Another option is faith plates to launch you from floor to floor.
Just to quote myself...The answer is "Use Stairs!"
What's "FC" and "BTW"?This is the single thing I miss from BTW. It was so easy to make elevators. Now, FC makes sure to completely break any compatibility and it's in serious competition with Terrafirma for being the most hardcore mod ever.
Railcraft is very expensive!
FC is FlowerChild. He didn't like the way Eloraam and others were starting to take Forge, so he took Better Than Wolves and broke from Forge.What's "FC" and "BTW"?
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Actually once you have the infrastructure Railcraft radically increases the yield on recipes. You spend WAY less iron.
Mojang broke the traditional piston based zipper elevators back in 1.3 by making them far more buggy and temperamental. Basically they only work in SSP and if your standing perfectly in the middle of the elevator and even then they are highly prone to error.