FasterLadderClimbing

Climb and descend ladders at the speed you choose, with the control scheme you prefer — hold jump, or simply look where you want to go. Vanilla ladders are one fixed speed with no way to steer them.

Install on both client and server for multiplayer — the server sends its limits, and the slower of your setting and the server's cap applies. Works in singleplayer out of the box. A client with the mod can still join servers without it; there it stays inactive, so it never gives an advantage where it isn't installed.

Dependencies: Fabric needs Fabric API and Architectury API. NeoForge needs Architectury API. Forge needs no additional dependencies. Mod Menu is optional on Fabric and adds a Config button to the mod list.

Free to use in any modpack — public or private, no permission needed.

What it does

• Three activation modes — hold jump to climb (INPUT_FIRST, default), climb purely by looking (LOOK_ONLY), or the original look-and-walk behaviour (LEGACY).
• Your own speeds — set ascent and descent speed yourself; look up to climb, look down to drop quickly.
• Sneak to stop — holding sneak stops you on the ladder, and also cancels fast descent while sneakStopsDescent is on.
• Every climbable block — ladders, vines, and anything else vanilla treats as climbable.
• In-game settings screen — open it from the mod list or with /flc; changes apply when you press Done.
• The server stays in charge — server-side limits cap what players can set, so servers and packs keep control.
• 10 languages — English, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French, German, Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Korean, and Italian; the settings screen follows your game language.

Configuration

Open the settings from the mod list (Mod Menu on Fabric — optional; built-in on Forge and NeoForge) or with the client-side command /fasterladderclimbing (short: /flc), which works on any server. Changes apply when you press Done.

Your preferences live in config/fasterladderclimbing/client.json; what a server allows lives in config/fasterladderclimbing/server.json.

Note the defaults: ascent starts at vanilla speed, so out of the box the mod changes how you climb rather than how fast. Raise the climb-up speed to go faster.

For modpack authors

• server.json sets what is allowed — enabled, upSpeedLimit, downSpeedLimit. It ships fully permissive; lower the limits to cap a pack, or set enabled to false to switch the mod off without removing it (climbing stays vanilla).
• Out-of-range or malformed values are clamped, not rejected — a broken config never stops the game from starting.
• No items, blocks, entities, recipes, world generation or key bindings — nothing to conflict with, and it can be removed from an existing world with no side effects.

Feedback

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