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Mindustry Teams

This course is for intermediate to advanced players only

Work together to survive waves of relentless robots.
Think like an engineer by deconstructing complex problems into their fundamental building blocks.
Learn the fundamentals of resource management and systems thinking.
Organized by Recess

Hosted by 5 expert guides

What you'll do:

Mindustry is a sandbox tower defense game that emphasizes resource management and strategy. Players mine resources, construct buildings, and design production chains to defend against waves of enemy robots. It features multiplayer modes, a map editor, and customizable units, offering a complex and engaging gameplay experience.

Each week you will:

  • Meet up with the same group of kids
  • Tackle exciting challenges that take you from beginner to expert
  • Make friends with a community of kids who share the same interests as you
  • Join weekly events where you can test your skills, make new friends, and learn from others
  • Learn about the map maker and how to design your own challenges and maps

❗Mindustry is a hard game. We highly encourage every kid to play on their own during the week!

Concepts Encountered:

  • Systems Thinking
  • Resource Management
  • Team Dynamics
  • Refactoring
  • Debugging

What you'll need:

  • Make sure to have Steam installed
  • Don't worry about buying the game, we'll gift it to you!

Meet the guides

Expert guides leading this course

Founder of Recess, otherwise pretty chill. Insatiably curious about Physics, Surfing, and Teaching.
Recess Vibe Curator, Mindustry Enthusiast, Former ODP/Youth Soccer Coach and Van Life Newbie with my Wife, Jess and Pup, Akio
Educator, program builder, and former esport athlete. You're probably better than me at Minecraft
Hi! I'm a Honey Heist lover, and I run a Mindustry Girls group. Find me at Waffle House! Thanks to the Recessians for this bio!
Jack of all trades; Mindustry Expert. 13 years of experience in competitive gaming, sports coaching, and education.

Course updates

Updates from guides of this course

2 days ago

Smushed Bananas & Mindustry Challenges 🍌

Today ***** joined the session and told us he was eating macaroni for breakfast. This then led to **** self-reporting that he likes eating mashed bananas and that he is definitely 'not weird'. So who's going to try mashed bananas this week and let us know if its weird or not?

Af...

Nov 20 @ 5:48 PM

How big is this map?! πŸ˜Άβ€πŸŒ«οΈ

Both groups made significant progress in *****'s Halloween Attack map!

*****'s group settled into solid roles! ***** H stepped up as the leader to coordinate them and ensure they were protected. The group fought their way into establishing a second core and has made coordinated ...

Oct 2 @ 4:11 PM

Solar System Pvp! 🌌

Today we took on *****'s latest map creation, a PvP map based on our solar system! Each team got a planet with certain weaknesses and strengths.

Of course we left breakout rooms open so we could make alliances and strategize with other teams. So far it seems some alliances have...

Oct 16 @ 4:11 PM

🌌 In a galaxy far far away...

Three teams are battling it out to the death. Alliances are created and broken, home bases are destroyed, and insane custom scripts are written.

Today gold team made a successful sneak attack on purple destroying their main core. They quickly followed up by breaking their allia...

Sep 25 @ 4:17 PM

🚨 IMMINENT DANGER 🚨

Today we combined both groups and continued on the save with tier 4 units.

We worked on:
- Increasing production of Plastanium, Thorium, Phase Fabric, and Power
- Producing Tier 5 Units
- Destroying enemy defenses
- Defending our cores

I am immensely impressed with our ability...

4 days ago

A Fresh Start 🚀

After both teams failed or came close to failing last week, we decided to restart this challenge from a new perspective:

1. Pausing the game, talking about roles, and preplanning our builds doesn't slow us down, it actually speeds us up and helps us be more organized as a team
2...

Oct 8 @ 1:02 AM

An unexpected turn... πŸ«₯

**** was in a great spot last week. They had a lead on ***** team and even destroyed their front core. Things were looking great for them.... until someone blew up the rear core with a ********* ******. Ok fine, it was me. I blew up my teams core 🀣. Next time someone should help...

Sep 17 @ 1:21 AM

War and Politics

Today we started a PvP match on the most iconic Mindustry map - Space Gardens. This map offers plenty of starting materials, a contested middle territory with oil and magma, and neutral defenses along the outer edges to prevent rushed attacks.

For this match, players are allowe...

Sep 18 @ 4:17 PM

🦈SHARK MODE ACTIVATED🦈

Week 2 of our epic custom attack map went really well! Well, for some of us.

One group is crushing it and tearing down the enemy with tier 4 boats. The other group is vibing and having a great time in their breakout room while holding on for dear life 🀣.

Next week both teams...

Oct 15 @ 1:20 AM

Hanging on by a thread 🧡

Today we continued with the Eviction PvP map! We split into 3 teams of 2 with ***** and ****** taking over *****' setup from last week. Before we started, everyone had 3 minutes to chat with their team and come up with a plan.

After our plans were made the action started immedia...

Nov 19 @ 1:59 AM

Slow and Steady Progress! πŸ“ˆ

Today we continued on our USS Iowa challenge where the winning team will get to pick the next activity for the group.

We kicked it off by having both teams join their breakout rooms and discuss a gameplan for the session. Both teams made significant progress and felt better abo...

Nov 27 @ 5:21 PM

Too many Units! πŸ€–

We picked up with *****'s Halloween map but ran into an issue - *****' group was unable to host the map due to *****+ units being alive. This caused the game to crash upon hosting so they pivoted to an ***** map. During their challenge they had a conflict (wanting to build differ...

Oct 9 @ 4:32 PM

Betrayals, Alliances & Underdogs β˜„οΈ

******* * (****** ****) made a massive google doc analyzing every teams setup along with an action plan for his team. This resulted in the blue team being eliminated at the start of the session because they had a thorium reactor next to their core.

****** **** then destroyed **...

Oct 23 @ 4:46 PM

We're All Underdogs Now 🐢

Another chaotic day in the battle to be the best team in the solar system. Things started off hot with ***** team sending their army of tier 1 - 3 units at ***** teams ***** base. Although ***** lost the majority of their units, the splash damage from their units dying was enough...

Oct 30 @ 4:25 PM

The Final Battle βš”οΈ

Today green team chose to delete their base and succumb to the power of yellow and purple. Purple swiftly took control over the sun and built another core there. Green team decided they all wanted to join yellow. This posed an interesting question - Does having more players on yo...

Oct 1 @ 12:48 AM

Round 2 of PvP βš”οΈ

As requested, today we went with a 3 team PvP map instead of 4.

The one problem with 3 team maps is that an alliance almost always means certain doom for one team. The tides turned against the winner of last week's match as the two other team swiftly united and destroyed team *...

Nov 5 @ 2:07 AM

The Grand Finale and an Exciting New Challenge! πŸ†

Today we finished our Eviction PvP map! ***** and ***** aligned against ***, but *** had a secret alliance with **** that the other teams did not know about. *** and **** attacked ***** at the same time and destroyed all of their cores. They then moved onto ***** and finished the...

$15.00 per week