I recently built a tower/obelisk type structure by supporting my character's self on a single stack of blocks, building this scaffolding stack underneath myself as I went up and breaking it down from the top after I was done. This seemed like an incredibly risky and failure-prone strategy, and I would not want to attempt it again for concerns of falling. What are some strategies to build a tower or spire structure of arbitrary height from primarily within the safety of inside the tower itself? Preferably, this should not require a full separate scaffolding structure, but this should allow me to occasionally go outside on scaffolding of some sort and decorate the outer surface. Any suggestions or best practices around this? Thanks in advance.
Minecraft: building a tower of arbitrary height from inside
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This is a variation on @KevinY's answer; with the major difference being the stations:
The design for the end station is fairly well defined, and mostly invariant:
When it comes to stations in the middle of the track, however; there are two basic approaches; @KevinY's proposal, a rise station; and the similar but distinct dip station:
Which station you choose can vary on a number of factors; they both perform the same task, and both do it well, but the dip station has a couple of convenient attributes:
When using only one button, access to this button is somewhat easier to achieve with a dip station.
Dip stations in tunnels require no extra headroom when compared to rise stations.
Dip stations do not require detector rails
While there is a risk of getting turned around due to high speed; the risk of completely overshooting the station is smaller than with the rise station as proposed by Kevin. (This may or may not be what you want).
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The Minecraft world is 256 blocks (as of Minecraft 1.2) from top to bottom. The reason for the height restriction is that the Minecraft world is made of 16x16x256 'chunks'. These are loaded into memory and rendered starting with the ones closest to the player. A 3D world of chunks (where the world is 'infinite' vertically as well as horizontally) is a whole lot more complex than a 2D world of chunks to manage, and optimizing for smooth gameplay would be a challenge. 256 is a convenient number that's a power of 2 (making it align nicely in memory).
Note that there is also a separate build height on servers. In the server.properties file, there is a property max-build-height which defaults to 256. Server admins can lower this value to prevent players placing blocks above a certain height, but it will not prevent natural terrain from spawning above this level, or players climbing natural structures above this height.
Although it is theoretically possible for a mod to increase the height limit of the map, I can't find any that work with the current version of Minecraft or are in active development.
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Dig a trench around the base of the tower two or three blocks deep and two or three blocks wide on each side, and fill it with water. If you fall off (or jump off when you're done) you can safely land in the water.
If you carry a bucket of water with you, you can use it do float down and then swim back up to the top if you need to run off temporarily. The bucket is reusable and the 'ladder' it makes disappears instantly!