[OPLINLIST] Minecraft

[Greg Ricker]

As a member of our IT department, I've been helping our teen librarian add Minecraft to the list of games they play at their Game On program which are held the first Thu of each month except in the summer.

We bought a Minecraftedu.com server subscription which I think was $41 + VAT tax and installed and ran it off a spare Dell PC we had in the office. We then hooked up a wireless router to the computer and made it its own mini network. We did not have to buy individual licenses for each participant nor did the participants have to buy their own membership. The server allows anyone to play the EDU version as guests. Our server is only running during game time. Since they are on a separate network, the laptops we use don't have a connection to the internet and the teens or children are safe from outsiders because we it isn't a public server. We've played several different variations from creative to survival and from peaceful to hostile.

The only problems we have which I think are minor are that teens who do have a minecraft account can't use them. There is no outside internet connection so no minecraft account authentication. Also, the server is only on during game time so a teen or child that wants to play outside of our scheduled events, has to do so on a different server.

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Greg Ricker
Warren-Trumbull County Public Library
Assistant Department Manager, Information Technology
444 Mahoning Ave. NW  Warren, Ohio 44483
rickerg at wtcpl.org<mailto:rickerg at wtcpl.org> | http://www.wtcpl.org/
330.399.8807 x144



From: oplinlist-bounces at lists.oplin.org [mailto:oplinlist-bounces at lists.oplin.org] On Behalf Of Karalea Lane
Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 9:23 AM
To: oplinlist at lists.oplin.org
Subject: Re: [OPLINLIST] Minecraft

I operate a bi-weekly Video game program for teens. Some of them have asked about Minecraft. Does it have to be played online or could it be downloaded to the xBox and played offline?

Karalea Lane
YA/Children's Clerk
Garnet A Wilson Public Library
740/947-4921

On 5/11/2013 10:50 AM, Jack Phoenix wrote:
I've noticed that the game Minecraft seems to be everwhere; absolutely EVERYWHERE. Have you any you brought Minecraft into your libraries? If so, how and in what way? I recently read a School Library Journal article that talked about having a Minecraft, but it required having a server dedicated to the game as well the participants having to pay a fee for the game. Does anyone have experience with this?



Jack Phoenix
Adult Programming Coordinator
London Public Library
(740)852-9543
phoenixja at oplin.org<mailto:phoenixja at oplin.org>





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