Detecting Death
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Today you focused on looking at the current bugs for the shielder mob for your custom mobs datapack. The two main bugs were: multiple Shielder entities stealing each other's pigs, and the pig sticking around as a leftover after the skelet...

A Rather Smashing Kit
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We picked up from last time, where we were working on completing the Smasher kit — a new player class for the Kit PVP minigame. Today, we finished setting up the items the player spawns with, which involved setting up the correct da...

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This session was all about getting the jigsaw block system properly wired up inside the Jungle Temple data pack. The goal: make each color-coded room (blue, cyan, orange, green, yellow, and oak) ...

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Side Project
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Instead of continuing on the food project, you decided to swap projects for a tiny bit.  Instead, you spent today designing and beginning to code a brand-new kit for the server's Kit PVP mini-game.

The first order of business was an invite...

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After thinking the last couple of weeks on what to work on next, you decided that you wanted to keep working on small improvements to the minigame hub.

You helped me see some bugs and strange behaviors, and I had you create the *****...

Secret Pathways and Mace Mushrooms
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We picked up this class on your custom Minecraft puzzle map.  To start, we tested out the sprint part from last week.  After making a couple balance changes, we think it's at the right difficulty.  After that, you focus...

Cloning and Jigsaw Start

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This session was all about expanding the foundation of a procedurally generated jungle temple in Minecraft.  We started out by setting up a clone command system so that a single "template" set of rooms automatically copies it...

Game Systems Complete!
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In today's class we focused primarily on the "Bounty" credit system, that allows players to steal 50% of the credits of the enemies they defeat.  We picked up from last time, looking over the systems.

The main goal was fixing a bu...

Prepping the Pestle
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This class was all about building and connecting a custom 3D item model for the pestle part of your datapack. After recreating the pestle model in Blockbench, you created a texture, and item definition file.  These are absolutely neces...

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GitHub Tools and Text Displaying
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Today's class focused on two main areas.

The first part was a tour of GitHub tools: issues, assignees, releases, and actions.  The goal was to understand how developers organize and track work on a real project.  We won't u...

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This class was all about building out the puzzle level we started last time. We finished the rest of the Big Mushroom section, and then worked on adding a new ************.  This can be combined with the other items to give you speed and a ...

Blocking out the Structure

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This class was all about planning and prototyping the procedurally generated junlge temple structure.  Our goal was to make it look different every time it spawns in the world.

To get started, you mapped out a couple of yo...

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Maps and Systems

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Today's session focused on building out the Convenience Store Simulator (CSS), a custom Minecraft data pack where players farm items, serve customers, earn money, and level up. We worked through the core progression system that will make...

Descriptive Detectives
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Today the focus was on the Minecraft Java mini-game server project,  specifically fixing map descriptions so they display correctly in the player menu, and exploring GitHub Issues as a tool for tracking bugs and planned improvements....

Scaling Up Skills
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This was *****'s first game design session, and we jumped straight into building an original puzzle map on the Minigame server. The central mechanic: a size-changing mushroom item, powered by command blocks, that shrinks or grows the pl...

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No Description Provided
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We tackled a technical but important feature: adding map descriptions to the parkour level editor. We worked through how to store and display descriptions for each map, ran into some tricky bugs with data formatting and macros, an...

Upgrading Your Toolbox

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We wrapped up the Spear Smith kit from last session and decided to shift focus to setting up some new tools for your TBB datapack. ******** set up a void world specifically for displaying and refining structures cleanly, then c...

Game Objective Installed
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Today, you made major progress on the bomb mechanics for the game. We finished the TNT timer countdown display, set up two team cores (blue and red) that can take damage, and built the win/loss system.

When a bomb explodes near...

Mortar Filling

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To start out, we worked through editing NBT data to control TNT explosion power and fuse time for the TNT explosion that happens when you click on a mortar with TNT.

We tackled adding an interactive inventory system to your custom mortar...

The Stress Lounge

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Today, you continued building out the Store Simulator game, focusing on the farming and progression systems. The big idea: players will buy seeds from a shop, grow different crops in a relaxation lounge area, and sell them to customers...

Descriptive Descriptions

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We tackled adding map descriptions to the parkour system, a feature you've wanted for a while. We started by cloning the minigame hub code into ** ** so we could work more efficiently. Then we dove into the parkour data structure...

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We made solid progress on the food datapack today, focusing on the mortar crafting. You created a shaped recipe using cobblestone, cobbled deepslate, or blackstone arranged in a bowl pattern.  We copied the same components from the loot table so that the...

Employee of the Month

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We returned to your grocery store mini-game in the Recess Minigame Hub. The core gameplay will be where players work as employees stocking shelves.  Your idea today was to add a fun twist: an incompetent coworker named ***** (pronou...

First Gadget Complete!

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To start out, you finished building your first working gadget: the Boots of Speed.  To do this, you had to make sure it was fully functional in the gadget shop.  You had to make sure players were charged coins once, and got the co...

The Recess Minigame Hub Datapack Github
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We started by testing your completed Jungle Temple puzzle. The dropper, snowball targets, and powder snow sections all worked smoothly, and the trap door reset is now automated with command blocks.
 
We also br...

Making Breaking... Break

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We focused on making the mortar drop itself correctly when broken, instead of just a skeleton spawn egg.  We opened up the loot table generator and carefully built the item data, including the item model and adding entity data f...

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********************, you picked the next project to work on, which is a store management minigame for the Minigame Hub!

To get started on it, we found a spot in the world (**** blocks away from spawn) to build up the store.  The first...

Expanding the Shops

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Today we focused on building out the gadget shop system for the Recess minigame hub. We worked through how to set up purchasable items, create advancements to track ownership, and connect everything so players can buy hats with the pr...

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Destroying the Mortar

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Last time you worked on placing the Mortar. This time, you tore it down. Well, rather you built the code necessary to destroy the Mortar. You started out with a simple kill command, and now, it also removes the interaction entity...

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After completing the crossword last week, you noticed a pretty important bug to fix: the map doesn't get reset between players. Because of that, it would be possible for one player to solve it, and al...

Testing Out CTF

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You started out today's class by helping me test the new Capture the Flag gamemode on the Recess Minigame Hub. Thanks for the help! I know it's a gamemode you've been wanting for a while, and I can't wait to see all the levels you create ...

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Gamemode Ideas

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After talking about the games you've been playing lately we got back to work on Anvil Royale. To start, you fixed a bug in the shop that prevented the player from buying heavy anvils. (Although with how strong they still are, maybe that w...

Fixing the Placement

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After getting the placement of the mortar started last time, we spent today improving on how it will work.

The first thing you noticed was that when you place the mortar, it behaves funny on certain blocks. For example, if it's p...