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Not to be confused with Minecraft Education.
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This page describes an edition of the game that has been officially discontinued. 
Development and support for MinecraftEdu has stopped.

MinecraftEdu is a sandbox indie educational video game written in Java, developed by TeacherGaming, published by E-Line Media, and licensed by Mojang Studios.[2] It was meant as an educational version of Minecraft.

In the beginning, MinecraftEdu was developed by TeacherGaming, consisting of three developers and three teachers, located in the United States and Finland. Later, TeacherGaming expanded into a team of eight.

MinecraftEdu focuses on allowing the player to explore, interact with, and modify a dynamically-generated map made of one-cubic-meter-sized blocks. In doing so the student with the help of the teacher is supposed to learn a variety of subjects. The teacher can change settings to define where students can place and destroy blocks and the world used on the server.

On January 19, 2016, Mojang announced that they would be acquiring MinecraftEdu from TeacherGaming. At the same time, a new educational version of the game was announced: Minecraft Education has since launched to schools around the world.[3]

Purchase and availability[]

MinecraftEdu could be purchased for US$18 per student (24 or less) or US$14 (25 or more) for the User license and US$41 for the server license. The server license could be bought as a one-time purchase. Once purchased, the game could be played by downloading the launcher. MinecraftEdu Hosting Beta was also available for US$20/month and did not require the user to pay the server software license again.

Hardware requirements[]

According to http://minecraftedu.com/faq#question_2-13 and https://help.mojang.com/customer/portal/articles/325948-minecraft-system-requirements:

Minimum Requirements:

  • A Windows, macOS, or Linux computer (desktop or laptop)
  • 2 GB of RAM or greater
  • Intel Pentium D, AMD Athlon or greater processor
  • 200MB free hard disk space or more
  • Java 6 Release 45 or later (including Java 7 and 8)

Recommended Requirements:

  • CPU: Intel Core i3 or AMD Athlon II (K10) 2.8 GHz
  • RAM: 4 GB
  • GPU: GeForce 2xx Series or AMD Radeon HD 5xxx Series (Excluding Integrated Chipsets) with OpenGL 3.3
  • HDD: 1 GB
  • Latest release of Java 8 from java.com

Software Requirements:

  • Minecraft Release 1.6 or newer. Older versions must be updated to current versions
  • Please note that some users experience issues playing Minecraft while using a mismatched version of Java for their operating system (32-bit or 64-bit), while using certain versions of Java 7, or while multiple versions of Java are installed.

Discontinuation[]

As of April 5, 2016, MinecraftEdu is no longer for sale. However, customers that have already purchased MinecraftEdu licenses may continue to use MinecraftEdu. Since then, MinecraftEdu no longer receives new updates from TeacherGaming, and Mojang no longer supports MinecraftEdu. Worlds built in MinecraftEdu cannot be ported over to Education Edition.[4]

Gameplay[]

The objective of the game remains the same as regular Minecraft, where players can build virtual realities in a sandbox-like environment. However, MinecraftEdu also has the goal of an educational use to teach a variety of subjects.

Features[]

MinecraftEdu differs from the regular version in a variety of ways, such as a tutorial mode, teacher options and exclusive Blocks/items.

Blocks / Items[]

MinecraftEdu inGame

MinecraftEdu Blocks

These IDs are in the namespaced ID format, with their mcedu namespace omitted.

Blocks[5]
Block Note Namespaced ID
Information block Information block When right clicked, it opens a menu with text that a teacher can write. blockDialogMessage
Spawn Block Spawn Block Defines the spawn of the world when placed by teacher. The last spawn block placed determines the spawn. blockSpawnMP
Border block Border block Used to define the area students can play in. Students cannot go over, under, or through it. blockBorder
Build allow block Build allow block Allows students to build above the block even if the world is set to disallow building. blockBuildAllow
Build disallow block Build disallow block Disallows students to build above the block even if the world is set to allow building. blockBuildDisallow
Oak Sign JE1 BE1 Big sign A three block wide sign. When a sign is placed, it gives the player a choice if they would like a small or big sign.
Information sign Information sign Decorative. Used to draw students' attention to important things. blockInfoSign
Foundation block Foundation block Measures distance to other foundation blocks. blockFoundation
Teleport block Teleport Block Used to teleport large distances to the location you set in the world. blockTeleport
Home Block Home Block Used to teleport players to their home. blockHome
Blocks for decoration
Main article: Number Block
Block Namespaced ID
MCEdu Number 0 Number 0 edunumber_0
MCEdu Number 1 Number 1 edunumber_1
MCEdu Number 2 Number 2 edunumber_2
MCEdu Number 3 Number 3 edunumber_3
MCEdu Number 4 Number 4 edunumber_4
MCEdu Number 5 Number 5 edunumber_5
MCEdu Number 6 Number 6 edunumber_6
MCEdu Number 7 Number 7 edunumber_7
MCEdu Number 8 Number 8 edunumber_8
MCEdu Number 9 Number 9 edunumber_9
MCEdu Add Symbol Add Symbol edunumber_add
MCEdu Subtract Symbol Subtract Symbol edunumber_subtract
MCEdu Divide Symbol Divide Symbol edunumber_divide
MCEdu Multiply Symbol Multiply Symbol edunumber_multiply
MCEdu Equals Symbol Equals Symbol edunumber_equals
MCEdu Over Symbol Over Symbol edunumber_over
MCEdu Less than Symbol Less than Symbol edunumber_lessthan
MCEdu Decimal Dot Symbol Decimal Dot Symbol edunumber_decimaldot
MCEdu Decimal Comma Symbol Decimal Comma Symbol edunumber_decimalcomma
MCEdu Pi Symbol Pi Symbol edunumber_pi
Items[5]
Item Note Namespaced ID
BlockInspector Block Inspector Displays the name of the block the player is looking at on screen. itemBlockInspector

Options/ Menus[]

Teacher options[]

(Can open by pressing M. On older versions, it can be opened by pressing P.)

Menus
Image Option Description
MinecraftEdu Personal Settings Spectate Mode When enabled, the player is invisible to others.
Creative Mode (Self) When enabled, double-tap space to fly, unlimited blocks in inventory, destroy blocks instantly.
Movement speed Adjust how fast the player walks or flies.
MinecraftEdu World Settings Gamemode MinecraftEdu, Survival and Creative
Difficulty Peaceful, Easy, Normal, Hard
Allow Fire & TNT When enabled, fire can burn objects and spread, TNT can detonate and explode.
Allow Weather Effects When enabled, rain and snow storms may occur randomly.
Generate Structures When enabled, structures and buildings are created when world is being generated.
Allow Other Dimensions When enabled, players can travel to other dimensions like nether and the end.
Allow Animals When enabled, peaceful animals spawn.
Allow Villagers When enabled, villagers spawn.
Allow Monsters When enabled, monsters are generated and may attack players.
MinecraftEdu Player Settings Enable PvP When enabled, players can engage in combat with and injure one another.
Allow Student Respawning When enabled, students can teleport themselves back to the spawn location using a button on the student menu.
Allow Student Surfacing When enabled, students can teleport themselves to back to the surface directly above their heads using a button on student menu.
Students Can Build When enabled, students can place or destroy blocks anywhere except on top of Build Disallow Blocks.
Freeze Students When enabled, students cannot move, destroy blocks or place blocks.
Mute Students When enabled, students cannot use the in-game chat.
Keep Inventory When enabled, users don't lose their inventory content on death.
Students Can Always Fly When enabled, students can fly in any gamemode.
MinecraftEdu Player Management
MinecraftEdu Give
MinecraftEdu Assignments
MinecraftEdu Stations
MinecraftEdu Building Tools Build Mode When enabled, the player can fly with precise movement control and can move through solid blocks
Long Distance Building When enabled, the player place/dig blocks up to 60 blocks away.
Fill/Clear tool When enabled, the player can place two blocks in opposite corners to completely fill the defined area with that block and hold nothing in their hands and right-click the corners to clear an area.
Place Amount Set how many blocks are placed in a column when the player places blocks.
Dig Amount Set how many blocks are destroyed in a column when the player dig blocks.
Undo Last Fill Reverts the most recent fills.
Undo Last Place Reverts the most recent blocks placed.
Undo Last Dig Reverts the most recent blocks destroyed.

Tutorial mode[]

  • MinecraftEdu comes with a tutorial world that teachers may select from the server menu, that goes through the basics of controls, placing/destroying blocks, teacher options, and more.

Mods[]

Forge
  • MinecraftEdu comes prepackaged with Minecraft Forge for easy mod installation.
ComputerCraftEdu

Skins[]

  • Instead of having customizable skins, the student picks their skin from one of the many default skins that come with MinecraftEdu (in addition to Steve and Alex) when first joining a server or creating a world.

History[]

Beta[]

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Please expand the section to include this information. Further details may exist on the talk page.
Version Release Date Based off
0.1 November 5, 2011 Beta 1.6.6
0.4
0.941
0.942
0.9487 Beta 1.8.1
0.9652
0.969
0.97 1.0.1
0.975
0.98 1.1
0.981
0.982 1.2.5
0.983
0.9832
0.9833
0.984 1.3.2
0.9843
0.9847
0.9848
0.9849
0.985 1.4.7

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