Many wonders of the world, including the Great Wall of China, were built using bamboo scaffolding. Ancient Greeks, Egyptians, Nubians, and Chinese are also recorded as having used scaffolding for building work. We’ve been using it for a very long time – sockets carved out of the walls of the famous Lascaux cave in France suggest that some sort of scaffolding system was used to paint the ceiling over 17,000 years ago. You put it up for building purposes, and if you knock out the bottom layer then the whole thing comes crashing down. Real-world scaffolding works much like Minecraft scaffolding does. Scaffolding is a fantastic fuel, smelting two items per block in Java Edition and a whopping six in Bedrock Edition. There’s just one question – what do you do with your stacks of scaffolding once your magnificent construction is complete? The answer to this problem is the same as the answer to most problems in life. Easy to place, easy to destroy – just like I promised. Best of all? Once you’re done, you can knock out the bottom block and the whole tower will come crashing down. Jump and you’ll find that you can climb it and descend it like a ladder. Walk into the block and you’ll find that it has no collision detection. Keep going and you’ll be able to quickly make a tower. Right-click on that bottom block again and you’ll place another scaffolding on top of it. Once you’ve got some, right-click on the ground to place it down.

You’ll need bamboo! Specifically, six bamboo and a bit of string to lash it together. It was specifically designed to help when you’re building things – it’s extremely easy to place and extremely easy to destroy.įirst, though, let’s cover how you make it. Scaffolding was added to Minecraft in version 1.14, which is affectionately known to its friends as the Village & Pillage Update.

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