IS THERE AN EASY WAY TO REPLICATE MY SCHOOL IN MINECRAFT (1-1 SCALE)?
Hello,
I have been tasked with building my school in Minecraft with students for next month and I am planning out how best to tackle this huge project.
Does anyone have any ideas or tips? I have seen a few videos on how to convert from google maps to Minecraft worlds but not sure if we are able to do that in the education version.
Any advice or comments are welcome and wanted.
Thank you in advance for your support and time.
Kind regards,
- Richard.
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Easy? Not sure about easy. :-)
But it will be hard fun!
I would think about using Amulet to sculpt the build outside of Minecraft itself and then go back in for fine tuning. There are some wonderful wizards who regularly use Amulet or WorldEdit for these types of tasks, and they do lurk on these boards.
Meanwhile: https://www.amuletmc.com/
Stephen Reid, any wizardly recommendations?
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What I've found with working on large collaborative builds like this:
1. Planning is key. Find a school floor plan. Decide on a point where the building will start from. Starting with laying the foundation will help determine scale and errors in terms of setup will be caught early.
2. Students may like to form teams to build specific rooms. I tend to keep it informal, but you may want to consider forming specific build teams to focus on specific sections.
3. In collaborative projects I tend to avoid encouraging the use of shortcuts (like /fill commands etc) unless we've exported the world prior to using them. Fill commands are great for quickly building, but errors can set you back quite a lot if you overwrite things (and there's no "undo" in Minecraft).
4. Technique tips: Build double thick walls. This allows one texture on the outside and a different one on the inside. Plan in for a one block layer of crawl space between floors. If you have advanced builders both these techniques will allow for convenient spaces for redstone circuits, such as lighting that can be turned on or off with a switch.
I while ago, I build my old primary school as an experiment. You can see the results here... might be helpful for ideas. Feel free to reach out if you'd like to pick my brain further.
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Great advice and work, Dan Noble!
I would also recommend having students simply jump into a flat world and test out what's possible and what's needed to make a new draft. Learn by doing is powerful!
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