Minecraft Round Up - Let's Play On Rails Archery
In this week's Minecraft Mod Club, we are continuing our Minecraft Mini Game Series and playing On Rails Archery:)🚂
In this mod, the players are whizzed around a powered railway track and equipped with a bow and arrow. To get this game started, the player simply places their cart on the tracks, right clicks to jump in and goes forward to get the cart rolling. The aim of the game is to hit as many targets as possible - see how many you can hit within just three laps!
The code for this mod is made up of 4 different functions, called one after another. The first function creates the powered rails by using 'Shape' type blocks - by placing 4 lines of tracks, and then surrounding them with Redstone torches the player can roll around the track seamlessly.
This in then followed by calling the corner rails function we coded in order to join each of the 4 lines of previously coded tracks together. Thirdly, we call the function target; by using a repeat block we are able to control the amount of targets placed inside our railway tracks. We also include some randomisation code to make sure each target is sporadically placed around the tracks.
This means that every time you use this mod the targets will always be in different places making each game unique - how cool! The final function our trust item function - we use this to give the player their cart, their bow and of course their arrows.
Try modding this code to make it your own! You can make the tracks as short or as long as you like by editing the coordinates in the powered rails and corner rails functions. You can also edit the repeat block within the target function to give yourself more or less targets depending on how easy or hard you want to make On Rails Archery for you and your friends!
Let us know how you did in On Rails Archery and what size tracks you created. Until next time, happy building!
About Minecraft Mod Club
Minecraft Mod Club uses Minecraft Education Edition to teach real code. Children write mods rather than just playing: custom blocks, new behaviours, things the game does not do out of the box. For a child who would happily spend all weekend in Minecraft, it is usually the easiest way in.
It is included with every membership rather than sold separately. Sessions are one hour a week in a group of no more than six, with the same DBS-checked, STEM-certified mentor, and children build their own projects rather than following a set course. Most start in Scratch or MakeCode and move to Python and TypeScript when they are ready.
Modding is a good bridge because the feedback is immediate and visible: change the code, reload the world, see whether the block behaves. That makes the jump from block-based coding to written code less abrupt than it usually is, which is the point where most children stall when they are learning alone.
Mentors write a note on every child after every session, so we know when somebody is ready to move up a level or would rather stay put.
More than a third of our members are autistic or have ADHD, based on what parents tell us when they join, and in 2025 we received the Autism Inclusion Award from the National Autistic Society. Children can keep the camera off, type instead of speaking, and take a break without it disrupting anyone.
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Club news is the other half, and it is where posts like this one live: game jams, Minecraft builds and weekly roundups, written up by whoever ran the session. Neither is marketing. If you want to know what an hour actually looks like before you book anything, club news is the more honest read of the two.
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