Building tips help please

[doshha]

having trouble building the blocks high above my head. im currently working on the Silver Bar. But is so hard to build high in the air.

im placing stepping stones to reach areas i need to build...but i s there an easier of more effective way ??

Like i wish there were some sort of scaffolding available?

[Ryan Fenton]

If you're using the keyboard, there's two ways. First, you can use the V key to go into first-person view. Then you can jump and place something temporary like dirt blocks under you to place a block under your feet. Then jump on top of the wall, then place blocks from there.

You can also use the 1 key when out of first-person mode to get into 'look down' mode, where you place things 1 level beneath your feet and 3 to place one level above your head - but these are pretty restrictive and janky - they can be useful, but first person is usually better.

Much later, you get a tool to vastly expand the reach of first person item placement.

[archmag]

For silver bar you will need to place ladders on the sides to the dancing platform and lights. Check plan, they are on plan already. Placing them early will remove the need to add extra blocks during silver bar construction.

Without stepping stones you can reach only 4 levels.
1. Normal building when there is a hole before you and no adjanced blocks or press 1 to look down - reaches level below the current level, level -1.
2. Normal building or pressing 2 to avoid vertical adjustments - reaches current level, level 0.
3. Normal building when there is already a block before you or pressing 3 - reaches level above the current level, level 1.
4. Pressing 3 and jumping before placing a block - reaches one level higher, level 2.

To reach other levels you need to build temporary blocks or use ladders to reach already available platforms. You can build ladders on walls while climbing them so there is no need to use extra blocks in this case - you just place first ladder and start climbing while placing new ladders above your head.

[lilisaur]

Consider first-person mode - it lets you place some things at distance. When you complete all 60 tablet targets you'll get the Buildnoculars which let you place blocks at an even further distance and great for placing ceiling blocks and such without the need for scaffolding to it.