Museum Build Tips

Once your floor plan is in place, you can use some code builder tricks to help speed up the work. Check out the video to learn about:

0:00: How to use the space

0:34: Building a wall to where you're standing

3:33: Clearing the field*

4:08: Laying out your floor plan

5:46: Using the fill tool to fill in a straight wall

8:35: Using the line tool to create a line of blocks from one point to another.

10:25: Using the circle tool to create a greenhouse with a dome.

Phase 2 is meant to be done in pairs or small groups.

0:10: Hosting a world

0:51: Joining a world

1:28: Hosting from a home network (port forwarding)

• Slates, posters, and boards are useful edit-able labels.

• High contrast text is good for accessibility.

• Unlock slates, posters, and boards if you want your teammates to edit them.

• The camera and book and quill can be used to create an illustrated label

• Illustrated labels are good for showing the world outside your museum or directing visitors to parts of a large display.

• Sign the book and place it on a lectern for others to read.

• Use the NPC Bot to change yourself into NPC mode.

• Place your NPCs.

• Edit the name, dialogue, and appearance of your NPCs.

• Use the "add URL" option to add links to sources or Flipgrid videos.

• When you've finished, return to the NPC Bot, click Edit Dialogue, and put yourself into safe mode to protect your NPCs.

• Use a cauldron, water bucket, and dye to make a dye station.

• Use the dye station to dye a leather tunic, pants, or boots.

• Place an armour stand where you would like your person to be standing.

• Right click to dress up your armour stand in the dyed clothing.

• Add a head to your armour stand.

• Right click on the armour stand with an object to have your armour stand hold it.

• Hold down shift + right click to change the position of your armour stand.

• Powered rails that are ON will push a minecart forward.

  • You can turn them on with redstone torches, buttons, levers, or detector rails on a block that touches the powered rail.

• Powered rails that are OFF will stop a minecart.

• Activator rails that are ON will push a person out of a minecart.

• Detector rails will sense a minecart passing over them and pass a power signal forward (to a powered rail) or down (to a command block).

• Common commands

  • /give @p [item]

  • /teleport @p [coordinates]

  • /gamemode survival/creative @p

• Turn on button mode to give the player a choice about whether or not to run the command.

• Select on enter or on exit if you want the command to run no matter what.

• Make sure they're part of the plan before your begin building.

• No design is "better"; it's all about the level of challenge you need for yourself.

• Add slates so people know which floor they're on

• For command blocks, you'll need the coordinates of the elevator you're travelling to in place of x y z

  • tp @p x y z

  • playsound note.chime @p

• Take a photo with the camera

• Get a portfolio once you have switched to Build Mode

• Make sure you have a free space in your inventory

• Find the photo you want to download in the Portfolio

• Click on the download icon. The photo will now be in your inventory

• Place an item frame where you would like to display the photo

• Right click on the item frame while the photo is in your hand

• Teleport to geode: /tp 1665 93 -2630

• Teleport to research centre: /tp 43 72 -352

• Clear out area around the geode

• Empty the water using walls, the fill command, and sponges

• Place down the command block so the bounding box faces toward the geode.

• Increase the numbers in the X Y Z fields in the structure block until it contains the whole geode.

• Change the offset to Y=0

• Create a name for your geode

• Click "Save"

• Return to the research centre

• Place a structure block where you want your geode to sit. Make sure the bounding box points toward where you want the geode to sit.

• Change the Mode to load and type the name of your geode into the box beneath the load button.

• Make sure the area it will load into isn't cutting into anything you want to keep

• Click "Load."

• Export a backup of your world before you start.

• Cloning copies a big rectangular box. Find the coordinates of the bottom corner of the invisible box that contains the structure you want to copy.

• Open Code Builder

• Create a clone command

• Change the ~0 ~0 ~0 block in the "from" line to a world position block.

• Put the bottom corner coordinates in the "from" line.

• Find the coordinates of the opposite top corner of the box.

• Change the ~0 ~0 ~0 block in the "to" line to a world position block.

• Put the top corner coordinates in the "to" line.

• In the imaginary box you want to PASTE the structure into, find the corner of the box with the LOWEST x, y, and z coordinates and stand there.

• Run the code.