This map is a simple demonstration of a possible new category of Minecraft maps: guided, in-game tutorials. The map shows build progress through step by step instructions, and you can even go back to a previous step! Using a resource pack, I've provided voiceovers so players can walk through the build as they listen to the reasoning for that step.
Keep in mind that this is simply a jumping-off point for a new kind of idea- obviously, most of us can build a square house, but please take it a step further and create your own! Maybe you've got a villager UI and voiceovers like this map, but maybe you just have pressure plates and text. The idea is to have mapmakers experiment with ways to teach and inspire new groups of creators.
If you like this idea, or if you use it yourself, let us know on Twitter! Links for each of us are below.
EDIT after reading the page. this is cool. I do this in my modded server with a plugin denizen. I write the script for the tutorials. We have been planning on hosting a live public server area to JUST teach Minecraft. Great place for our survival players to go hang out. <3 you and all of your teammates. My daughters are 4 and 6 and can both play on the x1 fantastically well and have massive worlds built. Just a note to send to you and them my personal gratitude is almost universally large to you and your colleagues alike. All of us out here making Minecraft an everlasting fun, addictive, and educative tool!
Also, when you start the map, you spawn at the redstone area and you have to go and activate the pressure plate by yourself. I don't know if that's intentional or not.
Okay, Dragnoz is on it! It worked great when he and I tested it, but some users have gotten weird issues like no music, or ending up in the redstone. If we locate the error, we'll update the map.
I haven't looked at it, but I'll open it tonight (few hours from this post to clear any confusion)
EDIT: US Kotaku Link
EDIT after reading the page. this is cool. I do this in my modded server with a plugin denizen. I write the script for the tutorials. We have been planning on hosting a live public server area to JUST teach Minecraft. Great place for our survival players to go hang out. <3 you and all of your teammates. My daughters are 4 and 6 and can both play on the x1 fantastically well and have massive worlds built. Just a note to send to you and them my personal gratitude is almost universally large to you and your colleagues alike. All of us out here making Minecraft an everlasting fun, addictive, and educative tool!
I make up my own words! <3 bruno