BlockElevator

Travel that fits your world

Turn enabled block types into craftable elevators for bases, towers, shared builds and travel hubs. Use a simple vertical pair to move between floors, or create named connections with a destination menu. White particle rings mark your elevators, while doors and trapdoors offer more ways to blend travel into your build.

What you can do

• Jump up, sneak down — travel between matching block elevators in the same vertical column.
• Create named connections — link elevators at different positions or of different materials. Add multiple destinations and choose where to go from a menu.
• Name every elevator — use clear names such as Storage, Workshop or Rooftop, then rename them from settings.
• Share individual elevators — new elevators start private. Grant or revoke access for specific players, including players who are currently offline.
• Build door portals — walk forward into the white ring on the selected side of a closed elevator door.
• Choose the particle side — top/bottom for blocks and trapdoors, or front/back for doors.
• Control travel with redstone — give each elevator its own power mode and signal threshold.
• Keep your setup — names, links, access, particle sides and redstone settings persist across restarts.

Craft your first elevator

Use a crafting table with three redstone dust across the top row and one enabled elevator material in the center slot. Leave the other slots empty.

1. Craft the elevator item and place it.
2. Enter its name in chat, or use /be name <name>. Name it before placing another elevator or using it.
3. Place and name a second elevator of the same type directly above or below it.
4. Stand on the elevator and jump to go up or sneak to go down.

Without explicit links, both elevators must belong to the same owner, use the same material, and be in the same world and X/Z column. The default vertical search range is 256 blocks and can be configured by the server owner. Use the crafted elevator item; an ordinary block of the same material does not register an elevator.

Connect your favorite places

Run /be link, select two elevators you own, and name the connection in chat. Use /be links to browse and manage your connections. A source can have several named destinations; entering it opens a destination menu. Stay beside the source while choosing.

Share access with /be access. Travelers need access to both ends, and both elevators must be active. The owner always retains access.

Doors and trapdoors

Closed trapdoors use jump/sneak travel. For closed doors, walk forward into the white ring on the selected side. Without links, forward entry travels upward to a matching door; sneak while entering forward to travel downward. Open doors and trapdoors are inactive.

Choose the entry/particle side from /be settings. Door portals require forward movement into the selected side; simply turning or walking backward will not trigger them. Arrival space must be clear.

Redstone, built in

Open /be redstone and choose a mode for each elevator:

• Always on — the default; ignores redstone input.
• Enable with power — active when the input meets the threshold.
• Enable without power — active when the input is below the threshold.
• Toggle on each pulse — each new qualifying pulse switches the saved on/off state.

Set a 1–15 signal threshold for lever switches, timed access, emergency stops or comparator-controlled builds. The circuit must actually power the elevator. Redstone controls availability; players still trigger travel and need access at both ends.

Commands
/blockelevator is also available. Commands are used in game. Elevator and connection names accept 1–32 letters, numbers, spaces, hyphens and underscores; elevator names must be unique among your own elevators.

Server setup

1. Use Paper 26.3 with Java 25.
2. Stop the server and place BlockElevator-26.3.1.jar in its plugins folder.
3. Start the server and open /be gui as an operator to choose which elevator types players can craft.
4. Adjust particle appearance, item-title colors and vertical range in plugins/BlockElevator/config.yml as needed.

Permission: blockelevator.admin grants the creator menu and reload command; it defaults to operators. Players manage elevators they own through the player commands and access menus.

The block catalog includes usable block items available on the server, including modern 26.3 additions. No companion plugin is required. Back up the BlockElevator data folder before updating an existing installation.

Need help?

Use the Discussion tab for questions or bug reports. Include your Paper and BlockElevator versions, what you expected to happen, the steps to reproduce it and any relevant console error.