Minecraft Modding Software To Teach Kids Coding

Re:Minecraft Modding Software To Teach Kids Coding by _jomo on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:27PM (#8820703)

Are there some technical details?

The news article states that "Students can even create custom blocks and items within Minecraft by importing new textures" which would require a client side modification and can't be done by importing textures. The actual website says that you modify the server which doesn't allow as many modifications.

There are some bigger cuatomizable server mods around already (hMod, bukkit, spigot, glowstone, sponge, ...). Does this use any of these servers and their API?

If so, does this use one of the existing JavaScript plugins or are they using their own wrapper for the server's API?

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Re:Minecraft Modding Software To Teach Kids Coding by 0942v8653 on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:55PM (#8820818)

Minecraft has "resource packs" that change the image and label of items. When the client joins, the server can specify a resource pack for it to download.

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Re:Minecraft Modding Software To Teach Kids Coding by _jomo on Thursday January 01, 2015 @05:10PM (#8824530)

Exactly. You can change items labels and looks but you cannot "create" items.

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Re:Minecraft Modding Software To Teach Kids Coding by walterh on Wednesday December 31, 2014 @02:53PM (#8820805)

As far as I know they are using ScriptCraft which is a Mod for CraftBukkit and CanaryMod which lets you create mods in Javascript. [disclosure: I maintain ScriptCraft] https://github.com/walterhiggins/ScriptCraft/

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Re:Minecraft Modding Software To Teach Kids Coding by _jomo on Thursday January 01, 2015 @05:52PM (#8824644)

Hmm, I find $120/year (after official release) quite a high price for what seems to be different open source software and a 4 slot server packed together.

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