Welcome to TNT Towers 10th January, 2016 At Castlemilk and Bridgeton this week we’ve been learning about how to control Minecraft programmatically using Minecraft Pi, a version of Minecraft which has a Python API. We had a lot of fun creating huge TNT structures (and then blowing them up!) and lava which followed us around. If you want to have a go yourself, you’ll need a Raspberry Pi. We used this tutorial: https://www.raspberrypi.org/learning/getting-started-with-minecraft-pi/ and this reference for the Python libraries: http://www.stuffaboutcode.com/p/minecraft-api-reference.html By the end we had lots of ideas about how we could develop our programmes further such as automatically tunnelling through all blocks, controlling the movement through the Minecraft world using a different kind of controller (such as a Wii controller) and actuating objects in the real world in response to what happens in the Minecraft world (e.g. lighting up the orange and red lights on a PiGlow when you’re walking on lava or vibrating a haptic motor when there’s a TNT explosion). There’s so much you can do!