Connecting to a MineCraftEDU Server with normal Minecraft 1.7.10?

[Gregor Walter]

Dear fellow Minecraft-Teachers,

as I somehow don't get really a excited about the new MS Minecraft Education Edition, I am wondering, if there is a (legal) way of still using the old MineCraftEDU.

Does anyone know, if its possible to connect the normal Java-Edition (with the proper version and Mods) to a MinecraftEDU server?

This way all the kids could have a properly licensed Minecraft version, but I could still go and use all me prepared MinecraftEDU words.

best regards

Gregor

[Samuel A]

It's possible but sadly, it's still not legal since it would involve redistributing the MCEDU main jar file, and that's not allowed. This is due to MCEDU being hardcoded and not a regular forge mod like you would expect. If it were a forge mod, someone would have even been able to update it because it wouldn't be against the TOS even if Microsoft had bought it.