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Ladder

8Block states
2Properties
YesItem form

The ladder is a block crafted from sticks. It can be placed facing different directions, and it can be waterlogged, which lets it hold water.

Players break a ladder fastest with an axe, and it drops itself when broken, so it can be picked up and placed again elsewhere.

Contents (5)
  1. Data values
  2. Sounds
  3. Block states
  4. History
  5. See also

Data values

Read from reports/blocks.json of Minecraft 26.3.

Identifierminecraft:ladder
Numeric default state ID7308
Block states8
State properties2
Item formYes

Sounds

Sound events named after this block. Blocks that share a generic sound group are not listed, because the game keeps those groupings in code rather than in its data files.

WhenSoundClosed captionIdentifierTranslation key
BrokenBlock brokenblock.ladder.breaksubtitles.block.generic.break
Fallen onSomething falls on a blockblock.ladder.fallsubtitles.block.generic.fall
Hit while miningBlock breakingblock.ladder.hitsubtitles.block.generic.hit
PlacedBlock placedblock.ladder.placesubtitles.block.generic.place
Walked onFootstepsblock.ladder.stepsubtitles.block.generic.footsteps

Block states

2 properties combine into 8 distinct states.

PropertyDefaultAllowed valuesMeaning
facingnorthnorth south west eastWhich way the block faces.
waterloggedfalsetrue falseWhether the block is filled with water.

History

Worked out by reading the registry of every Minecraft build Mojang has published, in release order.

VersionDateWhat the files show
before 18w01a—Already in the game when Mojang’s data generator first shipped, in 18w01a (3 January 2018). The files do not say which earlier version added it.

See also