Cloth block preventing fall damage or not!?

[Coalthrush]

I read that a cloth block prevents fall damage. I got ♥♥♥♥♥♥ when i fell down my base shaft and died, so I thought about putting a cloth block at the bottom.

But it tried it in another game worked perfectly.

Did it again in my main game at my base. Died.

The consistency in this game is BS.

I tried it again in another game, without cheat mode enabled, without creative enabled, and without debug mode enabled. Worked like a charm.

Whats the deal?

Edit: Read that; 1 hay bale + 2 water blocks, will remove fall damage. tested it out. Worked. Tested it again (still within test game), died.

What is the missing variable here?

[Skipachu]

Just a hay bale should break your fall without breaking your legs. I have one at the bottom of a verticle hole so I can drop from level 70 to bedrock in a hurry and not take any damage.

[Phunfun]

I saw in another thread about dying from hay bale falls is usually because the player has their hay bale at the same spot as where their ladder is and so it turns out that when they land on the hay they're actually hitting the bottom of the ladder and that's why they're dying.

So I'd make sure you're not doing something similar.

[Coalthrush]

Oh, I actually thought of something like that.
One of my testrounds failed and if your theory is true, it may have been because i "hit" my previously dropped backpack at the bottom.

I'm gonna test it out. Thanks!

[Kara]

Correct me if i'm wrong but I read somewhere that dead bodies will break your fall also.