Minecraft Fantastic Fairgrounds DLC: How to get and play

Minecraft's newly released Fantastic Fairgrounds DLC is another entry in Mojang's ongoing Education series of downloadable content. Fantastic Fairgrounds, while taking on a fair theme, aims to instruct players on the ins and outs of artificial intelligence. Players can enjoy this map on Bedrock Edition-compatible platforms for free and learn the nuances of AI.

The Fantastic Fairgrounds DLC can be downloaded on any platform that can run the Bedrock codebase, including PCs, consoles, and Android/iOS devices. Players with access to the Bedrock marketplace on Education Edition can also download this DLC. This is because Education Edition runs on Bedrock's engine as well.

With that in mind, it doesn't hurt to examine how to download and play the Fantastic Fairgrounds DLC.

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How to download the Fantastic Fairgrounds DLC for Minecraft Bedrock platforms

Fantastic Fairgrounds can be downloaded for free from the marketplace (Image via Mojang)

As previously noted, you can download the Fantastic Fairgrounds DLC for free courtesy of the Minecraft Marketplace on Bedrock Edition platforms. As long as you have a Microsoft account to sign in to (which will keep your download on record in case you need to download the map again later), you can download the Fantastic Fairgrounds world using the steps below:

1. Run Minecraft Bedrock on your platform of choice and select the marketplace button from the main menu.
2. In the top-right corner of the front page of the marketplace, enter "Fantastic Fairgrounds" into the search field and press enter. Then, open the page for the Fantastic Fairgrounds that appears.
3. Click on the Download button in the top-right corner of the store page and continue through the additional prompts to download the map to your device. You can now create a new world and use the Fantastic Fairgrounds DLC by importing it. You can even create the world directly from its store page on the marketplace.

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Getting started and playing the Fantastic Fairgrounds DLC for Minecraft

Various characters await your assistance in the Fantastic Fairgrounds world for Bedrock Edition (Image via Mojang)

Upon entering the Fantastic Fairgrounds world, you'll initially be asked if you'd like to undertake a tutorial to learn Minecraft's controls, which you can either accept or skip at your leisure. Afterward, speak to the park director and press the button that will provide you entry to the fairgrounds. Here, you will find various NPCs marked by arrow indicators in your user interface.

Each NPC will have a task for you, typically involving the use of artificial intelligence to get the fairgrounds operating as intended, from tending to bees in an attraction to ensuring that a stage's lighting is working as intended.

Whatever the case, as you speak with NPCs around the fairgrounds and help them with their concerns, you'll learn more about real-world computing and artificial intelligence use.

Complete with puzzles and obstacles to overcome, this map should keep you occupied for quite some time. Getting an entire fairground up and running can be tricky, but you'll have the assistance of a friendly Agent mob (as seen in Education Edition) to give you a hand along the way.

All in all, this downloadable world is pretty short and the gameplay is straightforward, but that's to be expected from Minecraft's educational DLC series. Still, for a free world download, it can be a little informative for some players (particularly younger fans) while still being entertaining, even though it likely isn't as replayable as some marketplace content.