Ladder Sense
by atperry7
Ladder Sense changes how quickly players climb and descend blocks that are tagged climbable, based on where they look.
What it does
Climbing speed follows the direction of the player's gaze: looking up makes the ascent faster and looking down speeds the descent. The mod covers ladders, vines, chains and scaffolding, including vanilla, iron and copper chain variants, and cave vines, twisting vines and weeping vines. Any modded block tagged as climbable is included too.
Scaffolding support can be toggled off. The mod exposes maximum ascent and descent multipliers, a dead-zone size, a ramp curve chosen from linear, smooth or aggressive, and fixed speed tiers with acceleration and an absolute speed cap. Single-player is the intended use, and it is supported as an opt-in feature on servers.
Ladder Sense is released under the CC0 1.0 Universal license, so the source code and issue tracker are public. It needs Fabric API and is published for Fabric only, across 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3, with 1.3.0 for 26.3 as the latest file.
Key features
Gaze-based climbing speed
Looking up raises the ascent speed and looking down raises the descent speed while climbing.
Broad block coverage
Ladders, vines, chains and scaffolding, plus any modded block tagged climbable, all respond to the speed change.
Tunable curves and limits
Maximum multipliers, dead-zone size and a linear, smooth or aggressive ramp can be adjusted, and fixed speed tiers can be set with an absolute cap.
Scaffolding toggle
Scaffolding support can be switched off for players who only want the change on ladders and vines.
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Compatibility
Latest build for each game version and loader.
Only full game releases are shown. This mod publishes no snapshot builds.
Requirements
Dependencies declared by the latest file for each loader.
Required 1
Use cases
Who it’s for: Players who want faster vertical movement on climbable blocks in single-player, and operators who have agreed to its use on their server. Servers that do not allow the mod may kick or ban players who run it, because many anti-cheat systems flag faster movement.
How it compares
FasterLadderClimbing is server-side only, released under the MIT License, and covers 1.19.2 – 26.3 on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, so players join without installing it. Simple Climbing is open source under CC0 1.0 Universal and runs on client and server for Fabric only, across 1.20.1 – 1.20.6. Ladder Sense also uses CC0 1.0 Universal, but its files target 26.1.2 – 26.3 on Fabric.
| Mod | Loaders | Game versions | Environment | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ladder Sense | Fabric | 26.1.2 – 26.3 | Client and server | 2026-09-16 |
| FasterLadderClimbing | Fabric, Forge and NeoForge | 1.19.2 – 26.3 | Server-side only | 2026-09-16 |
| Simple Climbing | Fabric | 1.20.1 – 1.20.6 | Client and server | 2025-02-11 |
Questions
Does Ladder Sense require Fabric API?
Does the server need Ladder Sense?
Can scaffolding climbing be turned off?
In the catalog
Ladder Sense is one of 3,932 Transportation mods on ModsFinder, and one of 2,390 Transportation mods for Fabric. 8,071 mods support Minecraft 26.3.
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What the author says
Ladder Sense changes how fast you move on climbable blocks. On servers that don't have the mod installed — or that run anti-cheat — this faster movement can be detected as cheating and may cause rubber-banding, kicks, or bans. Only use it on servers where it's installed or where the operator has given you the OK…
Official listing
- Modrinth page
- modrinth.com/mod/ladder-sense
- Owner
- atperry7
- Published
- 2026-06-08
- Updated on Modrinth
- 2026-09-16
- Facts verified
- 2026-10-15