How to fly in minecraft
Emily Wong
I see a lot of videos where peoples building big building and villages in a time lapse. When I see them, they are flying so they can reach the spot faster. How they do that, is it a Bukkit mod ?
Is it hard to configure the game so I can do the same thing in Multiplayer ? Or my Bukkit server?
35 Answers
It's fairly easy.
There are a number of client-side flymods out there, the most popular being Zombe's Modpack. Just follow the included installation instructions and press F to toggle flying.
As of Beta 1.5, flying is (per default) disabled on vanilla servers. You can reenable it by setting allow-flight=true in server.properties. If you want to allow only certain groups to be able to fly on your server, I highly recommend getting Bukkit plus an anti-cheat plugin like NoCheat.
Creative mode in 1.8 has inbuilt support for flying. It is available by double tapping space.
Reedit: Using these instructions, you can switch a survival map to creative:
- Download NBTedit from here
- Unzip the ZIP file
- Run NBTedit
- Click File -> Open
- Navigate to your save folder
- Open
level.dat - Switch
gamemodeto1 - Save and exit.
In multiplayer, ops can type /gamemode [playername] [1 for creative, 0 for survival]
Edit: This is wrong! There is a /fly command you can use! same controls
If you use "Single Player Commands" you can:
- press "T" to open the Console
- Use the command "/noclip" to allow you to fly around, however you can also "Fly" through blocks,.
Controls for /noclip flying:
WSAD: Move like normal
Shift: Go down
SPACE: Go up.
This isn't really "flying" in the sense that the Original-Poster meant but you are flying!
Edit: This is for Single-Player, not Multiplayer. Hopefully this will help someone who wants to fly in single-player but I don't think it works on multiplayer.
1The WorldEdit plug-in has a feature where if you use the command /jumpto to move to the first available space above a block that you are looking at. This can also be bound to items (usually compasses) for easy access, it also has other ways of getting around such as /ascend and /descend.
2Download plugin Essentials, then type /fly in chat.