Basalt pillar

Basalt pillars are tall terrain features made up of basalt.

Generation
Basalt pillars are found in soul sand valleys and in its standard biome, the basalt deltas.

Structure
Basalt pillars have their starting points in the ceiling of an area, then have a pillar of between one and three blocks wide in both the X and Z axis going all the way down to the ground, where a flat clump of basalt can be found around a 3×3 area from the center of the pillar, as if a vertical lava flow, like those commonly found in the Nether, had solidified. Possibly due to blue ice next to omnipresent lava going over a soul soil ceiling, as with the "basalt generator" design.

Uses
Basalt pillars can be used to easily get to the nether roof with ladders, instead of pillaring up. They also provide a source of basalt if no basalt deltas are nearby.

Gallery
玄武岩の柱 Stalagnat Pilar de basalto เสาหินบะซอลต์