Hour of Code 2022 Escape the Mansion – Minecraft Education Edition

Hey everyone Nathan here we’re gonna have a playthrough of Minecraft educations editions new hour of code for 2022. All right let’s check this out this is the escape Mansion we just saw this cool little animated intro but this is the premise of the game we need to basically make our way through some coding activities and collect these diary entries which give us Clues along the

Way so this is the first entry one we need to kind of just get our basic movements going we move this cursor around it’s going to initially say we’ve got it wrong the agents there is going to be there to help us so in this one

Need to come back just add in that trapdoor wait for that code to run where through and it takes us through one more we’ve just got to get our agent out once it’s out we’re going to take the Green Path today there are multiple different paths you can take and they all have

Their own level of difficulty so this one we reveal this first one we’re gonna get this ball over to the gold plate so what we’re going to do is just change this up so that we’re moving to the right but first of all we can see we’re

Going to debug it first it went to the left let’s shift it back to the right and the ball gets to the right place what we’re looking for each time though is these little particles so see on the side here I first thought that this was just like

Um a window but it’s actually like a mirror to another dimension and what we’re doing is I’m noticing how the particles are different and that is what gives it away as to what we need to do next so here let’s run this code so we’ll debug it it kind of runs and then

It’s going to tell us it’s wrong so in this one this other dimension we need them to match up so if we come in here what we’re going to do is I know I’ve got to place one first and there’s one missing at the end but we could use our

Coding skills actually here because look these all are kind of repeat except for the last one so I’m going to grab a repeat here I just need to drop one in this is just more efficient way of coding let’s get rid of this stuff we don’t need it let’s run that and

Perfect it always comes up with puzzles solved and so I’m going to check this out and it looks like we’ve flipped over we have cool so here’s a screen door I’m gonna get through that let’s pull this lever no that is not working so let’s check our code let’s run it

So it’s saying it’s wrong and I reckon there’s a com this is like a combination lock so blue pink yellow orange so it needs to go blue pink yellow orange let’s try that instead so I’ve got a little Speedy Knight here off he goes yeah perfect so you can see

It’s green because remember we said we’re going on the Green Path let’s check out this one Mr zombie best bread okay bread let’s press C we’re gonna go let’s just run it let’s see what happens so you kind of get this base coat and it’s like you gotta fix it up

And that’s not working I reckon there’s an order I reckon this is it here so we need to harvest Mill dough and bake the bread okay Go zombie go uh and bake perfect so every time you kind of solve solve one another one opens up we’ve got

Okay if you’re not sure what to do just hit C we’ve got some instructions here here I’ve got to work out what to feed the house so that was three apples there was four salmon and there was two mushroom stew let’s try that oh there we go it’s going to its mouth

It’s gonna eat it it’s drop some salmon hopefully that’s gonna work yep perfect puzzle solved here we go it’s pretty easy to kind of find these particles don’t forget these little diary Pages it’s worth reading them they kind of give you Clues as to what you’ve got to

Do this one though looks like there’s a bit of a clue on the wall there so I reckon these all of these mobs need the right food okay so it swaps their meals over let’s just run it so that swaps and that’s going to be wrong so let’s just look at this again

See who wants what so okay yeah so I’m moving really quickly here aren’t I so we need to swap them around so each one has the correct one they’re almost color coded in one way so that swap was good and then we need to give that one back over

Okay so it’s just by color so we swap the blue ones and then we swap the pink and then we swap the yep perfect there we go it’s like a little bit of a sliding one and that is opening up through to our next escape room so this is just like a

Little escape room option here let’s press this button let’s see what it’s going to do we’ve got oh oh okay I forgot what these are called these are like puzzle things so yeah we need to unscramble it let’s see what that does first okay it’s a chess piece so it needs to look

Like that chest piece so yellow blue then green so let’s push this yellow first down the blue then the green so yellow goes blue goes up green goes over perfect uh let’s go up let’s click on that puzzle solved and it’s just flying away and oh there’s a birthday cake there now

The King’s birthday okay we might need that later let’s see this one let’s click it new puzzle that looks like we’ve got a bit of staircase let’s have a look let’s just run it this one looks a little bit more complicated Okay so we’ve got to put these Gold Blocks where

We see the blue ones let’s let’s look at our code so it’s three up by two and then up by two again so Place block that has to happens three times so we can kind of repeat that we did a repeater before so you know one two three but then

After that I’m Gonna Wanna Go up yep and then buy two so up was orange uh was it orange yeah it was um let’s go one let’s then we’re gonna place a block we’re gonna go to the right buy another one let me just go back out you can just

X there on the screen that just took me in and out don’t need to necessarily run it every time but you can it’s just called debugging I’m gonna check so that one’s gonna place and I’m gonna go up I’m gonna go over by again so remember

Up was orange and then yellow was to the right so that will take us up and to the right and then I wanted to place a block and then it almost kind of repeats here if I look at my code although let’s go we go over by one

Then we place a block so you don’t need to do that last movement we can those are the same so we can just repeat that by two and then this looks pretty good although wait a minute um so if we repeat we move so that’s being

Repeated so we don’t need to move three times and we only just there we go those two are around the wrong way one two three and then up by two and then repeat yes all right let’s do it up we go we go and it’s the queen okay so the king and the

Queen puzzle solved oh another cake the Queen’s birthday is May the 4th all right let’s follow these particles and this looks new let’s just run this let’s see what goes on so okay it moves the pieces and the dates change so those birthday cakes and those dates are important so King’s

Birthday is April 1st so I reckon we’re going to move the king to April first so there’s April so it’s going to move along there it’s like four and then the first is one over so that’s fine but it’s going to be four and that can stay the same

So the queen is next the queen is May the fourth It’s like Star Wars so may is gonna go that way so and then fourth is one down so let’s go to the right by four and then one down this one wasn’t too tricky actually you just gotta know about those birthday

Cakes so let’s play King’s moving green tick Queen is moving over to May and then down to the fourth room’s cleared trophy unlocked and okay we’ve gone into a little bit of Animation maybe we’re finished cool oh no oh wait a minute they’re from these are from last year

The and there’s that’s Tara from last year as well okay all right so spoiler alert if you haven’t done last year these characters from last year but I thought they were gone all right those are the trying to escape we need to help with the Chronos Cannon all right we’re going there we’re

Definitely we’ve got just like we’ve got one more coding activity all right so we’ve got to shoot this down but in the right activated prepare to fire so these are gonna go in the right order so it’s blue then it’s green and then yeah cool so let’s let’s go Blue first

So we shoot the blue Cannon first because that’s the first ring then the green then the yellow then the purple so we kind of work our way in we’ve done some decent work here this year on animating these are cool let’s shoot it we’ve got one more and

They’re kind of the time agents are kind of disappearing that’s cool I like that we brought the time agents back it’s kind of like we thought it was all over but it’s not and then they’re being trapped wonderful all right cool they’ve been trapped for good here we go

All right so we’ve got this cool little animation screen here at the end I’m not going to kind of give away these characters too much you’ll have to play the game to find out what’s happening here but that is the Green Path from this year’s wait for it wait for it in

The mirror so as a Time agent is still out for some reason so it looks like they may make a return right that is this year’s error code that is the Green Path um I hope you’re going to enjoy it there’s a ton of resources that are available through Minecraft education

Edition to support teachers in using this and to support students have fun with it this year I certainly had fun playing with it and we will see you again soon