In today’s article, lets look at how to build a water elevator in Minecraft. If you’ve played Minecraft extensively, you know building staircases and constructing ladders in your home or compound can be tedious and not always efficient.
Consider having a four-story home and your way of moving between floors is a staircase or ladder. This is where a water elevator can provide some great utility. It requires far fewer resources, is far easier to construct in comparison to your alternatives such as Redstone elevators, and is subsequently more efficient at taking you from the ground floor to wherever you need to go.
It’ll be easier to build than you think and make your next Minecraft playthrough a lot easier and a lot more fun!
How to start building a water elevator
Here are the resources you’re going to need to make a water elevator in Minecraft:
- Glass (You can use any material you want but glass looks cool)
- An iron Bucket (to collect water)
- Soul Sand (For going up)
- Magma Block (For going down)
- A Sign or Door (Any type of wood you like will do)
- Kelp (We’ll see why in a bit)
You can find Soul Sand in the Nether, it generates in different places such as part of the surface terrain or even inside of nether fortresses. To find magma blocks in the nether as well, near lava lakes or oceans.
For the construction, you’re going to build a 3×3 tube/tunnel structure around a single block. This can be a square or a diamond-shaped tube, or even built against a wall in a U-shape to use even fewer resources.
Now dig out a doorway that’s two blocks high at the base and extend it by one block. This is going to be your doorway. Now place a door or two signs in your doorway, This will stop the water from flowing.
How kelp makes the build a lot easier
Usually, you’ll need one water source per block in your elevator. Collecting all that water can be taxing and take a lot of time, luckily there is a way around this. Kelp!
Specifically, you can find kelp in almost any ocean biome in Minecraft (except frozen, deep-frozen, warm, and deep warm oceans). Be sure to find as many as there are blocks in your elevator from floor to top.
Placing your water in your elevator
Now, when placing your water. Start at the top, place your water down and let it fall all the way to the bottom.
Then starting at the bottom, place your kelp and make your way up. If your elevator is really long, make more than one trip to replenish your air and do it safely.
Finishing up our water elevator
Once your kelp is placed all the way to the top. Head to the bottom, and break the kelp right at the base. This will break all of it and leave you with a water tunnel with water source blocks for every block of your elevator!
Lastly, Break the center block of your elevator and place your magma block (for going down) or Soul Sand (for going up), and Voila!
Finally you have your very own water elevator that you can use to quickly enter or exit any structure you want in Minecraft!
This can be retrofitted to suit any of your needs in-game. Whether you want to build a small one to access the floors in your home or an insanely tall one to ascend to your secret sky base.
This build will be an asset to any Minecraft player and a fun one to have in your arsenal, and now that you know how to build one, I know you’ll find it useful and fun.
