Sonic Pi now supports a simple API for interacting with Minecraft Pi - the special edition of Minecraft which is installed by default on the Raspberry Piās Raspbian Linux-based operating system.
The Minecraft Pi integration has been designed to be insanely easy to
use. All you need to do is to launch Minecraft Pi and create a
world. Youāre then free to use the mc_* fns just like you might use
play and synth. Thereās no need to import anything or install any
libraries - itās all ready to go and works out of the box.
The Minecraft Pi API takes care of managing your connection to the
Minecraft Pi application. This means you donāt need to worry about a
thing. If you try and use the Minecraft Pi API when Minecraft Pi isnāt
open, Sonic Pi will politely tell you. Similarly, if you close Minecraft
Pi whilst youāre still running a live_loop that uses the API, the live
loop will stop and politely tell you that it canāt connect. To
reconnect, just launch Minecraft Pi again and Sonic Pi will
automatically detect and re-create the connection for you.
The Minecraft Pi API has been designed to work seamlessly within
live_loops. This means itās possible to synchronise modifications in
your Minecraft Pi worlds with modifications in your Sonic Pi
sounds. Instant Minecraft-based music videos! Note however that
Minecraft Pi is alpha software and is known to be slightly buggy. If you
encounter any problems simply restart Minecraft Pi and carry on as
before. Sonic Piās automatic connection functionality will take care of
things for you.
It is highly recommended that you use a Raspberry Pi 2 if you wish to run both Sonic Pi and Minecraft at the same time - especially if you want to use Sonic Piās sound capabilities.
At this stage, Sonic Pi supports basic block and player manipulations which are detailed in Section C.1. Support for event callbacks triggered by player interactions in the world is planned for a future release.