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I always have felt this way,, but I wonder if I am alone. When I play minecraft, I always build around the natural habitat, never digging out the land or leveling ground, or mutilating the landscape. In a jungle, when I farm a tree, I IMMEDIATELY take a sapling, and plant it, bone meal it, and boom new tree. Same in forests. Creeper holes, I fill in exactly how they were with dirt, then bone meal them. My water sources always come from 1: the very bottom of the ocean, and 2: I make an Infinite source, so I won't be destroying lakes. If a world starts to look run-down and industrial, or too mutillated to be beautiful, I delete it, regardless of progress. What are your levels of conservation?

I don't care how mutilated the terrain around my base gets aslong as my base is fine.

After i have finished one of my bases there is no reason to ever come back outside.

The only reason i would come out of an already established base would be to find the end portal.And then build a new base on top of that.

So in short, no, i don't give a damn about how the landscape looks.

On the server I am playing on I pretty much leave the landscape as it is except I need to fit a building there. As I am no big landscaper this also means, that no terraforming will happen what so ever. But I have a very dense forest around my base, in my opinion standart Mineraft forests are not dense enough, the trees are at least five meters away from each other, that is at least double the distance that trees in a real forest are, so I helped a little and planted a lot of trees, lately also a large jungle tree here and there and "upgrading" the trees to glowing trees. The only real thing I have done to the landscape was my artificial chunk error (with light blue wool on the bottom), which is just one of my many projects like my underground WIP restaurant with a potion machine.
So overall I would consider myself as conservative.

I really only fill in creeper holes so I don't get stuck in them. And cause if I didn't the desert I live in wouldnt exist any longer cause of how many creepers spawn in the desert

I just make sure I don't kill tons of animals in the world, thats about it.

Do I clear cut the forests? No.
Do I clear the trees back 15 meters or so from my blockhouse so that I have a clear bowshot at the mobs from my second floor wraparound balcony and so that skeletons and creepers can't hide there and surprise me during the day? Yes.
Do I take out the very short trees that block your sight-line to give mobs cover and that you can't walk under along my most frequent travel routes? Yes.
Do I cut a narrow pathway through the jungle rather than jump up and down and left and right over and over to navigate through the bushes on my way thru repeatedly? Yes.
Do I alter the landscape a bit around my house and along my most traveled routes to eliminate places that I can be trapped against a two block high jump that I can't make? Yes.
Do I sometimes build things that I consider to be improvements over some of the natural landscape like build small ornamental parks with fountains, flowers, faux ruins and walkways? Yes.
Etc, etc...

The Minecraft world is so huge that my minor "vandalisms" that are about 95% concentrated in an area of maybe only 500 square meters is laughably negligible, or at least that is how I see it.

Since Minecraft change the biomes to look so generic, I "enhance" the environment to a more park like look. I see a picture in my head and paint the world with minecraft as my brush. the aesthetics are important.

I try to make the building "live" with the space as it originally began but without hesitation I'll level a hill or fill in a valley.

My house on the hill has every tree and plant minecraft provides growing somewhere close by. My farms are mostly underground 1) so I don't hear them, 2) so I don't see them.

I do terraforming when necessary but when it comes to trees I replant them as soon as I cut them down (except the ones that fall victim to said terraforming), in the exact same spot as a matter of fact. I also fill up creeper craters, not just to avoid getting stuck in them exactly when I can't afford to but to keep things aesthetically pleasing.

I always change the landscape around me a LOT when I play. I flatten out the land everywhere, break all the oak trees and turn them into planks while leaving the birch trees standing, and then I get to work on randomly mining huge holes in the earth for no reason.

On a server, a spawn zone, called woodcutter, had almost no trees, because the only trees were in my protected area. So I started planting a large bunch of trees, mass producing saplings, I attacked some skeletons and made bonemeal, and made an entire forest!!!

I break out of place blocks while walking along, I fill up creeper holes, replace stone brick variants with normal stone bricks, and I replace moss cobblestone with normal cobble.

I will always fix anything that looks unsightly. If a hill or mountain face look ugly to me, I'll try and make it look more natural and clean. I usually don't terraform at all because I build underground and use the aboveground for traveling and PVP. I always try not to wreck the land too much, and always replant trees whenever possible.

Most of the time I don't even change the landscape at all, I just find myself a nice cave, and revamp it to make it look nice and fancy, I make a treefarm so as not to disturb the forests outside, and then I mine a GIANT hole for the remainder of time in my world... I lead a pretty boring life now that I think of it.

Interesting! So I'm not totally alone. What's you guys' philosophy on mushroom islands?

I generally tend to terraform the land to my liking, as long as it's apart of my master plan. For example, I'll delete an entire desert for sand if I have to. However, if it is land I do not need, I'll leave it alone. As for forests, I'm just too lazy to place saplings back, so forests => plains when I'm done with it.

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Interesting! So I'm not totally alone. What's you guys' philosophy on mushroom islands?

They're great because monsters don't spawn in them,

water

I almost always replant saplings, fill creeper holes at the surface often, and get water from one-block-deep locations.

I like to preserve the environment as much as I can, and I will spend up to 30 minutes deciding where to build something to make it feel right and not ruin the scenery too much. I try to avoid cutting into the land unnecessarily, though if the end result would look good, I will do it.

I do smooth out the terrain when it would be a liability for efficient travel. I hate creepers for how they will, more often then not, blow up the side of a hill, and leave me trying to remember which blocks I'm actually supposed to fill in. Often I'll just throw my hands up and say "/gamerule mobGriefing false".

I don't clear-cut forests for the sake of it, but I will cut them down for wood (until I have a decent tree farm going), to get rid of potential cover for mobs, and to clear out space to build stuff - the forest biomes in their natural state are just too dense to use without clearing some space. I like to leave scattered trees standing (oak or birch, don't really care). I hate leaving floating trees, so if I cut down one tree, all trees connected to it must fall too. I don't usually bother replanting trees.

I'm much more liberal with caves though. I will generally "clean up" cave systems that I have plans for as I explore them; smoothing out walls and whatnot.

There is no point in attempting to conserve your save. I think it looks a lot cooler if you left all the creeper scars and abandoned projects in the world without erasing them. Then, as time goes on, the more you can see your world change.