Scaffolding

"Scaffolding helps you reach the top of your builds with ease. Just keep stacking them as you go! It’s also handy for avoiding fall damage, as you can gently get your delicate body to the ground by lowering yourself through the scaffolding blocks, instead of just leaping off a cliff and hoping you land on a particularly soft Creeper (which never works btw). Plus you can build all kinds of great things out of scaffolding itself!"

- Tom Stone

Scaffolding is a block used when building structures to help the player reach higher places, or safely go downwards without taking fall damage.

Obtaining
Scaffolding is broken instantly, and no tools are required.

Usage


When the bottom block of scaffolding is destroyed, all scaffolding blocks above it will break, similar to chorus plants; this makes it easier for players to make temporary structures.

The placement of scaffolding is different from any other blocks in the game. When pressing on the side of a scaffolding, the scaffolding will be added on top of the highest scaffolding in that location, allowing the player to build the scaffolding structure higher on the ground. Pressing use on the top face of the scaffolding will add the scaffolding to the side, depending on the direction the player is facing. While, pressing use on the top face of the scaffolding will place the new scaffolding on top of the targetted one, but if there's already a scaffolding there, then it will try to place it under the targetted scaffolding. Pressing use on the side while sneaking will place it on the side like placing other blocks.

Scaffolding has no collision detection. The player can climb up or down by or  respectively. A scaffolding block can be moved by pistons, allowing them to be broken easily.



Scaffolding can only be placed 6 blocks or 4 blocks out from its base of support; any further scaffolding placed will fall down to the ground.

Scaffolding cannot be placed inside lava; if scaffolding is placed next to lava or fire, the scaffolding will also be destroyed. If it falls into lava or fire, it will also be destroyed immediately when it touches them.

Scaffolding can be placed inside lava but burns after some time.

When holding scaffolding, the hitbox of scaffolding in the world will be a full block. Otherwise, you can interact with other blocks through the scaffolding.

Fuel
Scaffolding can be used as a fuel in furnaces, smelting 0.25 items per block in the Java Edition and PlayStation 4 Edition, and 6 items per block in the Bedrock Edition.