Enter /position in Minecraft to see your current world position in the top left corner of Minecraft. You can also use the player world position block in your code.

Minecraft uses a set of three coordinates (X, Y, and Z) to specify a position in a Minecraft world. MakeCode for Minecraft uses these coordinates in many of its blocks to specify where an action …

This lesson will cover how to move around in a Minecraft world with respect to the three-coordinate grid represented by (X Y Z) coordinates and the difference between relative position and world position.

In this activity, you’ll see how to create a tool that you can use to teleport between all of those different locations. This ‘Warp Belt’ will save the locations in memory by using arrays so you can easily jump …

Find your world position in the game (press the F1 key to see your world position on the screen), and then enter the command: /tp X 12 Z where X and Z are your current world coordinates. This will …

Check a few students’ world positions by walking from the classroom world origin point to each student to make sure they are correct. Example: A student gives her or his classroom world coordinates as …

Use Player Position Now we need to fill the ice under our player’s feet. Let’s use the Player Position blocks for this. Open the ||positions:Positions|| Toolbox drawer and drag out 2 ||positions:right(0), …

Blocks The blocks that make the world of Minecraft can be manipulated with code: place, fill, clone, replace are all possible with the blocks below. Learn about positions as most blocks commands use …

Beacons are useful markers in a Minecraft world to help you find your house or spawn point again. Let’s make a rainbow colored beacon with code!

Start creating your own blocks by opening Minecraft Education Edition. Once you have Minecraft running, create a new world to test with. Any kind of world is fine but flat worlds are easier to work with.