My kids are home from school and they have expressed interest in learning to program. So i’ve decided to try to introduce them to that world, in a hopefully much more entertaining way than starting with theory.
It turns out the Bedrock edition of Microsoft can be modded using JSON and Javascript. This is a great way of easing into programming. There was so much we could do and quickly by just modifying JSON files. I started a several week streaming series on making addons with Minecraft.
Archive
Introduction to the Series
Short intro to the series
Part 1 - Intro to Behaviour Packs
We introduce types, JSON, and behavior packs in this episode
Part 2 - Intro to Resource Packs
We introduce resource packs, creating items, entities, and modifying player attributes based on equipped items
Part 3 - Building Custom Models and Animations
This week we’ll look at building our own custom model, animating it, and configuring it’s spawn rules, loot table, and behavior to introduce or own entity into the game.
Part 4 - Project Setup and Intro to Client and Server Side Scripts
This week we’ll move on to project and environment setup, and the JavaScript programming language and developing client and server side scripts to introduce new functionality into the game.
Part 5 - Server Side Scripts Continued
This week we dive a bit deeper into server side scripts and try to make sense of the limited API documentation.