- [Narrator] 29 staircases
you can make in Minecraft. Although staircases are
a staple of most builds, that doesn't mean they're
always straightforward. So today, let's tackle every staircase that we could think of, from
practical to problematic. And hey, the YouTube
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get from point A to point B and you wanna use something
a little bit more reusable than a pillar, than most people know that you gotta do with full blocks. Honestly, this is one of
the simplest ways to get from the bottom of your
world right up to the top. And you'll see this everywhere, whether that's old versions of the game or even, more likely, in Bedwars. Everyone's familiar with
a full block staircase. They're functional, but
they're not exactly a looker and they're definitely slow to go up. So really, if you wanna
add some speed to it, then you've gotta use actual stair blocks. Folks, it's the entire
reason Mojang added these into the game. They're a definite step up
from the previous competition. One big fortunate change here is that if you just wanna walk up here and not hold down your space
bar, that's entirely possible. Really, when you think
of stairs in Minecraft, this is the first thing you think of. But building one of these is
gonna take a lot of space. I mean, look at how many
blocks we have to cover just go from one point
right up to build limit. Which means that if you want a staircase with a smaller footprint,
you probably gotta go for something like a
two-by-two spiral staircase. This makes for a very common pick, especially when you're
trying to get up and down from a mine shaft. But really, the smaller
footprint is about all this has on top of a regular staircase. Because, as you can see, when you use the full block
method that most of us use here, it's not that fast to go up
and down one of these things. And that constant turning
round and round and about is just gonna make you
dizzy and waste your time. So if you wanna save the
headache on both of those, you're definitely resorting
to a regular spiral staircase. Using more half blocks and steps, this is much easier to go up and down. Whether you want to spin on
down to a swanky vault room or just go up to the top of
your penthouse apartment, this works in both cases. And again, depending on how
crazy you wanna go here, you can make one of
these super extravagant or a little more subdued. Really, it's whatever you got room for. But if you're still
having trouble fitting one of the smaller versions
of that into your base, then by all means you gotta go to a one-by-one trap
door spiral staircase. And folks, not only is
that a mouthful to say, but it's also quite the sight to see. I mean, in fairness to this build, it does live up to the name. Everything that you need to go up and down is fit entirely into a
one-by-one block space. But as soon as you take the
time to climb up and down one of these things,
you're gonna be asking if you're really saving anything there. They're not that fun to go down, they're definitely not fun to go up. Really, there's no point to
build this instead of a novelty. And you know what, speaking of novelty, we really haven't pushed that to the limit until we've made the tallest possible one block wide staircase. This build is not only a monstrosity, but also somewhat of a feat
of Minecraft engineering. And as you can see, when you look at this, every single block that we're
using has a different hit box. It's impressive, but the
only annoying part here is that it's not able
to be walked up easily. As you can see, we have to
jump up each individual step, which really isn't that fun. So to fix that, how about
we build the tallest one block wide staircase
that's actually walkable. To be frank, when we build
this, we do sacrifice some of the height that we had in the last one. But the huge feature is
that we just get to hold W and go up all of these or these. And you know what, if
you like the weird mix of blocks that we had in the last one, we still keep plenty of that on display, making this still a pain to look at, but, hey, at least now it's not as much of a pain to walk up. And you know what, if you're looking for weird combinations of blocks, then we haven't even
scratched the surface yet. And probably the most common combination that you'll see in someone's
world is putting fences and walls together with carpet. Yeah, for some reason, even
though we're not able to jump over fences and walls normally, as soon as we put a carpet on top, making it admittedly taller, now we can jump over with ease. If you really wanna
roll out the red carpet for your staircase guests, there's no way they're gonna pass this. But if your guests are
a bit more hardcore, than your cutesy carpet method
maybe isn't impressing them. So if you're looking for
something a little bit more metal, than how about getting actually metal and using chain blocks
as a staircase instead. As you can see here, if you
manage to get all the iron and blocks necessary to
build one of these things, it totally functions
like a regular staircase. But again, if you're
getting all the resources to make one of these things,
it's gonna take a lot of work. And really after mining
up all of that iron to make the chains, you're
probably working up an appetite. So if that's the case, don't sweat it. We can put all of that new hunger to use and actually build a fully
functional cake ladder. This has to be one of the weirdest things you can build in Minecraft. For one, getting all the
ingredients necessary for this is definitely gonna require you to have some kind of egg and wheat farm. But even after that, say you
place all of these blocks down, now you still gotta eat the cake. But in the end, after you
go through all those steps, you're surprisingly greeted with a pretty fast form of travel. And no, I'm not talking about walking this thing by yourself, because as you can see,
that's not the fast part. But as soon as you add
a horse into the mix, now that speed gets added in the equation. And while a standard staircase like this can do the job just all right, in the recent 1.17 snapshots, we can actually push her one step further. That's right, by mixing
together the new dripstone block and the cake horse ladder, we can actually get even more speed going
up one of these things. But while the next update
looks like it's gonna add a bit more speed to this classic favorite, we still got a problem here. Because, as anyone knows
who watched our testing to find out what's the
fastest way to sky limit, even though the cake horse
ladder is a pretty fast method, it still gets out-classed by something as simple as ender pearls. As you can see, since ender
pearls are projectile, as soon as we throw it into a bubble column staircase like this, than it actually is possible
to move it upwards at an angle. And really the main downside
of this might just be that as soon as you reach the top, you're ender pearls still
might be on cooldown. So if you wanna head
right down to the bottom in a round trip, you're not gonna be able to do that so quick. So instead of making something
so precise and limited, how about we make something
that's a little bit easier on a right click button? And of course, the boat staircase is an obvious shoe-in for that one. Now, while these things are
definitely better suited for transporting you on water than land, as it turns out, when we put them in an angular formation like this, then all you have to do
is just hold right-click and you're basically
climbing the staircase. But before you go putting one
of these in your next world, maybe slow your roll, captain. Because after all, if
you build one of these and you don't have your boating license, then going through all
of those different ships is definitely gonna send a
red flag to the Coast Guard. So to play it safe, instead
of using all those planks, how about we switch those
out for iron ingots instead? If you place yourself just right and look up through that minecart stack at a roughly 45 degree angle, then all you gotta do is hold
down the right click button and all of the sudden you'll
be shot up right to the top. But if you go through all the trouble of building one of these things,
just make sure you're not able to move the minecart
any way off course. But before we even go worrying about that, the first thing that's on your list is to make a fully functional
iron farm for one of these. Building one of these isn't cheap and you're definitely gonna
need all the golem drops you can get to fund this thing. Or, you know what, if you're
looking for a different option, how about taking those
iron golems out of the farm and instead putting them
to use in a staircase? No joke, thanks to the insane amount of knockback that these guys give off, we can actually make a quite functional, iron golem knockback staircase. Now this is gonna hurt, so be careful. But what you gotta do to use this is go up, punch the iron golem, and then stay walking forward so that you climb the staircase. But really, while those golems will do the bulk of the work for you, they're definitely
gonna leave a few marks. So if you're instead looking for an automatic staircase
that doesn't put you in a body bag, this might
be your next best thing. As you can see here, if we
put a staircase next to a wall of non-full blocks, like honey
blocks or chess, for example, then when you add in
the right water streams, all you gotta do is hug
up next to that wall and it'll actually push
you up the staircase. Now it's definitely not fast,
but hey, it's automatic, so I guess there's that. And personally, my favorite
part of this method might just have to be the
built-in water feature. So, you know what, if
we're gonna be using water, how about we go straight to the source and actually use full water
source blocks for our staircase? And while lookin' at
this definitely proves that it's a marvel that
breaks physics entirely, when you actually choose to
go up one of these things, then it's way more apparent why we have water slides
and not water climbs. It's just not that fun. Instead, if we wanna
supercharge our water blocks into way more of a faster method, than the obvious choice is
by making a swim staircase. If you got your brush stroke in line and you're playing this
past the Aquatic update, then you can actually get pretty fast going up one of these things. And if you wanna add even
more speed into the equation, then all you gotta add on is something like Depth Strider, Dolphin's Grace and you'll shoot up that like a rocket. And really that extra
speed might come in handy in more ways than one. Because if you're spending
all that time climbing up one of these things, you
definitely don't wanna drown. So if drowning's a concern for you and instead you'd rather
take that crawl space into a drier location, then actually building a crawl staircase
might be up your alley. Here, we keep the same
small, sleek footprint that we had with the swim staircase, but obviously you don't have to worry about that pesky breathing. Instead, the only thing that
we gotta worry about here is just keeping our crawl
space under 1.5 blocks tall. And actually, that's the reason why we use snow layers
here instead of slabs. Because if we use one of those, then it would allow the player to stand up into a crouch formation. Not exactly ideal when you're
trying to get up to the top. But if you're looking to
avoid that claustrophobia and climb in something a little
bit bigger than an air duct, then how about we take those snow layers out of the actual crawlspace and put them into a regular staircase. If you've run that regular staircases in Minecraft are just a bit too steep, then this might solve your problem, admittedly a bit too well. While, sure, we're able to sprint and jump up one of these with ease, it's not exactly making it faster. Really, it may look nice and clean, but this is definitely one of
the most underwhelming ways of traveling in Minecraft. And you know what's even worse? It's not even the longest staircase we can possibly make in the game. No, it can't even do that right. That hoard goes to this
monstrosity over here. Now the one that we have
built here is actually 17 blocks wide just to
climb one block of height. Meaning that even though I'd say that this is as annoying to climb as a regular snow layer staircase, at the very least it's just impressive to know this is how far we
can push Minecraft's limits. But really, if we're
going about building one of these really long
staircases in Minecraft, they stick out like a sore thumb. So if that's a problem for you and instead you'd rather
hide your staircases, then we can solve that like this. As you can see, if we
look right at this wall, it doesn't seem like much,
definitely not a staircase. But by manipulating the
stair connection mechanics with Redstone, then we can
actually have a staircase pop out of this seamless wall. And look, even though I
love this method so much, it's been covered plenty
of times on YouTube, meaning that many onlookers
probably aren't gonna be that surprise when they see it pop out. So instead, if you wanna
hide your staircase in a wall and be a bit more discreet, how about we do this,
by hiding your staircase inside of a storage wall? You'll be left with an end result that looks pretty close to
a regular storage container. But as I'm sure you can expect, that's only scratching the surface. Because the true way this
contraption works is that we walk up to this chest right in
the sweet spot of a tip box, then you can walk up the staircase without ever having to jump. But you know what? That's still not the furthest we can go for hiding
our staircase in a wall. Because if you really
want a pop-out staircase that comes right out of your wall, then how about using actual walls? Thanks to recent changes that Mojang made to the walls connectivity, we can actually use Redstone
to pop out the walls at certain intervals and
make ourselves a staircase. Just make sure you're ready to
handle just how surreal it is to watch your wall become a staircase and then turn right back into a wall right before your very eyes. At this point, we've
definitely deconstructed what a staircase can be, so why don't we get a bit more meta and put a staircase inside of a staircase? By this point, all rules and regulations are out of the window. So if instead you wanna use those pistons to make a staircase come out of the floor of a regular staircase, then
by all means, it's possible. And look, if you're crazy enough to put together all the
Redstone possible to do this, then I see no reason why you shouldn't piece this together to
infinity and beyond. And you know what, speaking
of infinity and beyond, how about we put our admin powers to use and actually make a
real infinite staircase? Now, the way this effect works
is that every time that we go up to the top of the staircase, it teleports you down a floor and then vice versa
when you're going down. Meaning that whatever direction
that you choose to go, there's always gonna be this illusion that you're climbing infinitely. Until the end of time,
you're gonna be climbing that staircase pondering on staircase and basically living as a staircase for the rest of your life. And oh god, by this point,
I think we've definitely gone off the deep end
talking about staircases. So why don't we take it back a step, or, rather, a half-step. Instead, talk about this
half step, the slab. Slab staircases aren't as
efficient as a regular staircase, but they're still just easy to climb. And in some cases I'd even argue that they're much nicer to look at. Sometimes more subtle incline
is just what you need. But if you're looking to
re-introduce the speed of a regular staircase into this method, then how about we put soul soil
underneath the slab blocks? Combining this with our
Soul Speed III boots, then this makes sure
that almost all the time that we're walking up the staircase, we're doing so with
some pretty sweet speed. I see this as an absolute win. And while the hardest
part of this might just be getting that enchantment
to actually put on your boots, as soon as you have
it, then you can't deny that this is a pretty fun way
to go up and down your house. And while I've definitely
enjoyed myself going up and down this soul speed speedway, if we're really talking
about the most fun option for Minecraft reversal, then my favorite's gotta be
the slime block bouncing. Using perfectly spaced
out launches like so, if we run at this diagonally, then we can actually climb up a staircase using slime block bounces. And while you might have to occasionally correct your air positioning
to get this going just right, as soon as you learn the method, then this is definitely a fun way to get up to the top of your world. And really, after building and designing all those different staircases, I think we all could use a little fun. And with that, folks, step
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