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Screw this, I need my pillars. I partially rebuild big trees in order to reach stray logs. Removing pillaring would make this more of a pain than it all ready is. I also build in the sense of pillaring, some of my towers reaching to cloud level.

Have to agree with this, if you don't like it, DEAL WITH IT.

Also, this is no different than digging a few blocks down and sealing up the hole. In fact, you can fit a bed underground, so logic fail.

This topic seems like a piece of rubbish. Imagine, having to build stairs every time you wanted to get up quickly. It would make buildings infinently more difficult to construct.
Not only that, But how would you even remove the right to pillar?

OP just came and said he didn't like pillaring. Why? It makes the game "too easy" and people can build pillars into the sky and hide. So what if it's too easy? So what if people can build pillars into the sky and hide?

You just came and say you don't like it. Where are the solutions? You could at least list out some solutions to solve this problem. Flying mobs. Unstable towers. Spider's "sight" increase. More spider jockeys. All those can help to prevent people from build pillars into the sky.

Have you thought of what would happen if 1x1 pillars were not allowed? Just ignore the monsters for now. What if you got stuck in a hole and can't get out? What if you call into a cavern and can't get out? I experienced this in a SMP before. I had no blocks. I fell in a hole. I couldn't break anything as I needed permissions to do that. What could I do? I could have been stuck there forever until someone rescues me.

How would you feel if you got stuck, in a 1x1 hole, in singleplayer, and cannot build a pillar up?

If you say this is a "shortcut" or a "trick" to MineCraft, wouldn't the alternating ladders be one too?

I don't want to say the phrase again, but it's true. If you don't want to use the pillar-ing method, just don't use it. People who use it at night has problems as well. They have to wait there for 10 minutes. They can't do anything. They still lose out, even though their "shelter" is easier to make.

I honestly don't care,Someone pillars after pissing me off,Bucket of water!

Nearly all of the cases that I have seen suggested as a possible instance for pillar abuse are cases where there are much more practical and economical solutions.

In regards to shelter at night, if someone has enough time to gather tons of material and construct a massive pillar to survive the night, then they are perfectly capable of taking the time and using the same material to create a genuine shelter. If they wanna burn away the night sitting on a pillar, let 'em. We'll be laughing the following morning when we have nice shelters complete with the comforts of home (workbench, furnace, bed, etc.) and they've got diddly-squat.

In regards to scaling cliffs, every single cliff that is worth climbing has a more manageable side on it that only needs a few blocks of dirt at most -- dirt that you can leave behind for good. In the special case of naturally-made floating islands . . . well, that in itself is horridly more ridiculous and unrealistic than a skinny pile of dirt that is at the very least attached to the ground. If someone wants to scale a cliff with a pillar, let 'em. We'll be laughing when we are happily hopping up and down the steps and they are using up either all of their resources making shovels for quick descent or all of their time using their hands for cheap descent.

Basically, building pillars puts players at a loss of time and resources. The only exception is construction scaffolding, and construction -- not survival -- is what makes up the heart, mind, and soul of minecraft. That is why the peaceful mode is even still available. It's there so people can spend their time creating works of art -- resources for which they still have to hunt down and gather, mind you. I play on peaceful 90% of the time so I can concentrate on not falling into that lava pit as I'm trying to get to that diamond ore. I only switch to normal or hard when I need special resources or when I want to have a bit of fun. That's all the survival mode is for -- to add some fun and flavor -- to add in an adversary who is trying to tear your world apart. You've got to remember that it's a survival mode within a sandbox game -- not a sandbox mode within a survival game.