Can I build ladders to climb in shafts?

[Pophorn]

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[nanew.king]

No ladders. Platforms are good, since you can jump through them. As you get your exploration level higher you can learn ledge grab and double jump. At level 5 you can research your first grappler.

[Pophorn]

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PS. Ladders != Platforms. U fall down = risk of death and u need to tap jump to move up... Instead of just climbing along the wall.

[Mista Dobalina]

How do you move down platforms?

[Maxsim]

Originally posted by Strawcuh:

How do you move down platforms?

Hold Shift and press S

Edit: Sry its S and Space. not Shift

[Dread Pirate Geek]

Originally posted by Maxsim™:

Originally posted by Strawcuh:

How do you move down platforms?

Hold Shift and press S :oilslime:

Hahaha. Thank you! I kept rolling down and hurting myself lol

[D#]

I made a shaft from the surface to the bottom, just be sure to grapple the wall directly in front of your character, otherwise it doesnt work. Ive also had the grapple bug out and not deploy until I die, but in general its a fast way to gold ore.

[Pophorn]

I still have no idea what is so wrong with crafting ladders...

[NorionV]

I think Crea needs something similar to the chains and ropes in Terraria. Vertical travel in large amounts is a major pain right now, so much so that I just went ahead and made two shafts: one with 1x2 platforms every 4 blocks, and another that is just a straight drop do the bottom of the world where a small lake is waiting to catch me.

Otherwise, mashing space for more than a minute every time I want to descend is tedious.

[nanew.king]

We did think about adding something like a rope in the past, but we ended up shelving it since we thought people would be using warp crystals to get around. Do you guys use way crystals a lot?

[cal_ka]

Originally posted by nanew.king:

We did think about adding something like a rope in the past, but we ended up shelving it since we thought people would be using warp crystals to get around. Do you guys use way crystals a lot?

I use crystals fairly often, but if possible some ladders or ropes would be nice to make transportation in my apocalyptic underground bunker complex easier.

[NorionV]

Originally posted by nanew.king:

We did think about adding something like a rope in the past, but we ended up shelving it since we thought people would be using warp crystals to get around. Do you guys use way crystals a lot?

Honestly, options are better than limitations. Plenty of people are creating mineshafts that span the entire height of the map, and being able to make use of these with more ease would be great. As it is, you have to mash on the space bar to go up / down. Making it so we just need to hold a directional key to move at high speed up / down would be better.

I've always enjoyed being able to chain/rope my vertical shafts, so I can access various parts of the underground at will. There aren't enough crystals to make that possible. (Not saying they are not useful, they most certainly are).

[Xalaron]

I find myself crafting waycrystals and placing them where I please to get around more quickly, as the default way crystals just seem to be in random places.

[Pophorn]

The humanity invented ladders to climb in shaft, vertical walls, etc. Even in elevator shafts we use them in case elevator malfunction. Probably it is a very good way climb up and down. I dont realize why should we avoid crafting ladders in a game where lots of playtime is climbing?

[Jimbo]

I dont see how a ladder would be easier to use than platforms spaced right.

http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/268342479501886082/B6EC8EA159F8CAD4FE35A2B77CD80BE44A9C819A/

you can very quickly get up and down by tapping space. Ladders would be no faster and would require and entire new set of animations to accomplish the exact same thing.

[Desolator]

The problem with platforms is twofold: you can not stop falling in time and take falling damage, which on a ladder / rope isn't a problem. second problem is more of a control scheme issue, for me s + spacebar is counterintuitive, most games just use s to fall. Crystals are nice to travel to a specific biome orso, but if I'm mining I usually just go up and down from the mineshaft near the base.