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MinecraftEdu In-Game & World Library Facelift (+new development build)

In the past couple weeks our graphics talent @JoonasPauni has been working on giving a facelift for some of the MinecraftEdu in-game UI:s. These include the teacher panel, student panel, teleport screen and information blocks screen. All the icons have been replaced with new ones alongside with backgrounds, buttons and other art assets. Check some of the work below or download the latest development version 1.7.10 build 19 from our member’s area to play around with!

As always the new build includes bugfixes and other changes. You can read them all here: http://services.minecraftedu.com/wiki/Changelog

@Kulttuuri also spent one day this week giving a facelift for the MinecraftEdu World Library. Check out the refreshed look from www.minecraftedu.com/worlds!

Best, @Kulttuuri, @Tonsse & @joonaspauni

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MinecraftEdu Teacher Menu is getting a Facelift!

@joonaspauni is currently working on giving the teacher menu a facelift. Stay tuned next week for the updated menu...!

Best, @Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

#minecraftedu #minecraft #minecraft in education #minecraft education edition

CCEdu & Gender & Hosting

The development builds just keep on coming! 1.7.10 build 18 is out.

Gender

Since selecting your gender didn’t really affect anything other than what kind of skins you were able to select for your in game character, we decided to remove it completely. You no longer have to specify a gender and all skins are available for you when you join a server.

Our graphics guy @joonaspauni also added 4 new student skins to choose from! Students now have a total of 28 skins available.

ComputerCraftEdu Integration

As some of you may know we are working on a new version of ComputerCraftEdu for MinecraftEdu 1.7.10. There are going to be a lot of cool new features and we decided to integrate some of them directly in to the teacher menu.

This integration will not be available with any current versions of CCEdu but it will automatically appear to your teacher menu with the next official CCEdu release.

Hosting

As you might have already noticed, we have a cloud hosting service beta going on. Things currently run as self-service so we manually handle changing worlds for you, managing the users and such. However things are going to change in the next few weeks as Kulttuuri has been working on a control panel for the hosting customers. Here’s a small sneak peek of what’s coming up!

Manage your MinecraftEdu hosting worlds!

Options for activating a world in your server.

Restart a saved world or launch a copy of it with a single click!

Manage who has access to your server at ease or let students create accounts themselves with our self-registration service.

Best, @Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

WorldEdit & Missing libraries

There is yet another MinecraftEdu build available. Build 17 fixes some issues that were caused by the Forge update in build 16.

Missing Libraries on osx

The biggest issue was that you couldn’t run the MinecraftEdu client at all on a mac due to some missing libraries. The libraries are now added so if you are having this issue please download the MinecraftEdu 1.7.10 build 17 and try with that.

WorldEdit

Another change that we made for this version was removing the built in World Edit and moving to a separate WorldEdit Forge server mod. The built in WorldEdit was rather old so we decided to remove that and go for the Forge mod version instead for easier updating. If you want to use WorldEdit with build 17 and newer, simply download the mod from the online mods section of the Launcher. Apply the mod only to the server side.

Other stuff

We fixed some other Forge related bugs as well which you can read all about here: http://services.minecraftedu.com/wiki/Changelog

We are sure that the Forge update broke some other stuff that we haven’t noticed yet so please let us know if you run into any trouble.

Best, @Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

Happy Easter!

Here’s another development build just in time for the Easter holidays. MinecraftEdu 1.7.10 build 16 is now available!

The biggest change in this build is the updating of Forge. We had a pretty old version running and it is now updated to version 1291. If you had problems with mods that needed a newer version of Forge please test them with this one and let us know how it went.

Another thing worth mentioning is the addition of French and Russian languages. Big thanks to the translators! We’ll be adding new languages as they get translated so keep translating.

For detailed changes check out the changelog at: http://minecraftedu.com/wiki/Changelog

Have a great Easter!

@Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

Fly away!

With a new development build (1.7.10 build 15) comes a new feature. "Students Can Always Fly" setting was added to the "Player Settings" tab on the Teacher Menu. With the setting enabled students will be able to fly in all gamemodes.

The fly setting was the biggest addition in the new build but there are some other minor improvements as well. For example the teacher's personal creative mode is not tied to the server gamemode anymore.

Check out the full changelog at http://minecraftedu.com/wiki/Changelog.

Happy flying! @Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

Wiki Redesign & new Development build

Since last December, @Kulttuuri has been working on giving the MinecraftEdu Wiki a visual overhaul. The new design is responsive and mobile-friendly, with a "Minecrafty" twist, and as of last tuesday, it's live on the web! You can view it now at http://minecraftedu.com/wiki

Since the release of the last development build, @Tonsse has been working on bugfixes, and we're pleased to announce the release of MinecraftEdu develoment build 14 for Minecraft 1.7.10! You can view the full changelog at http://minecraftedu.com/wiki/Changelog.

We'd like to thank the awesome modders out there who have given us permission to add their mods to our online mod repository. You can check out the new mods on the wiki, and then download them using the Mods button in the build 14 launcher.

Best, @Kulttuuri & @Tonsse (proofreading props to @jakimfett, author of Minechem)

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New Development Build!

This year's first development release 1.7.10 build 13 is here. It includes the new teacher skins as promised in the last blog post. We also changed how the whole skin selection screen looks like:

There are now 8 male and female teacher skins available.

Update through the Launcher or from minecraftedu.com/members

Best, @Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

Teacher skins

We are back from a long and refreshing holiday!

MinecraftEdu development continued straight away as Toni started adding more teacher skins to the game with the help of our design intern Joonas. Hopefully we get a development build with the new skins out soon.

Here's a sneak peek of what's coming (work in progress):

Aleksi has been dealing with the "after-holiday" busyness the last couple of days. He also created a video of the TeacherGaming Tour. You can watch the video below.

Best, @Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

1.7.10 build 12 Stable!

Releasing two stable builds in a row is not something we normally do but there were two major updates that we thought needed to be added into a stable release: MinecraftEdu Hosting Service and a fix for some integrated Intel-graphics card problems.

The MinecraftEdu Hosting service is in beta-testing and we've added full hosting support to this build. You can read more about the hosting service here.

Some users have encountered problems with certain Intel graphics cards and the MinecraftEdu 1.7.10 version. The client doesn't run at all which is not good. We found the cause and applied a fix that solved the issue.

There are also some other small changes which you can see here.

We are done for this year and MinecraftEdu development will continue in January.

Happy Holidays!

@Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

1.7.10 build 11 Stable!

The second stable release of 1.7.10 is here. We have been focusing on fixing bugs that have appeared since the last stable version build 6 and we are quite happy with the results. Ofcourse you can never get rid of all bugs but at least all (almost) known ones should be fixed.

The biggest bugfixes are:

Not being able to connect to a server if someone tried to connect with regular Minecraft client

MinecraftEdu not working with Java 8. Read more here.

Some mods like Custom NPCs and Galacticraft not working properly.

Give crashing the client if mods were installed.

You can see detailed changelogs here.

Even though we concentrated on fixing bugs, there are also some new features that have been added since build 6. These features include:

Applying translations from our translation system.

Ability to translate single worlds (signs, info blocks etc...).

Ability to add a resource pack to your world and apply the pack to all connecting clients automatically.

As usual, you can update through the Launcher or download the installer from MinecraftEdu members area.

@Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

New Development Build!

As one can imagine, Minecraft 1.7 had many changes. One particular change was the way usernames are handled (again) and that affected the alias system that MinecraftEdu uses. The core of MinecraftEdu continued to work, but mods could no longer identify the alias of the user. This broke several features within mods like Custom NPCs and Galacticraft that made calls to player profiles or player names.

We have once again adjusted the way MinecraftEdu alias work in the new system and we are confident this will fix problems with many of the commonly used mods. Please feel free to contact us if you find further issues.

The fix is included in the latest development version 1.7.10 build 10 and you can get it through the Launcher's Updates or minecraftedu.com/members.

@Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

Java 8 Problem Fixed

There has been an issue with Java 8, and more specifically build 20 in which Oracle changed how collections are being sorted, which was affecting the Forge component included in MinecraftEdu. We have been waiting on for a resolution to the issue, and thanks to this thread and a 1.6.4 patch by FyberOptic, we now have MinecraftEdu working with Java 8.

To get this fix applied to your MinecraftEdu install you will need to redownload MinecraftEdu and install 1.6.4 Stable build 20 or any of the 1.7.10 versions. Please note: you will have to update the server and all client machines.

How to update

Member’s area

Go to member’s area and download either 1.6.4 stable build 20 or any 1.7.10 installer. These installers now have the fix applied into them.

Update using Launcher

You can update MinecraftEdu from the Launcher to 1.6.4 build 20 or any 1.7.10 version. Make sure to tick the “Force Update” button if it is available to ensure that you download the latest installer and do not use an old local file.

Take care!

@Kulttuuri & @Tonsse

Welcome to development blog v2.0

In this new MinecraftEdu Development Blog Aleksi and Toni will be posting more frequent updates about the battles and victories in the development area. First post coming soon! :)

~ @Kulttuuri, @Tonsse

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Hey all minecraftians,

Since the last blog post, we’ve been focusing on adding some exciting new features into MinecraftEdu. Two of the top features include assignment checklists and user control panel!

Assignment Checklists have always been a highly requested feature. We have revamped and...

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Hey all Minecraftians,

Let’s do a quick recap for the last 2 weeks. As an added twist, we are going to spice things up by sharing drafts of the new features. How about that!

First, let’s start with some of the features added in development build 15 last...

kulttuuri

Hey you Minecraftian!

The newest MinecraftEdu 1.6.4 Stable Build is now available! Grab it from member’s area or use the built in updater. Since the last stable build, we have worked day and night, there have been a lot of changes. Let me share some of the more ...

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