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4 years ago Our approach is to support all platforms (Minecraft Edu probably can import Schematics using some tool, or use worlds generated with McThings scenes). Let's see if we can accomplish our goals and this overall strategy.
Once of this original goals of McThings is Education. And this goal has been already covered in Minecraft and Minetest.
There is Minecraft Education, which is the reference. It has specific behaviours in this version (like Strucure Blocks which are more powerful and easy too use), and it is now (June 2020) in 1.12.60 (it has not passed the flattening change!) and based on the Bedrock Edition. Probably we must analyze if it is interesting to join this effort, but it is only for Bedrock (in the app market I can not find an Android version). It seems Linux could run the Bedrock edition: https://github.com/minecraft-linux/mcpelauncher-manifest/wiki (https://github.com/ChristopherHX/linux-packaging-scripts) but probably it is a hack that could break easily.
In Minetest there are also Edu initiatives: https://wiki.minetest.net/MinetestEDU But it needs a lot of work so it is ready to be deployed in schools easily, for example. https://github.com/minetest-edu has potential but it is in its infancy. The most promising project is: https://framinetest.org/en/ The mods they ysed are at: https://framagit.org/Framinetest-mods. One of the issues is that it seems to be a French language based project. https://framacolibri.org/t/some-questions-about-framinetest/5556/9 is interesting to know more details.
So, what to do? Contributing to Minetest Edu seems to be he natural approach for a project like McThings.