Enable creative mode

Hi, How do I enable creative mode? Do I just edit one or more of the following files? Do I typically do all of the minecraft/bukkit tweaks by editing one or more of these files? If so, please elaborate on which ones. Thank you


[minecraft@vps bukkit]$ ls -l
total 15148
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 108 Oct 29 08:08 banned-ips.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 108 Oct 29 08:08 banned-players.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 1082 Oct 29 08:08 bukkit.yml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 15294671 Oct 24 01:06 craftbukkit.jar
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 2576 Oct 27 15:48 help.yml
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 34 Oct 29 08:08 ops.txt
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 0 Oct 27 15:48 permissions.yml
drwxr-xr-x 6 minecraft minecraft 4096 Oct 28 22:21 plugins
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 144027 Oct 29 09:30 server.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 0 Oct 29 08:08 server.log.lck
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 567 Oct 29 08:08 server.properties
-rw-r--r-- 1 minecraft minecraft 0 Oct 27 15:48 white-list.txt
drwxr-xr-x 5 minecraft minecraft 4096 Oct 29 09:33 world
drwxr-xr-x 5 minecraft minecraft 4096 Oct 29 09:33 world_nether
drwxr-xr-x 5 minecraft minecraft 4096 Oct 29 09:33 world_the_end

 

set "gamemode" in "server.properties" to "1"

 

Thanks JamiePhonic. Did so, reset server, but didn't appear to take. How can I check?

 

Setting gamemode in the server.properties only works for people joining the server for the first time. So to set someone to creative mode if they've joined the server before type /gamemode creative playernamehere.

 

Thanks norsac321. Where do I type /gamemode creative playernamehere? In server.properties? From the minecraft client? If the minecraft client, how do I logon as an administrator so I can make such a change?

 

You can do 2 things:
1) Enter: 'gamemode creative playername' inside the console
2) Enter: 'op yourname' inside the console and then enter: '/gamemode creative playername' inside the client

 

Thanks DS1995. I know this is a stupid question, but what is the "console"? How do I open it? I just have a linux shell.

 

if you don't mind players losing the content of their inventory, you can go to the folder where "craftbukkit.jar" is, then into the folder called "world", then the folder called "players" and delete everything in there.
it's the quickest and simplest option, and since your switching to creative, it wont really matter if your players loose the stuff in their inventory.

 

Console is a... console, like DOS-mode
It's also called "Terminal" in UNIX-like systems

You should have visible a console after runing bash file, or if u use server which was bought on some site, then you should have access to console from website

Hmm
http://wiki.bukkit.org/Setting_up_a_server
Linux -> point 8

 

I set up my server basically following https://forums.bukkit.org/threads/tutorial-centos-bukkit-installation.56371/. To start the service, I type "service minecraft start" in the Linux bash shell, it runs in the background, and returns to the bash shell, and doesn't display the console.

Just to see what happens, I stopped the service, and then manually started it using
java -Xmx1024M -jar craftbukkit.jar -o true
as described by your referenced http://wiki.bukkit.org/Setting_up_a_server.

This time, it didn't run in the background, but started the server, and then showed an > prompt. Ah ha, the elusive and fabled shell!


Running the service in the background seems like the best approach, so maybe the question is now "how do I access the console when running the service in the background"?

 

I am not quite familiar with UNIX (lets say than most of time I am spending with Visual Studio, or some games based on DirectX, so all I can do is to give some links

https://forums.bukkit.org/threads/centos-help.65027/
Check this

 

That is using screen to put the process in the background. You should be able to open a shell session and type 'screen -r' to connect to that screen session and get to your console.

When you're done, press CTRL-A, then press D to exit from the screen session without closing it.

 

Thank you Minerva!