If your first reaction to the word “blocks” is thinking about Minecraft, this pack is for you.

Five challenges wrapped in the language of crafting, mining, and building. Same coding concepts, but now you’re working with pickaxes and diamonds instead of abstract variables.

The Challenges

Craft a Pickaxe — Print “Crafting: Diamond Pickaxe” to the console. Simple, but it gets you into the Minecraft mindset. This is the tutorial before the cave.

Mine Diamonds — Use a Repeat block to simulate mining. Print “Mining…” three times, then “Found 5 diamonds!” at the end. Loops meet storytelling.

Build a House — Print each building step: place foundation, build walls, add roof, install door. Sequential output, one step at a time. Programming is just organized instructions.

Enchantment Table — Calculate the cost of enchanting. This one uses math blocks and variables to figure out how many levels and lapis lazuli you need. It’s arithmetic disguised as Minecraft.

Creeper Warning — The boss challenge. Use an IF block to check if a creeper is nearby, then print the right warning. Conditionals are how programs make decisions — and in Minecraft, that decision might save your base.

What You’ll Learn

This pack teaches the same fundamentals as Getting Started — print, loops, math, conditionals — but wraps them in a world you already understand. When the context is familiar, the coding concepts stick faster.

You know how Minecraft recipes work: combine specific items in a specific order to get a result. That’s literally what programming is. Combine specific blocks in a specific order to get output.

Five challenges. One blocky world. Zero creeper damage to your code.