ladders. Intersection rooms that have a wooden ceiling will also contain ladders naturally.
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      • Minecraft installed


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      1. Find 7 sticks.
      2. Open the crafting table.
      3. Place sticks in boxes 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, and 9.
      4. Drag the ladders to the inventory.
      5. Select the ladder.
      6. Right-click to place the ladder.

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