Session 1: Get Started With Python and Minecraft

Session 1.1 Setup your Python-minecraft programming Environment

1. What python could do with Minecraft game

• A different way to play Minecraft
• Let Python do the boring tasks for you
• Change the Minecraft world by put or clear blocks
• Find the location resource underground
• Build small game in the Minecraft

2. Setup Minecraft Client and Server

2.1 Install Minecraft Java edition Client

Go to minecraft website download the Java Edition

• Link to download Minecraft java edition

2.2 Setup Minecraft Server

• Install Minecraft Server:
  • Download Java and install it. (link to download Java)
  • Download the spigot minecraft server and unzip it.
  • Run it by double click the “StartMineCraftServer.bat” file.
• To understand how it works

  • How to setup a minecraft server (spigot)

  • How to enable Python on the Minecraft server by installing the RaspberryJuice plugin

• Connect to your server
  • How to connect to your server

3. Install Python and mcpi-e Modules

• Install Python
  • Go to Python download page, download and install Python 3.8 and up
  • How to Install Python
• Install Python-Minecraft API module mcpi-e

  • Window

    input below script in the command line. (from start, search “cmd”)

    • use pip3

    pip3 install mcpi-e
    

    • or use py or python -m

    py -m pip install mcpi-e
    

  • Linux / MacOS

    • sudo pip3 install mcpi-e

• Install a Python Editor

  • Python IDLE
    • IDLE is commine with Python, Open it by in Start->Search, Input “IDLE”
    • For how to use IDLE
  • PyCharm
    • PyCharm Edu is a python editor help you learn Python
    • Click to download pyCharm Edu
  • VsCode
    • VsCode is a editor for many different programming langurage.
    • Click to download VsCode
    • How to install VsCode for python

4. Run your first python code in Minecraft world

Create a Python project folder, Download and save the sample1.py file to your python project folder

sample1.py

from mcpi_e.minecraft import Minecraft

serverAddress="127.0.0.1" # change to your minecraft server
pythonApiPort=4711 #default port for RaspberryJuice plugin is 4711, it could be changed in plugins\RaspberryJuice\config.yml
playerName="stoneskin" # change to your username

mc = Minecraft.create(serverAddress,pythonApiPort,playerName)
pos = mc.player.getPos()

print("pos: x:{},y:{},z:{}".format(pos.x,pos.y,pos.z))

Use your favorite python editor to open the sample1.py file. When you install python, it come with a python editor call IDLE.