1. When looking straight down and break the blocks within your reach, in creative you break 4 blocks, and in survival you brake 3 blocks
2. when standing on a 3 block high tower and looking down, in creative will the ground block show an outline, in survival it will not.
Environment
Operating system: Windows 10 Home
Java version: the one included by minecraft itself
Ram: 4G (2G dedicated to java)
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However, this issue is Working as Intended.
You are meant to have a larger maximum reach distane in Creative mode, so you can build easier. As far as I know, it has been this way since Creative mode has been introduced in 2011.
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