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by Macuyiko 3251 days ago
Nice! A while ago, I also worked on a Python <-> Minecraft interaction which is not based on mcpi (and RaspberryJuice), but instead spawns a full Jython based Python interpreter session server-side allowing you to directly use the full Bukkit API [1]. This allows to use various commands mcpi doesn't support, such as creating lightning, explosions, and dynamically writing events using Python, either by using a client (sending Python code over the wire) or from the chat console in Minecraft.

The way how mcpi works is by creating a network bridge between the RaspberryJuice plugin and Python. Commands in Python are send to the Minecraft plugin over the wire and handled there (using the Bukkit API), with output send back to the Python client. This is safer in the sense that you don't have the full Python environment running on the server and that (in theory) you can use both Python 2 and 3 (Jython support for Python 3 is not there yet). The drawback is that you can only utilize commands that are manually implemented and that the full Bukkit API is not directly exposed.

At one point, I also had a plan to expand this into a tutorial series but didn't really follow up on this due to a lack of time. I'd really like to do this some day, though.

[1]: https://github.com/Macuyiko/minecraft-python and video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4JfwS5hNlw
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Diederich 3251 days ago
Wow! I believe this is exactly what I've been looking for.

One of my goals is to get my son, who is really into Minecraft, also interested in programming.

The github project seems to be receiving updates too.

If I end up making some reasonable progress on this, I might just contact you later on, if that's ok with you!

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Macuyiko 3251 days ago
Sure! At one point, some group of volunteers also created a spin off project with the aim of putting more focus on creating a whole web interface around the concept, but I think it's inactive now. I try to maintain this repo from time to time and to keep it as bare-bones as possible.

At one point, I plan to experiment with ZipPy (https://github.com/securesystemslab/zippy) to see if that would be a viable option to get Python 3 support underway.

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