Minecraft

Beginner

30 mins

Teacher/Student led

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+160 XP

What you need:
Chromebook/Laptop/PC
Minecraft Education Edition

Super Jump

Create a command to teleport super high into the air. Learn how you can pass a number into a command to change how it works.

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1 Open Minecraft
2 Create a command
3 Run the "jump" command
4 Specify how high
5 Run the "jump" command again
6 Specify north or south
7 Run the "jump" command again
8 Challenge
Quiz

1 - Open Minecraft

In this project we are going to learn how to create a command to make your player teleport super high in the air.

First, open Minecraft Education Edition, login, create a new world and open the Code Builder.

Minecraft: Create a new coding project

To create a new Minecraft coding project you will need to follow these steps:

Open Minecraft Education Edition on your device.
Login using your Minecraft account.
Click "Create New".
Click "New".
Choose the "Creative" option for the setting "Default Game Mode".
Click "Play" (your new world will take a few seconds to be created).
Open the Code Builder (the tool we use for creating code in Minecraft) by pressing the C button on your keyboard.
Click on the "New Project" button, give your project a name and then click on the "Create" button.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

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2 - Create a command

Add a on chat command block and rename it it to "jump". Then add a teleport to block and set the y (up) value of the position block to be 100.

player.onChat("jump", function () {
    player.teleport(pos(0, 100, 0))
})

When this code runs it will teleport your player 100 blocks above your current position.

Minecraft: Position

A position represents a location in the Minecraft world. Positions are used in many blocks and commands to spawn mobs, fill blocks and more.

A position is represented by 3 numbers, x, y, and z:

x: East (positive, +x) or West (negative, -x), also known as longitude in the real world
y: up (positive, +y) or down (negative, -y), altitude or elevation
z: South (positive, +z) or North (negative, -z), also known as latitude in the real world

The numbers for x, y, and z are the coordinates (a coordinate is also known as a direction or an axis) of the position.

There are two kinds of positions: a relative position and a world position.

👇 Mark your steps as done as you complete them.

+25 XP

3 - Run the "jump" command

Go to your Minecraft world and run the jump command. You will see that your player gets teleported high into the sky.

Minecraft: How to run a command

To run a Minecraft command follow these steps:

Go into your Minecraft world (close the code editor).
Type t to open up the chat.
Type in the name of your command, for example "jump".
Press enter or press the chat button. Your command and the code inside it will be run.

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4 - Specify how high

Next let's change our "jump" command so that we can specify how high to jump. We will pass a number into the command and use that number to set the y (up) value in the teleport block.

Open the Code Editor and click the + button on your "jump" command. This will create a new variable called "num1". Then get the num1 block from the Variables toolbox and put it into the y value in the position block.

player.onChat("jump", function (num1) {
    player.teleport(pos(0, num1, 0))
})

+20 XP

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