What you need to know
- Minecraft: Education Edition combines the fun and knowledge of the creative game of Minecraft into a powerful educational tool.
- With Mobile Update, Education Edition finally arrives on the Android and iOS platforms, along with many other changes.
- The Render Dragon engine provides better performance, easier multiplayer participation, and improved in-game coding.
- Finally, 1.18 “Caves & Cliffs Update Part 2” is also coming to Minecraft: Education Edition with this release.
Mojang Studios’ popular and capable educational tool based on Minecraft today enjoys a number of major improvements and new features, so it’s a good day for educators everywhere. The Minecraft: Education Edition mobile update expands the educational-focused version of the popular creative survival game to the Android and iOS platforms, along with many other improvements.
Minecraft: Education Edition is used by hundreds of institutions and educators around the world to help teach kids all kinds of topics through Minecraft. On Wednesday, Mojang Studios started releasing his Mobile Update to all users. This is a major release that will get educators and kids excited.
Highlights of the Minecraft: Education Edition mobile update include:
- Available for Android and iOS platforms. For the first time, Minecraft: Education Edition is available on Android and iOS platforms, greatly expanding the potential user base. The tool has various optimizations and settings to make it run and look great on small devices and is compatible with a wide range of iPhones, Android smartphones and Android tablets.
- Minecraft 1.18 “Caves & Cliffs Update Part 2”. The Mobile Update also includes all the features and changes included in the second half of the Caves & Cliffs Update, a Minecraft content update for the second half of 2021. This means that world generation for mountains, caves, and other terrain has been greatly improved, increasing the height and depth of the world.
- Improved in-game coding. Minecraft: Education Edition can be used to teach kids how to code and is getting better with Mobile Update. In-game coding is now available to all users, and many new improvements have been made to help kids learn how to code, including more accessible tutorials and information.
- Improved multiplayer. Minecraft: Education Edition removes some of the multiplayer barriers that have been staples of vanilla Minecraft versions. This makes it easy for an educator to bring all children together in the same her Education Edition space. Very little manual configuration is required to make everything work.
- Improved graphics performance. A universal version of Minecraft across platforms and ecosystems, Minecraft: Bedrock Edition is powered by the flexible, modern Render Dragon engine. Since Mobile Update, Education Edition has the same. Users should see performance improvements after updating, especially on low-power devices common in education.
- New NPC skins. Educators and creators creating new educational content for Minecraft: Education Edition have added 20 NPC skins with which you can design your world. The new skins are divided into farming, business, and kiosk categories, which should add more variety to the world of education.
Minecraft: Education Edition is built on the same creative freedom as Minecraft, but it’s more than just a video game. It aims to teach kids about collaboration, creative problem-solving and open-minded critical thinking while providing useful information on a variety of subjects including science, math, history and coding. Mobile Update brings availability to more platforms and improved functionality across the board.
Will Education Edition overtake the Bedrock Brothers as one of the best Xbox games? For non-educators looking to explore content, some features, worlds, and lessons are available in Bedrock ) Edition). The Education Edition of Minecraft is important to many educators and kids, and it just got better with today’s update.