Minecraft Pi Edition: SURVIVAL mode-ish

Here is a neat little trick for Minecraft Pi: Edition taught to me by my students: 

In Minecraft Pi edition, there is a way to load custom maps made for the Pocket Edition (PE) version of Minecraft - including Survival maps! Technically you are still in creative mode (Currently, as of writing this blog, there is no support for survival mode in the Pi edition) however, by installing a survival map, you will get night and day modes, animals, crops and even treasure chests.

Night time mode with animals in Minecraft Pi: Edition

To install and load a survival map in Minecraft Pi Edition:

1.      Load Minecraft and create a new world

2.      Locate a website that hosts Minecraft Pocket Edition (PE) maps e.g. Minecraft Forums (Note: Although these maps are designed to work on the PE version of Minecraft, as Minecraft Pi: Edition is a port of the PE version, most of the maps should work.)

3.      Download a Survival map (Note: If the map is in .zip format, you will need to extract it first)

4.      Open “FileManager”

5.      Click on “View” and tick the “Show Hidden” box

6.      Double click on the folder named “.minecraft” (This is usually located in default your home directory "/home/pi")

7.      Double click on the folder named “games” followed by “com.mojang” followed by "minecraftWorlds" (See screenshot below)

8.      Copy the contents of your downloaded PE edition map into an existing world folder. (Warning: This will overwrite your existing world)

9.      Load Minecraft Pi: Edition

10.    Open the new world