Playing Minecraft God: Talking to a Canary server using Jython

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Macuyiko

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Published on January 19, 2015 9:59:45 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JfwS5hNlw

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Minecraft (2011)

Duration: 5:16

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This is an update for my previous video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rI3PfgCSI7Y).

* Blog post with full info at: http://blog.macuyiko.com/post/2015/rebuilding-our-jython-console-plugin-for-minecraft.html
* GitHub repo at: https://github.com/Macuyiko/MinecraftPythonConsole

Canary comes with a Java plugin API which allows you to create your own plugins / commands / tools for use within the game. However, I wanted to see if it was possible to spawn an interpreter giving me direct access to the world in Minecraft, allowing me to programmatically control the game without requiring a "write plugin--compile jar--load in Canary"-step and thus allowing more direct access.

After tinkering a bit with Canary, and with some help from Jython (a Python implementation in Java), it turns out that, indeed, you can.

I show some example "fun" stuff you can perform in Minecraft using Python. For future work, it would be cool to implement some procedural generation stuff (like complex structures) using this system, or perhaps games or teaching projects.

This was inspired by projects such as Raspberry Pi Minecraft and ScriptCraft.

Links:
* CanaryMod: http://canarymod.net/
* Jython: http://www.jython.org
* Minecraft: http://www.minecraft.net
* My blog: http://blog.macuyiko.com

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