Mission 674
Stop the Press! Print Your Timeline’s First Newspaper
Badge: Press Baron
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Build a press workshop, make backwards letters and print a giant headline.
Copying one book by hand could take months. Then a press changed everything. Now it's your turn to print.
- New skill Designing a pixel-letter font
- Level 7 · Time Travellers
- Difficulty Intermediate
- Mode Creative
- Time 45–60 min
- Ages 13+
What you’ll build
Design your own block font, then build a printing workshop with a giant screw press and a type case wall. Build your headline backwards on the press bed, print it the right way on a giant wall and write a front page in a Book and Quill.
Finish line: Your press workshop has a mirror-image type bed, a giant printed headline and a front page on a lectern.
Bonus challenge: Make a real stamp: carve one letter backwards into a potato or eraser (ask for help with the knife) and print it with paint.
You’ll need
- Wood blocks
- Barrels
- Contrasting blocks for letters
- A Book and Quill
- A lectern
- A timer
You choose
- My newspaper's name
- Today's headline
- My bet: the press is ___ times faster than a hand copy
Stuck?
- Mirror letters confusing? Build the headline normally on paper, then flip it left to right.
- Letters running together? Leave a 1-block gap between each one.
- Don't sign the front page until it's finished. Signed books can't be edited.
For grown-ups
Get this mission
This mission is in Mission Pack 67. Each printable has the full steps, a Plan & Log page and a parent page.
Print one mission at a time. You never need to print everything.
Played on Minecraft Bedrock on iPad. Buttons can differ on other devices and versions.