I'm hoping Minecraft is the thing my older kid needs to learn all the important stuff, like how to code, engineering, and math. It's been a lot of fun watching

I'm hoping Minecraft is the thing my older kid needs to learn all the important stuff, like how to code, engineering, and math. It's been a lot of fun watching videos of automatic wood/food/etc farms. These people are really learning how to think and design solution based on the world they're in. Some of these inventions are simply ingenious. Plus, you can do actual code as well, I'm guessing after he's tired of grinding he'll decide he needs to learn how to get things done a bit more systematically. There's also the economic aspect of it, thinking about how different resources are connected, how trading happens, etc. Whether it works it hard to say though. Video games are a double edged sword, you can sit for years without learning how to code. You need some way of creating intellectual progress. Plus you need to actually put time into school to pick up credentials, and that competes with whatever else you spend time on.