Ladder

Ladders are solid blocks used for climbing walls either vertically or horizontally. They can be placed only on the sides of other blocks.

### Breaking

* Wooden Ladders should be broken with an Axe, Rope Ladders with Shears, and Iron Ladders with a Pickaxe.
* Wooden and Rope Ladders can catch on fire if too close to lava, or if in an exceedingly hot area.
	+ Rope Ladders will burn away completely.
	+ Wooden Ladders will burn and be charred afterward, disintegrating after being climbed on once.
	+ Iron Ladders do not burn.

### Natural generation

Ladders occur naturally in library rooms of strongholds and in intersection rooms with a wooden ceiling. Ladders can also be found in village structures such as plains and taiga temples and many small or medium houses, as well as in churches. They may also be found leading to the basements of igloos, in end ships on the pillar leading up to the crow's nest, and in rail rooms of woodland mansions. Ladders also generate in ancient cities and in trail ruins.

### Crafting

* 7 Sticks will create 3 Wooden Ladders
* 7 Rope will create 3 Rope Ladders
* 7 Iron Ingots will create 3 Iron Ladders

## Usage

Ladders provide a way to cushion a player's impact after a free fall. Upon entering a ladder's area of effect, the player's speed is reduced instantly to normal ladder descent speed and no damage is taken. Falling onto the narrow top surface of the ladder incurs falling damage as normal.

Holding the sneak key while climbing a ladder causes the player to grab hold of the ladder and not fall off. While the player is holding on to a ladder, mining speed decreases.

Any mob *can* climb a ladder in the same way a player does: by pushing against it. Mobs are not smart enough to use ladders deliberately — they do not remain on a ladder to get somewhere, but a ladder directly in their path lets them climb up.

### Placement

Ladders can be placed on any full solid block face.

Ladders displace lava blocks to create an air pocket and can be used instead of glass to let lava light shine through a ceiling. They also displace flowing water, but a ladder placed inside a water source block becomes waterlogged and does not create an air pocket.

### Climbing

A ladder takes effect whenever the player's lower half is in the block occupied by a ladder. These effects are:

* If the player pushes against a wall, the player moves upward at about 2.35 blocks per second instead of horizontally. (Thus inside a 1×1 ladder shaft, the player can use any movement key to move upward.)
* If a player occupies the 1×1 ladder shaft, the player can ascend the ladder by holding jump instead of using a horizontal movement key.
* If a player moving perpendicular to the ladder block enters the ladder block, the player begins to move upward, but then falls off the ladder shortly afterward if the player continues to move horizontally.
* The player's maximum downward speed is reduced to a "descending ladder" speed, at about 3 blocks per second.
* The player's horizontal movement friction is the same as on ice. (That is, moving around in the tiny space the player is in while still hanging on the ladder at the same level.)

Additionally:

* When a trapdoor is placed directly above a ladder and opened, the trapdoor also becomes climbable.
* A player on a slab in front of the ladder must jump to get on the ladder despite being only 1/2 block down.
* Like vines, ladders slow the player down when walked through.
* Consuming food, blocking with a shield or pulling back a bow, do not slow the player down while climbing ladders (unlike when walking, sprinting and swimming).

### Fuel

A ladder can be used as fuel in furnaces, smelting 1.5 items per ladder.‌