How to Upgrade Base Lighting and Vertical Access

You can replace standard vanilla torches and ladders with wood-matched climbing gear and colored light sources to better fit your build's palette.

Crafting Hanging Rope Ladders

Unlike vanilla ladders that require a solid backing wall for every block, Hanging Rope Ladders are designed for climbing steep cliffs, caves, and treehouses.

• Gather your preferred vanilla wood type.
• Craft the matching Hanging Rope Ladder in a crafting table (variants exist for every vanilla wood style).
• Place the ladder at the top edge of your drop-off or treehouse platform to create a climbable rope path.

Using Colored Light Sources

Instead of relying only on standard yellow or soul-blue lighting, you can craft dyed versions of three core light blocks:

• Colored Torches for quick wall and floor lighting.
• Colored Lanterns for hanging from ceilings or placing on tables and fences.
• Colored Campfires for outdoor paths, campsites, and chimney smoke.

Check your recipe book or crafting table interface with dyes and standard lighting ingredients to view the exact crafting layout for the shade you want.

Expanding Stone Palettes

When mining underground, hang onto your Calcite and Dripstone. You can process both materials at a crafting table or stonecutter into slabs, stairs, walls, and polished brick variants to blend seamlessly with caves and mountain builds.