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AutCraft server for Minecraft tailored for autistic players

Lewis Leong

Lewis Leong

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Minecraft is a great game for children who can use their creativity to build their own virtual world but it can be stressful for those with autism. Autism Blogger Stuart Duncan has a son with autism and decided to create Autcraft, a Minecraft server tailored for autistic players.

AutCraft works by providing autistic players a place where they can play unencumbered by attacks from monsters or other players. “Minecraft has proven very beneficial for people with autism as it provides the open world, no stress, creative and imaginative sandbox space that they can thrive in…The one area that it’s struggled, however, is in it’s [sic] social game play,” writes Duncan in a blog post.

AutCraft server for Minecraft tailored for autistic players

“Children learn to respect other people’s properties but also have the comfort in knowing that everyone else will respect theirs.”

Minecraft has been designed to be an open and unsupervised sandbox where players can create and play around as they please. This level of freedom can lead to bullying, since players interact with strangers online. AutCraft creates a autism friendly environment by removing monsters for younger players, turning off player damage, removing the ability to hit other players, and having a zero tolerance policy on bullying. Duncan has also made AutCraft invite-only, screening members before allowing them on the server so it could a few days to hear back from the AutCraft staff. For now, AutCraft is free but is taking donations.

Check out the video above and AutCraft.com to see how AutCraft works.

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[Source: Autism Daily Newscast | Stuart Duncan]

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