SomeGuy

5 hours ago, Thorfinn said:

Pretty sure what you are seeing is being "phased" partially into the ladder. Usually happens when you are too close to the ladder you are adding when extending it. Really easy to duplicate with regular ladders. That can also happen when nearby partial blocks nudge you one way or another, too.

Move until you are against the wall opposite the ladder and the pain should stop.

Thank you! Had no idea this kind of issue existed. I appreciate the insight!

I am playing on singleplayer, so latency can't be it. My PC is a mid-end gaming PC and my processor is an AMD Ryzen 7 3700X 8-core, though I'm not sure if CPU load is the cause. I've encountered this phantom damage issue 3 times in 100 hours and it has exclusively happened when going up or down shafts, at least in my experience. This was the first time I checked the damage log for what happened though (note: the first two times had the same conditions, aka nominal hunger, temporal stability and no enemies nearby), as I hadn't thought of doing that the first two times. Got the idea from this thread after I went searching for if others had encountered this issue as well.

It is a rather strange issue, as fall damage should only be happening when falling from a sufficient height, yet sometimes the game seems to issue fall damage when climbing ladders in shafts.

The first time I encountered this issue was quite a few weeks back, but I do recall it rather well. I was prospecting for tin and found a chunk with a good reading for it, I then started digging my 1x1 shaft and used rope ladders to go down. I dig 3 to 4 blocks, put down ladders, go down and repeat. But when I was around 15 to 25 blocks deep, mining down as usual and then I get damaged 3 times in rapid succession (around 0.25 - 0.50 seconds in between). My hunger was fine, temporal stability was high and there were no enemies in the shaft (I block the top with a fence and I hadn't dug into a cave). As I was still new (and terrified of the underground haha), I panick and immediately leave the shaft and find a new place to dig. At the time, I thought I accidentally broke 1 block into a cave and a locust got in, but there was no locust light and I hadn't actually opened a cave either. Was quite the experience though, gave me a good scare lol.

The second time I don't remember very well, as I only got damaged once and I just kept mining as usual. But the third happened yesterday, so I recall it well. I was prospecting for iron and found a chunk with a good reading, so I proceeded to dig my shaft and go down until I found the deposit. I was around 50 to 60 blocks deep, enough for my temporal stability to slowly start depleting, but things were going well. I had dug into some quartz and found gold, but kept going down as the iron was my goal. I eventually got a high reading for magnetite and kept digging down and using the propick every 5 blocks down or so to see if the reading got better - it did! I got a very large reading and directly hit the disk shaped deposit. I was now at the bottom of my shaft (rope ladders going the whole way down of course) and was just about to dig the iron on the wall, until I get damaged out of nowhere. I quickly climb up my ladder, panicked, thinking a drifter spawned in the dark or something (even though I had a lantern on my offhand keeping things lit and the walls were covered by ladders and there were no openings on the shaft walls, meaning drifters could not spawn) but then I get damaged again while going up the ladder. I quickly continue my way up and block the ladder - after which, I get my bearings and open the shaft. I go down, yet find no creature or opening, I get damaged once more while going down my ladder. I check my hunger and temporal stability, but both are nominal. Then I realize it is another instance of phantom damage, just like the last 2 instances. I then go searching for answers and stumbled into this thread - which lead to me opening my damage log and seeing that it was gravity damaging me. Naturally, I was a bit perplexed by this, as I had not fallen at all, since I was on a ladder the whole time.

Strange times aye.

Hi! Very late reply, but I encounter this same issue sometimes when mining deep underground in 1x1 shafts with rope ladders. Sometimes going down/up with them you will at random get damaged even though hunger and temporal stability are nominal and no enemies are nearby. I opened my damage log and the game said I was damaged by gravity, even though I had not fallen at all and was climbing down a ladder slowly.

Turns out there is no scary mystery creature, just a gravity bug