Coding Elective Minecraft Modding
It’s kind of a big deal. There are lots of ways to mod Minecraft, but none as easy or as fun as Tynker.
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Code at Your Own Pace
6 Courses
360+ Activities
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With Tynker, kids use beginner-friendly drag-and-drop programming tools to create Minecraft mods — and deploy them instantly, with just one-click. Whether they want to turn water into gold, build cities in a flash, or create multi-player games, their imagination is the only limit. Watch your code come to life in Minecraft!
What You'll Learn:
- Learn Minecraft modding as you explore worlds and solve challenges in our course trilogy: Training Day, Agent Recall and Gears of Time.
- Change the look of your Minecraft world with Tynker’s resource editors. Change the look of skins, items, blocks, and mobs.
- Make a giant creeper, a totally custom boss, or change the behavior of any creature in Minecraft using our Minecraft Resource Editor with 3D modeling and simple code editing.
- Write minigames and mods using Tynker’s Mod Editor — with dozens of commands, step-by-step tutorials, and a familiar block-coding interface, kids can make their Minecraft dreams come true with code.
No Prerequisites: Recommend completing Programming Basics
Recommended for Ages 6+
Minecraft for Windows (Bedrock Edition) purchase required.
Create more with Minecraft
Some kids even do some complex math and geometry using Minecraft’s 3D coordinates! More than anything, Minecraft allows kids to see themselves in computing, bringing their code to life in satisfying ways.
When you engage kids in activities that they’re interested in and passionate about, they’re incredibly motivated to problem-solve, debug, and learn. When you are making predictions, modifying other peoples’ code, then writing your own custom code to achieve your particular goal in Minecraft, you’re actually learning computer science!
How It Works:
Start a Course
On your student dashboard, select EXPLORE and search — or browse to Tynker’s Minecraft courses. Minecraft users (Minecraft for Windows, Minecraft for iPad) can start with Training Day and then continue on to Agent Recall and Gears of Time.
Minecraft: Java Edition (sometimes called Minecraft Classic) users start with Mod Design I and then onwards to Game Design 1.
You’ll need to purchase Minecraft (minecraft.net) to play the courses.
Completing Lessons
For Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (also known as Minecraft for Windows or Minecraft for iPad) there is no need for a Minecraft server. You’ll step through courses in Tynker while having Minecraft open side-by-side. As you explore the worlds with your Minecraft player, you’ll encounter challenges. At this point you’ll switch over to the Tynker interface to code. Once you deploy your code, you can switch back to Minecraft and see the results of your code, running in the Minecraft world.
For Minecraft: Java Edition, Tynker provides a private server where you can deploy and experiment with mods. After you connect to the server, you’ll be able to run your mods. You can also invite friends to your private server.
Publish to the Community
Use Tynker Workshop and our Resource Editors to create your own Skins, Mods, Mobs, Add-Ons, and Items. You can also remix and learn from the millions of published Minecraft assets in the Tynker community. Don’t forget to publish your own creations!
Earn a Certificate
Complete the entire trilogy of Minecraft Bedrock courses to earn the Minecraft Modding certificate. Share your accomplishments with prospective employers or add it to your college applications.
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Beginner
Minecraft Modding: Sandsville Sorcerer
Embark on a magical quest while mastering the art of crafting Minecraft skins, items, blocks, mobs, and more!
Create your schedule: anytime, any day.
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Course Overview
Embark on 30+ exciting missions to create skins, mythical creatures, fascinating structures and code mob behavior, all while enhancing computational thinking skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, mobs & build structures with Tynker.
Learning Objectives
- Create custom skins for players
- Design a mythical animal and bring them to life
- Modify mobs behavior using code
- Foster creativity while designing intricate structures
- Enchant tools to defend village from mobs
- Introduction to computational thinking via Minecraft Modding
- 30+ Activities
- Skill Level: Beginners
- Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
- Classes: 4 one hour sessions
- Schedule: Anytime, any day
- Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
- Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements
Skills
Critical Thinking Sequencing Computational Thinking Creative Building STEM: Plants and Animals Commands Mob Editing Use of Inventory 3D Structures Modding Spawning Enhancements -
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Intermediate
Minecraft Modding: Cosmic Chronicles
Explore new biomes as you create intricate Minecraft structures, mods, and games using visual coding.
Create your schedule: anytime, any day.
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Course Overview
Embark on 30+ exciting missions to build structures using coding, survival skills and fundamental redstone techniques, all while honing the coding skills. Students will learn to edit Minecraft skins, items, create mods & build complex structures with Tynker.
Learning Objectives
- Learn survival hacks in Minecraft
- Build faster using code
- Enchant items in Minecraft
- Explore different biomes
- Learn to create basic redstone circuits
- 30+ Activities
- Skill Level: Beginners to Intermediate
- Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
- Classes: 4 one hour sessions
- Schedule: Anytime, any day
- Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
- Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements
Skills
Critical Thinking Creative Building Coding Fundamentals Design Thinking Curiosity & Innovation Mob Editing Crafting Underwater Structures Modding Enhancements Survival Hacks -
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Advanced
Minecraft Modding: Redstone Revelation
Become a redstone master as you craft planetary havens, powered rails, TNT cannons, and code-driven traps.
Create your schedule: anytime, any day.
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Course Overview
Embark on 30+ highly complex missions to build innovative habitats, mine, and create transportation systems, all while mastering the art of redstone engineering. Students will learn to build complex structures, redstone mechanisms, and mod with Tynker.
Learning Objectives
- Learn about ores and how to process them to extract material
- Build strong problem solving and reasoning skills by building structures and crafting items using code
- Learn planning by playing effectively using limited resources
- Foster critical thinking by working with redstone mechanisms
- Learn game mechanics in Minecraft
- 30+ Activities
- Skill Level: Intermediate to Advanced
- Format: Online 1-on-1 Lessons
- Classes: 4 one hour sessions
- Schedule: Anytime, any day
- Required: Windows 10 or above with 4 GB RAM and Minecraft Bedrock version installed
- Minecraft Bedrock System Requirements
Skills
Critical Thinking Problem Solving Coding Fundamentals Game Design STEM: Circuits and Engineering Mob Editing Redstone Mechanics Modding Dispenser Pulsar TNT Cannon Command Blocks
3-Year All-Access plans include:
- 70+ courses
- 5,000+ activities
- Block Coding
- Text Coding
- 3 Mobile Apps
- Minecraft Modding
- Game Design
- Robotics
- Hardware
- Web Development
- Python
- JavaScript
- Processing (P5.JS)
- Data Science
- Advanced CS
Tynker is designed to progress with your child. A three year plan accelerates their coding mastery from block coding to advanced text languages.