Camera

Tripod Camera

Health points	4HP
Hitbox size	Height: 1.8 Blocks Width: 0.75 blocks
Spawn	See Obtaining

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Camera Block

Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	Any tool
Blast resistance	0
Hardness	0
Luminous	0
Transparent	No
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No

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The camera is an inanimate mob-like entity that is capable of capturing and storing images. In Minecraft Education, it works together with the portfolio item to create collections of photos.

Obtaining

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

Usage

Using a camera from one's inventory captures a first-person screenshot. It may also be placed, creating a camera entity that can track the user, and take pictures from the camera's perspective. Photos that are taken with the camera appear in the portfolio.

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

Screenshots from camera can be inserted into book and quill.

Photos that are taken with the camera block are stored in com.mojang/screenshots.

Behavior

Camera in a boat

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

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

Camera being harmed by poison effect

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

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

Sounds

Generic

[hide] v t e normal sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.27	0.5
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Unique

[hide]Sounds
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Players	When a picture is taken with a camera	camera.take_picture	1.0	1.0
	Players	When a camera dies	game.player.die	1.0	0.8-1.2

Data values

ID

Camera	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID	[hide]Translation key
Block	camera	242	Block & Ungiveable Item	item.camera	tile.camera.name
Item	camera	593	Item	—	item.camera.name

Camera	Identifier	Numeric ID	[hide]Translation key
Entity	tripod_camera	62	entity.tripod_camera.name

Entity data

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

History

[hide]Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.1.0							The textures and model of the camera can be found in the game apk file.A Java method named saveScreenshot containing codes for saving image to device were found. A Java method named postScreenshotToFacebook was also found but it does not contain any code in it.
v0.2.0							Added cameras.
							Changed item and tripod textures.
							To use a camera, equip it in the player's hand, then look in the direction the player wants the picture to be taken. Long-press the screen, and a camera drops to the ground where the player are standing. Step back, then press on the camera until it starts emitting smoke particles. The smoke means a picture has been taken, and the camera may disappear immediately afterward.
							Cameras have infinite uses.
							The Entity ID is 62 and item 456.
v0.4.0							The camera is now invisible and makes the standard player damage sound.
v0.7.0							Added the "F1" feature (Hide GUI), which has now made the camera obsolete.
v0.8.0			build 2				Item form now uses egg texture.
v0.9.0			build 1				The camera entity has been removed. Tommaso also stated: "It doesn't mean that it's dead forever, in fact I have a lot of ideas for it! I think it will be back when have shaders, sharing and redstone."
v0.14.0			build 1				Re-added the camera, using a new model and item texture. It is accessible only with inventory editors.
							If the player spawns a camera, leaves the world and joins back, it summons lightning.
v0.14.2							The camera item ID has been changed to 498, but it cannot be used at the moment. The entity can now be spawned with a spawn egg with a damage value of 62.
							According to the language files of the game, the empty label that shows up whenever hovering a finger to a camera would now say "Take Picture". However, the button doesn't do anything.
v0.15.0			build 1				The previous empty label on the camera mentioned above now displays the words "Take Picture".
							The health of the camera entity is now 2HP instead 4HP.
							The camera no longer summons lightning.
v0.16.0			build 1				The camera now has a block form in inventory, but still spawns the entity. However, the block can be placed only with commands and editing.
							"Take picture" button on the camera works now, but no image files are created.
							The original camera item ID (456) now refers to portfolio.
			build 2				The camera now has an item form and the block has been removed. However, it is still obtainable in servers.
							Portfolio, which works together with the camera to create collections of pictures, has been removed.
			build 4				Camera item form has been removed, and the camera can no longer be obtained or placed using any command.
[hide]Bedrock Edition
1.8.0			beta 1.8.0.8				The camera has been reimplemented.
							The camera entity can now be spawned with a spawn egg with damage value 258.
1.12.0			beta 1.12.0.2				The camera can now be obtained with the /give command.
1.13.0			beta 1.13.0.1				The camera can no longer be obtained with the /give command.
							Functionality has been added to the camera. Screenshots that are taken by the camera can now be saved into the screenshots folder.
							Cameras are now a part of the Minecraft Education toggle as a hidden feature.
							Cameras no longer have a death animation when killed by the player and instead, instantly emit smoke particles.
1.16.100			beta 1.16.100.50				The camera can now be obtained with the /give command once again.
			beta 1.16.100.55				The camera can no longer be obtained with the /give command.
[hide]Minecraft Education
1.0							Added cameras.
1.4.0							Cameras no longer have a death animation when killed by the player manually and instead instantly emit smoke particles.

• 

  A row of cameras, as seen in v0.3.0.

• 

  Example image taken by the camera entity.

• 

  The first method of using cameras.

• 

  The second method of using cameras.

• 

  A camera spawned using a spawn egg named "Dinnerbone" in the v0.15.0 beta.

• 

  A camera falling from a tree.

Future

At the Minecraft Pocket Edition panel at 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. In the BlockTalk Q&A, the camera was briefly mentioned as part of a broader "sharing" theme planned for Bedrock Edition in the future. It later got implemented into Minecraft Education, using the camera to make screenshots and share them in a special book.

Issues

Issues relating to "Camera" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

Trivia

• A camera prevents a 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.
• 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.
• This feature is hidden from the Creative inventory and from the /give command item menu.

Gallery

Renders

• 

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

Screenshots

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  A camera being damaged by lava.

• 

  A camera sitting in a minecart.

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  A camera with slow falling effect.

• 

  A vindicator named Johnny attacking a camera.

• 

  A camera alongside a NPC and a agent in a tutorial world.

• 

  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.

• 

  Steve, Alex, Jesse, and an Agent getting their picture taken.

In other media

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  The camera in promotional artwork for Minecraft Education.

See also

• Portfolio
• Screenshot

External links

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