Originally posted by Casca the Eternal Mercenary:

Buildings that are 5 stories or higher look great but rarely can that be accomplished with using some type of cheat or mod.

... what?

What activities constitute "cheating", in your eyes?

I can see an argument against moving ore through other worlds to avoid the portal restriction, even though I think it's a ridiculous thing to complain about; the game developers gave us the ability to move from one world to another with our inventory, so it's not even "unintended behavior"... but what line are you drawing in the sand to describe "extensive resource gathering" as "cheating"?

Materials aren't hard to gather; many (if not most) of them can actually be farmed. For example, I have chests and chests full of stone, just from mining copper. The same applies to trees; Chopping them down is mind-numbing, but it's not difficult.

I haven't gotten around to it yet, but once I get a greyling farm set up, I will literally have an endless supply of stone and wood. Trees can be literally farmed, by planting seeds, so wood is even less of a concern, even if it were not dropped by greylings. Is a greyling farm "cheating"?

Is it "cheating" to bring materials from other worlds, even though they were acquired "legitimately" in those other worlds (by mining, clearing forested areas, and killing mobs)?

Is it "cheating" to wander around killing respawning entities for their drops?

Is it "cheating" to pick raspberries off a bush that you picked the raspberries from a week ago?

Is it "cheating" to mine copper, or iron, or silver? "Tedious", I could grant you, but "cheating"?

Are you upset that the metals didn't come from the island the build is on, but was instead brought by boat from another region?

The world is huge; there's plenty of resources to create massive, sprawling structures with... especially if you consolidate it all into one place.

"Creativity" is not "cheating", nor is "being able to focus on resource gathering for long periods of time"; please adjust your mindset.