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Create a "Whac-a-Block" game in Minecraft

What you will make

The game you are going to create is called "Whac-a-Block", inspired by the original arcade game "Whac-a-Mole". The objective of the game is to whack (or hit with a sword) the blocks that light up as glowstone, and turn them back to stone.

What you will learn

By making a "Whac-a-block" game in Minecraft you will learn:

How to interact with the Minecraft world using the Python API
How to set blocks using x, y and z coordinates
How to access IDs of particular blocks available in the world
How to use the random module to generate random numbers
How to use for and while loops and if statements effectively

This resource covers elements from the following strands of the Raspberry Pi Digital Making Curriculum:

Apply abstraction and decomposition to solve more complex problems

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