Quickstart¶

Welcome in the sandbox!¶

Blockgames like Minecraft or Minetest give you the ideal playground for creative playing and building just like a real sandbox. But other than real sandboxes, you can work on very large worlds together with your friends over the internet. And you can use (very simplified) physics, save the progress and more.

But what about learning programming while expressing your creativity? Why not automate things? Or build even greater things?

Installation¶

Windows¶

Download the latest precompiled Miney distribution: https://github.com/miney-py/miney_distribution/releases

Start the miney-launcher.exe and click on “Quickstart”. This will open Minetest directly into a game and IDLE, the IDE shipped with python.

Linux¶

Untested: Install Minetest, install luajit, install luasocket and luacjson. Then “pip install miney” and we should be ready.

MacOS¶

Untested

First lines of code¶

The first lines of code with miney should be the import statement and the creation of the miney object “mt”. This will connect miney to your already running Minetest.

import miney

mt = miney.Minetest()

Important

Whenever you see a object “mt” in the documentation, it was created with this line!