Yeah, without creative i had already quit this game. But the building in this game is just really fun.
There are also a lot mods who put new pieces into the games, or mod's like MissingPieces who yeah, adds pieces to the game which just make sense but the Dev's never added.

Originally posted by Vinegaroon:

Lol working on my castle for the past week. Debug is a blast.

I went from grinding bosses to spending the last few days just flattening areas and placing things to see how they work and its slowly becoming an addiction lol

Originally posted by Lord Scrote:

I like to build in the sea, creative mode is a must there to be able to raise the seafloor. In general building in deep water is really difficult without it.
Other than that i don't really use it, but can be difficult to resist flipping it on when you need like 1 iron ingot on the other side of the world, hehe.

this will be one of my bases when I get closer to mistlands,that and I want to build a base into a mountain somehow

Yeah you can kinda do that, but theres a very strict limit on how deep you can dig or how high you can raise the ground, so it will just be a deepish slope into the mountain.
Really cool stuff can be done with that tho, kinda tempted to try myself.

I too just loved creative mode when I found it out. Before free building (devcommands+debugmode+b) I was spawning mats with commands, and before that I was server hopping with pockets full of mats. It's so much more convenient with free mats and no workbenches - and flying, 'z'. I even used to build scaffolds I could climb on to get to the place so pieces would 'snap' correctly. Recently I also started to use the console command [removedrops] quite a lot, so I no longer have to run around and pick up everything that drops, and overshoots from inventory.

+1 for mod "Planbuild". For the terrain tools - but big praise firstly for the opportunity to copy my builds!! All those hours constructing and designing (and lotsa re-building...), I can now bring my house with me to new worlds. Planbuild gives you the option for just placing the whole building, or a 'blueprint' of your build, then you have to gather all the mats for it (there'll be a box to fill with a list of mats).

*edit; no need to run the mod except for when making and placing builds, after you can turn mod off and run the game vanilla.

welcome to the "creative" mode
im sure you will spend some time and learn a lot out of it
at some point your are done beeing in creative and take the things you found out over to survival mode

i learned a lot by just playing around with creative builds lots of that helps me in survival

have fun viking

Lol working on my castle for the past week. Debug is a blast.

I like to build in the sea, creative mode is a must there to be able to raise the seafloor. In general building in deep water is really difficult without it.
Other than that i don't really use it, but can be difficult to resist flipping it on when you need like 1 iron ingot on the other side of the world, hehe.

Welcome to the obsession!

If you want to run a mod to go with it, get Better Creative. It unlocks ALL of the assets in the game (including the hidden ones and mobs) so you can do all of the building without having to manually spawn stuff in. Infinity Hammer also helps you place stuff too. :)

I love it. Been using it to "test build" stuff to see whether something works out or not before I build it properly (read: on one of the two servers I'm playing on with friends).

I spend a couple of months just designing houses I might like to build if I ever win lotto.

PlanBuild mod is good for creative. Terrain tools for flattening/resetting/painting, copy/paste(and save) tools for all or part of a building.