Rope Bridge FAQ

Craft Rope first, then combine it with planks of your chosen wood type to get that wood's Rope Bridge. Place the bridge blocks along the edge of your gap and they'll extend outward as you go.

Rope is crafted from string, and it's the base ingredient for every bridge and ladder in the mod. You'll need a fair amount of it, so stock up on string before you start building.

The gun places bridge blocks for you at range, so you can span a gap without edging out over the void yourself. Load it with the bridge blocks you want to place, aim, and fire.

They're the crafting components for the guns. The Bridge Building Gun and Ladder Gun are each assembled from a barrel, a stock, and their respective hook.

The Bridge Building Gun places rope bridge blocks, while the Ladder Gun places rope ladders. Each uses its own hook item in the recipe and places its own block type.

Just walk into it like a vanilla ladder and you'll climb up. Rope ladders hang down from the block you place them against, so place the top one first and extend downward.

Yes, the mod supports the standard wood types, including the Nether woods Crimson and Warped. Each wood type has its own matching bridge and ladder, so pick one that fits your build.

Bridges need a solid block to attach to at the starting edge, and they extend from there. Make sure you're placing against a valid support block and not trying to start mid-air.

They're standard blocks, so they behave like any other mod block on a server as long as the mod is installed on both client and server. Other players can walk across them normally.

Rope bridges and ladders are simple blocks, so they don't have special ticking behavior and won't cause noticeable lag even in large numbers. Very long spans are fine performance-wise.

Use the bridge building gun with rope and wooden slabs in your inventory to build a bridge between two elevated points. The ladder gun works the same way for vertical walls but only needs rope.

Hold the ladder gun and have rope in your inventory, then point and shoot at a vertical wall to build a ladder automatically. It uses the same point-and-shoot system as the bridge building gun.

Hold the bridge building gun with rope and wooden slabs in your inventory, then point and shoot to build a bridge between two elevated points. It detects blocks that are in the way.

The grappling gun has three separate craftable parts, including the gun barrel, gun stock and gun hook. There are separate hooks for the bridge building gun and the ladder gun.

Rope bridges and rope ladders come in acacia, bamboo, birch, cherry, crimson, dark oak, jungle, mangrove, oak, pale oak, spruce and warped variants.

Yes, it is fully server-compatible. You can also build bridges from commands alone on both server and client.

The mod adds a new string recipe for making rope. Rope is needed for both the ladder gun and the bridge building gun.

Yes, the mod adds a configuration file with several settable values. You can also edit those values temporarily in-game with the "/ropebridge" command.

The bridge building gun hook is one of the craftable parts of the grappling gun. The ladder gun has its own separate hook.

Yes, the mod adds custom achievements. It also adds building animations and custom bridge quarter-slabs.