Again, make sure to CTRL+S or click the save icon to save your work.
To switch our player mode to creative without having to use the in-game work around, we need to edit the “playerGame Type” value to 1. Navigate to in NBTExplorer your world save and then to the sub-category of “playerdata.”Ĭhange the value in “playerGame Type” using the same 0-4 values outlined in the previous section. You can fix this issue by using the Open-to-LAN trick we outlined above and using the cheats to /gamemode yourself one last time to fix it or you can make a quick edit in NBTExplorer.
The save file remembers the state your player was in so even if you change the world to a different mode your player will stay in the old mode. If you have logged into the world before you’ll need to make one more edit. If you’ve never logged into the world you’re editing before, you can skip this step. Press CTRL+S or the save icon to save your edited tags. Double click on the value and replace it with the game mode value you desire. Our goal is to switch the world we created from survival to creative so we would switch the 0 to a 1. Within that data list you’ll find an entry labeled “GameType.” Although you can use keywords like “creative” or “c” to change modes when using the /gamemode command in the game, the GameType value must be set using a numeric value. The which contains the world rules is the level.dat entry at the bottom of the list.Įxpand the level.dat entry and click on “Data”. Within the directory you’ll see multiple entries. Select the name of your world, in our case “NBT Test” and expand it. Let’s take a look at the values we need to change in order to set it permanently to creative mode. The first test world is a survival world. In the screenshot above you can see our two test worlds “NBT Test” and “NBT Test II”. When you run the application for the first time it will automatically load the default Minecraft save directory for your operating system. Copy the entire save file directory to a safe place in case your editing goes awry.
#Minecraft survival maps 1.3.2 portable#
You can run all three OS versions as a stand alone portable application. You can read more about the tool at the official thread or visit the Github page downloads are available for all three platforms at both links. To that end the aptly named NBTExplorer, an cross-platform tool available for Windows, Mac, and Linux, is a tailor made tool for the task. Further, you need to use the same formatting Minecraft uses: Named Binary Tag (NBT). In order to make permanent changes to the gamemode state you need to edit the game file, the level.dat. Permanently Change Your Minecraft Game Mode In order to make a permanent and global change to the world save you’ll need to do a little editing in the guts of the save file. When you use this trick, you toggle your game mode, but you don’t permanently toggle the state of the entire world save (and using the multiplayer command /defaultgamemode doesn’t work correctly on single player worlds).
#Minecraft survival maps 1.3.2 how to#
We’ll show you how to toggle this later in the tutorial. Turning a hardcore game into a creative game creates a weird sort of hybrid wherein you get all the powers that come with creative mode, but if you were to die in creative mode (either by falling into the void or using the /kill command on yourself) you’d lose your world just like you would in regular hardcore mode. Hardcore mode is actually just survival mode wherein death leads to world deletion (so you have only one life to live in your hardcore world). What’s interesting about this trick in regard to hardcore mode, however, is that hardcore mode (even though we refer to it is a game mode) is actually a separate game flag. This trick can also be used to turn a hardcore mode game into a creative mode game. You can use this trick to temporarily alter the game mode of both survival and creative mode games.