{"id":110917,"date":"2017-11-22T03:41:35","date_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:41:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/minecraft-connected-with-flow\/"},"modified":"2017-11-22T03:41:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T11:41:35","slug":"minecraft-connected-with-flow","status":"publish","type":"power-automate","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-us\/power-platform\/blog\/power-automate\/minecraft-connected-with-flow\/","title":{"rendered":"From Office 365 to Azure to Minecraft, connected with Flow"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week, read about a fun scenario from John Liu about how he automated Minecraft with Microsoft Flow. This article was orignally posted here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Background<\/h2>\n
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  1. Minecraft Windows 10 edition in the latest 1.2 (better together update) included web sockets previously only in the Minecraft Education version. Web Sockets lets you connect to a Minecraft game, and remotely execute Minecraft commands.<\/li>\n
  2. Minecraft Code Connection is an external application that hosts a friendly REST API and translates JSON to web socket. Previously this was only for Minecraft Education Edition. An update in early October allows this to work with Minecraft Windows 10. https:\/\/makecode.com\/blog\/minecraft\/10-18-2017<\/li>\n
  3. Microsoft Data Gateway allows Flow, PowerApps, PowerBI to talk to on-premises environments. It also recently gained the ability to execute custom connections. It is essentially, an enterprise data gateway \/ reverse proxy that connects your local environment to an Azure Service Bus. The ability to call your custom local REST endpoint was released in September. https:\/\/flow.microsoft.com\/blog\/q3-2017-update\/<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Cloud based services like Flow\/LogicApps, PowerApps, and PowerBI can talk to this connection online, via the magic of Azure Service Bus.<\/li>\n
  5. And because I’m a SharePoint MVP – we are triggering this Flow from SharePoint Online. Because the world needs this.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Setting up Minecraft & Code Connection<\/h2>\n