Minecraft Coding

Unleash your imagination and develop lifelong skills with Minecraft coding for kids. Find out how to conquer cool challenges, build amazing structures, and create your own games within the game you love — all with fun coding!

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What is Minecraft?

Today Minecraft is one of the most popular video games in the world. In the game, players can create and break apart various kinds of blocks in three-dimensional worlds. And they can do it all with their friends! What’s so captivating about Minecraft - beyond that you can choose to play alone or with pals - is that it mixes elements of survival, building, crafting, exploration, and combat. With just your imagination you can transform the world around you, creating cool structures in the block-based creative mode, similar to how you build with LEGOs offline. Plus, things are always changing as you can find and develop plenty of different biomes, where you’ll spot everything from piles of diamonds to shipwrecks with treasure.

Can you learn to code with Minecraft?

Absolutely you can learn to code with Minecraft. It's a great way to take something you already love, and find out how to make the game even better, while picking up a valuable lifelong skill.

How do I start coding in Minecraft?

To start coding in Minecraft, download Minecraft: Education Edition and begin exploring. You can watch YouTube tutorials, try an Hour of Code tutorial, or get live expert guidance online in free Minecraft coding classes to build your coding skills. You can learn how to code battles, structures, and games within Minecraft!

How do you teach kids to code in Minecraft?

You can teach kids to code in Minecraft with online classes. Online classes provide a structured learning environment that guides kids through learning new concepts, and provides hands-on practice. A live expert can also help students learn more quickly with immediate feedback, especially in small group classes.

Join the best Minecraft coding classes

The best Minecraft coding classes equip your child with the most important skills for the future. According to the World Economic Forum, the top skills required for the future are higher order thinking skills such as problem solving and creativity. But, studies show that only 4% of U.S. classroom work requires these skills.

Our Minecraft modding classes introduce students to essential coding knowledge, while also helping them build their problem solving, creativity, and critical thinking skills. Every class includes cool hands-on projects, relatable real-life examples, and lively expert teachers to keep your child on track and having fun. Learn modding, game design, and much more today!

Minecraft Redstone Engineering

Grades 2-5

Build in Minecraft with Redstone, pistons, and observers, and learn engineering

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Minecraft Modding Quest

Grades 3-6

Solve puzzles, build, and create games with fun coding in Minecraft

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Minecraft Code to Mod

Grades 4-8

Learn to code games, stories, and buildings in Minecraft

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Explore Minecraft coding camps

The best Minecraft coding camps delight students while they learn key coding concepts, and how to solve all sorts of puzzles including how to make characters move, take actions, and react to the environment. We offer camps in a variety of formats including four days a week, two days a week, and once per week, throughout the year. Explore summer Minecraft camps, winter break camps, Thanksgiving camps, and more.

Join Free Minecraft Coding Events

Minecraft Coding Intro - TimeTravel! (free event)

Grades 3-6

Does your child love Minecraft? This awesome 1-hour free event will introduce your child to another dimension of Minecraft - Learn Coding!. We will setup Minecraft Education first and then get everyone started on a self-guided tutorial that teaches basics of block coding on Minecraft. Your child will be introduced to Minecraft coding by completing a series of challenges with code to save the future by solving mysterious mishaps in time. For students who enjoy Minecraft or want to learn more advanced coding skills after Scratch coding [https://www.create-learn.us/coding-for-kids/scratch?utm_source=site&utm_campaign=minecraft-quest_0], join our small group Minecraft Coding Quest classes [https://www.create-learn.us/coding-for-kids/minecraft-modding-quest?utm_source=site&utm_campaign=minecraft-redstone_0]with experienced teachers. We will go a lot deeper into Minecraft coding and build fun structures like super long roller coasters or Minecraft mini-games all with code! Learn and have a fun ride! :) Notes - This free event covers the same content each time and will have many students attending unlike our small group classes which include 3-5 students max.

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Minecraft Escape Estate - Hour of Code Event

Grades 2-9

Ready to learn and have fun? Learn and apply your coding power to escape Dr. Breakowski’s mysterious mansion by dawn in this free event. Solve puzzles using computational thinking to unlock secrets, open trap doors, and reveal hidden clues. Check out this trailer video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=100tW_NOjs8] for more. Our teacher will lead the students to solve the puzzles together. If you are new to Create & Learn, check out our most popular free coding classes: * Scratch Ninja [https://www.create-learn.us/coding-for-kids/scratch?utm_source=site&utm_campaign=fair_minecraft-hour-of-code-escape-estate] (grades 2-5) * Accelerated Scratch [https://www.create-learn.us/coding-for-kids/advanced-scratch?utm_source=site&utm_campaign=fair_minecraft-hour-of-code-escape-estate] (grades 6 - 9) * Python for AI [https://www.create-learn.us/coding-for-kids/python?utm_source=site&utm_campaign=fair_minecraft-hour-of-code-escape-estate] (grades 5 - 12) Have fun and learn!

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Create a Minecraft mod and skins

Discover the best Minecraft skin editors. Find out how Minecraft skin editors work, and see 4 fun editors you might enjoy trying. Then follow our tutorial to learn how to mod. Plus see how to make a Minecraft skin to learn how to customize your own character to make the game even more fun!

Check out Minecraft coding projects and resources

Try fun Minecraft tutorials and games. Learn more about Minecraft modding, skin editors, add-ons, texture packs, mobs, and more!

Hour of Code Minecraft activities: We'll guide you step by step through the challenges in the Minecraft demo world: Minecraft AI for Good.
Minecraft Pixel Art Ideas: Learn about creating Minecraft pixel art while exploring some helpful strategies, useful tools, and fun ideas.
Cute Minecraft Castles Project: Explore some useful Minecraft building and engineering skills to help you realize your potential as a Minecraft castle architect and builder.
Panda Mobs: The panda is forward-rolling into Minecraft. It’s a new mob that’s cute, cuddly, fiercely protective of its children and crazy for bamboo.
Buzzy Bees: Each area that bees improve offer countless gameplay opportunities, from sticky surfaces (handy!) to flourishing farms (tasty!). Hives can be harvested for honey, and honey becomes sugar. Find out why bees are so important, based on info from the World Wildlife Fund.

See the latest Minecraft news and updates

Explore bigger mountains, caves, and biomes along with an increased world height and updated terrain generation.

Discover why they gave the warden (coming to Minecraft 1.19) a sense of smell but not a nose, what they almost named it instead, and the most terrifying concept art ever.

Ever wondered how they add your favorite mobs? Discover the process behind making new mobs in Minecraft!