Analyze commands not supported by mcpi

[acs]

The complete API supported at the server is:

https://github.com/zhuowei/RaspberryJuice

There is a mcpi modded to include the full API: https://github.com/zhuowei/RaspberryJuice/tree/master/src/main/resources/mcpi/api/python/modded/mcpi

With it, for example, entities can be created. And there are a lot of them:

https://github.com/zhuowei/RaspberryJuice/blob/master/src/main/resources/mcpi/api/python/modded/mcpi/entity.py

We are using right now the 1.11 version which includes:

1.11 - spawnEntity, setDirection, setRotation, setPitch

In 1.12 we have also:

1.12 - getEntities, removeEntities, pollProjectileHits, events calls by player and entity

so we need to move to it. In javierete.com we have:

root@javierete:~# ls -1 /home/minecraft/spigot/plugins/
PluginMetrics
RaspberryJuice
bStats
raspberryjuice-1.11.jar

We need to migrate to the last one.

https://www.spigotmc.org/resources/raspberryjuice.22724/

[acs]

But, is there a mcpi package including the new API calls? I don't think so. So probably, we can extend mcpi from mcthings in some way, or to create a pip package mcpi. Adding entities is pretty cool.

[acs]

The future seems to be this one: zhuowei/RaspberryJuice#84 (comment)

«It feels like time for RaspberryJuice2. A separate plugin which makes a clear distinction about the break in compatibility and takes forward the premise of a real-time Minecraft API.»

But it is a bit unclear how it will be done.

[acs]

mcpi API (Raspberry PI Minecraft API) has survived more than 10 years, so it is a good thing to adhere to it. And there are a lot of creations done using it. So be careful using other extended APIs.

For example, in minetest, this API is also implemented in:

https://github.com/arpruss/raspberryjammod-minetest

so McThings must work out of then box also with minetest. All the creations done must work equally in Minecraft and in Minetest which is awesome. And also, it must work in Raspi version, which has a relevant community https://projects.raspberrypi.org/en/projects/getting-started-with-minecraft-pi

So I would create another version McThings experimental/lab to play with other options.

[acs]

All of the commands are now supported in mcpi: martinohanlon/mcpi@47c6d5b

Great!!! So we can close this issue.