Minecraft: Education Edition
First time logins: While your classmates are installing Chrome updates and downloading the software for the first time, please use the time to click on the clothes hangar to select the "skin" or appearance of your avatar.
Select "New World"
Select "New" to create your first world.
You may explore Templates later.
World Name: We will be exporting our world files to save them on Google Drive and share them between devices, so please use an easy-to-identify name.
School, Your Name, Your Project Topic
For Architecture, this can be house style.
For Nature's Habitat, this can be a biome or issue you are studying.
For Engineering, this can be the branch of engineering you are interested in modeling in Minecraft.
For Passion Projects, it can be the focus of your research.
For Mathematics, it can be a game or activity based on math concepts you are exploring.
Select "Creative" to create your first world. You may explore Survival later, which requires you to find resources and combine them to make objects and tools.
Creative allows you to use all the supplies available in the game without mining or harvesting.
Peaceful allows you to concentrate on building and designing rather than struggling to solve problems within the game.
Select "Starting Map" to keep track of your creations and their locations.
Flat World is the simplest setup so the Chromebooks do not struggle to generate and keep track of objects in a larger world.
Select "Show Coordinates" to easily navigate the world.
Friendly fire: off
(No damage to yourself or others due to accidents or fighting.)
Show coordinates: on
(Location in x y z format.)
Fire spreads: off
(Keep this simple--you may want a fire in a contained area, like a fireplace, but you do not want it to spread. You may want to turn it on if your Nature's Habitat project includes forest fire effects.)
TNT: off
(Not destructive. Potentially useful to clear an area in a short period of time if you want space to build.)
Mob loot: off
(No distracting new objects appear from creatures.)
Natural regeneration: on
(Player health renews and repairs.)
Tile drops: on
(New objects created from mining, harvesting, or building.)
Immediate respawn: off.
(When and where your player avatar will reappear if lost.)
Select "Activate Cheats" to use tools like building and movement commands.
Daylight Cycle: Off
(This is the simplest setup so you do not have to cope with creating light sources to work in evenings and nights within the game.)
Mob Spawning: Off
(This allows you to concentrate on creating based on your plans rather than reacting to random appearances of people and animals.)
Mob Griefing: Off
(This allows you to build without random animals and characters damaging your work.)
Entities Drop Loot: Off
(This prevents your work area from being cluttered by objects dropped by creatures or characters.)
Weather Cycle: Off
(The Chromebooks struggle to generate rain and other phenomena and accept your keyboard and coding commands.)
Command Blocks: On
(You will be able to create effects like doors opening and closing, activities starting and stopping, and electrical charges in redstone circuits when certain events happen (pull a level, stand on a pressure plate, etc.).)
Movement (W A D S)
Placing and Breaking Blocks
Use the touch pad on the Chrome keyboard to
break (one finger)
and
place (two fingers)
items from the inventory in your world.
Inventory (E)
Use the number keys (1 through 9 ) on the Chrome keyboard
to select from the inventory strip.
Please include the Map, Portfolio, Camera, Slates, Boards, and Grass Blocks in your inventory strip most of the time.
The Map allows you to make sense of direction and the location of your project areas.
The Portfolio allows you to keep notes about your progress.
The Camera allows you to record successes and new creations.
The Slates and Boards allow you to keep notes and provide information to viewers or other players who may visit your world. Boards and Slates are more versatile than Signs. Once you place a sign, it cannot be edited; it must be destroyed and replaced to create a new message.
Slates and Boards can be locked (visitors cannot change the message) or unlocked (visitors can change the message).
The Grass Block comes in handy until you have the knack of using the Chrome touchpad or mouse buttons to create (two finger tap) and destroy (one finger tap).
Let Me Back Out!
Some students may want to keep tabs open with reference photos of architecture, presentations in progress, how-to tutorials, or research information.
To navigate between multiple windows, press Esc (Escape, upper left on most keyboards) to pause the game space and switch between windows.
To return to your creative space, click the left arrow next to the "Resume Game" message in the upper gray bar of the Minecraft window.
Coordinates
Finding your way around: Minecraft uses three numbers to locate objects within the game.
X = east (+) or west (-)
Y = up (+) or down (-)
Z = south (+) or north (-)
X = east (+) or west (-)
Y = up (+) or down (-)
Z = south (+) or north (-)
This coordinate system can help students when they are coding to create structures or landscapes.
It is also very useful if you get lost or want to use the teleport command to travel from place to place quickly.
/teleport x y z (you must include a space between coordinates)
x (east-west)
y (up-down, the world has layers of bedrock, soil, and grass, so standing on the surface is coordinate +4)
z (south-north)
Compass Rose Coding Tutorial Work Sample
minecraft-compassrose.mkcd | |
File Size: | 1 kb |
File Type: | mkcd |
Exporting and Importing
The ALERT teachers recommend that you export your world file at the end of each day and save the file to your Google Drive. This way, you have a backup copy if your Chromebook is unavailable on a future day.
Video tutorial on exporting to and importing from Google Drive by Mr. Jason Ashley
Select the file, then Manage.
Select Export.
The ALERT teachers recommend keeping a Folder in Drive for Exports.
Each file, even if it has the same name, will have a date and file size so you can identify your most recent changes or go back to an earlier version.
You can now import the world you've created to a different computer or import worlds shared with you.
minecraft_exporting_and_importing.pdf | |
File Size: | 221 kb |
File Type: |
Minecraft Troubleshooting Steps
for the
Day Your Minecraft Won't Start
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Helpful Tutorials in Minecraft Education Edition
and User-Created Lessons
Tutorial World:
Practice a variety of creative and survival world skills
Camera, Portfolio, and Book and Quill
Boards and Slates
Non-Player Characters
Redstone Electricity in Circuits and Devices
redstone-basics.pdf | |
File Size: | 4048 kb |
File Type: |
Coding
Circles in Coding
One of the big challenges in the Architecture unit is creating curved surfaces in Minecraft: