Two ways to play

A castle by dinner, or a mate who chops the wood.

Some days you want the whole town standing there by the time you have finished your toast. Other days you want someone next to you in the trees, playing by the same rules you are. Cog does both. You pick.

The same build, both ways: placed outright on the left, gathered block by block on the right.

Creative

Ask for it, watch it appear

In creative they place blocks straight down — no gathering, no crafting, no walk there first. This is the mode for the big swing: a canyon with a waterfall down it, a town with streets between the houses, a rocket on its launch pad, a pirate galleon ninety-six blocks long. The finished thing is the point, not the weekend it would have cost you.

A 92-part ferris wheel built this way landed all 92 parts, with every gondola sitting exactly the same distance from the hub and every rim gap under a block wide. Flip the lever and it turns. A walk-in SpongeBob house came back at 24,688 blocks out of 24,688, and it went up in three seconds.

Survival

A mate who plays by your rules

In survival they gather, crafts, mines and fights the way you do. Cog walks there on their own two feet rather than teleporting. Cog chops the tree before they have the wood. Cog checks the pickaxe suits the ore instead of destroying the block trying.

This is the mode for having company. Send them on a full errand — gather, walk, deposit, nobody watching — and they have come home with it 8 times out of 8. Slower, and better for it: you actually played the game, you just did not do all of it yourself.

Why the survival score is honest

Breaking a block is not the same as keeping it

In Minecraft, breaking a block drops an item on the ground. It does not fly into your bag. Stand a few blocks back while you dig and you can break every block perfectly and walk away with an empty inventory. So every survival skill is scored on what actually ended up in the bag, not on whether the digging looked right. Read Digging is not mining.

A mining trip, end to end

What survival looks like underground

Send them for iron and they cut a staircase down rather than dropping into the dark, lighting it behind them as they go so nothing follows them up it. Cog mines, picks up what actually fell out, and walks home the way they came. The round trip takes a few minutes, most of it spent going down and coming back — which is exactly how long it takes you, and exactly why you sent someone else.

Choosing

Which one to reach for

Pick creative when

You want the finished thing today — a canyon, a keep, a working ferris wheel, a whole town laid out in one sitting — and a materials run is not the part you came for.

Pick survival when

You want company in your actual save — gathering, farming, watching your back, running errands — under the same rules the rest of your world already plays by.

More on how each mode is checked

Verification — how they measure a build once it is up.
Capabilities — the survival skills, and what you can ask for.
Digging is not mining — why pickup range decides the score.

Be in the first worlds.

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