How to climb down ladders?

[Ivan DBA]

How do you climb down a ladder? I've have a ladder that is next to a wall, and leads up to the floor on the second level of my building. I can climb up just fine, but when I try to climb down, I just fall to the ground. Do I need to have ladder one block higher than the second floor? Or is there some trick to climbing down? Thanks!

[Laryagar]

I have found walking to the top of the ladder and hitting the down arrow usually works...no matter what direction you are facing the up arrow goes up and down goes down...left and right get you off the ladder.

[bkeniry (aka Quetzovercoatl)]

The ladder mechanics really need to be refined.
What I would like to see is ladders being something you can interact with with the F key (or whatever key you have bound this function to)
Go up to a ladder, press F to grab onto it, then up takes you up and down takes you down. Then press F again to get off it.
This would remove the problem of thinking that you are getting on the ladder but just falling down instead.

[Dark Pulse]

Ladders are definitely finicky to get off if they end level with ground. (See the top of the Stilt House's tower for a good example of this.)

Also, yeah, I definitely am leery whenever I need to go down a ladder. Fall damage in this game is no joke - and if you move too quickly the game will make you fly off the edge as opposed to go down the ladder.

Either it needs to be much smarter about this, or as bkeniry above said, change it into an "activate to grab/get off" deal. Only problem with doing it that way is that you then lose the ability to step off to the side mid-height, unless that's kept.

[bkeniry (aka Quetzovercoatl)]

As long as you can go partially onto the adjacent block while still holding onto the ladder, you could go sideways and then let go of the ladder. You should be at least partially into the next block, so you would just get off onto whatever is next to the ladder.

[ICEMAGE83519]

Yes i also find going down ladders very tricky. I always just end up falling. Personally ive always found an activate ladder system the easiest to use. activate to get on and agian to get off at any time and hieght you want. Climbing up or down for as long as you have the arrow pressed.