No mob griefing survival keeps the mobs, but removes the collateral damage. Creepers still explode and endermen still exist, yet your builds do not get cratered or quietly dismantled. You lose the cleanup tax without losing the need to fight, gear up, and pay attention.
The tone shifts toward long-term play. Surface builds survive a bad night, public roads and towns stay intact, and people are more willing to live close together because one mistake does not permanently scar the area. Danger is still real, it is just aimed at the player instead of the terrain.
It also nudges progression and redstone. Some mob-based mechanics that depend on block breaking or block pickup will behave differently, and servers sometimes pair this rule with other tweaks to keep balance and difficulty where they want it. If you like survival pressure but hate random explosions undoing hours of work, this format lands cleanly.
No. Mobs still spawn, pathfind, and deal damage. The change is that they cannot modify blocks in the ways that normally destroy or rearrange builds.
Yes. They still explode and can kill you. The difference is the explosion does not break blocks, so your base and terrain stay intact.
They stop picking up and placing blocks, which prevents missing grass, random holes, and slow damage to landscaping over time.
Yes. It protects public areas from accidental mob kiting and makes community infrastructure worth maintaining because it is not constantly being repaired.
It makes villager setups more stable because their beds, workstations, and surrounding blocks are less likely to get blown up or displaced. You still need to stop raids and protect them from being killed.
