Minecraft:Camera

The camera is an inanimate Minecraft:passive mob<ref group="note" name="mob-family">Belongs to the mob entity family in the game's code.</ref> that is able to capture and store images. Template:IN, it works together with the Minecraft:portfolio item to create collections of Minecraft:photos.<ref name="screenshot-edu">https://aka.ms/MEEBookAndQuill</ref>

Obtaining

The camera can be obtained in the Minecraft:Creative inventory in Minecraft Education. It can be obtained by either NBT editors, inventory editors, or glitches Template:In.

Usage

Using a camera from one's Minecraft:inventory captures a first-person screenshot. When having Vibrant Visuals enabled while taking a screenshot, all blocks are invisible and only the skybox and particles are visible. It may also be placed, creating a camera Minecraft:entity that can track the user, and take pictures from the camera's perspective. Photos that are taken with the camera appear in the Minecraft:portfolio.

Close-up snapshots of an Minecraft:item on the ground can be taken by holding the Shift key while right-clicking.

Screenshots from camera can be inserted into Minecraft:book and quill.<ref name="screenshot-edu"/>

Photos that are taken with the camera block are stored in Template:Cd.

Behavior

File:CameraMob in a boat.png

Camera in a boat

Cameras are mostly inanimate Minecraft:entities, but they occasionally move when falling and they move at the Minecraft:player's direction when they take a picture.

Cameras are classified as Minecraft:mobs in the game code, they obey gravity, allowing them to fall and having effects common to all other Minecraft:entities. Cameras can be affected by Minecraft:status effects. They can be killed by Minecraft:Harming and Minecraft:Decay splash/lingering potions, and they play the player death sound and fall to their side and disappear, dropping no item. Cameras can't be Minecraft:leashed but they can ride on Minecraft:boats and Minecraft:minecarts.

File:CameraMob being damaged by poison.png

Camera being harmed by poison effect

Cameras are harmed by Minecraft:fire, Minecraft:lava, and Minecraft:campfire damage but they never die from it. Cameras can be destroyed by any Minecraft:projectile used by the player, such as Minecraft:arrows, Minecraft:tridents, or Minecraft:snowballs. Cameras never drown and are invulnerable to the Minecraft:void, Minecraft:cacti, Minecraft:falling blocks, to Minecraft:explosions or by Minecraft:firework rockets.

Minecraft:Wardens, Minecraft:withers, Minecraft:zoglins, Minecraft:goats, and Minecraft:vindicators named Johnny attack cameras, but the camera remains undamaged; Minecraft:pufferfish also inflate when a camera is nearby. Minecraft:Foxes don't sleep near cameras as well.

Sounds

Data values

Entity data

See Minecraft:Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

History

Minecraft Education

• A row of cameras, as seen in v0.3.0.
  A row of cameras, as seen in v0.3.0.
• Example image taken by the camera Minecraft:entity.
  Example image taken by the camera Minecraft:entity.
• The first method of using cameras.
  The first method of using cameras.
• The second method of using cameras.
  The second method of using cameras.
• A camera spawned using a Minecraft:spawn egg named "Minecraft:Dinnerbone" in the v0.15.0.
  A camera spawned using a Minecraft:spawn egg named "Minecraft:Dinnerbone" in the v0.15.0.
• A camera falling from a Minecraft:tree.
  A camera falling from a Minecraft:tree.

Future

At the Minecraft Minecraft:Pocket Edition panel at Minecraft:MINECON 2012, as well as one of Jbernhardsson's livestreams, it was stated that future plans include trying to have a proper use for cameras, perhaps an easier way to take screenshots and share them with others.<ref>Template:Ytl</ref> In the BlockTalk Q&A, the camera was briefly mentioned as part of a broader "sharing" theme planned for Template:El in the future.<ref>Template:Ytl</ref> It later got implemented into Template:El, using the camera to make screenshots and share them in a special book.

Trivia

• A camera prevents a Minecraft:book and quill from working. Attempting to craft it or obtain it by commands gives a regular book instead, due to non-implementation of photo attaching to written books.Template:Verify
• The camera can take a screenshot, which appears a bit smaller with a thick paper outline having cuts on its edges, making it look like an old photograph.
• Even though the internal name of the camera is tripod camera, it has four legs.

Gallery

Renders

• A recreation of a potential camera animation, using an unused texture from Minecraft:Pi Edition.
  A recreation of a potential camera animation, using an unused texture from Minecraft:Pi Edition.

Textures

• Texture of the camera entity.
  Texture of the camera entity.

Screenshots

• A camera spawned with the name "Dinnerbone".
  A camera spawned with the name "Dinnerbone".
• A camera being damaged by Minecraft:lava.
  A camera being damaged by Minecraft:lava.
• A camera sitting in a Minecraft:minecart.
  A camera sitting in a Minecraft:minecart.
• A camera with Minecraft:slow falling effect.
  A camera with Minecraft:slow falling effect.
• A Minecraft:vindicator named Johnny attacking a camera.
  A Minecraft:vindicator named Johnny attacking a camera.
• A camera alongside a Minecraft:NPC and a Minecraft:agent in a tutorial world.
  A camera alongside a Minecraft:NPC and a Minecraft:agent in a tutorial world.
• The camera and camera block placed in a world along with other Education Edition features.
  The camera and camera block placed in a world along with other Education Edition features.
• An example of the screenshot taken by a camera in beta 1.13.0.1.
  An example of the screenshot taken by a camera in beta 1.13.0.1.
• Minecraft:Steve, Minecraft:Alex, Minecraft:Jesse, and an Minecraft:Agent getting their picture taken.
  Minecraft:Steve, Minecraft:Alex, Minecraft:Jesse, and an Minecraft:Agent getting their picture taken.
• Another example of a screenshot taken by a camera in 1.21.51.
  Another example of a screenshot taken by a camera in 1.21.51.

In other media

• The camera in promotional artwork for Minecraft:Minecraft Education.
  The camera in promotional artwork for Minecraft:Minecraft Education.

See also

• Template:ItemLink
• Minecraft:Screenshot

External links

• Learn to Play: The Camera – Minecraft.net on August 22, 2018