I meant workspace within the minecraft world, ideally they would all work on one or two big projects in the game and use the python scripts to either help them build or to provide some interesting interactivity. The only issue with that is they're more likely to use it to grief each other, there may be the possibility of having each player put onto their own map but that would increase the memory requirements quite heavily.

The setup I have in mind would be students working in teams of two or three, coding python locally on one machine and playing minecraft on another, both of which connected to one central server. At the moment I'm running it all on my course provided laptop and it is just about capable of handling one user and a python script, my hope is that when I actually have a classroom available there will be some resources available to me.

Otherwise I could replace the server component here with a Raspberry pi running the minecraft pi server, though I do not know if multiple computers are able to connect to it or not.