Minecraft offers a lot of creative freedom to its players. The world is flexible and players can expand their creations vertically and horizontally almost without limit. But going through the building process can be quite dangerous and tedious for those playing Minecraft on survival or hardcore mode. Fall damage can prove to be disastrous and placing blocks to stand on leads to a large amount of clean up.
Fortunately, Minecraft has a piece of real-world construction safety that can help prevent disaster: scaffolding. Scaffolding allows players a safer way of working on their builds in Minecraft and functions as a temporary structure. As long as players know where they can get bamboo, it is an easy investment.
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How to Make Scaffolding
As with the majority of Minecraft creations, scaffolding requires the player to gather materials and visit a crafting table. The receipe for scaffolding calls for bamboo as well as string. Bamboo can be found in jungle biomes and is the fastest growing plant in Minecraft. It can be mined with any tool and players need just 6 pieces of bamboo to produce a set of 6 scaffolding. Though harvesting them from jungle biomes is likely the fastest method for gathering the plant, bamboo can also be fished up in the jungle and can drop from killing pandas.
With the required amount of bamboo, players just need 1 string per set in order to make scaffolding. String can be dropped by mobs such as spiders, fished up, bartered for from villagers, as well as gained from breaking cobwebs. String also spawns in various chests, can be traded for from Piglins in Minecraft, and gifted to players from cats. And so 6 bamboo and 1 string results in 6 scaffolding pieces at a crafting table.
How to Use Scaffolding
Scaffolding is primarily used for assisting players with building and there is good reason for this. It has a unique abilities that make it especially useful for this role. Scaffolding has no collision detection meaning that players can move up and down scaffolding blocks by either jumping or sneaking, respectively. This means that scaffolding placed alongside ongoing buildings gives players the option to climb up and down as well as remain stationary at different heights.
Also, when it comes to cleaning up a construction site, scaffolding also holds an advantage over other materials. Taking out the bottom block of a stack of scaffolding results in every piece in the stack to break. This means that players don't need to break individual pieces after a build is done. Which can be quite tedious for some of the larger builds in Minecraft. It's important to note though that scaffolding will only extend out horizontally 6 blocks without any support. The 7th block will drop to the ground instead of remaining attached.
Minecraft is available now for PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One, and various other platforms.
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