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How to switch to Creative mode in Minecraft

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

Command in minecraft java edition (pc/mac).

In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 1.18, 1.19 and 1.20, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11 and 1.12, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

Command in Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE)

In Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE), the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

Command in Minecraft Xbox One Edition

In Minecraft Xbox One Edition, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

Command in Minecraft PS4 Edition

In Minecraft PS4 Edition, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

Command in Minecraft Nintendo Switch Edition

In Minecraft Nintendo Switch Edition, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

Command in Minecraft Windows 10 Edition

In Minecraft Windows 10 Edition, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

Command in Minecraft Education Edition

In Minecraft Education Edition, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

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:

• For Java Edition (PC/Mac), press the T key to open the chat window.

• For Windows 10 Edition, press the T key to open the chat window.
• For Education Edition, press the T key to open the chat window.

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 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 " Set own game mode to Creative Mode " 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:

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Minecraft: Education Edition Tips and Tricks for Teachers

Minecraft: Education Edition is a powerful tool when used with the right tips and tricks, which are all right here for you

Minecraft: Education Edition is currently used in over 115 countries as a block-based gaming method for teachers to help educate students in an immersive virtual way.

Minecraft: Education Edition can be used for remote learning but is also a great way to engage students in the classroom, both individually and in groups. It offers a limit-free way to explore virtual worlds and learn while doing so.

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In Minecraft: Education Edition students can build collaboratively, take virtual tours, and more, limited only by the treacher's creativity and imagination.

This works on all devices and can be accessed by all students, which helps to justify the cost. But with a sliding scale of pricing there should be an option to suit all needs.

Here are the best tips and tricks for Minecraft: Education Edition to help get the best learning experience for students and teachers.

Use the Minecraft: Education Edition resource page

One of the best ways to get going with Minecraft: Education Edition and, indeed, to keep going, is to use the resource page . It is crammed full of hundreds of lessons already created by other teachers and shared for use.

Teachers can get instant access to a selection of lessons spanning school grades and subjects. Search by subject and age to help focus in on what you need. Once you've found something you can use, it can be presented as is, or you can adapt to better suit the task required.

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The starter kit in this selection of materials is well worth using if you're new to Minecraft: Education Edition. It features sample lessons, starter worlds, training videos, and links to other educators who can help ease you into this blocky new world.

Use survival mode in Minecraft: Education Edition

Sure, the obvious way to use Minecraft: Education Edition is to go for the creative and exploration modes. But the often-overlooked mode for education is survival mode. It is one of the most engaging for students as their virtual lives are on the line. As such, it's not difficult to get them focused.

For example, this mode can offer a great opportunity for creative writing. Let students run the course of surviving a night, building shelters, foraging for food, and avoiding monsters. In the morning (a night lasts about 20 minutes), stop them and set the task of writing down their experience with as much rich detail as they can.

You may be surprised to find writing talents in some unlikely students who simply needed to write experientially to activate their more creative and descriptive abilities.

Start a club with Minecraft: Education Edition

Minecraft: Education Edition is a great way to offer an extracurricular club that allows students to socialize and build real-world bonds. While this can occur in a classroom, it could also be played online with a supplementary online video chat tool, such as Zoom or Meet , to keep the students interacting.

This approach often works best if the group has a common goal to work toward. Perhaps, creating a virtual model of the real world school could be a good place to start. How to scale and accurate you want them to be could be set, or you can leave it to them.

A club such as this may also be a great space to test any new ideas you might want to use on a wider scale in class. Or task the group with helping other departments, such as making a medieval world for a history teacher, or building a jungle, complete with animal life, for a biology teacher.

Use Minecraft: Education Edition mentors

A great way to either learn the world of Minecraft anew, or expand your potential options, is to use mentors. The Minecraft Global Mentors are a team of educators who are passionate about integrating game-based learning into the classroom. 

The mentors can be approached, and want to be, via the Education Edition website , as well as social media. The website lists where a mentor is, handy say if you want have live chat and are concerned about time zones. 

This is a great resource for advice on world building, how to get started, and even a little technical support.

Set the rules out clearly in Minecraft: Education Edition

As you might imagine, students can get very excited about gaming in class. That's why it pays to clearly establish some guidelines and rules to help maintain boundaries in an otherwise open-world experience. You can do this by using the virtual blackboard to explicitly state what's required of the students when in the virtual world.

This can include setting a task itself – such as creating a building or following a set storyline mode to learn. But it can also include any fundamental rules you feel need to be put into place. This can be a great opportunity to get the students involved to help create rules they think should apply to everyone in that virtual world, which gives them a sense of ownership and community, and helps to ensure they will stick to the set rules.

Use the tutorial world in Minecraft: Education Edition

While many students may be already adept at Minecraft on their smartphones, the Education Edition is a desktop-based experience and can take some getting used to. Others may not have played the game at all. Either way, the tutorial world can help.

Walk the students through the tutorial first as a way to help them become comfortable with the controls and game mechanics. Then you can start setting tasks without the worry once they understand the basics. 

The same applies to educators. Take the tutorial and you never know, you might learn something new or, at the very least, get an idea of how students may feel coming to this for the first time.

All set to try out the tips and tricks? Get started by downloading Minecraft: Education Edition here .

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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.

• 1 Supported Platforms
• 2 Requirements
• 3.1 Command in Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac)
• 3.2 Command in Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE)

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 [ ]

Command in minecraft java edition (pc/mac) [ ].

In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.13, 1.14, 1.15, 1.16, 1.17 and 1.18, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

In Minecraft Java Edition (PC/Mac) 1.8, 1.9, 1.10, 1.11 and 1.12, the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

Command in Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) [ ]

In Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE), the syntax to change the game mode to Creative is:

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In Minecraft there are 4 modes, Creative, Survival, Hardcore and Adventure. In this article you will learn how to play the Creative gamemode within Minecraft in a few steps. There are 2 ways you can play Creative mode, on a server (with friends) and on a single-player world.

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Minecraft Education Edition guide: Uses, features, requirements, and more

A special version of Minecraft for education.

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To most of the world, there are three different versions of Minecraft . The Java Edition is the original version, and it's available on MacOS and Windows PC's. It's known for being big, heavy, and very powerful. It supports mods , third-party tools and software, and has a huge number of hardcore players. The Bedrock Edition is the modern version, built to span across devices, platforms, and generations with a flexible and lightweight foundation. It supports multiplayer across different platforms, private servers known as Realms, and is available on way more devices. Then there are the "legacy" versions that no longer exist, like the old Xbox 360 and Playstation 3 editions.

There's actually one more version of Minecraft and that's the Education Edition. This version is built off the Bedrock Edition, building in powerful features useful for teachers and educators. This is Minecraft build for schools, libraries, museums, and more. It's not for fun, but it does make learning things like math, science, and programming fun. Here's what you need to know.

Related: Here's how to use the Education Edition for children at home due to the coronavirus

A game you can play anywhere with anyone.

The only thing that could make Minecraft even better is if you could play it in more places. Wait, you can? That's right, because Minecraft is available on almost every platform imaginable including Xbox One, Windows 10, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Android, and iOS. Get it everywhere, play it anywhere.

What is Minecraft: Education Edition?

What can you do in minecraft: education edition, how is the education edition toggle different than minecraft: education edition, how do you get minecraft: education edition on your devices.

Back in 2016, Mojang announced a new project to help educators teach their students by using Minecraft as a fun and interactive tool. A little while later, Minecraft: Education Edition was born to the world, and it featured a ton of unique features and plans across a variety of curriculum subjects like architecture, math, chemistry, agriculture, and computer programming. Across all of it, Minecraft: Education Edition is focused on teaching children important critical skills like problem-solving, teamwork, and creativity.

Because the Education Edition is actually just an expanded version of the Bedrock Edition of Minecraft available on Xbox One, Playstation 4, Nintendo Switch, Windows 10, Android and iOS, it also comes with all the same features present there. However, the Education Edition isn't quite as prolific as its base version, since as of now it's only available on Windows 10, MacOS and iPad devices.

The full Minecraft: Education Edition is specifically tailored to schools, and is currently being used in over 115 countries around the globe. It is a monthly subscription service that requires a Microsoft 365 Education account and a Mojang Account, so access is limited and everyday people won't be able to take advantage unless their school allows it.

There's also a toggle present in the base Bedrock Edition of Minecraft simply labeled "Education Edition" that appears in the Create a New World menu. This toggle is available on more devices like Android phones, and anyone who owns the Bedrock Edition can use it, but isn't as powerful or complicated as the full Education Edition is. More on that toggle down below.

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Minecraft: Education Edition includes a surprising number of additional mechanics, administrative features and controls, tools for students to use, and exclusive items and resources that really drive home the focus of the game. The point of the Education Edition is to not only provide a platform in which students can learn, but also give teachers the tools they need to manage their classroom, keep everyone productive, and set the parameters for their lessons.

We'll divide the features of the Education Edition of Minecraft into three categories: items and resources, student tools, and educator tools.

Items and resources in Minecraft: Education Edition

There are a few exclusive blocks or items in Minecraft: Education Edition that aren't available in the Bedrock Edition. Some of these are tailored for use by educators, but the majority of the exclusive items revolve around the Education Edition's extensive chemistry toolset.

The items and resources in Minecraft: Education Edition are:

• Balloon. The balloon levitates when placed, and can even levitate mobs if attached.
• Underwater TNT. TNT typically doesn't work underwater. This kind does.
• Underwater torches. The thing that everyone wants is in the Education Edition—torches that work even while underwater.

There are also a load of chemistry-focused items and resources, which are:

• 118 elements and hundreds of isotopes. The periodic table exists in Minecraft: Education Edition. There are 118 elements and at least 400 stable isotopes for students to choose from.
• Element constructor. Students can create elements and isotopes here, with sliders to choose the number of electrons, protons, and neutrons their atom will have.
• Compound creator. Allows students to combine different elements into compounds. At the moment, there are over 30 compounds such as coal or soap.
• Lab table. Students can take the elements and compounds they have created to craft items like bleach, which are actually usable in the game.
• Material reducer. Where the aforementioned tables are strictly about construction, the material reducer takes Minecraft blocks and reduces them to their base elements. Since not all Minecraft blocks actually, you know, exist, there's a "?" block to represent fictional elements.

Tools and functions for students in Minecraft: Education Edition

Students can do more than just chemistry in Minecraft: Education Edition, and there are also ways for students to track their progress through lessons and challenges. Most importantly, though, is how easy it is for students to work together in Minecraft: Education Edition.

The items available for students to use are:

• Camera. A tool for students to screenshot their projects and work.
• Portfolio. A tool students can use to document their progress.

The functions and features available for students to use are:

• Classroom collaboration. Up to 30 students can work in a world at a time, without the need to set up or rent a server. Students can also work solo, in pairs, or just join their other classmates in a world. This allows educators to scale lessons as needed.
• Code connection. Allows students and educators to play in a fully functional Minecraft world solely by writing code.
• 3D exporting. One of the coolest features of Minecraft: Education Edition is the ability for students to export their projects to Remix 3D and actually build them in the real world using 3D printers.

Tools and functions for educators in Minecraft: Education Edition

A bunch of children hanging out in Minecraft without educators and teachers being able to moderate them is bound to turn into giggle-filled chaos, so of course there are a ton of tools available to help define boundaries and keep students on task. This also helps educators scale lessons and challenges as needed to fit the classroom or objective.

The items available for educators and teachers to use are:

• Chalkboard. Allows educators to outline lesson plans or instructions in game, with various sizes available.
• Allow/deny blocks. Allows educators to specifiy areas where players (students) can build. Allow blocks mean building is allowed, while deny blocks mean, well, the opposite.
• Border blocks. This allows educators to define set areas in which students can roam.

The functions available for educators and teachers to use are:

• Tutorials. Minecraft: Education Edition is quite complicated, and can be very harrowing to the uninitiated. There are tutorial worlds available to both educators and students that teach how to use their respective functions, and the different things you can do in Minecraft: Education Edition.
• Lessons. A very important aspect of Minecraft: Education Edition are the lessons. There are a huge number of lessons available from Mojang's website that are organized by subject and age group. Teachers can also upload their own lessons for other users to access from the website.
• Challenges. In the same vein as lessons, challenges focus less on teaching about a specific structure and more on collaboration and cooperation. Students must work together to accomplish specific tasks. These can range from puzzles, building projects, cartography and much more. These are also available from Mojang's website.
• Classroom mode. This is a master overview of the entire Minecraft world that allows an educator to see where everyone is at, communicate with players, and edit various settings for the world.
• Additional item hotbar. Teachers can equip their students with an additional item hotbar to give them three more items then they could normally carry. Teachers can also populate that hotbar with whatever items they want. This hotbar is vertical to and to the side of the normal hotbar.
• NPC's. Educators can actually design custom NPC's that can act as guide of af sort for students, and can provide additional information, including links to external references.
• Admin commands. Much like commands in vanilla Minecraft, these new admin commands control certain functions of the world. Educators can give players ability to build even when in deny areas, to leave bordered areas, and a whole lot more.

Something that isn't immediately obvious to anyone, myself included, is how Minecraft: Education Edition is actually a fully separated experience from the Bedrock Edition, and how that "Education Edition" toggle you might've noticed when creating a new world in Minecraft doesn't actually enable the full Education Edtion. The reason behind this is simple: unless you're an educator or a student being taught by an educator with access to Minecraft: Education Edition, it might as well not exist for you.

The toggle in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is completely free, but it doesn't unlock all of the features. Instead, this toggle turns on the chemistry features for the Bedrock Edition. This means the elements, isotopes, compounds, and all the tables associated with them. The tutorial maps, admin controls, exclusive blocks and items, and some of the lesson plans and challenges can only be used if you have access to the full Education Edition.

That's not to say the toggle is useless. If you have a child you want to stay productive at home, or if they're staying home for some reason, the toggle still gives you and your child all the chemistry-focused features. If you're child isn't into chemistry (or like mine, is just too young), you can still combine the Bedrock Edition with the many, many lesson plans and challenges available on Mojang's Education Edition website . They'll just be a little more hands-on then if you had access to those admin controls and features.

So it's clear that Minecraft: Education Edition has been designed from the ground up to be very good at what it does. Their Twitter account is full of stories from students and teachers who have used the game for learning. How do you gain the same benefits from Minecraft: Education Edition? There are two different ways, depending on who are you or where you're coming from. Let's go over both.

If you're an educator or student and want Minecraft: Education Edition

The full Minecraft: Education Edition is strictly education, so it has similar requirements that, say, an enterprise-only service would have. There's not a how-to on getting Minecraft: Education Edition, because it depends a lot on who you are. If you're an educator, talk to your admin about using the game for your classroom. If you're a student, talk to your educator.

The requirements for Minecraft: Eduation Edition are:

• You must have a Microsoft 365 Education Account and a Mojang Account in order to sign in.
• You must have either a Windows 10 PC, a MacOS computer, or an iPad running iOS 9 or later.
• If you are an educator, you must be a full-time employee of an educational institution, and have a work-related email provided by the institution.
• If you are an educational institution, you must be operating in an official capacity as an accredited educational institution with the intention to teach its students.
• If you are a home-schooled program, you must be officially recognized by a national organization or local educational institution.
• If you are a library, you must grant free and public access to library services in your community or region.
• If you are a museum, you must be an institution focused on educational purposes, or have permanent professional staff related to an educational program.
• There is typically a subscription cost per user per year, but this can change depending on the volume of the subscription required by the institution, educator, or organization.

As you can see, these requirements are pretty set in stone, and don't give a lot of leeway for everyday people to gain access. That's why the "Education Edition" toggle exists in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition, which is available to everyone.

If you don't have access to the full game but still want some of the benefits

If none of the above requirements describe you, you're probably like me or many other people: an average person with no official educational capacity, but either wants to learn, or has someone else (like a child,) to teach. That's okay, Mojang included a toggle in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition that enables the Education Edition's chemistry features, and they made all the lesson plans and challenges on their website accessible to anyone.

To enable these features for yourself, do the following:

• Create a new world in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition. We have a guide that goes over everything you need to know about this.
• When creating your world, set the world type to "Creative." While you can do this in Survival, it doesn't make much sense, as you won't have any of the features you're enabling.

• Scroll down until you see the "Activate Cheats" toggle. Go ahead and flip this on. Minecraft will ask you to confirm, which you'll want to do.
• Right below that will be the "Education Edition" toggle. Go ahead and flip that one on too. This will enable the chemistry focused features for Minecraft.
• Create your world. Once you've loaded in, you can find the chemistry features near the bottom of the Creative inventory screen.

Now you can use all the lesson plans and challenges available on Mojang's website to help you out. Unforunately there will be a learning curve, since you won't have any of the tutorial worlds, and not all the lesson plans or challenges will work (like any of the coding plans). Otherwise, you basically have free reign over whatever you want to do! This is a great tool if you want to be more hands-on with your child's learning, and still try to keep it fun.

A fun way to learn

The Education Edition turns Minecraft from an expansive creative sandbox to an interactive learning environment. Teachers can monitor progress and assign lessons while students can work together as a classroom, in groups, or individually to accomplish goals while learning more about various subjects. While most people probably won't ever come in contact with it, it's awesome that Mojang and Microsoft are working to have a more engaging presence in classrooms.

That's not to say the Education Edition has nothing to offer to normal people. Using the Education Edition toggle in Minecraft: Bedrock Edition gives you access to a whole host of chemistry-focused features, and the lesson plans and activities for Minecraft: Education Edition are free to access for everyone. Using this, it's not hard to make sure your children can have fun and stay productive wherever they are.

Have you used Minecraft: Education Edition before? Do you think this is a good tool to help children learn? Let us know in the comments below!

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Pixel art and other creations made in Creative mode

Creative mode is one of the main game modes in Minecraft . It 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 , Creative mode also allows creativity, as people made many redstone builds and amazing things.

• 2.1 Java Edition
• 2.2 Bedrock Edition
• 2.3 General info
• 2.4 Java-only Creative inventory exclusives
• 2.5 Pick block
• 2.6.1 Platform specific exclusive features
• 3 Representation in level.dat
• 7 References

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A player flying in Creative mode.

In Creative mode, players have no visible 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 ‌ [ JE only ] . However, these blocks are not dropped and must be obtained from the Creative inventory , or by using pick block on the block.

When continuously holding destroy to break blocks in Creative mode, there is a 6 game tick (0.3 second) cooldown between each block broken. This is distinct from instant mining in Survival mode, where one block can be broken every game tick (0.05 second). This cooldown can be bypassed by rapidly clicking the destroy button, allowing blocks to be broken as quickly as the player clicks.

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 W A S D ) 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. However, getting into a boat or riding a mob such a a pig , llama , horse , donkey , mule , skeleton horse , strider , trader llama or camel will disable flying.

Players in Creative mode are unable to receive damage from the vast majority of sources. In Java Edition , going too far into the void still kills the player; however, in Bedrock Edition , the player is also immune to this (they are stopped by an invisible barrier that exists in all three dimensions). The player can fly around in the void provided they do not descend more than 64 blocks below the bottom of the dimension . The void, the / kill and / damage commands and external editors are the only way to die in Creative mode.‌ [ Java Edition only ] Creative players in Bedrock Edition are completely invulnerable.

Mobs still spawn as they do in other game modes, unless the difficulty is Peaceful or when the game rule doMobSpawning is set to false , but all are passive toward the players (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 or fire charge .

Once a world is created, if cheats are enabled, the game mode can be manually changed to Creative (or other game modes) with either the / gamemode command, specifically by typing / gamemode creative , or the game mode switcher ( F3  +  F4 ). In multiplayer , players can be individually changed between game modes with the / gamemode 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 / defaultgamemode 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. [2]

In Bedrock Edition , creating a new flat world is always opened in Creative mode. Opening 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 a longer reach for placing, destroying, and attacking than in Survival.

Creative inventory [ ]

The Creative mode inventory showing the Search tab for the Java Edition .

The Creative mode inventory showing the All tab in Bedrock Edition (Classic option).

The Creative mode inventory showing the All tab in Bedrock Edition (Pocket option).

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 .

Java Edition [ ]

In Java Edition , there are 13 tabs that are ordered from top-left to bottom right as:

• Building Blocks
• Colored Blocks
• Natural Blocks
• Functional Blocks
• Redstone Blocks
• Saved hotbars
• Search items
• Tools & Utilities
• Food & Drinks
• Ingredients
• Survival inventory

Bedrock Edition [ ]

In Bedrock Edition, there are five tabs, which are:

• Construction

There is also a view tab, which can be toggled to:

• Creative inventory only
• Creative and Survival inventory
• Survival inventory only

General info [ ]

Some items behave differently in Creative mode. Generally, consumable items create a duplicate of themselves that remain on the same inventory slot when use d. Items do not disappear or lose durability . 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. Buckets with contents ( water , lava , aquatic mob ) duplicate their contents along with their carrying respective mobs (and with NBT tags , if any) upon placement. Empty buckets on the other hand, only cause fluid blocks to disappear and do not have the capability to carry mobs.

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

Item entities can be picked up by the player, but if the hotbar is already full, the items go into the Survival inventory. If the Survival inventory is full, they're deleted upon picking up.

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 1.17 snapshots):

• Bedrock [note 1]
• Budding Amethyst
• Chorus Plant
• End Portal Frame [note 2]
• Infested Cobblestone
• Infested Chiseled Stone Bricks
• Infested Cracked Stone Bricks
• Infested Mossy Stone Bricks
• Infested Stone [note 3]
• Infested Stone Bricks
• Infested Deepslate
• Player Head
• Potion of Luck
• Splash Potion of Luck
• Lingering Potion of Luck
• Arrow of Luck
• Reinforced Deepslate
• Tall Seagrass
• ↑ Several methods for obtaining this as an item existed - see Tutorials/Obtaining discontinued blocks and items for more information.
• ↑ Can be obtained using explosions in Beta 1.9 Pre release 3 - see Tutorials/Obtaining discontinued blocks and items for more information.
• ↑ Can be obtained using Silk Touch in Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4 - see Tutorials/Obtaining discontinued blocks and items for more information.

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 Survival inventory. 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 themselves 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 Ctrl and presses 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, dispensers, and so on, and also duplicates the text on signs .

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 / give command and can be manually placed using / setblock command, using the IDs provided in the table below. Additionally, using pick block on these blocks also gives them, except where noted. Technical blocks , such as portals and off-state redstone torches , do not have corresponding inventory items at all in Java Edition and cannot be obtained without external help in Bedrock Edition , and thus cannot be legitimately obtained.

• ↑ a b c d e f g h Only if cheats are enabled and the "Operator Items Tab" option is turned on.
• ↑ Only through the "bundle" experimental data pack.

Platform specific exclusive features [ ]

Some blocks and items are obtainable in Creative on one platform, but not the other. The full list blocks and items only obtainable in the Java Edition Creative Inventory can be found here . Bedrock Edition exclusive Creative Inventory blocks and items can be found here .

Representation in level.dat [ ]

Creative mode is represented as 1 in GameType in the level.dat file; to manually change the GameType , 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 [ ]

The first image of flying in Creative mode.

The Creative mode item selection screen prior to Java Edition 12w21b .

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

Gallery [ ]

Creative mode in Java Edition Beta 1.8 .

Several creative mode builds.

A house built on a creative plot server.

A Creative mode interface.

References [ ]

• ↑ MC-4681  — "Item drops in creative" — resolved as "Won't Fix".
• ↑ MC-10366  — "Renamed minecarts still drop a minecart item in creative mode" — resolved as "Works As Intended".
• ↑ MC-126300  — "Unlike sword, trident can accidentally break blocks in creative mode" — resolved as "Fixed".
• ↑ you cannot pick up buckets of water/lava in creative mode  — Fixed
• ↑ MC-36322  — "Unable to milk cows in creative" — resolved as "Fixed".
• ↑ MC-188352  — "Creative mode cow milking / mushroom stewing inconsistent with picking up placed fluids" — resolved as "Fixed".

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DAY 12: Watch five artists create Minecraft-inspired art

What do you get if you combine five artists, five art forms, and one blocky game? You get cubism! Just kidding. You get a mini documentary featuring the process of five wildly creative and utterly different works of art inspired by Minecraft . So that’s exactly what we did! And today, on day 12 of our anniversary celebration, this documentary is finally out. 

Five artists. Five art forms. One very blocky game. 

In this short documentary, we follow our five artists, all with various degrees of experience playing Minecraft, as they travel across biomes in search of that spark of inspiration. They take us  behind the scenes of their creative processes as they use Minecraft to inspire the creation of a new piece of art . Considering it’s virtually impossible to play Minecraft without using your creativity, artists feel like they were born to be in the Overworld. How they choose to tackle their blocky adventure is a whole other question! From receiving the initial brief to entering the Overworld then planning their piece, getting to work in their medium, and finally presenting the final artwork to each other, this will be a wild ride! 

So who are these five brilliant minds?  

Camila Salinas  is a Mexican-American artist from Texas who uses mixed media to create pretty  extraordinary self-portraits  from quite ordinary, everyday moments. 

Elliot Ulm  is the creative mind from Australia using  graphic design  combined with a healthy dose of  sarcasm and humor  to wow the world. 

Kenza Trasf i  is a French artist and pretty much  the queen of customization . Sneakers, skateboards, game controllers – name it and she can customize it! 

Filippo Giusti  is the Mexico-based painter  using what he calls  essentialism  to not only capture the look of his subject but the essence and colors within. 

Environmentally conscious architect and designer  Benjamin Uyeda   sources materials from his surroundings you’d never look twice at and turns them into incredible furniture. 

Watch the mini documentary now to see how these five artists inject Minecraft into their process to create works of art in their mediums.

But the creative output doesn’t stop there! Several international artists are playing Minecraft to create new art including Berlin painter Luisa Carolina , Tokyo manga artist Shinn Uchida , São Paulo mural artist Deco Farkas , German multimedia and graffiti artist Bond Truluv ,  and Japanese watercolor artist Harumichi Shibasaki . Head to their accounts to see what the Overworld inspired them to create, and who knows, perhaps these will spark something creative in you? 

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I’m no fashion expert, but why would you step through a Nether portal when you can step into a pair of Nether pants instead? Crafted with precision from premium materials (which we can only assume are 2D pixels, soul sand, and strider strings), these pristine pants boast a sleek design that will have your friends craving for another tour to the Nether. Did we mention that the belt buckle is a (purely decorative) Nether portal?! All you need to do to claim today’s extravagant attire is to boot up Minecraft: Bedrock Edition after 10am PST/7am CET , open the Dressing Room where you’ll find your shiny new character creator item, and take those new Nether pants for a strut around the block. 

With all this creativity flying around, how will you use your next Minecraft session to shape your world? Some bespoke creeper sneakers? A chocolate dirt hut bake? A square trim for your dog? This blocky world is very much your oyster, so see you back here tomorrow to continue celebrating 15 years of Minecraft.

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Like digital screens built from tiny pixels, Minecraft is a virtual world of pixilated landscapes crafted by players using digital building blocks. Playing Minecraft is like playing with digital Lego bricks: Players build elaborate structures and interact within blocky landscapes, either solo or with friends. Its open-ended nature, paired with straightforward yet deep gameplay, fosters creativity, problem-solving and collaboration. Minecraft is a game with no rules or and no endgame. Players are limited only by their imagination.

Owned by Microsoft and designed specifically for formal educational settings, Minecraft Education makes game-based learning a reality for educators. Teachers can use the game as a learning tool with endless possibilities.

Picture students crafting detailed models of plant and animal cells to explore biology concepts, or designing a creature perfectly adapted to its environment to understand evolution. It is learning by doing in a virtual world that engages and excites.

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Minecraft Education includes unique features intended to enhance learning . One of the game’s standout features is the Book and Quill tool, which simplifies for students the process of documenting and submitting projects directly to teachers, combining visuals of their builds with written explanations.

Why Minecraft Education Makes a Great Entry Point to Esports

Esports is competitive, organized video gaming. There are many games that can be used for esports, but Minecraft Education is a great gateway into the world of esports. First, Minecraft Education’s design, which is tailored for school use, ensures all of the privacy and security boxes are checked. This makes it a safe choice for integrating into school programs.

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Its foundation in educational gaming allows teachers to adopt esports as an engaging teaching strategy. As the career and technical education coordinator at Fresno Unified School District , Julie Mavrogeorge supervised the district’s esports programming. Fresno Unified actively uses Minecraft Education across the district.

“The build topics are endless,” says Mavrogeorge, who is now the program implementation coordinator for Gameplan, a company that promotes learning through esports. “The teacher can easily align builds with English, mathematics, science, social studies or any imaginable topic.”

Mavrogeorge highlights the broad appeal of Minecraft, noting its popularity among students as young as first grade. “In my experience, most students have already played Minecraft by the time they hit third grade. In many cases, students as young as 4 and 5 have played Minecraft," she says.

Julie Mavrogeorge Technical Education Coordinator, Fresno Unified School District

At Fresno Unified, teachers implement the game from grades one through eight, with a focus on competitive esports in grades three through eight, demonstrating Minecraft Education’s versatility across different age groups.

Minecraft Education’s esports resources further enrich this experience, offering predesigned environments, known as Make & Model worlds, tailored for competitive play. These worlds facilitate “build battles”; Mavrogeorge says these prebuilt worlds make it exceptionally easy to organize students into teams for practice, learning or competition.

Another advantage of the game for esports is its accessibility . Unlike many esports games that require high-end gaming devices, Minecraft Education is available on all major operating systems: Windows, macOS, iOS and Android (including Android-enabled Chromebooks ). This inclusivity ensures that all students can participate, regardless of the technology available to them.

Minecraft Education's multiplayer mode enhances the esports experience by allowing teams to collaborate and compete in a secure environment. The specially designed esports worlds support simultaneous building activities.

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How to Get Started with Minecraft Education

Embarking on the Minecraft Education journey in your district begins with a few steps to ensure everything is set up for success.

Licensing and setup: Make sure to address the licensing requirements for Minecraft Education. Districts with an existing Microsoft licensing agreement may already have access to Minecraft Education licenses for teachers and students, typically included in A3 level plans and above. If your district isn't covered under such an agreement, individual licenses are available. For detailed information on licensing, visit the Minecraft Education website and reach out to your district’s Microsoft representative.

Installation: Download and install Minecraft Education on the devices you plan to use. To enable multiplayer mode, it’s crucial that all devices run the most current version of the game.

Other considerations: Touch-screen devices don’t need additional equipment. However, if your students will be using devices with keyboard and mouse inputs, providing external mice or game controllers can make building in Minecraft easier.

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Launching Your Minecraft Education Esports Program

Minecraft Education offers versatile entry points into esports, with various options for customizable gameplay.

Classroom build battles: Host competitions within classrooms, aligning builds to specific learning outcomes.

Districtwide competitions: Organize competitions between schools within your district. This is a great starting point for organized esports. “Fresno creates divisions within its own district, allowing schools to enter multiple teams with one coach,” Mavrogeorge says.

Interdistrict competitions: The next step could involve connecting with other districts and clubs for broader competitions. Organizations like NASEF can help facilitate these connections.  

“I strongly encourage teachers to join the Minecraft Education Ambassadors Community on Facebook,” Mavrogeorge says. “This will connect them with other educators from across the world who are within the same time zone. It is very easy to find other schools, nonprofit organizations and individual teachers who are eager to play competitive or club-based Minecraft Education esports.”

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Real-Life Minecraft Experience To Get World Premiere in North Texas This September

The best-selling video game of all time has inspired a "real-life, in-person" adventure called minecraft experience: villager rescue—and it's getting its global debut at a site in plano on september 20. attendees will go on an epic rescue mission "at the crossroads of game design, experiential storytelling, and high-tech multimedia," organizers say..

The world premiere of Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue will happen in Plano starting September 20. [Image: Business Wire]

Minecraft—the best selling video game of all time with over 300 million copies sold—is about to get real in North Texas. 

Passionate “Minecrafters,” everyday gamers, and total novices of all ages will have the chance to take part in a “real-life, in-person” multi-sensory scavenger hunt called Minecraft Experience: Villager Rescue. The “limited time” experience will get its global debut September 20 at 2712 N. Central Expressway in Plano, adjacent to DART’s Parker Road station.

After the Dallas-area run, the touring experience will then be “spawned” in cities around the world, organizers say.

One-hour ‘interactive scavenger hunt’

In honor of the game’s 15-year anniversary, Experience MOD and Mojang Studios are presenting the one-hour experience. It will take attendees on an “interactive scavenger hunt” as they journey through multiple Minecraft “biomes.” During their quest, they’ll build structures and interact with iconic mobs—”some more friendly than others.”

“We’re thrilled to introduce the first-ever immersive touring Minecraft experience where guests can follow a quest through the Minecraft Overworld in real life,” Kayleen Walters, head of franchise development at Mojang Studios, said in a statement, adding that “players will have their dreams of a Minecraft adventure brought to life. Finding ways for our community to express their love for Minecraft both in-game and out is always top of mind for us.”

Encounter pandas, dolphins, face skeletons, ‘creepers,’ and more

Attendees will begin the experience by entering a “forest” where they’ll learn the ropes, give tips to other players, “or just bask in the blocky nature,” organizers say. 

Moving into the village, attendees will receive their quest and embark on a”rescue mission” with a team of fellow Minecrafters. As they travel through the biomes, they’ll encounter pandas, dolphins, face skeletons, spiders, and “creepers.” A Minecraft Experience Trading Post will be waiting at the end of the experience, selling mementos from the adventure.

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The experience’s creative and producing team is Montreal-based Supply + Demand, which has produced live productions and multi-sensory multimedia experiences for a wide range of top clients, including Taylor Swift, Cirque Du Soleil, Universal Studios, Warner Bros., Justin Timberlake, Cher, and more. 

“Minecraft Experience is an adventure unlike anything we have ever created,” Supply + Demand’s Founder and CEO Olivier Goulet said in a statement. “The collaboration between our creative and producing team and the teams at Mojang and Microsoft has created an entirely new form of in-person experience at the crossroads of game design, experiential storytelling, and high-tech multimedia.”

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Combining Computer Science and the Arts with Creative Coders

• Urban Arts and Minecraft Education are teaming up to bring coding education to diverse middle school students from low-income communities.
• Creative Coders is a new, standards-aligned computer science curriculum combining coding and the arts.
• Urban Arts has received a $4 million grant from the US Department of Education to bring Creative Coders to 70+ schools over the next four years.

Introducing computer science (CS) in middle school, before students from traditionally underserved communities begin to self-select out of STEM courses, is a promising strategy to help diversify the tech workforce. However, only 3.9% of middle school students are currently enrolled in foundational CS courses. Arts and technology nonprofit  Urban Arts  and Minecraft Education are working together to address this with Creative Coders ,  a new CS curriculum offering an engaging, effective, affordable, and scalable path forward for middle school CS programs.

Bringing Coding and the Arts Together

Creative Coders adapts both Minecraft Education’s and Urban Arts’ highly successful CS curriculums to a middle school setting. Urban Arts’s unique unplugged, arts-based activities are paired with engaging game-based learning experiences in Minecraft Education, leveraging the familiar world of Minecraft to teach introductory CS in middle schools.

Students will learn digital game development and introductory CS skills through this new curriculum. “Yes, we teach our students to make video games,” says Philip Courtney, CEO of Urban Arts. “Why? Because it’s super-fun, and students are more likely to persist while they learn challenging tech if they get to create a game at the end.” Urban Arts teaches digital game development as a pathway to college and career for young people of color, girls, LGBTQ youth and others underrepresented within STEM and STEAM.

Creative Coders students will design and program their original video games in Minecraft Education as they learn programming basics and skills aligned with CSTA Standards . Laylah Bulman, Senior Program Manager and Executive Producer at Minecraft Education, says, “Minecraft Education is proud to be the cornerstone of the Creative Coders initiative. By harnessing the immersive power of Minecraft, we're not just engaging students in coding through video game design, we're also inspiring them to imagine, design, and create their futures. This program empowers teachers and students, fostering a generation of problem solvers equipped with the skills to navigate and shape the digital world.”

Supported by a highly competitive $4M Education Innovation and Research (EIR) grant from the U.S. Department of Education, Urban Arts will partner with 70+ schools and 3,450 students over the next four years, encouraging confidence—and futures—in STEM/STEAM for diverse students from low-income communities. “This provides an unprecedented opportunity for Urban Arts to reach a huge market. For good,” says Philip.

Creative Coders will be available to all students and educators with Minecraft Education. We will be releasing the curriculum later this year, stay tuned!

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