Camera

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The camera is an inanimate passive mob^{[note 1]} that is able to capture and store images. In Minecraft Education, it works together with the portfolio item to create collections of photos.^[1]

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

Using a camera from one's 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 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 a camera can be inserted into a book and quill.^[1]

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

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, dropping no item. Cameras can't be leashed but they can ride on boats and minecarts.

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 a camera is nearby. Foxes don't sleep near cameras as well.

See Bedrock Edition level format/Entity format.

• 👁 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 entity.
  
  Example image taken by the camera 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 spawn egg named "Dinnerbone" in the v0.15.0.
  
  A camera spawned using a spawn egg named "Dinnerbone" in the v0.15.0.
• 👁 A camera falling from a tree.
  
  A camera falling from a tree.

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.^[6] In the BlockTalk Q&A, the camera was briefly mentioned as part of a broader "sharing" theme planned for Bedrock Edition in the future.^[7] It later got implemented into Minecraft Education, using the camera to make screenshots and share them in a special book.

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

• 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.^[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.

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

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

• 👁 A camera spawned with the name "Dinnerbone".
  
  A camera spawned with the name "Dinnerbone".
• 👁 A camera being damaged by lava.
  
  A camera being damaged by lava.
• 👁 A camera sitting in a minecart.
  
  A camera sitting in a minecart.
• 👁 A camera with slow falling effect.
  
  A camera with slow falling effect.
• 👁 A vindicator named Johnny attacking a camera.
  
  A vindicator named Johnny attacking a camera.
• 👁 A camera alongside a NPC and a agent in a tutorial world.
  
  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.
  
  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.
• 👁 Steve, Alex, Jesse, and an Agent getting their picture taken.
  
  Steve, Alex, Jesse, and an 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.

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

• 👁 Image
  Portfolio
• Screenshot

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