Several times, in a brand new world, I've used /setworldspawn once I found a good place for my base, but aside from that I never use cheats.
However, I was doing a big build with bricks yesterday, and I kept running out of bricks/clay and had to waste a bunch of time chasing around the world looking for more clay. I seriously considered using the "Open to LAN" hack to jump into creative and just finish the build that way. I didn't do it. Not yet. But I'm still thinking about it.
It's nice to be able to say I built something entirely in survival, but once in a while, on a big build, it just gets kind of boring and repetitive, and I get sorely tempted.
Do you ever use creative in your survival worlds? And if so, under what circumstances?
The only time I've used Creative is on a few small worlds I had where I just wanted to explore one thing or test something out without having to go through the entire early-game startup process (which in my case includes everything from spawning to killing the Ender Dragon); for example, I once made a world to explore the largest known cave system (at the time) that I'd ever found and used Creative to build a basic base and give myself the gear I normally use, I also used NBTExplorer to set world spawn over the cave system (which was over 10,000 blocks away from actual spawn; this was not really necessary aside from making it easier to use a mapping tool to map my progress) and change the world type to the Superflat Overworld preset (placing a hard border around the cave system so I knew when I was done with it). However, the actual playing/exploration was entirely done in Survival and I've never used or switched to Creative for any other reason; likewise, all of my worlds have had cheats disabled and I do not use Open to LAN; I've never even enabled the bonus chest (which really isn't cheating, it just doesn't make much of a difference in most cases).
Also, you may count using tools like MCEdit, which I've used to copy a base over to a new world for similar reasons as mentioned above, since again I just wanted to experience the results of modifications I made (on my fully "legit" worlds it has taken around 2 days of playtime to reach the "end" and start caving; the last time I've done this was several years ago).
I've cheated it twice. Once, I inadvertently chopped my dragon egg for some reason, and it disappeared. I looked high and low, nowhere.
So I spawned one in.
Days later, I was chopping down some trees, and there the original was on top of an acacia. Sigh.
The other time, I had a shulker box disappear on me loaded with potions for the final advancement. I looked EVERYWHERE, couldn't find it. So I jumped to creative to get a shulker box, to save me a lot of time and effort of going to the end city for the umpteenth time and trying to find the last few shulkers I hadn't already harvested.
I just now realized there was a spare in my mine. Sigh again.
It's only a cheat if you have a problem with it. I've only cheated once, and that was because the modpack author left NEI in cheat mode and trying to access recipes and stuff caused me to insert items into my inventory.
However, I was doing a big build with bricks yesterday, and I kept running out of bricks/clay and had to waste a bunch of time chasing around the world looking for more clay. I seriously considered using the "Open to LAN" hack to jump into creative and just finish the build that way. I didn't do it. Not yet. But I'm still thinking about it.
Don't. You'll always think about it every time you look at the big project. It will be there in the back of your mind. Just keep plugging and you'll be glad you did when you're finished.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
I will set myself to spectator mode let's say...to see why a contraption of mine stopped working, or to see what the problem might be. I might get items in creative mode that I know i have at home, but forgot to bring. Once back home, I get rid of them...so no free lunch. This I do much less often.
No cheating here, grindy tasks are part of big or complicated builds. It's sort of like knitting for me, and I don't mind the repetition. It comes with the feeling of a job well done when complete.
I cheat if I do something dumb, like enchant the wrong item or something or lose the water from my bucket while clearing lava lakes. I also cheat to get around the work penalty on the anvil because that annoys the crap out of me. It still wipes all the experience I have when I jump back into survival mode so that seems fair to me. But, when I repair an enchanted item I repair it using a full new version. Like, if I'm repairing a diamond ax I combine it with a brand new diamond ax, not just one diamond. I don't totally look at it as cheating, I'm just using a different set of rules.
Not Usually, I agree with Sharpe103 and what they had to say above. Every time I do get the urge to just jump into creative and get what supplies I need, I talk myself out of it, because I know it will always be in the back of my mind that it isn't 100% legit.
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Location:
Colorado
Join Date:
6/15/2016
Posts:
58
Location:
the world
Minecraft:
Johnisdapoof
Member Details
I personally don't like too cheat in my main survival world, however, I do occasionally do it on some other maps that I don't mind too much about and like to test things in. Really, unless you are claiming to the wold that you have done something in survival when it was cheated, it really shouldn't matter to anyone if you decide to cheat on your own survival world.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Survival Minecraft, never modded (until now, TMCWv4), since alpha 1.2.1.
It's only a cheat if you have a problem with it. Which has only been once, I had a shulker box disappear on me loaded with potions for the final advancement.
Sometimes when i get super lost and cant find my way back to my base, i switch it to creative mode and try to fly back haha but i don't like to do it very often, sometimes it's just frustrating when i find myself going in circles for hours
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Join Date:
2/8/2016
Posts:
42
Member Details
Interesting that this topic came up, as I have recently begun building the Medieval Fortress, (book), and although I began in Survival, I realized quickly that with my limited play time, it would probably take me many years to complete that way. A few years ago, I had tried to switch a world to Creative, and either it was me or the world, but something glitched, and I have been forever afraid to make that switch, until I began the Fortress. I decided to give it a try in Creative, and love it. I plan to switch back to Survival once the main Fortress is built, and play Survival from there, as if I landed in this place that was already there!
I also decided to try going into the Nether in Creative. I hate the nether, am deathly afraid of getting burned by lava when breaking blocks, so decided to try switching, and found I loved that too! Went back and forth, when I found an ore I wanted I would switch to Survival, and back to Creative to make my tunnel.
The thing is, I play this game to relax, at night after working all day, (I am an older female adult) and if this makes it more fun for me, then so be it! Like someone else said, it's only cheating if you feel like it is, and I hope to eventually get to the end, and maybe this technique will help me stick in a world long enough to do that.
Interesting that this topic came up, as I have recently begun building the Medieval Fortress, (book), and although I began in Survival, I realized quickly that with my limited play time, it would probably take me many years to complete that way. A few years ago, I had tried to switch a world to Creative, and either it was me or the world, but something glitched, and I have been forever afraid to make that switch, until I began the Fortress. I decided to give it a try in Creative, and love it. I plan to switch back to Survival once the main Fortress is built, and play Survival from there, as if I landed in this place that was already there!
I also decided to try going into the Nether in Creative. I hate the nether, am deathly afraid of getting burned by lava when breaking blocks, so decided to try switching, and found I loved that too! Went back and forth, when I found an ore I wanted I would switch to Survival, and back to Creative to make my tunnel.
The thing is, I play this game to relax, at night after working all day, (I am an older female adult) and if this makes it more fun for me, then so be it! Like someone else said, it's only cheating if you feel like it is, and I hope to eventually get to the end, and maybe this technique will help me stick in a world long enough to do that.
You definitely have the right attitude about having fun with the game.
The Meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything.
Location:
East Coast US
Join Date:
1/14/2017
Posts:
59
Member Details
I find I don't like Creative mode very much. I DO, however, love messing around in Survival, but on "Peaceful" difficulty. I delve into "Easy" or "Normal" difficulty now and then in various worlds. And I keep trying to enjoy battles and being scared by creepers or skellies, I really do. However, mostly, like you, sdreamer2000, I am playing MC to relax and enjoy myself. (I DID start playing because my young grandson did, but I think, so far, he has not left Creative mode. We'll see at Thanksgiving, where he's at, I guess)
I like to try out different mods and resource packs. I enjoy the changes in the look of things and the scenery. It is a game, and I consider it a form of entertainment. I am not making any judgment calls about anyone else's preferences for how they play! I think it's terrific that a game accommodates a wide range of notions of what a game is!
Sometimes when i get super lost and cant find my way back to my base, i switch it to creative mode and try to fly back haha but i don't like to do it very often, sometimes it's just frustrating when i find myself going in circles for hours
Oh SOOO frustrating, I agree!
Normally I am using Xaeros' map mod, so I can set waypoints, and get back to places of importance. But because it's a game, sometimes, I forget or don't feel like setting a waypoint. Then, never fails that I lose my way and did not write down coordinates, or anything. I hate it when I get that lost. But I don't switch to creative, usually I'll let the world sit there, figuring I'll return another day, and explore more. Most of the time it turns out I haven't wandered all THAT far and I run into my original place again. Maybe that's a phase in my learning this game though. I have been building bigger houses, and ranging farther to find unique scenery, in recent play.
Sometimes when i get super lost and cant find my way back to my base, i switch it to creative mode and try to fly back haha but i don't like to do it very often, sometimes it's just frustrating when i find myself going in circles for hours
Waypoints were mentioned already, but I really think compasses should be able to do this in survival mode.
Renaming a compass in an anvil would cause the compass to point to where you renamed it. Standing at your home and renaming a compass "My House" would cause it to point there.
Normally I am using Xaeros' map mod, so I can set waypoints, and get back to places of importance. But because it's a game, sometimes, I forget or don't feel like setting a waypoint. Then, never fails that I lose my way and did not write down coordinates, or anything. I hate it when I get that lost. But I don't switch to creative, usually I'll let the world sit there, figuring I'll return another day, and explore more. Most of the time it turns out I haven't wandered all THAT far and I run into my original place again. Maybe that's a phase in my learning this game though. I have been building bigger houses, and ranging farther to find unique scenery, in recent play.
The first thing I do when spawning into a new world is to write down my location (using F3). When I get lost I hit F3 and use my coordinates to find my way back home. I don't consider it cheating, I consider it Minecraft GPS.
Several times, in a brand new world, I've used /setworldspawn once I found a good place for my base, but aside from that I never use cheats.
However, I was doing a big build with bricks yesterday, and I kept running out of bricks/clay and had to waste a bunch of time chasing around the world looking for more clay. I seriously considered using the "Open to LAN" hack to jump into creative and just finish the build that way. I didn't do it. Not yet. But I'm still thinking about it.
It's nice to be able to say I built something entirely in survival, but once in a while, on a big build, it just gets kind of boring and repetitive, and I get sorely tempted.
Do you ever use creative in your survival worlds? And if so, under what circumstances?
The only time I've used Creative is on a few small worlds I had where I just wanted to explore one thing or test something out without having to go through the entire early-game startup process (which in my case includes everything from spawning to killing the Ender Dragon); for example, I once made a world to explore the largest known cave system (at the time) that I'd ever found and used Creative to build a basic base and give myself the gear I normally use, I also used NBTExplorer to set world spawn over the cave system (which was over 10,000 blocks away from actual spawn; this was not really necessary aside from making it easier to use a mapping tool to map my progress) and change the world type to the Superflat Overworld preset (placing a hard border around the cave system so I knew when I was done with it). However, the actual playing/exploration was entirely done in Survival and I've never used or switched to Creative for any other reason; likewise, all of my worlds have had cheats disabled and I do not use Open to LAN; I've never even enabled the bonus chest (which really isn't cheating, it just doesn't make much of a difference in most cases).
Also, you may count using tools like MCEdit, which I've used to copy a base over to a new world for similar reasons as mentioned above, since again I just wanted to experience the results of modifications I made (on my fully "legit" worlds it has taken around 2 days of playtime to reach the "end" and start caving; the last time I've done this was several years ago).
TheMasterCaver's First World - possibly the most caved-out world in Minecraft history - includes world download.
TheMasterCaver's World - my own version of Minecraft largely based on my views of how the game should have evolved since 1.6.4.
Why do I still play in 1.6.4?
I've cheated it twice. Once, I inadvertently chopped my dragon egg for some reason, and it disappeared. I looked high and low, nowhere.
So I spawned one in.
Days later, I was chopping down some trees, and there the original was on top of an acacia. Sigh.
The other time, I had a shulker box disappear on me loaded with potions for the final advancement. I looked EVERYWHERE, couldn't find it. So I jumped to creative to get a shulker box, to save me a lot of time and effort of going to the end city for the umpteenth time and trying to find the last few shulkers I hadn't already harvested.
I just now realized there was a spare in my mine. Sigh again.
I made all the new potions from scratch, though.
It's only a cheat if you have a problem with it. I've only cheated once, and that was because the modpack author left NEI in cheat mode and trying to access recipes and stuff caused me to insert items into my inventory.
Only if I die to a glitch. Which has only been once. I got stuck in a ghost block in the nether and killed by a nearby blaze.
No, and I would never do so under any circumstances.
Don't. You'll always think about it every time you look at the big project. It will be there in the back of your mind. Just keep plugging and you'll be glad you did when you're finished.
My short story-like journals; quick-and-easy reads:
My Quest for Elytra Complete! (Pic Intense, End-Game Spoilers)
[Journal & Pics] After a Year and a Half, I Finally Found a Jungle
FrozenCore: Hardcore Death; 3/20/15 to 5/3/15; Eight Weeks on a Frozen World in Pictures
I will set myself to spectator mode let's say...to see why a contraption of mine stopped working, or to see what the problem might be. I might get items in creative mode that I know i have at home, but forgot to bring. Once back home, I get rid of them...so no free lunch. This I do much less often.
No cheating here, grindy tasks are part of big or complicated builds. It's sort of like knitting for me, and I don't mind the repetition. It comes with the feeling of a job well done when complete.
Hard Mode Survival Vanilla
18 years and older
To request to join and learn more about us:
I cheat if I do something dumb, like enchant the wrong item or something or lose the water from my bucket while clearing lava lakes. I also cheat to get around the work penalty on the anvil because that annoys the crap out of me. It still wipes all the experience I have when I jump back into survival mode so that seems fair to me. But, when I repair an enchanted item I repair it using a full new version. Like, if I'm repairing a diamond ax I combine it with a brand new diamond ax, not just one diamond. I don't totally look at it as cheating, I'm just using a different set of rules.
Not Usually, I agree with Sharpe103 and what they had to say above. Every time I do get the urge to just jump into creative and get what supplies I need, I talk myself out of it, because I know it will always be in the back of my mind that it isn't 100% legit.
I personally don't like too cheat in my main survival world, however, I do occasionally do it on some other maps that I don't mind too much about and like to test things in. Really, unless you are claiming to the wold that you have done something in survival when it was cheated, it really shouldn't matter to anyone if you decide to cheat on your own survival world.
Survival Minecraft, never modded (until now, TMCWv4), since alpha 1.2.1.
It's only a cheat if you have a problem with it. Which has only been once, I had a shulker box disappear on me loaded with potions for the final advancement.
Sometimes when i get super lost and cant find my way back to my base, i switch it to creative mode and try to fly back haha but i don't like to do it very often, sometimes it's just frustrating when i find myself going in circles for hours
Interesting that this topic came up, as I have recently begun building the Medieval Fortress, (book), and although I began in Survival, I realized quickly that with my limited play time, it would probably take me many years to complete that way. A few years ago, I had tried to switch a world to Creative, and either it was me or the world, but something glitched, and I have been forever afraid to make that switch, until I began the Fortress. I decided to give it a try in Creative, and love it. I plan to switch back to Survival once the main Fortress is built, and play Survival from there, as if I landed in this place that was already there!
I also decided to try going into the Nether in Creative. I hate the nether, am deathly afraid of getting burned by lava when breaking blocks, so decided to try switching, and found I loved that too! Went back and forth, when I found an ore I wanted I would switch to Survival, and back to Creative to make my tunnel.
The thing is, I play this game to relax, at night after working all day, (I am an older female adult) and if this makes it more fun for me, then so be it! Like someone else said, it's only cheating if you feel like it is, and I hope to eventually get to the end, and maybe this technique will help me stick in a world long enough to do that.
You definitely have the right attitude about having fun with the game.
I find I don't like Creative mode very much. I DO, however, love messing around in Survival, but on "Peaceful" difficulty. I delve into "Easy" or "Normal" difficulty now and then in various worlds. And I keep trying to enjoy battles and being scared by creepers or skellies, I really do. However, mostly, like you, sdreamer2000, I am playing MC to relax and enjoy myself. (I DID start playing because my young grandson did, but I think, so far, he has not left Creative mode. We'll see at Thanksgiving, where he's at, I guess)
I like to try out different mods and resource packs. I enjoy the changes in the look of things and the scenery. It is a game, and I consider it a form of entertainment. I am not making any judgment calls about anyone else's preferences for how they play! I think it's terrific that a game accommodates a wide range of notions of what a game is!
Oh SOOO frustrating, I agree!
Normally I am using Xaeros' map mod, so I can set waypoints, and get back to places of importance. But because it's a game, sometimes, I forget or don't feel like setting a waypoint. Then, never fails that I lose my way and did not write down coordinates, or anything. I hate it when I get that lost. But I don't switch to creative, usually I'll let the world sit there, figuring I'll return another day, and explore more. Most of the time it turns out I haven't wandered all THAT far and I run into my original place again. Maybe that's a phase in my learning this game though. I have been building bigger houses, and ranging farther to find unique scenery, in recent play.
Waypoints were mentioned already, but I really think compasses should be able to do this in survival mode.
Renaming a compass in an anvil would cause the compass to point to where you renamed it. Standing at your home and renaming a compass "My House" would cause it to point there.
The first thing I do when spawning into a new world is to write down my location (using F3). When I get lost I hit F3 and use my coordinates to find my way back home. I don't consider it cheating, I consider it Minecraft GPS.