What am I doing wrong?
So I've some experience of block coding and have a relatively good understanding of how Minecraft works. Now looking at bringing this coding into the classroom, but the agent seems really buggy. (I've ran the same code more than once, without changing and had different results thrice!).
I've tried dozens of variations on trying to get him to build a simple 4 sided structure and I'm now as the stage where I'm thinking it's not worth the effort.
These are my latest attempts, the complicated workaround for moving him back into the position to build each new section, was the only one I could get to work. A simple turn right, move forward, place block caused all sorts of issues. Various images of failure attached. I'm concerned that if I can't get it to work, my year 6 students stand no chance. I need it explaining logically to me why none of these variations work.
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nice script btw
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That's really useful and has opened my eyes to commands I'd not used before, thank you so much for your reply Ryan. This seems much more robust than the first code I tried, however, I still don't see a reason why the initial code shouldn't have worked, and it certainly shouldn't deliver different results when it's ran. The only tweak I made to the suggested code is to have him side step to the left when he's in his last block place, so that he's back over the first block and added a number of loops to ensure that the walls build higher and higher. Attached code if anyone else wants to replicate. Also attached an image of the result with a very happy looking agent. Would've placed the last block but I ended the code as it was getting too high!
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Hello. How far have your students gotten with this project?
I am starting a new group, one hour a week. I had much the same idea. And encountered much the same problem. So I am looking for a chance to workshop my ideas before the kids get too far into my lesson sequence..
I want students to do a coding tutorial (I thought that the 'hour of code' started well, and I have checked out a couple of the 'coding' worlds in the library), and then use the agent in survival mode to collect resources and build a city.
I thought the focus would be 'engineering' roughly based in the D&T and C&CT curricula (Aus. Curric, as I am in the NT, although I found the Victorian equivalent better set out last I checked). So students would be making 'blueprints':
And then coding the Agent to build them. This is my third blueprint- it needed to be simpler and more iterative than I had imagined. After much debugging:
(I built these layers from the bottom up- you can sort of see the progression)
I made some code that can set up one layer almost according to plan (I have been using 'place block down' rather than 'place on move').
My next problem is making it work in survival, with limited blocks in the Agent.
I built this by repeatedly entering the code for a single layer. With another code, I am moving items about in the Agent inventory so that it can repeat. You can see where different blocks have run out. After two layers I have to manually reload the agent.
I need to know what the limits of the Agent are in survival mode- it seems to be able to manifest new blocks using some commands, which kind of ruins the supply and demand dynamic I had imagined.
I also need to find a meta-command so that the agent can initiate new sub-programs. I'm sure this is possible in python, but can I do it using the minecraft blocks?
Lou.
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