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by gilesknap 4y ago
See the Reddit discussion for a video of an MCIWB build. https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraftbuilds/comments/11rqauh/bu...
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by gilesknap 4y ago
I've taken a detailed look at MC EE vs MCIWB and taken some notes here: https://gilesknap.github.io/mciwb/main/user/explanations/mce...
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by gilesknap 4y ago
I've looked into MC EE and MakeCode. Here is my summary of findings https://gilesknap.github.io/mciwb/main/user/explanations/mce...
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by gilesknap 4y ago
Thanks for the link. I did not know about raspberry juice. It does provide a similar capability to MCIWB. It recreates the Education edition python interface which does let you set and get blocks and see when a player hits something. Its a
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by gilesknap 4y ago
Before I started MCIWB I hosted Minecraft servers on my Raspberry Pi during lockdown. My son would meet up with friends on these servers every day. I was impressed how low resource requirements are for the server. We had quite big world&#x2
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by gilesknap 4y ago
Yes, you could absolutely do that. I've even used it to create moving structures that players can get inside and be carried around in.
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by gilesknap 4y ago
Believe it or not I did not know about this. I'm aware of Education Edition but the projects in MakeCode look more sophisticated than I expected. I'm going to take a look into it and come back to you on this question!
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by gilesknap 4y ago
It won't be MCIWB :-) Nobody had heard of it until last week! :-) They may be using Minecraft Education Edition which as come up a few times in the above conversations.
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by gilesknap 4y ago
Well that's a shame because I am pretty sere education edition supports RCON so I could adapt MCIWB to use it. I happen to know that EE commands include the elusive 'GetBlock' that let's you query the contents of the wor
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by gilesknap 4y ago
So this sounds like fun. What kind of interface - operator commands? or something more low level? The operator commands that MCIWB uses are really poor for querying the state of the world - hopefully this API would give us that?
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by gilesknap 4y ago
It looks like this book will be using the education edition of minecraft. It does have a limited python programming interface. My approach uses a remote interface called RCON to send Minecraft operator commands to the world. It can do every
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by gilesknap 4y ago
This sounds quite interesting. I've really only spent much time with Java and although it has a great modding scene it is unofficial and nothing ever works with updated versions (My Python approach is immune to this issue as it uses of
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by gilesknap 4y ago
So we should be good for a while. The RCON interface this uses is always forward compatible with new Java editions. Bedrock also uses RCON but there are subtle differences with the commands available. If Microsoft ever does drop Java Editio
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by gilesknap 4y ago
To be fair. My instruction page is setting up Minecraft, Docker to run a minecraft server in, Python and VSCode. So I have quite a few prerequisites for my Python tutorials and this makes the first page intimidating. However, installing and
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by gilesknap 4y ago
Yes the tutorials are intended to be accessible to a complete novice. I recommend some help from someone with a little experience for the 1st tutorial that discusses installing all the prerequisites. But the rest should be OK for children f
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