Game: Minecraft – How to Play

How to Play Make and Model 

Minecraft Game
Make and Model is a game of creative competition. Which team can create a Minecraft build and get the vote? Who’s will be the biggest, the best, the most colorful, the most accurate, or have the most moving parts?  

Game Objective

This game has one objectives or ‘Victory Condition’:  

1. Create a Minecraft build that is voted to be better than that of your competitors.  

Gameplay 

Two teams battle against each other in any of six beautifully crafted arenas, to test their creative skills, imagination, and Minecraft knowledge. 

This Build Battle-style game is designed for players to create from a given theme, with players voting, or scores given to, the best of those creations.  

Coach Insights

Make & Model maps are full of strategic level gameplay, from choosing your roles and navigating the environment. Players will have to work as a team to succeed in whatever strategy they choose. Planning, communication, teamwork and flexibility are critical skills in this game.  

Student Skills
In this game students will have opportunities to develop the following skills: 

• Strategic thinking 
• Communication 
• Collaboration 
• Responsive Thinking 
• Reflective thinking  

Getting started with Make and Model

Access the game
Download the game arena you wish to play. 

Areas
There are three arenas to choose from:  

Every arena contains the same, common features of gameplay. Due to the different arena designs they will look a little different, but each arena will always have the following: 

• Spawn Area game controls 
• Team Selection Area 
• Build Area 
• Voting/Scoring area 
• Timer 
• Scoreboard 

Becoming familiar with these aspects of the game design will mean that you can play in any arena with ease, knowing what to look for and how to use it. 

Spawn Area
Players start in a Spawn Area, surrounded by the instruction signs and NPC’s they need to learn the basics of the game. This area contains the Game Controls and Team Selection Areas. 

The Yellow and Green floor areas of this ship are designed as Team Selection Areas. Players should stand on the color matching that of the team they are in. Yellow players on the Yellow area, Green Team players on the Green area. All players MUST be standing on one of these colors when the Start Button is pressed by the game leader. Any player who is not, will not be a part of any team when the game begins and will not be teleported from the Spawn Ship to the game arena. 

Game Controls

Team Selection

Before you begin setting the timer and starting the game, players must choose their team color and stand in the appropriately colored Team Selection Area so the game can assign them to that team. 

There are always and only two team colors: 

• Yellow 
• Green 

Players in the Yellow team must stand and remain on the yellow floor, while Green team members must stand and remain standing on the green floor. 

When the Host presses the Start button, players on each color will be assigned to that team and teleported to the game arena. Any player not standing in that area, will be left, unassigned. 

Timer

At the start, on the Spawn Ship, the Host of the game sets a timer. This time can be set to any amount of time between 1 minute and 60 minutes. 

We recommend between 20 and 40 minutes per game. 

The game Host must press the Buttons on the Blue Blocks to count the time up in increments of either 10 minutes or 1 minute.  
Should you wish to reduce the time, you may do this at any time by clicking on the Buttons on the Red blocks.   

Note: If the timer shows anything below 11 minutes, you can only reduce the time by clicking the 1 minute Button. 

When the game begins, the timer will countdown in two places: 

1. At the bottom center of the screen. 
2. On the sails of each of the Player ship (large enough to be seen from almost anywhere on the island).  

Start 

Once you have set the time, click on the Button on the Green block in the Game Controls area to start the game. 

Be sure you are ready to start the game. Use this checklist to get you started: 

In this game students will have opportunities to develop the following skills: 

• All players who should be present, are present 
• There is no one in the game who shouldn’t be 
• Players who have been allocated a team color are standing on their respective Team Color area 
• Players who are not in a given team are NOT standing on a Team Color area 
• Each team knows the build theme 

Reset

Once you have set the time and started the game, you can reset it at any time by clicking on the Button on the Black block in the Game Controls area. 

The Make and Model content is designed to be used over and over again. The Reset function is designed to reset the game to a fresh start. It is also useful if there was an error in team selection or the incorrect time was set to begin with. 

Resetting the game does: 

• Reset the timer 
• Reset the Team Selection 

Resetting the game does not: 

• Remove any builds in the Team Build areas 
• Reset the scores if Armor Stands have been used to score 

You must clear the builds and remove any scoring Armor stands manually before you begin a new game. 

If for any reason you think the Minecraft world is not working correctly or has been damaged during play so that it does not perform as the playbook suggests, reload the game from its original file source to start again: 
Download the game arena you wish to play here. 

Game Mechanics

Build Area 

As Make and Model focuses on a the creative aspects of Minecraft in a competitive game, players will build their creations in a pre-designed space called a Build Area. Each team has a Build Area in which they must create something that competes with the opposing team’s ability to create. 

By default, the arenas are Immutable’. This means that players cannot add to or destroy anything in the world around them. The Build Areas are the only place that players are able to manipulate the world to create, so containing their creations in a viewable and scoreable area. 

The Build Areas are floored with Allow Blocks. Allow Blocks ‘allow’ players to build on top of them. 

Each Build Area is made up of a 32x32x32 block space, with a colored frame, a Delete/Clear Build Button nearby, and a Structure Block on the corner.  

The Delete/Clear Build Button clears the entire Build Area in one go. Players can use this to clear a previous build, or their own. 

Once pressed, this cannot be undone!  

Structure Block – 3D Printing 

Players can export a creation using this Structure Block located in a corner of each Build Area. 

The settings inside the Structure Block have been preset to reduce player input to just one button – Export. 

Click on the Structure Block then click Export in the bottom left of the window to turn your Minecraft build into a 3D Object.

To make it available for 3D Printing, open the Minecraft Export in 3D Builder (Win10) and then save it in the format you need – .STL or .OBJ are most common.   

 Scoring 

Scoring takes place during a two minute Voting timer at the end of each round. 

When the build time runs out, players are automatically teleported outside of their build and banned from returning into the Build Area so they cannot  

Build Themes