This question is regarding the minecraft Beta 1.8 prerelease — I have a beautiful house in single player survival which I'd like to record while flying.
I want to be able to change the game mode of my survival map to creative to be able to fly through it without installing a mod. I know it is possible if you run the map on a multiplayer server via the command /gamemode <user> 0|1
but I want to achieve this in single player 🙂
I think this would be possible through editing your level.dat file as I think that's where the game mode for the map is stored.
Best Answer
As of Minecraft 1.3, singleplayer and multiplayer have been merged, so you can switch your gamemode with the
/gamemode
command:You can abbreviate the modes. For example, typing
/gamemode c
for Creative works as well.You can only do this if you haven't disabled cheats during world generation, though.
If you turned cheats off and still want to do it for whatever reason: The game mode is stored in the
level.dat
file, which can be edited using an NBT editor, such as NBTExplorer. The game mode is stored inData/GameType
.