Scaffolding is OP in Minecraft 1.20

Scaffolding is a super useful block in minecraft but it has even more uses than most people think so in this video we discuss everything there is to know about scaffolding and we’re starting right now also not even 1 in 10 of my viewers are subscribed so if you could

Subscribe to my channel that would really be appreciated so to make scaffolding you need two ingredients you need bamboo and you need string now bamboo has found two main places the first one is the bamboo jungle and the second one is treasure chest in shipwrecks now that can often be a

Better way of finding it so if you know of any shipwrecks around where you are and you need bamboo for your scaffolding that’s often a good place to look to grow bamboo all you have to do is place it on the ground in a dirt like block

And it will grow if there’s adequate light and room now what’s really cool is that once you have yourself some bamboo and some string the crafting recipe is super easy for it it is string like that then bamboo on either side in a pattern like this and that gives you six

Scaffolding meaning that every single piece of bamboo is turned into one block of scaffolding and one string converts into six scaffolding which is quite useful so if we grab all of these like this we now have our scaffolding quite easily and because bamboo grows incredibly quickly it is a very very

Easy block to get as long as you have a good source of string now the way that scaffolding is placed is different from any other block so if we right click once of course it places down right clicking again it doesn’t go over here like you think it would it actually goes

Above there and the more we right click on any other side here it’ll still go higher and higher now if we do want a block to the side there’s two ways we can do this if we go to the top of it here by holding space so we basically go

In here and we hold space or whatever your jump key is and then we right click or whatever your place key is right here it’ll place it one to the side whatever direction we’re facing now we can keep doing this in any direction we want again we’re facing this way so it goes

That way we kind of go to the side here it’ll kind of go that way because they think they’re facing that way so it kind of is smart with which way they think it’s facing now what’s really interesting though is the more we place it out this way

Eventually it’s actually going to drop right down like it did there now the reason why this is that scaffolding kind of needs support it’s not like your standard block it does have some gravity rules to it so it can go six blocks from the central kind of structure so here’s

The central support right here now from here we can go six so that’s one right here two three four five six now after we go to six it’ll just fall off like it’s maybe a piece of sand or gravel but if we continue to do that it’ll actually

Stack up over there and then from there we have another pillar that can go out from because now it’s supported from that pillar now let’s see if we break this pillar here this part will collapse but this part will not because it’s being supported by this pillar right

Here but because each pillar can support six blocks out to the side what we can do if we’re planning out our scaffolding is we can have it be six blocks from this side then we can count here is one right here one two three four five six

Then right here we’re gonna place up some blocks here just like this and from here we can go six over so from here just like this we’ll go one two three four five six and this does not fall down even though it’s kind of really far out like that because these six are

Being supported by this and these six are being supported like that so basically if we go over here and we just kind of spam right click it’ll continue to make towers really close like this we don’t really need that so if we actually plan it out and put out

The towers 12 blocks apart like this we can have a lot less of supports and the reason why there’s the support system although i do think that six blocks are a little bit light it’d be interesting if it was maybe closer to eight blocks is because then we can break these

Things at the bottom the whole thing falls down and then kind of our scaffolding structure is gone so we can have easy cleanup after a large building project but how do we place blocks to the side of a tower if we’re inside of it well i’ll show you how to do that

Right here you place up ones like this just of course normally and you go up here and instead of you know right clicking like you would kind of trying to place it around here well that just makes it go taller so what you do is you

Actually look down here at this bit of the scaffolding here and you right click right here that’ll make a block go right in front of your face so what’s important to remember is that’s not kind of at your feet that’s not really there so it’s good to know is if you want at

Your feet you’ll have to kind of look down like this but that’ll also place a block to the side so what you have to do is you have to basically plan it out and decide let’s say we want to be stepping off a block above us we’ll place a block

Down here then we’ll go up and walk out here and of course from there we can place some blocks over and so it’s a little bit difficult to use but basically more or less when we right click here it’ll place a block out to the side and we can kind of make

These blocks go around here like this quite easily and once you get used to it it’s quite an interesting system of placing down a structure especially considering how easy it is to just break it and have the entire thing fall down just like that now scaffolding has some

Main uses that most people will use it for and i’ll also go over some other really interesting things you can use it for as well the main one is of course as a scaffolding to build your buildings with kind of to grab different blocks and place them in different areas as you

Would normally maybe build up with dirt and the other use is an actual ladder so you can of course put it in your building permanently and go up and down it with space just be careful not to break the bottom part of your ladder or your elevator kind of idea as of course

The entire thing will break and you’ll have to replace it which is kind of annoying it’s also excellent for decoration as it kind of looks like maybe a stand or a table or maybe even part of a chair you can even make it look more like this by putting a flower

Pot on top of it just like this maybe even with some bamboo inside it makes a beautiful house decoration as it’s quite nice it is also useful for things like maybe a little underground entrance to an area like this you could go down like this quite easily and all kinds of

Useful things like that i’ve done a lot of experimentation with scaffolding lately and i’ve come up with a lot of very nice uses for it that most people don’t do the first one is you can actually use it to protect yourself from lava now what’s crazy is that

Scaffolding is completely immune to lava and to fire now we’re going to place down a scaffolding here we’re going to keep placing them out just like this until one of the scaffolding falls down like that into the lava you think the scaffolding would burn but it actually doesn’t we’re going to keep right

Clicking here until we have the scaffolding keep going into the lava like this and eventually the scaffolding will actually come up above the lava surface like it just did there what we can now do is we can kind of just go above the scaffolding like this we can

Break this here and kind of have it go over there now we’re just in the middle of the lava lake we’re going to keep going down we’re going to try and center ourselves perfectly in the middle of the scaffolding here like that should work and we’re continuing to go down just

Like this all right now we’re just going to press shift and because we’re right in the middle here perfectly in the scaffolding just down like this we are not going to burn by any of the lava here and crazily enough we are completely safe from it we can even do

Which is insane is to break the scaffolding shift down and now we’re literally in two blocks of scaffolding completely underneath the lava you may be asking what in the world is the use of this well there’s actually a lot not only can you hide very very easily from

Enemies here i mean that was quite simple what i set up there and completely survival and scaffolding is pretty easy to get but also it could be the start of setting up an underground base or maybe an under lava base more like it because you can keep placing

Scaffolding down let it fall down clear out a massive area of lava with the scaffolding and then from there on you’re completely protected from it and you could maybe replace this with glass eventually or just keep it as scaffolding even inside of the scaffolding here although we’re

Completely trapped here and no one could know that we’re here and no one can get to us if we still have scaffolding on us we simply just have to right click just like this and we now have a way right back up to the surface of the lava here

Which is a super amazing trick to escape from players to escape from mobs and overall just an amazing hiding spot for anything you want to do and then we can return ourselves right to the surface here and there we go also you probably could use this to save yourself if you

Fell into the lava if you fell very quickly got to the bottom of the lava and quickly right click twice like this or maybe like this that you got yourself into a pod of the scaffolding very quickly another interesting use of scaffolding i’m just going to do this in

Creative mode because it’s a little bit easier is you can use it to mold water yes that’s right mold water and you may be asking what does that really mean well basically when you place down a water bucket it just kind of flows how it flows you can’t really control that

Very well but with scaffolding you can very easily so let’s say we want to make ourselves a super beautiful looking fountain we’ll just make a nice little tower of scaffolding just like this and of course you can do this in survival pretty easily then we’re just going to

Make it kind of get wider at the top here nothing crazy but just something so we have enough of room that the water will kind of flow out just so it kind of looks like a fountain would look like just like this then we’ll place a block

Down like this and we’ll place the water here because we can actually water log scaffolding so if we right click on top of it it’ll go in the scaffolding so we’ll put a water bucket there go like this now the water is flowing down we can even kind of trap the water by

Placing blocks around here that are empty like this but it doesn’t matter too much for the demonstration then once we have the water in the shape that we like it and of course if we don’t like the shape we can just place a block there and it’s all gone

All we have to do is break the bottom bit of scaffolding here the water will flood in the inside just like that and now we’re inside of this massive kind of tower of water here and you could use that for whatever you’d really want to it’s really useful because if you want

To ever put water in a specific shape that’s how you can easily do it and since water is obviously quite renewable and you get your scaffolding back you can make massive amounts of water structures just like this quite easily just make sure that no one breaks the

Top block but you can make this go to even crazier lengths by making maybe a tree-like pattern like this and making something like that and it’ll actually break the bottom block right here so it looks super cool you can see it all goes down here like this to the top

All the water just slowly flows down here flooding everything in here with the scaffolding kind of going in here and now we have this massive tube full completely with water here which would be beautiful for let’s say a giant park in a city or maybe you could even use it

For maybe some sort of griefing with all this water here although it is pretty easy to get rid of it you can even do it in the shape like this where you have the scaffolding go to its maximum distance from the block just like that

And we break the bottom block here or we could even keep it like this some sort of a building we break it here you can see it all floods down just like that and it comes down here in that really cool animation just like this and now

It’s completely flooded in here and we have this massive section of water here that will not drain out and it’s all sustained by that top block and we could do it just because of the scaffolding you could even use this to make a really crazy looking fish tank if you wanted

Although it wouldn’t work too else instead of these are source blocks and it would kind of flow to the sides but either way that’s super cool and what’s awesome is you can do the exact same thing with lava so right over here you can see here we place the lava block up

Here it’s in that same kind of tree-like scaffolding pattern if we go inside of here we still have our scaffolding in here because again scaffolding does not burn in lava and you can see here we have this amazing lava tower here made completely out of scaffolding and one

Lava block and you can actually put water on top of that to make lava casts just like this and of course you can do any shape you want with these but this is just a demonstration that lava and scaffolding and water can be used to make some really cool moldings with

Those liquids that can be super useful for all kinds of builds and things anyway that’s really all there is to know about scaffolding somewhat of a simple block but i hope that you enjoyed this video if you did make sure to press the like button subscribe comment share

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