Minecraft Club world
Have you ever been thinking that you would like to have a phenomenal Minecraft club at your school or school club? Would you like to start one but don’t know how to do it? And how to even find out who can master Minecraft and at what level? How to motivate kids to work together and identify “group experts”. How to develop their problem-solving strategies and orientation in the environment? How to simply foster their logical thinking and ability to understand interconnections? Yes, we can teach children exactly all this through Minecraft. And that’s why I created a world for my Minecraft Club and I’m happy to share this world with you.
It’s a simple world in which the students have to complete twelve tasks, and if there’s time left over, one bonus task.
This world is designed for multiplayer, the number of players is currently 12 since that’s how many kids are in my club.
So let’s get to it:
The students find themselves in a world where they find a couple of houses, a patch of forest, a river, a mine, and one big wall. In front of that wall are twelve pressure plates. Each student stands on one pressure plate. If all the plates are occupied and pushed, a task appears in front of them, which they have to complete. In the chest, they will find a short verbal description of the task.
The tasks are different, some can be completed independently, others require the cooperation of several students.
List of tasks:
- Find sunflower
- Get the grey wool
- Find sweet berries
- Find the secret room with Chorus flower. The clue is a map with a cross marking where the room is
- Find the iron ore. The student will get a pickaxe
- Get the iron ingot. without the tool. Iron ingot is obtained by smelting iron ore in a furnace. Coal is also needed for this. Since the student does not get a pickaxe, he has to agree with a student who has a pickaxe to get him both, ore and coal. He then uses these in the furnace (which he must find) to produce an iron ingot
- Get the raw cod. The rod from the chest will help
- Get the yellow carpet. The hint is one emerald. The emerald can be used to buy a yellow carpet from a villager.
- Get a cake, starting with some sugar. Students still have to get eggs (they are in one chest in the house), wheat (which grows in the field) and buckets of milk (they have to find a chest with buckets first and then use these to milk the cow to get milk). Then the studen need to use a crafting table and combine all ingrediences to make the cake.
- Get a cooked pork chop. The clue is an emerald. The pork chop can be bought from the butcher
- Get the Nether Star. The student must jump over an obstacle course to get to it.
- Get the Dragon’s Head. The students must push four pressure plates to get to the head chest. But these must stay pressed, so five students must work together to complete this task. Four remain standing on the pressure plates and the fifth one gets the dragon’s head. Let the students to figure this out
Last, bonus task. The labyrinth
There are two platforms in the area, one blue and one white. The students decide who will stand on which one. When the students are divided, use the button in the control center labelled ” Put buttons on the teleport platforms“. This will cause buttons to appear on the platforms to transport the students to the labyrinth. Those students who were on the blue platform will be transported in front of the labyrinth, students from the white platform above the labyrinth. The challenge is to get all the students through the labyrinth. The students who are above the labyrinth have to navigate the students in the labyrinth so that they all get out.
Apart from the time for fun, this game is of course also of educational value. For example, in problems 1, 2, 3, 9, 11 they improve their orientation in the environment. In task 4 they learn to orient themselves using a map. Tasks 5, 7, 10 are aimed at understanding interrelationships. In Tasks 6, 8, 9, 12 and the bonus task, they develop their ability to cooperate with each other, their ability to communicate with each other, their financial literacy and, among other things, they develop problem-solving strategies and logical thinking.
Using this world, you will also easily find out who can and at what level master Minecraft, who is a beginner and who is a “group expert”. A very fun hour at the club, what would you say?
As a teacher or club leader, you’ll need to be in creative mode. This world is done in such a way that all players (even with the teacher) are in adventure mode at the beginning. They can’t destroy anything, only what is allowed.
If someone uses a command to switch to creative mode, they will automatically be put into adventure mode.
In order for a teacher or club leader to switch to creative mode, they must give themselves a tag, “minecraft“.
The area where the game takes place is enclosed by a border. Players can’t get past the border, so you don’t have to worry about them scattering all over the map.
Oh, and if you’re playing on the Education Edition (this world is also available for Bedrock), you have to have the “world builder” ability to get outside the restricted area.
Is that too much for you? Don’t worry, I made a video explaining it all, which you can find at the end of the page. And here’s a list of the commands you’ll need. Type them into the chat, including the forward slash
The command to give you the tag minecraft
/tag @s add minecraftThe command to become “world builder”
/wbThe command to switch to creative mode
/gamemode c @sThis world is available as a world itself or a world template for Minecraft: Education Edition and also for Minecraft Bedrock.
To get to the download page, please follow this link
Video guide to the world
Michael
Hello! I really love these maps and our students have a blast every time I use them. Is it possible to get into creative mode and wb mode on other maps as well the same way as we can in this map? It is really helpful for me as a teacher to set things up before the lesson.