Villages Alive Elevator Toolbox

Quickstart

1. Craft a Lower Elevator Block and place it at the bottom of a shaft.
2. Craft an Upper Elevator Marker and place it directly above, at the height you want to travel to.
3. Stand on the Lower Elevator Block and it will lift you straight up to the matching marker, building a temporary shaft as you rise.
4. Craft a Sideways Elevator block, place two of them where you want to teleport between, and interact with one to open its configuration menu. Set matching Route and opposite Endpoints (A/B) on each pair, pick a glass color, and step onto either block to teleport to its linked partner.

Overview

This toolbox adds two kinds of elevators for getting around your builds quickly: vertical elevators that carry you up a shaft at a controlled pace, and sideways elevators that instantly teleport you between two linked points using a configurable glass-enclosed portal effect. Both are placed as ordinary blocks and configured by interacting with them.

What It Adds

Crafting And Obtaining

Craft each elevator block at a crafting table using ender pearls, sea lanterns, and building materials:

• Lower Elevator Block:
• Sideways Elevator:
• Upper Elevator Marker:

All three blocks can be mined back up with a pickaxe and will drop themselves.

How To Use

Vertical Elevators

• Place a Lower Elevator Block on the ground, and an Upper Elevator Marker somewhere above it (up to 96 blocks) in the same vertical column.
• Interact with the Lower Elevator Block to open its menu and choose the temporary shaft material used while you're rising (for example, a specific block type that will surround you mid-flight before disappearing once you arrive).
• Stand on the Lower Elevator Block to start rising. Travel is deliberately slow and steady rather than instant, giving you time to react as you climb. A minecart-style travel sound plays while you ascend.
• When you reach the marker, it temporarily becomes a support block so you can step off safely, then reverts back to a marker once you leave.

Sideways Elevators

• Place two Sideways Elevator blocks anywhere you want to connect (same or different locations in a dimension).
• Interact with one to open the Sideways Elevator menu:
  • Route: choose a numbered route (1–20) to group pairs of endpoints together.
  • Endpoint: set this block as Endpoint A or Endpoint B — a pair must use one of each on the same route to link up.
  • Glass Color: choose the glass used to build the surrounding teleport enclosure.
• Once two blocks share the same route with opposite endpoints, stepping onto either one will trigger the teleport: a glass enclosure briefly builds up around you, a hiss sound plays, and you're instantly moved to the paired location, arriving inside a matching enclosure that then clears away.
• There's a short cooldown after each teleport before the sideways elevator can be triggered again, and each teleport locks briefly to the player who used it so others aren't unexpectedly swept along.

Abilities And Mechanics

• Vertical travel is intentionally paced rather than instant, simulating a real elevator ride rather than a teleport.
• Sideways travel is instant but themed around a temporary glass/sea lantern enclosure that builds and disperses around the traveling player.
• Both elevator types are configured per-block via in-game menus — no commands or item interactions are required beyond placing and interacting.
• Vertical shaft material and sideways route/endpoint/glass settings are remembered per block, so you can rebuild a network of elevators throughout your world.

Progression And Strategy

Use vertical elevators for tall builds, mineshafts, or towers where you want a manageable, visible ascent instead of stairs or ladders. Use sideways elevators to link distant rooms, bases, or biomes together instantly — set up multiple routes (1–20) to build out a whole transit network, using different glass colors to visually distinguish routes at a glance.