Creative

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 key. Use the jump key to go up and the key to go down and the movement keys, the default is  to move. The player can disable flying in mid-air by double-tapping again, causing them to drop to the ground. Touching the ground when flying disables flying $$, but not $$. 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=-64. This, the command, and external editors are the only way to die in Creative mode. Creative players $$ 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. 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. 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.

$$, 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


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. The Tabs include: Building Blocks, Decoration, Redstone, Transportation, Miscellaneous, Foodstuffs, Tools, Weapons, and Brewing. Building Blocks contain all the blocks to build with, for example cobblestone. Decoration includes all the plants and other decorative items, for example anvils, torches, campfires, etc. Redstone has everything to do with Redstone, like pistons, redstone dust, and redstone comparators. Transportation has everything you need to move around quickly, like saddles, minecarts, and elytra. Miscellaneous has other non-groupable items like Ender Pearls. This sectiopn WIP. There is also a search feature. One tab provides a survival-like inventory, including armor slots, but is missing the crafting grid (except for if Classic Crafting is enabled). Other tabs include foodstuffs, building blocks, decoration blocks, etc. Some items and blocks are available only in Creative mode, such as spawn eggs. Likewise, some blocks can be only in Creative, such as command blocks and structure blocks.

Some items behave differently in Creative mode. Items do not disappear or lose durability when d. Empty buckets can be filled on a mobile device but simply makes liquids disappear $$. 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.

Items can be picked up by the player, but if the hotbar is already full, the items go into the Survival inventory. If both the hotbar and the survival inventory are full, the items disappear after the pick-up animation (magnetism).

In the bottom right corner of the survival inventory 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.

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, grass path, and the infested blocks as of the 1.17 snapshots):


 * Spawn Egg
 * Spawn Egg
 * Spawn Egg
 * Spawn Egg
 * Spawn Egg
 * Spawn Egg

in  in the level.dat 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.