Survivalist Pro
Survivalist Pro
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Minecraft is rated E for Everyone 10+, but Survival Mode is safe for most kids ages 7 or 8 and above. Creative mode would be appropriate for any age. It also takes some practice and research to survive the first night.
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Read More »Aside from concerns about screen time in general, Minecraft provides with a great creative outlet and an opportunity to build interesting structures to their heart's content. It's an equivalent to LEGOs without having to buy and store all of those bricks! In that sense it's significantly better bang for your buck and kids can and should learn some important computer skills, like using a mouse and typing, as well as coding and basic server functions. Minecraft also teaches a lot of coding and problem solving skills. At Coder Kids, we are always encouraging kids to look up solutions to their own problems, primarily on Google. When I am playing Minecraft, my phone is right with me so that I can look up questions any time I have them. I guess people in the early days of Minecraft herded sheep through trial and error, but I am glad that there is an answer out there about how to do it (it is wheat in case you’re wondering). Also, consider the memorization skills that kids are building during their Minecraft play. Most kids these days may not be memorizing the Gettysburg address, but they can absolutely tell you how to create a diamond sword on their crafting table. I'm not a child development expert, but to me the process of memorization and recall is an important skill that Minecraft teaches very effectively.
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Read More »Some kids, for whatever reason, don’t like survival mode. They only play in creative mode. While both modes are amazing, I feel that kids playing exclusively in creative mode will not benefit from the aforementioned coding and problem solving benefits that are so great for kids in survival mode. Minecraft is not the type of game that kids should always play alone. Watching students in our summer camps engaging with one another in the game and building some truly amazing creations is really awesome. It's easy to connect two friends together. Get your child to have a friend come over and just plug in your IP address into the server, and (barring any firewall issues) they'll be connected and ready to play together. It is also extremely easy to set up a server to play with friends from all around the world. Personally, I think playing survival mode is best among friends because they have to take calculated risks and fight mobs. If you are interested in having your child use Multiplayer mode in Minecraft and play with their friends, we highly recommend using Apex for your server. For a full tutorial on setting up a server at home, visit this site. Sometimes when kids are playing together in a server, they can get into fights because someone did something that destroyed the other person’s work. To solve this problem, I would recommend that an adult hold /op control for the server so that you can restore the world, kill all users, or ban someone if it comes to that. This isn’t particularly challenging but does require some googling. Alternatively, just make sure your child is playing with friends they get along with. Working cooperatively is much more fun in Minecraft than players trying to destroy each others work.
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Read More »Eventually, if your child plays a lot, they will reach a level of expertise beyond your proficiency in most things. There are some amazing tutorials out there about how to add unique automations to your world. Once they have built out what they want to in their world, I would also recommend that they look into coding and modding, either through Forge or a service like Code Kingdoms. Forge is a free, but fully customizable solution, where the user has to do quite a bit of work to modify the Java using a compiler like Eclipse, then upload that code into the game. Code Kingdoms simplifies that process for the user, providing a block-based coding interface for kids to play with. Either one is useful and fun as an extra project. Plus Java is a useful language to learn for long term career prospects, and both platforms can help with that pursuit. I know some kids who don’t even know how to read might waste their time looking at Minecraft books, but for a child who actually spends time playing Minecraft, the books (along with the wiki) are a necessary component to learning new things and developing their skills. Just make sure your kids mix up their Minecraft reading with some fiction and non-fiction books! Check out this blogpost that is a Beginner’s Guide to Minecraft book reivew, and our other picks below!
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