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Hello, fellow teachers.

Greetings from South Korea.

 

I'm currently working on building my contents teaching python with M:EE.

I've got several books about teaching python with Minecraft Java but it seems there is no book teaching python with Minecraft Education Edition.

 

So I'm trying to follow what one of the book with Java says, but it doesn't work and says 

SyntaxError: invalid syntax

ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'mcpi'

 

My question is as follows.

 

"Doesn't mcpi work at Minecraft Education Edition?"

 

 

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the code I tried to commit was as follows.

 

from mcpi.minecraft import Minecraft
 
mc= Minecraft.create()
#1. 플레이어 위치 파악하기
player_id = mc.getPlayerEntityId('gasbugs')
pos=mc.entity.getTilePos(player_id)
 
block=2
 
#2. 플레이어의 위치에서 x로 5만큼 이동한 지점에 건설 좌표 설정
pos.x += 5
 
#3. 좌표로 설정된 부분으로부터 x로 1만큼씩 10번 이동하면 블록 배치
for i in range(10):
    mc.setBlock(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, block)
    print(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z)
    pos.x += 1
 
#4. z로 1만큼씩 10번 이동하여 블록 배치
for i in range(10):
    mc.setBlock(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, block)
    print(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z)
    pos.z += 1
 
#5. x로 -1만큼씩 10번 이동하여 블록 배치
for i in range(10):
    mc.setBlock(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, block)
    print(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z)
    pos.x -=1
 
#6. z로 -1만큼씩 10번 이동하며 블록 배치
for i in range(10):
    mc.setBlock(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z, block)
    print(pos.x, pos.y, pos.z)
    pos.z -=1
 

 

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  • Debbie Alexander
    Moderator Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    Hello! I am very happy to meet another educator who is also teaching student Python in Minecraft! (Since this is a coding question, I will move this to the Coding with Minecraft area of the community, where it may get attention from folks who know a bit about this.)

    I have not tried to use mcpi in Minecraft, but I will look into it. =] Is "gasbugs" the name of the player, and you are trying to get info on the player?

    I am unaware of any print capability in Minecraft EDU, but I will look around. I use the say command. You used this command: pos.x += 5  For commands like this one, I usually am using the tilde character, or the from_me() function.

    This gives you the very basics of where I start: http://tech.grandmadeb.com/index.php/2021/07/31/minecraft-education-notebooks-intro-posts/

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  • Bob Irving

    I've taught Python coding in Minecraft using mcpi, and it does not work with M:EE. I don't know the technical reasons or details but the API used in Python in M:EE with MakeCode is different. And the Python API in Jupyter Notebooks is different from the one in MakeCode.

    I am still a huge fan of the mcpi API, but the only way I know to use it is to either use Java Edition, which requires a Minecraft license and running a local server, OR run it on the Raspberry Pi, which does not require a license or a server. But it does require having and running Raspberry Pi's!

    The "bible" for this is the book Adventures in Minecraft by O'Hanlon and Whale. I love that book! But as far as I know, there isn't a way to incorporate that into M:EE, which is based on Bedrock code base. I would happily stand corrected if someone knows of a way to do this!

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  • Debbie Alexander
    Moderator Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    This is my best attempt to recreate what you are doing in Python Notebooks. Usually, the agent moves left or right, forward or backward, rather than on the cartesian coordinates. I don't believe I can overwrite location data. I believe it is a tuple, and immutable.

    my_spot = player.position       # this function returns coordinates of my location
    say(my_spot)
    agent_spot = from_me(0,5,0) # Give the agent a spot 5 blocks away
    say(agent_spot)
    agent.teleport(agent_spot)     # Set the agent up to place some blocks
    agent.give("grass",64,1)
    for index in range (1,10):        # Attempt to place blocks in different locations by changing agent data
        agent.place(1,"down")
        say(agent.position)
        say(agent.position.x) # this works
        pos_x = agent.position.x + 1.0
        say(pos_x)
        say("tried")
        agent.position.x = pos_x # this doesn't work
        say("*new*")
        say(agent.position.x) # no chane - I don't think it is addressable
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  • Debbie Alexander
    Moderator Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    Okay, yippee! I am making a new post because I don't want to be confusing. The previous code does not work because locations are tuples, and immutable. You cannot assign a new value to the x,y, or z component.

    So I figured a workaround. Forgive all of the "debug" say commands. They are (obviously) unnecessary to the execution, but they make it easier to follow along.

    my_spot = player.position       # this function returns coordinates of my location
    say(my_spot)
    agent_spot = from_me(5,0,0) # Give the agent a spot 5 blocks away
    say(agent_spot)
    agent.teleport(agent_spot)     # Set the agent up to place some blocks
    agent.give("grass",64,1)
    for index in range (1,10):        # Attempt to place blocks in different locations by changing agent data
        agent.place(1,"left")
        say("Agent position now is:")
        say(agent.position)
        say(agent.position.x) # this works
        pos_x = agent.position.x + 1.0
        say("new x")
        say(pos_x)
        pos_y = agent.position.y
        pos_z = agent.position.z
        agent.teleport((pos_x,pos_y,pos_z))
        say("Did agent move?")
        say(agent.position)
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  • Bob Irving

    That's mighty impressive, Debbie!

    My only complaint about the Python notebooks is the inability to save your code.

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  • Debbie Alexander
    Moderator Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    Well, I do wish I didn't have to keep up the copy pasta... At least now I can save from the Mac window. When I first started, I couldn't and that took some serious work-arounds!

    And thanks. (blushes!) I was happy to have a class cancelled today and have a bit of time for fun!

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  • Rodrigo González

    Have you finally succeeded in using mcpi with Minecraft Education Edition? 

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  • Debbie Alexander
    Moderator Beacon of Knowledge Super Star

    Rodrigo González - if you read the thread carefully, you will see that Bob Irving replied in the third comment that mcpi does not work in MC:EE - so no, it won't succeed. Please take the time to engage and be a part of the conversation. We'd love to join in with you, but you need to do your part, too, and read up! =]

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  • Rodrigo González

    Sorry I didn't express myself right. What I meant is that probaly you can install mods and plugins in Minecraft Education Edition as well?. Would it be possible to hack Minecraft EE to install forge and raspberry juice? This would open a gate to allow working with mcpi

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  • Bob Irving

    I'm sorry that won't work, Rodrigo. the mcpi API is written to worth with Java Minecraft. And M:EE is Bedrock. The code bases are different. Java MC uses Java(!), and Bedrock uses C++. So mods and plugins that work on the Java edition don't work on Bedrock.

    Sad but that's the way it is.

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  • Rodrigo González

    Thanks! Funny that two versions of the same game are coded in different programming languages!

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  • seungsuk cho

    I am too looking for this info in order to figure out if there's a way that I can use all the functions from MakeCode with M:EE.

    For example, there is a specific mob related function in MakeCode such as below :

      https://minecraft.makecode.com/reference/mobs/on-mob-killed

    I assume that mcpi won't provide such preset functions which I am going to need in mcpi+Raspberry Pi environment to make a game. 

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