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Are there any advantages between cobblestone wall and regular fence?

Arqade Asked on December 6, 2020

In Minecraft, are there any advantages to using cobblestone walls as opposed to regular fences? Besides the higher availability of cobblestone compared wood.

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Cobblestone walls have better blast resistance and is not flammable, making it a slightly better defense against creepers and TNT, as well as making it usable near lava or fire.

Other than that, the difference is purely aesthetic.

Correct answer by fredley on December 6, 2020

Today I discovered, aside from the important and most relevant differences mentioned by fredley, cobblestone walls also have noticeably bigger hitboxes while still retaining the taller-than-a-block effect of normal fences, making them useful in certain situations for mob farms and mob elevators.

For example, baby zombies, having a square hitbox of 0.3 x 0.3 blocks, can squeeze through the corner gap between a fence and two solid blocks of 6/16 = 0.375 blocks, but cannot squeeze through the gap between a wall and solid block when there is a wall post, since the empty area is a 5/16 x 5/16 block square minus 1/16 x 1/16 in the corner taken up by the post, but can squeeze in the 5/16 x 5/16 block area when there is no post (when there are two blocks on either side of the wall or four blocks on all sides). I assume this is well-known by the technical minecraft community but it was a first for me.

baby zombie and fence

baby zombie and wall without post

baby zombie and wall with post

Why is this important? It just so happens I was using a mob elevator with bubble columns that uses a fence to raise mobs up onto the bubble column, and baby zombies were getting stuck in between the fence and solid block (hence the magma block). Using a cobblestone wall with a post, baby zombies cannot get stuck.

mob elevator

There is also a niche redstone use of transmitting a signal downward instantly using the wall's post. See https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ezlbdd/transmitting_redstone_signal_downwards_fast_using/

Answered by qwr on December 6, 2020

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