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Description

Our Cubs are crazy for Minecraft and have ask (repeatedly) to play online in multi-player mode with other Cubs.
Encourages teamwork, creative play, investigation and experimentation.

This activity explains two options for setting up a multi-player Minecraft experience for Cubs.

Resources

Courage & limited techy skills.
There is a small cost involved (±£5 to £10/m)

PREPARATION
(as at November 2020) There are two good options to host a multi-player Minecraft activity. Check the NOTE at the end.

Option 1. Use the in-app Minecraft REALMS feature.
Pay per month, 10 players max. Uses default features and function. Brilliantly simple and non-techy. On the down side, harder to over see in-game activity and intervene.

Option 2. Build your own Bedrock server on the cloud (bare with me!).
Really pretty easy, gives you more control, gives the option to 'go large' (faster, more players) by paying for more power, charged per month (but low cost relatively ±£5/m). Allows an Admin to play god (oversee!) the server and intervene. If you prefer a bit more control or are little more tech try this (it was fun!).

If you're up for Option 2...
a) Follow these instructions but STOP as step 3F - http://ow.ly/oWgG50CjzGu
b) Then follow these instructions, starting from INSTALLATION (you may need to prefix commands with 'sudo'):
http://ow.ly/wQoM50CjzIO


NOTE: regardless of what you use, there remains the fundamental restriction between Minecraft JAVA Edition and Minecraft (also called Minecraft Bedrock). Minecraft Bedrock is on Xbox One, Windows 10 Edition, iOS, Gear VR, Android and Nintendo Switch. Minecraft Java is on Windows, Linux and macOS. The two are NOT interoperable. Meaning, players on M-Java Realms/server can't join with M-Bedrock players and vice versa. There's not a way round it... it's "just one of those things" to be aware of and may explain why some players won't be able to join your server/world. Most likely youngsters will be using M-Bedrock, so the above is fine.

https://www.minecraft.net/ or a quick Google will give you more information, guidance and help than you could ever wish for.

Instructions

In both cases, use an OSM Event invite to manage numbers (too many and you max-out)
For Option 1 follow the instructions to get players invited to the Realm.
For Option 2 send the Server IP address to attendees (in OSM Event). Because the IP can be easily changed, we can control who knows about the server at any one time.

Points to have in mind:
1. Make sure PARENTS make the choice about their child taking part. Minecraft on iOS is age 9+.
2. Set very clear "no griefing" rules and enforce them.
3. In game chat can't be monitored, so provide parents a "real world" contact point for the leader in charge so they can report poor behaviour.
4. Consider the use of a server WhiteList for Option 2, to permit only known user names.
5. Be aware whether or not the Realm/Server will be available when Leaders are NOT online. Take suitable precautions to ensure safeguarding.
6. Might suit a Young Leader as a leadership task to run the activity.

Tags

• minecraft

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