Minecraft xbox creative mode

How do you get creative mode on Minecraft Xbox?

How to Play in Creative Mode

1. Start your Minecraft.
2. Select “Singleplayer”
3. Select “Create New World”
4. Change game mode to “Creative”
5. Select “More World Options”
6. Change “Allow Cheats” to “On”
7. Name your world and begin!

When did Minecraft Creative mode start?

Creative was first added in Cave game tech test, or the earliest version of Minecraft. In , the miscellaneous tab is merged with the materials tab, which is on the bottom-left, to give room for the new toolbars tab. This, survival mode and adventure mode are the only modes available in the console editions.

What Minecraft update added creative?

update
Minecraft&#;s Creative Mode that allows players to remove the game&#;s survival aspects and focus on building has arrived on the Xbox version today as part of its 2 update.

When did the creative mode come out for Minecraft?

Creative Mode is a game mode that was introduced in the Pre-classic phase of Minecraft, added and removed a few times throughout the game&#;s development before being made available alongside Survival Mode in Java Edition Beta

How to change game mode to creative in Minecraft PS4?

In Minecraft Xbox One Edition, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is: /gamemode c. or. /gamemode creative. or. /gamemode 1. Command in Minecraft PS4 Edition. In Minecraft PS4 Edition, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is: /gamemode c.

How do you switch from survival to creative mode in Minecraft?

When you create a world in Minecraft, you can easily switch back and forth between Survival and Creative modes using the /gamemode command. Let&#;s explore how to switch the game mode to Creative using the /gamemode command.

How do you update your game mode in Minecraft?

As you are typing, you will see the command appear in the lower left corner of the game window. Press the Enter key to run the command. Once the cheat has been entered, the game mode will be updated to Creative: You will see the message &#; Your game mode has been updated &#; appear in the lower left corner of the game window.

Creative Mode was released in Update 5. It featured a lot of new Mobs like Endermen and Cave spiders but its most noteable addition to the game was Creative Mode. Creative Mode made it so that instead of just Survival Mode, you can now build whatever you want without having to collect all the items.

How do you change game mode to creative in Minecraft?

There are numerous cheats available; to change your game mode to Creative, for example, you can type /gamemodecreative or /gamemode 1. To change your game mode back to Survival, just type /gamemode 0 or /gamemode survival. What if you want to enter Creative mode in singleplayer world that is currently in Survival mode, without cheats enabled?

Where is the creative mode button on Minecraft?

Located as Button 3 (the middle mouse wheel), this allows the player to copy an item, such as a zombie spawner or giant mushroom block, and place it wherever they like in the world. When building in Creative mode, the opportunities are truly endless. Traveling in Creative mode is much easier due to the ability to fly!

Can you use cheats in creative mode on Minecraft?

Allowing cheats in your new world will allow you to change game modes later on, in case you plan on playing in Survival mode in the future; having a strictly Creative mode world without cheats enabled will limit that world to Creative mode.

Can you play creative mode on Minecraft Xbox?

Creative is a game mode that is available in all versions of Minecraft&#;.Supported Platforms.

How do you switch from survival to creative in Minecraft Xbox one?

Survival mode lets you search for resources, craft, gain levels, and have a health bar and a hunger bar. When you create a world in Minecraft, you can easily switch back and forth between Creative and Survival modes using the /gamemode command.

How do you use a command block to teleport?

Type this command in when having the command block GUI open /teleport @p . Then, activate the command block with redstone (including buttons, levers, and pressure plates), and they will be sent to their destination. The player can set up multiple different teleports.

This Minecraft tutorial explains how to switch to Creative mode with screenshots and step-by-step instructions.

Creative is a game mode that is available in all versions of Minecraft. Creative mode gives you unlimited resources, free flying and lets you destroy blocks instantly when mining. When you create a world in Minecraft, you can easily switch back and forth between Survival and Creative modes using the /gamemode command.

Let's explore how to switch the game mode to Creative using the /gamemode command.

Supported Platforms

The /gamemode command to switch to Creative mode is available in the following versions of Minecraft:

* The version that it was added or removed, if applicable.
NOTE: Pocket Edition (PE), Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch, and Windows 10 Edition are now called Bedrock Edition. We will continue to show them individually for version history.

Requirements

To run game commands in Minecraft, you have to turn cheats on in your world.

Command to Change to Creative Mode

How to Enter the Command

1. Open the Chat Window

The easiest way to run a command in Minecraft is within the chat window. The game control to open the chat window depends on the version of Minecraft:

2. Type the Command

In this example, we are going to change the gamemode to Creative using the following command:

Type the command in the chat window. As you are typing, you will see the command appear in the lower left corner of the game window. Press the key to run the command.

Once the cheat has been entered, the game mode will be updated to Creative:

You will see the message "Your game mode has been updated" appear in the lower left corner of the game window. Also, your health meter and hunger meter will no longer appear above the hotbar.

Now you are in Creative game mode in Minecraft! You will have unlimited resources and mobs will not attack you.

Other Game Mode Commands

You can use other gamemode commands in Minecraft such as:

Other Game Commands

You can use other commands and cheats in Minecraft such as:

"Sandbox" redirects here. For the Minecraft Wiki's editing sandbox, see Minecraft Wiki:Sandbox.

Creative mode is one of the main game modes in Minecraft. Creative mode strips away the survival aspects of Minecraft and allows players to easily create and destroy structures and mechanisms with the inclusion of an infinite use of blocks and flying. It also changes some of the background music.

Gameplay[]

In Creative mode, players have no health or hunger bar to hamper their building since they are invincible (though it is still possible to eat). Creative mode allows players to destroy all blocks instantly (including normally-indestructible blocks such as bedrock, end portal frames, etc.), provided they are not holding a sword, trident or debug stick. However, these blocks are not dropped and must be obtained by the Creative inventory.

Creative mode gives players the ability to fly. To activate flying, double-tap the jump key. Use the jump key to go up and the sneak key to go down and the movement keys, the default is to move. The player can disable flying in mid-air by double-tapping jump again, causing them to drop to the ground. Touching the ground when flying disables flying in Java Edition, but not in Bedrock Edition. Getting into a minecart or bed does not disable flying.

Players in Creative mode are unable to receive damage. However, going too far into the void still kills the player (in Java Edition, while in Bedrock it is possible to stand on it), but the player can fly around in the void provided they do not descend below Y= This, the command, and external editors are the only way to die in Creative mode.&#;^{[Java Edition only]} Creative players in Bedrock Edition are completely invulnerable, just like in Spectator mode.

Mobs still spawn as they do in other game modes, unless Peaceful mode is active, (including from spawners) but all are passive toward the players and do not attack (even if they stare at the player in strange ways). If the player enters the End while in Creative mode, the ender dragon still attempts to attack the player, but cannot cause any harm.&#;^{[Java Edition only]}Zombies summoned by others calling for backup attempt to attack the player, but they still cause no harm, and they stop attacking after several seconds. The player can still ignite creepers with a flint and steel.

Once a world is created, if cheats are enabled, the game mode can be manually changed to Creative (or other game modes) with the command, specifically by typing . In multiplayer, players can be individually changed between game modes with the command available to operators. This means that individual players can play Creative mode (at the operator's discretion) on a Survival map, or vice-versa. The default game mode for new players can also be changed with the command.

If it is possible for the game to determine that a block was broken by the player, it does not drop (exceptions being shulker boxes and beehives if they have non-default NBT data). If the game cannot unambiguously determine how a block broke, the block drops.^[1] Mobs killed by the player in Creative still drop items, but most other entities do not. Containers also drop their contents when broken. A notable exception to the no drops rule is the minecart, which, if renamed, drops itself as an item; this is indeed considered intentional behavior.^[2]

In Bedrock Edition, creating a new Creative world or opening an existing world in Creative permanently disables achievements, trophies, and leaderboard updates for that particular game, but has no other effects on gameplay. In other words, achievements, trophies and leaderboard updates work only in games that have always been in Survival.

Players in Creative have longer reach for placing, destroying, and attacking than in Survival.

Creative inventory[]

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In Creative, the normal inventory screen is replaced by the item selection screen, which contains almost all blocks and items (with some exceptions) in a tabbed interface. Some items and blocks are available only in Creative mode, such as spawn eggs. Likewise, some blocks can be used only in Creative, such as command blocks and structure blocks.

Main article: Creative inventory

In Java Edition, there are 12 tabs that are ordered from top-left to bottom right as:

• Building Blocks, which are general building materials;
• Decoration, which are blocks for decorative purposes;
• Redstone, which are items for building redstone contraptions;
• Transportation, which are used for transportation;
• Miscellaneous, which are unstackable items and other that are not related to other groups;
• Food, which are food-related items
• Tools;
• Weapons;
• Brewing, for brewing purposes;
• Saved toolbars;
• A Search tab, and;
• The Survival inventory.

In Bedrock Edition, there are only 9 tabs, which are:

• Building Blocks
• Tools and Weapons
• Miscellaneous
• Nature
• Search There is also a view tab, which can be toggled to:
• Creative inventory only
• Creative and Survival inventory
• Survival inventory only
  

Some items behave differently in Creative mode. Items do not disappear or lose durability when used. For example, putting an item in an item frame or on an armor stand does not cause it to disappear from the player's hand. Instead, the item is duplicated. It is the same for putting on armor by right-clicking it from the player's hotbar. Also, empty buckets simply makes liquids disappear.

In Java Edition, there is a "destroy item" button, where items can be dragged to and deleted. + clicking on the button will clear the entire inventory, including the hotbars, off-hand and armor slots.

Items can be picked up by the player, but if the hotbar is already full, the items go into the Survival inventory.

Java-only Creative inventory exclusives[]

Several blocks can be found in the Creative inventory that are not normally available as items through vanilla Survival gameplay (excluding bedrock, chorus plant, end portal frames, farmland, spawn egg, dirt path, and the infested blocks as of the snapshots):

Pick block[]

The player can obtain items using pick block. Unlike Survival, the block selected appears in the player's hotbar even if the block is not already in the hotbar or in the Survivalinventory. If it is in the inventory, then the block moves out of its former slot and replaces the block/item in the active hotbar slot, with the size of the stack preserved. If the hotbar is full then the selected block replaces the block/item in the active slot.

Most blocks give the player a copy of itself when using pick block. Using it on an item frame gives the player the item held inside, or the item frame itself if no item is held. Using it on a mob gives the player a spawn egg of that mob. Using it on a mob head gives the mob type that it is; using it on custom heads gives only the mob type that was used in the command, but without the custom skin.

If the player holds and press pick block, in addition to obtaining the item, it also preserves the block's NBT tags, allowing the player to place an identical copy of the block. This allows the player to duplicate items inside of chests, dispensors, etcs. This technique also duplicates the text on sign posts.

The only exception to the use of the pick block is the spawner.

Unavailable blocks and items[]

There are several blocks and a couple of items that do not appear in the Creative inventory. They can be obtained with the command, and can be manually placed using command, using the IDs provided in the table below. Additionally, using pick block on these blocks also give them, except where noted. Technical blocks, such as portals and off-state redstone torches, do not have corresponding inventory items in Java Edition and cannot be obtained without external help in Bedrock Edition, and thus cannot be legitimately obtained.

Representation in []

Main article: level.dat

Creative mode is represented as in in the file; to manually change the , the file must first be opened with an external NBT editor.

Note: Singleplayer worlds do not use this field to save the game mode the player is currently in.

History[]

Java Edition pre-Classic
Cave game tech test					The first version of "Creative" mode has no flying, and no placing or removing blocks.
rd					The player can now place and destroy blocks. Left-clicking places a block, and right-clicking destroys a block.
					Blocks cannot be placed past the world boundary.
					Falling off the edge or digging through the bottom of the world will not kill the player.
Java Edition Classic
May 16,					Notch discussed Creative among the various game modes he envisioned for the game.
a					Hotbar was added. It displayed all blocks except cobblestone and sand.
_SURVIVAL_TEST					Removed Creative mode, added survival features.
					Creative mode update, restored Creative mode to Classic.
Java Edition Indev
					Effectively removed Creative from this version onwards, as all subsequent versions up to and including Beta use Survival gameplay. However, some minor code edits could return the game to an effective Creative state (similarly to activating Survival mode in Classic and ), although this was unsupported and became increasingly unstable through the updates.
					Removed the health bar, effectively making the game mode Creative.
					Added back the health bar, making the game mode Survival.
Java Edition Beta
June 28,					Notch announced Creative mode as one of the gamemodes a player can choose.
July 5,					The modification date of the texture used for the Creative inventory prior to (12w16a) suggests that Creative mode was in-development at this point.
		Pre-release			Re-added Creative mode released in the Adventure Update alongside Survival.
Java Edition
		Beta Prerelease 5			Hostile mobs are now neutral to players in Creative mode.
		12w05a			Enchanting no longer requires experience in Creative mode.
		12w16a			Cheats allow switching between Survival and Creative modes without mods or editors.
		12w17a			Tools in Creative mode now have infinite durability.
		12w18a			Players no longer begin with a full hotbar in Creative mode.
		12w21b			The tabbed inventory window is added; previously, there was a single list of blocks and items, with no access to the Survival inventory (except when using crafting tables or similar blocks).
		12w22a			Armor slots, crafting grid, and a delete item feature are added to the Survival inventory.
					Potions are added to the Creative inventory. However, the potion of healing is currently missing.
		12w27a			Creative inventory now shows status effects.
		12w30c			The crafting grid was removed from the Survival inventory tab because of a duplication bug.
		12w32a			Added command blocks in the Pretty Scary Update, which can be used only in Creative mode.
		12w38a			Added Healing and Harming potions to the Creative inventory.
		13w09c			All potions have been categorized in the Brewing menu in the Redstone Update.
		13w17a			Added extra tooltip info in the search tab for the Creative inventory in the Horse Update.
		13w18a			Hostile mobs no longer follow players when hit in Creative mode.
					Creepers do not explode when hit in Creative mode.
		13w21a			Experience levels no longer appear in Creative. Previously, experience would be hidden but experience levels would show.
		13w25b			It is no longer possible to break blocks with a sword in Creative mode.
		13w36a			The displayed item for the 'Decoration Blocks' tab in the Creative menu has been changed to a peony flower in The Update that Changed the World.
					Spiders, cave spiders, zombie pigmen, blazes, and endermen are no longer provoked when attacked by a player who is in Creative mode.
Music Update					Six ambient music tracks are added that play in Creative mode.
		14w06a			Players in Creative mode as of the Bountiful Update can make barriers visible by holding a barrier in their hand.
		14w07a			Players can create a copy of a block entity in their hotbar, including all NBT data, by holding and pressing pick block.
		14w10a			Players in Creative can now damage entities even if they are flagged invulnerable.
		15w31a			Added structure blocks in the Combat Update. They were unobtainable and unusable, and could be placed only with commands, such as .
		16w20a			Structure blocks are now obtainable using commands in the Frostburn Update and usable in Creative mode.
		17w06a			Added toolbar saving.
		18w20a			It is no longer possible to break blocks with tridents in Creative mode.[6]
		19w46a			All foods are now edible in Creative mode, including cake.
		20w10a			Fire and soul fire now behave more like other blocks and therefore can no longer be put out by swords/tridents in Creative
		Pre-release 1			Using a bucket on water or lava in Creative mode now provides the player with one water or lava bucket in the inventory.[7] This is created in a new inventory slot rather than replacing the used bucket. A limit of one bucket per fluid can be obtained this way - attempting to fill a bucket where a filled one already exists in the inventory removes the fluid as expected but does not provide any new buckets.
					Cows and mooshrooms can also now be milked in Creative mode,[8] providing the player with limitless milk buckets.
		Pre-release 4			Milking cows now only provides Creative players with one bucket.[9]
Pocket Edition Alpha
v					Added Creative mode.
v					Added the flying ability to Creative mode.
					Added Survival mode, making Creative optional.
v		build 1			Creative now has the day/night cycle.
v		build 1			Creative mode worlds can now be converted to Survival (or vice-versa) without third-party software.
		build 10			Increased interaction range for players in Creative.
		build 11			Players in Creative are no longer killed by the void.
		build 12			Players in Creative mode no longer catch fire.
v		build 1			Mobs no longer become hostile toward Creative mode players.
					External inventories can now be interacted with in Creative.
					Prior to this version, players could not activate nether reactors in Creative mode; this was made obsolete with the addition of the Nether.
		build 11			External inventories can no longer be interacted with in Creative due to a lack of a proper inventory.
					It is no longer possible to break blocks with a sword in Creative mode.
v		build 1			Added Survival inventory tabs to the Creative inventory.
					External inventories can now be interacted with in Creative.
v		build 1			Added achievements, which cannot be earned in Creative mode. Switching to Creative gives a "warning" message.
Bedrock Edition
		beta			Players now start Creative mode worlds with an empty hotbar.
		beta			Players can now eat in Creative mode.
Legacy Console Edition
TU5	CU1		Patch 1		Added Creative mode.
TU6					Added a quick command to clear the hotbar in Creative mode. (////// button)
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
					Added Creative Mode

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  The first image of flying in Creative mode.

Issues[]

Issues relating to "Creative" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

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References[]

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What Is Creative Mode?

In Minecraft, Creative mode allows players to destroy all blocks with just one click, as well as fly at will. Players have complete access to all building blocks of the game, and they do not have a health bar, making them immune to starvation and damage. Monsters do not notice players in Creative mode and are unable to kill players with this immunity.

Players in Creative mode can also spawn monsters, villagers, and animals into the world, such as wolves or cows. Furthermore, a player in this mode can change the weather, time of day, and more, as well as other accessible cheat commands.

How to Play in Creative Mode

The easiest way to play in Creative mode is to start a new singleplayer world in Creative difficulty. Worlds are usually started in Creative mode with the specific purpose to form a world, structures, or test new Minecraft updates.

To begin a new world this way, follow these steps:

1. Start your Minecraft
2. Select Singleplayer
3. Select Create New World
4. Change game mode to Creative
5. Select More World Options
6. Change Allow Cheats to On
7. Name your world and begin!

The Purpose of Cheats

Allowing cheats in your new world will allow you to change game modes later on, in case you plan on playing in Survival mode in the future; having a strictly Creative mode world without cheats enabled will limit that world to Creative mode.

There are numerous cheats available. To change your game mode to Creative, for example, you can type /gamemodecreative or /gamemode 1. To change your game mode back to Survival, just type /gamemode 0 or /gamemode survival.

Useful Commands

Enabling Creative Mode and Cheats in Existing Worlds

What if you want to enter Creative mode in singleplayer world that is currently in Survival mode, without cheats enabled? Don&#x;t worry; while enabling cheats when creating your world makes this easier, there is a workaround called multiplayer LAN.

With your singleplayer world open, do the following:

1. Go the the Minecraft menu (via your ESC button)
2. Select Open to LAN
3. Switch Allow Cheats to On
4. Select Start LAN World on the bottom
5. Use /gamemode 1 to enter Creative mode

What Does Multiplayer LAN Mean?

When you open your singleplayer world to LAN, you are essentially opening it for other players to join, but only other people on your network. That means that only someone using your internet connection with access to Minecraft can join your world. You do not have to worry about strangers popping into your game unless you are on a large network, such as a school or university connection.

If none of this is an issue, it is a useful way to enable cheats in your singleplayer world and switch your current game mode. Remember to switch your game mode back before exiting your LAN connection!

What to Do

Once you&#x;ve gotten into Creative mode in Minecraft, you can start to have some fun! In Creative mode, the usual inventory is replaced with an item selection screen. Between these tabs exist the building blocks and numerous items of the Minecraft world. The blocks and items are organized into tabs with the following labels:

• Building Blocks: dirt, wood, ores, wools, stone, sand, blocks, etc
• Decoration Blocks: trees, flowers, mushrooms, chests, fences, ladders, etc
• Redstone: pistons, TNT, pressure plates, redstone torch, redstone, etc
• Transportation: rails, minecarts, saddle, boat, carrot on a stick, etc
• Miscellaneous: buckets, spawners, books, beacon, discs, etc
• Foodstuffs: apple, bread, meats, fish, vegetables, etc
• Tools: shovels, pickaxes, axes, compass, shears, etc
• Combat: bow, arrow, swords, armor, enchanted books, etc
• Brewing: glass bottle, potion bottles, brewing stand, etc
• Materials: coal, diamond, iron, gold, dyes, leather, gunpowder, etc

Using the Tabs and Items

The titles of the tabs are mostly self-explanatory; Combat contains the game&#x;s weapons, Foodstuffs has all available food and so on. With an infinite number of materials, the player can create anything, including spawning monsters, animals and villagers.

Picking and Copying Items in the Environment

While some rarer items, such as monster spawners, are inaccessible in the item selection screen, a player in Creative mode has the ability to Pick items within the Minecraft environment. Located as Button 3 (the middle mouse wheel), this allows the player to copy an item, such as a zombie spawner or giant mushroom block, and place it wherever they like in the world. When building in Creative mode, the opportunities are truly endless.

How to Fly

Traveling in Creative mode is much easier due to the ability to fly!

• Double tapping your SPACEBAR gets you in the air, with SHIFT making you go down and SPACEBAR making you fly higher.
• When flying, you use the default WASD keys to move around in the air.
• Double tapping the SPACEBAR while flying will immediately disable flying.

As you cannot be physically hurt in Creative mode, falling to the ground will not kill a player. Flying is especially useful when building structures both large and small, from houses to ships in the sky.

Do Monsters Still Spawn?

While in Creative mode, monsters can still spawn at night, but will not sense the player and will not attack unless provoked. Under the Miscellaneous tab, players can spawn multiple Minecraft creatures, from monsters to animals and even villagers.

Take note, however, that squid can still only survive in water, and monsters will still burn in sunlight. Furthermore, mobs will still interact with each other; wolves will still attack livestock, zombies will still attack villagers, along with other usual behavior.

Having Fun

Most players like Minecraft&#x;s Creative mode due to it&#x;s versatility and limitless options. In Creative mode, you can do anything: build structures and villages, build multiplayer puzzle maps, or even test a new project or Minecraft update.

There are multiple maps for download on the internet made for multiplayer battles and interactions, all made with the magic of Creative mode. Some decide to build castles or entire kingdoms; some players even create pixel art in Creative mode! There is an abundance of options, but the choice is still yours. Above all, remember to have fun!

Questions & Answers

Question: How do I build in Minecraft?

Answer: Any way that you like! Use wood, stone, or whatever blocks you want to create anything that you want.

Question: Does peaceful mode in Minecraft protect you from mobs spawning?

Answer: Yes!

Question: How do I make a beacon in Creative Mode Minecraft?

Answer: To make a beacon, put the following into a crafting table: three glass in the top row, a netherstar between two glass in the second row, and three obsidian blocks in the third row. To make a beacon light up, there can be no blocks obstructing its view of the sky, and it must be on top of a "pyramid" made of any mineral blocks (like diamond blocks, gold blocks, etc.). The larger the pyramid, the more powerful the beacon (with a 9x9 base being the largest).

Question: How do I spawn eggs in Creative Mode of Minecraft?

Answer: Spawn eggs are in the Creative Mode inventory, under Miscellaneous (the lava bucket icon).

Question: What do I do if I run out of things to build in Creative Mode Minecraft?

Answer: Try looking up some more ideas online, or creating something in-game based on a structure in the real world!

Question: How do I change to spectator mode on the ps3 while playing Minecraft?

Answer: You can only switch to spectator mode in the PC (Java) version of Minecraft - sorry!

Question: How do I get a Brewing Stand in Minecraft?

Answer: You can either find one in a village or craft one! The recipe is one row of cobblestone, with one blaze rod on top.

Question: How do I open creative inventory in Minecraft?

Answer: When you open your inventory in creative mode, it will open up the creative inventory.

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Comments

Jessica Peri (author) from United States on September 10,

@SimilarSam Thanks! I favor Survival mode as well, though I have used Creative mode to test out certain game mechanics.

Samuel Franklin on September 09,

Great coverage of creative mode, I'll admit it's the game mode I never really got into myself, I would always just build mid survival game!

Jessica Peri (author) from United States on January 06,

Thanks! I tried to cover everything. I am grateful for the feedback! :)

Darrin Perez from Puerto Rico on January 06,

Awesome article! I can say that, having not played a single minute of Minecraft in my life, this will be a great help for anyone looking to play in Creative Mode.

Great work! Voted up, useful, awesome and interesting! :)

When you create a Minecraft world you select your game mode and that mode is fixed for the lifetime of the world. Or is it? Read on as we show you how you can sidestep the gamemode lock and permanently change your game&#;s mode.

Why Do I Want To Do This?

When you create a new world you select your game mode. You can choose from creative, survival, and hardcore modes. Under normal circumstances this selection is fixed and a permanent flag is set within the world file.

Minecraft lends itself to creativity and changing playstyles, however, and you may find that the map you intended to make a creative map feels like it would be a perfect survival map or vice versa. Or perhaps you want to start in creative mode to build your home base and then switch to survival mode to take on the world from the comfort of your freshly built castle.

Whatever your motivation for changing the world type, it&#;s a pretty straight forward process. Let&#;s look at two techniques, one temporary and one permanent, you can use to change game modes.

Changing Game Modes with the LAN Trick

This technique might be old hat to some Minecraft players but it&#;s worth noting as a very hasty and simple technique you can use without any advanced editing or secondary programs required at all.

Here we are in a test survival world we created for this tutorial. You can see the hearts and hunger meter above the experience and item bar.

The world was flagged as survival when we made it and it will stay survival. However we can temporarily skirt those rules by opening the game to the LAN for network play (even if we have no intention of playing it with other players).

Hit ESC to pull up the game menu and click &#;Open to LAN.&#;

In the LAN World menu the only important option for our purposes is to toggle Allow Cheats to &#;On.&#; Like the header implies, these are the settings for other players, and if you change the game mode here it only changes the game mode for incoming players to your LAN world. If you toggled the cheats on, however, it applies to all players in the game (including you). Click &#;Start LAN World&#; when you have toggled the cheats on.

Back in the game, press the &#;t&#; key to bring up the ingame console box. Enter the command &#;/gamemode c&#; to change your game mode to creative. (If you want to switch back to survival mode, use the command &#;/gamemode s&#;.)

Notice the hearts, hunger, and experience meter are gone leaving on the item bar. Despite the world&#;s survival mode flag we&#;re now in creative mode.

You can use this trick to temporarily alter the game mode of both survival and creative mode games. This trick can also be used to turn a hardcore mode game into a creative mode game. What&#;s interesting about this trick in regard to hardcore mode, however, is that hardcore mode (even though we refer to it is a game mode) is actually a separate game flag. Hardcore mode is actually just survival mode wherein death leads to world deletion (so you have only one life to live in your hardcore world). Turning a hardcore game into a creative game creates a weird sort of hybrid wherein you get all the powers that come with creative mode, but if you were to die in creative mode (either by falling into the void or using the /kill command on yourself) you&#;d lose your world just like you would in regular hardcore mode. We&#;ll show you how to toggle this later in the tutorial.

When you use this trick, you toggle your game mode, but you don&#;t permanently toggle the state of the entire world save (and using the multiplayer command /defaultgamemode doesn&#;t work correctly on single player worlds). In order to make a permanent and global change to the world save you&#;ll need to do a little editing in the guts of the save file. Let&#;s take a look at that now.

Permanently Change Your Minecraft Game Mode

In order to make permanent changes to the gamemode state you need to edit the game file, the level.dat. Further, you need to use the same formatting Minecraft uses: Named Binary Tag (NBT).

Installing NBTExplorer

To that end the aptly named NBTExplorer, an cross-platform tool available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, is a tailor made tool for the task. You can read more about the tool at the official Minecraft.net thread or visit the Github page; downloads are available for all three platforms at both links. You can run all three OS versions as a stand alone portable application.

Note: Backup worlds before editing them. Copy the entire save file directory to a safe place in case your editing goes awry.

When you run the application for the first time it will automatically load the default Minecraft save directory for your operating system. In the screenshot above you can see our two test worlds &#;NBT Test&#; and &#;NBT Test II&#;.

Changing the Game Mode

The first test world is a survival world. Let&#;s take a look at the values we need to change in order to set it permanently to creative mode. Select the name of your world, in our case &#;NBT Test&#; and expand it. Within the directory you&#;ll see multiple entries. The which contains the world rules is the level.dat entry at the bottom of the list.

Expand the level.dat entry and click on &#;Data&#;. Within that data list you&#;ll find an entry labeled &#;GameType.&#; Although you can use keywords like &#;creative&#; or &#;c&#; to change modes when using the /gamemode command in the game, the GameType value must be set using a numeric value. Here are the values you can use:

0 &#; Survival

1 &#; Creative

2 &#; Adventure

3 &#; Spectator

Our goal is to switch the world we created from survival to creative so we would switch the 0 to a 1. Double click on the value and replace it with the game mode value you desire. Press CTRL+S or the save icon to save your edited tags.

Changing the Player Mode

If you&#;ve never logged into the world you&#;re editing before, you can skip this step. If you have logged into the world before you&#;ll need to make one more edit. The save file remembers the state your player was in so even if you change the world to a different mode your player will stay in the old mode.

You can fix this issue by using the Open-to-LAN trick we outlined above and using the cheats to /gamemode yourself one last time to fix it or you can make a quick edit in NBTExplorer. Navigate to in NBTExplorer your world save and then to the sub-category of &#;playerdata.&#;

Change the value in &#;playerGame Type&#; using the same values outlined in the previous section. To switch our player mode to creative without having to use the in-game work around, we need to edit the &#;playerGame Type&#; value to 1. Again, make sure to CTRL+S or click the save icon to save your work.

Toggling Hardcore Mode

In the previous section on using the the Open-to-LAN work around, we noted that if you used the survival-to-creative mode trick on a world that had been created with hardcore mode turned on, you&#;d end up in a sort of strange limbo where you had creative powers but would still lose your world if you died. Let&#;s take a look at how you can toggle hardcore mode off (if you want to turn that world into a regular survival or creative world) or on (if you want to add a little thrill to your life and turn a becoming-dull survival world into a one-life-to-live thrill ride).

If we open up the world&#;s level.dat file in NBTExplorer we see the &#;hardcore&#; tag on our hardcore test world is set to &#;1&#; indicating that the world is in hardcore mode despite the fact that we set our player&#;s game mode (using the Open-to-LAN cheat) to creative.

We can leave this setting as it is (and opt to switch the player back to survival mode, recreating the experience of hardcore mode) or we can toggle this setting from a &#;1&#; to a &#;0&#; at which point the game will not be deleted upon the death of the player (regardless of whether the player dies in survival or creative mode).

Although the point of hardcore mode is that, well, it&#;s hardcore, we certainly understand if you&#;ve grown so attached to a world that you can&#;t stand the thought of losing it and want to convert it to a regular survival or creative world.

Armed with a little know-how (and a very handy editor) you can control the game modes of your world saves without resorting to starting over or continually fiddling with the Open-to-LAN trick to get your settings just so.