edit: ops can remove water and lava
is there some cheat or something on that server that lets you build things differently? how are you guys doing these things? are there some guides or something about this??
how do you build the really tall pillars? do you just stand on top and keep building up while trying not to fall off? what if you fall off??
how do you build the 3d stuff that is like floating? do you have to build "up" and then destroy whats underneath it?
yeah the ops have powers like noclip but we're building all this stuff by hand. tall pillars are made by jumping and placing a block under your feet, and it's not that difficult. the difficult part is extending things outward into space without having any block to use as an anchor besides the one you're standing on. I assume that's how smelly makes the mcdonalds arches, tho he could also use multiple pillars. if you fall off you have to build another pillar unless you happened to save your respawn point at the top. you're right about the floating things, tho whenever I make something floating I just make one pillar and then extend it outwards and build on top of that. it's a lot easier for the ops, who don't have to worry about falling off and can extend otherwise perilous platforms outward at a much faster rate.
if you don't have noclip you just gotta be a little inventive. if it seems complex it's only because you're not playing, once you're in the game and building it's pretty simple figuring out what you gotta do to make something
looking at the devblog it seems like minecraft's gonna be a lot neater in beta, assuming he doesn't make crafting and mining standard on every map and server. the torches and improved lighting would have made my catacombs so much better