Hardware Reference
In-Depth Information
Playing Minecraft
When you start Minecraft on the Raspberry Pi, the title screen gives you two options:
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Start Game: his is the option you'll be using in this chapter to generate your own
game world to explore. You can also use this option to choose a previously generated
world to revisit, when you replay Minecraft later. To choose between the diferent
worlds, click and drag them left and right to position your chosen one in the middle,
and then click it to open it.
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Join Game: his option is used if you want to join other players in a game on a local
network. It's outside the scope of this chapter, but can enable collaborative or com-
petitive play in a Minecraft world.
Click Start Game, and then click Create New, and Minecraft will generate a new world for
you, with its own distinctive terrain of mountains, forests and oceans. When it's inished,
you'll see a irst-person view of it (see Figure 7-1).
Figure 7-1:
Minecraft on
the Pi.
You can change your perspective to show the player's character in the game. Press the Esc
key to open the game menu, and then click the icon beside the speaker icon in the top left to
change the perspective.
