Hello Minecraft World - Adventures in Minecraft - page 7

Setting up.Your PC or Apple
Mac to.Program Minecraft
Whether you are using a Windows PC or a Mac, you need to make sure Minecraft is
installed and working on your computer. If you don't have a copy of Minecraft and a
user id to play it, visit www.minecraft.net to purchase the game. If you encounter any
problems installing, running or playing Minecraft, help is on hand—just visit https://
help.mojang.com .
To program the full version of Minecraft on the PC and Apple Mac, in the same way as
the Raspberry Pi, you will need to use the open source Minecraft server, Bukkit
( http://bukkit.org ), and the RaspberryJuice plugin ( http://dev.bukkit.org/ bukkit-plugins/
raspberryjuice ).
Bukkit is a Minecraft server that people can change by creating plugins to make the
game do different things; the RaspberryJuice plugin for Bukkit allows you to write
programs to change Minecraft in the same way as you can on the Raspberry Pi. You
will be using Bukkit, the RaspberryJuice plugin and the Python programming lan-
guage to create your Minecraft programs.
Bukkit is a Minecraft sever that allows people to modify the game through
plugins.
A plugin is a program that runs inside the Bukkit server and lets you modify
Minecraft.
You need to download the Python programming language and install it on your com-
puter. hroughout Adventures in Minecraft you will be using Python version 2, even
though version 3 is the latest version, this is because the Python library supplied by
Mojang (which is used to connect to Minecraft) only works with version 2. The pro-
grams within Adventures in Minecraft have all been tested to work with Python version
2.7.6, while it is not essential you use this version, it is recommended and you must
use Python 2.something.