Have you seen this: http://forum.world.st/ANN-Minecraft-Bindings-tt4671908.html
> On 7 Dec 2016, at 09:40, Ben Coman <b...@openinworld.com> wrote: > > Minecraft is immensely popular. For teaching programming (to kids) > via Minecraft, the first option is Java, but that might be a bit heavy > for a pre-teen. A few lighter options are Lua via Computercraft [1] > and Javascript via Scriptcraft [2]. > > I've tried Computercraft and its quite interesting the way it > simulates real-life computers and drones, but the drone works slowly > so my kids end up doing things faster themselves. > > I am in the initial stages of trying Scriptcraft (with Spigot server) > and making walls, buildings etc is fast, so hopefully my kids will see > value in using these superpowers. > > But then I wondered whether it might be possible for SqueakJS and > PharoJS to interface with Minecraft via the Javascript engine. I was > interested to discover that the JVM comes with a Javascript engine > built in [3], "Rhino" [4] for JVM7 and faster "Nashorn" for JVM8 [5]. > > So I thought I would just seed the idea in the community to see if > anyone might be interested to pursue this. It really would be > fantastic to use our environment to make mods for Minecraft. (The > actual plan for world domination is to build some assets and > experience with minecraft, and then migrate to a pure Smalltalk 3D > client and server with GPU backends when that becomes available > -gnomes) > > Or maybe it would be better to use JNIPort[6] or JavaConnect[7] or > something else. > > cheers -ben > > [1] > http://www.computercraft.info/2016/04/01/computercraft-and-computercraftedu-1-79/ > [2] http://scriptcraftjs.org/ > [3] > https://github.com/walterhiggins/ScriptCraft/blob/master/docs/Using-Java-APIs-In-Javascript.md > [4] https://jaxenter.com/scriptcraft-hacking-minecraft-for-kids-105467.html > [5] https://www.infoq.com/articles/nashorn > [6] http://smalltalkhub.com/#!/~JNIPort/JNIPort/ > [7] http://www.squeaksource.com/JavaConnect >
