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Long house Saplings

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Quest 2: Viking celebrations

There are four activities in this quest:

The long house village;

Preparing a feast;

Decorate the long house; and

Making clothes.

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The long house village activity

Step 1: Find the second Viking village

Log into the multiplayer world. Go through the Viking entrance:

To the right of the gate is the small Viking village. The larger Viking long house village is over

the hills to the left, beyond the snowcapped mountains:

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Explore the Viking long house village, the longhouses and surrounding area:

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Preparing a feast activity

Step 1: Catch, prepare and cook fish

Create a fishing rod

To catch a fish you will need a fishing rod. Like other tools such as swords or pickaxes, a

fishing rod will only last for a limited time. You can use a fishing rod 65 times before it

breaks. To craft a fishing rod see the Recipes resource.

Catch fish

Working in small groups:

1. Choose an area of water close to the long house village.

2. Select the fishing rod.

3. Right-click while facing a body of water.

4. Once the float has risen to the

water's surface, watch for it to bob

under the water.

5. As soon as it bobs under the

water, right-click again and a fish

should fly out of the water towards

your feet.

This task takes a little patience to get right! Keep trying! There are four types of fish listed in

MinecraftEdu:

raw fish and raw salmon (which can be cooked in a furnace);

clown fish (which cannot be cooked); and

puffer fish (which is poisonous).

Cooked salmon is the most beneficial fish of all of these. It restores three hungry points.

How to cook fish

You will need a furnace to cook the fish. See the recipes resource to learn how to make a

furnace.

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Step 2: Farm, prepare and cook meat

Animal enclosure

Work in small groups and decide on a pen design. You may also wish to use this guidance to

build a small animal pen:

1. You will need enough wood to make 16 fences (6 logs (blocks), 24 planks, or 11 sticks).

See the recipes resource for more details about fences.

2. Dig a hole: 5 x 5 and 1 block deep.

3. Place fences all around the edge.

4. Put a block in the middle.

Fences form a barrier that is 1½ blocks high, so that animals can't jump over it.

If you place a block in the middle of the pen, you will be able to stand on it to jump out of

the pen, but the chickens won't. This pen design is easy for you and the chickens to get into

from any direction, but only you can get out.

1. Hold some food out.

2. When they notice the food, they will look at you and follow you.

3. Lead the animals to the enclosure.

Animal breeding

1. To get the animals to breed, you need to feed them.

2. Right-click on an animal while holding some food and hearts will appear above the

animal’s head, and then click on another animal.

Slaughter

The most efficient way to harvest meat from your cows and pigs is just to enter the pen with

a sword and slay most of them. You need to save a few for breeding the next herd.

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Cook

Smelting (cooking) raw meat, fish and potatoes will provide you with two to three times the

amount of food points compared to eating those items raw.

Remember! Chicken has a 30 per cent chance of causing food poisoning. Cook all chicken

before eating it.

How to cook meat

You will need coal and a furnace to cook the meat. See the recipes resource for more

information about the furnace.

1. Put coal and meat on the furnace. Once the arrow is full, the meat is cooked.

2. Move the meat to the inventory.

Step 3: Make bread, grow and harvest vegetables

Bread

Bread is one of the easiest staple sources of food in Minecraft.

You make bread by placing 3 pieces of wheat side by side on the crafting table.

In small groups look for the farmed areas growing wheat throughout the Viking village.

Bread restores 3 hunger slots. Bread is also stackable. To make bread, see the recipes

resource.

Wheat and vegetables

If there is time, you may wish to grow your own wheat.

You can forage for carrots and potatoes throughout the Viking long boat village.

Working in small groups plan and build storage silos with chests to store your food items.

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Decorate the long house activity

Step 1: Plant flowers and saplings

How to craft a potted sapling:

Find a tree, for example an oak sapling.

You can use your hands to chop down the leaves of a tree but it is better to craft an axe

(see the recipes resource for more information).

Chop the tree leaves until a sapling falls from the tree.

Pick up the sapling before it disappears.

The sapling will then appear in your hotbar or inventory.

Use the sapling with a flower pot to make a potted plant for decoration in the long

house. Or grow trees around the outside of the long house.

Step 2: Decorate the long house

Think about how you might decorate the long house. You may also find this guidance useful:

How to craft a painting in Minecraft in survival mode:

You will need a crafting table. See the recipes resource for more information about

making a crafting table and a picture frame.

You will need 8 sticks and 1 block of wool.

Move the painting to the inventory.

Place the painting in the long house. The image in the painting is randomly generated.

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Making clothes activity

Step 1: Craft a leather tunic

Begin by making leather:

1. You can add leather to your inventory in survival mode by killing a cow or a horse. You

will find cows and horses wandering around the Viking village.

2. Once you find a cow or horse, you need to attack it. When you attack it will turn pink as

it becomes damaged. Continue to chase and attack the animal. Once you have killed it, it

will drop leather.

3. Pick up the leather to add it to your inventory. To make a leather tunic, see the recipes

resource.

To put the tunic on, from the inventory move the tunic to

the second-left box beside your character.

You will see your character's appearance change. They are

now wearing the tunic.

Research other clothes and household items the Vikings might have crafted, for example:

Leather boots

Leather trousers

Leather cap

Wool (while it’s not possible to create wool clothes in MinecraftEdu, it is possible to

make and dye wool: see the recipes resource for more information)

Dying wool

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Step 2: Take a snapshot

Take a series of photos (snapshots) from the Viking long house celebration and talk about the food

you have stored in the chests, long room decorations and clothes you have crafted.

Decide on the viewpoint of your photo:

The default view in MinecraftEdu is first person:

Press F5 to toggle the viewpoint to third person (behind):

Press F5 again to view third person (in front):

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Press F2 to take the screenshots. To make the screenshots look more professional, you can

remove the Heads-Up Display (HUD) and enter full screen mode before taking one. To do

this:

Press F1 while in the game to remove the HUD.

To bring the HUD back, press F1 again.

On pressing F2, MinecraftEdu saves the screen shot to a local folder. To find this folder:

a. Press ESC to view the Game menu.

b. Choose Options.

c. Choose Resource Packs.

d. Choose Open resource pack folder.

e. Click on Minecraft.

f. Double-click on the screenshots folder.

2. Have a class discussion about the snapshots.