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REPL Driven Minecraft

192 points by joelittlejohn 4y ago

fsiefken 4y ago
Nice, I wonder if the open source Minetest can be used instead of Minecraft.
- Extra_Leaf 4y ago
  Minetest is pretty great
- ilikehurdles 4y ago
  Not easily as minetest is written in C++ and this is hosted on the JVM.
- sieste 4y ago
  Not really a REPL, but can inject code into a running minetest instance: https://github.com/Quiark/mtrepl/ https://github.com/Quiark/mtrepl/
  - westurner 4y ago
    A Jupyter kernel for Minecraft would be neat: https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wrapperkernels.html https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wrapperkerne... : > You can re-use IPython’s kernel machinery to easily make new kernels. This is useful for languages that have Python bindings, such as Hy (see Calysto Hy), or languages where the REPL can be controlled in a tty using pexpect, such as bash. Looks like there's a pytest-minecraft, too: https://pypi.org/project/pytest-minecraft/ https://pypi.org/project/pytest-minecraft/ /? Minecraft site:pypi.org https://pypi.org/search/?q=minecraft https://pypi.org/search/?q=minecraft SensorCraft is just the voxel designer part of Minecraft (like original Minecraft) with Pyglet for OpenGL: https://github.com/AFRL-RY/SensorCraft https://github.com/AFRL-RY/SensorCraft
    - westurner 4y ago
      Awhile back I looked into creating a Jupyter kernel for LDraw / LeoCAD / Bricklayer (SML) to build LEGO creations with code in the input cell of a notebook and render to the output cell, and put together some notes on Jupyter kernels that might be of use for creating a Minecraft / mcpi / SensorCraft Jupyter kernel: https://github.com/westurner/wiki/blob/master/bricklayer.md#jupyter-kernels https://github.com/westurner/wiki/blob/master/bricklayer.md#... - [ ] DOC: Jupyter-cadquery & pythreejs inspiration - [ ] ENH: Minecraft Jupyter kernel (pytest-minecraft?,) - [ ] ENH: mcpi Jupyter kernel - [ ] ENH: SensorCraft Jupyter kernel - [ ] ENH,BLD,DOC: SensorCraft: conda-forge environment.yml (target Mambaforge for ARM64 support, too) - [ ] ENH,BLD,DOC: SensorCraft: build plaform-specific binary installer(s) with {CPython, all packages from environment.yml, Pyglet & OpenGL, } with e.g. Conda Constructor - [ ] ENH,BLD,DOC: SensorCraft: reformat tutorials as Jupyter notebooks; for repo2docker, jupyter-book (template w/ repo2docker requirements.txt and/or conda/mamba environment.yml), & jupyter-lite, & VScode (because VSCode works on Win/Mac/Lin/Web and has Jupyter notebook support) - [ ] ENH,BLD,DOC: SensorCraft: build a jupyter-lite build to run SensorCraft & Python & JupyterLab in WASM in a browser tab with no installation/deployment time cost - [ ] ENH: SensorCraft: replace Pyglet (OpenGL) with an alternate WebGL/WebGPU implementation
itronitron 4y ago
It would be interesting to render the images from the POV of a player in the world onto a large movie screen in game. Then other players could join in, go to the cinema and watch the live stream. Might be fun for game lobbies.
- 63 4y ago
  It's been done. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_VBO2WRpBrQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_VBO2WRpBrQ
  - westurner 4y ago
    "Public Minecraft: Pi Edition API Python Library" https://github.com/martinohanlon/mcpi https://github.com/martinohanlon/mcpi rendering-minecraft w/ mcpi might do offline / batch rendering? https://pypi.org/project/rendering-minecraft/ https://pypi.org/project/rendering-minecraft/ Jupyter-cadquery might be worth a look: https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery : > View CadQuery objects in JupyterLab or in a standalone viewer for any IDE [w/ pythreejs] If there's a JS port or WASM build of Minecraft, Minecraft could be rendered in a headless browser?
riazrizvi 4y ago
This is cool. I’d like to do this with one of my adult children who has been into Minecraft for years. Was a setup/getting started guide captured from the session that you can share?
- Whackbat 4y ago
  The workshop repo has detailed instructions you can follow: https://github.com/lambdaisland/witchcraft-workshop https://github.com/lambdaisland/witchcraft-workshop :)
- grumpyprole 4y ago
  This one's older, but here's an example using Haskell: http://www.timphilipwilliams.com/slides/minecraft.pdf http://www.timphilipwilliams.com/slides/minecraft.pdf The main idea is algebraic composition (a non-commutative monoid).
rcgorton 4y ago
74ls00 4y ago
It's only tangentially related, but I just wanted to say that being able to programmatically hack around with the minecraft world via python on the raspberry pi is what first made programming fun for me. I distinctly remember building a binary clock; actually writing code to achieve something I wanted rather than some arbitrary class exercise

192 points by joelittlejohn 4y ago

fsiefken 4y ago

Nice, I wonder if the open source Minetest can be used instead of Minecraft.

Extra_Leaf 4y ago
Minetest is pretty great
ilikehurdles 4y ago
Not easily as minetest is written in C++ and this is hosted on the JVM.
sieste 4y ago
Not really a REPL, but can inject code into a running minetest instance: https://github.com/Quiark/mtrepl/ https://github.com/Quiark/mtrepl/
- westurner 4y ago
  A Jupyter kernel for Minecraft would be neat: https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wrapperkernels.html https://jupyter-client.readthedocs.io/en/latest/wrapperkerne... : > You can re-use IPython’s kernel machinery to easily make new kernels. This is useful for languages that have Python bindings, such as Hy (see Calysto Hy), or languages where the REPL can be controlled in a tty using pexpect, such as bash. Looks like there's a pytest-minecraft, too: https://pypi.org/project/pytest-minecraft/ https://pypi.org/project/pytest-minecraft/ /? Minecraft site:pypi.org https://pypi.org/search/?q=minecraft https://pypi.org/search/?q=minecraft SensorCraft is just the voxel designer part of Minecraft (like original Minecraft) with Pyglet for OpenGL: https://github.com/AFRL-RY/SensorCraft https://github.com/AFRL-RY/SensorCraft
  - westurner 4y ago
    Awhile back I looked into creating a Jupyter kernel for LDraw / LeoCAD / Bricklayer (SML) to build LEGO creations with code in the input cell of a notebook and render to the output cell, and put together some notes on Jupyter kernels that might be of use for creating a Minecraft / mcpi / SensorCraft Jupyter kernel: https://github.com/westurner/wiki/blob/master/bricklayer.md#jupyter-kernels https://github.com/westurner/wiki/blob/master/bricklayer.md#... - [ ] DOC: Jupyter-cadquery & pythreejs inspiration - [ ] ENH: Minecraft Jupyter kernel (pytest-minecraft?,) - [ ] ENH: mcpi Jupyter kernel - [ ] ENH: SensorCraft Jupyter kernel - [ ] ENH,BLD,DOC: SensorCraft: conda-forge environment.yml (target Mambaforge for ARM64 support, too) - [ ] ENH,BLD,DOC: SensorCraft: build plaform-specific binary installer(s) with {CPython, all packages from environment.yml, Pyglet & OpenGL, } with e.g. Conda Constructor - [ ] ENH,BLD,DOC: SensorCraft: reformat tutorials as Jupyter notebooks; for repo2docker, jupyter-book (template w/ repo2docker requirements.txt and/or conda/mamba environment.yml), & jupyter-lite, & VScode (because VSCode works on Win/Mac/Lin/Web and has Jupyter notebook support) - [ ] ENH,BLD,DOC: SensorCraft: build a jupyter-lite build to run SensorCraft & Python & JupyterLab in WASM in a browser tab with no installation/deployment time cost - [ ] ENH: SensorCraft: replace Pyglet (OpenGL) with an alternate WebGL/WebGPU implementation

itronitron 4y ago

It would be interesting to render the images from the POV of a player in the world onto a large movie screen in game. Then other players could join in, go to the cinema and watch the live stream. Might be fun for game lobbies.

63 4y ago
It's been done. See https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_VBO2WRpBrQ https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=_VBO2WRpBrQ
- westurner 4y ago
  "Public Minecraft: Pi Edition API Python Library" https://github.com/martinohanlon/mcpi https://github.com/martinohanlon/mcpi rendering-minecraft w/ mcpi might do offline / batch rendering? https://pypi.org/project/rendering-minecraft/ https://pypi.org/project/rendering-minecraft/ Jupyter-cadquery might be worth a look: https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery https://github.com/bernhard-42/jupyter-cadquery : > View CadQuery objects in JupyterLab or in a standalone viewer for any IDE [w/ pythreejs] If there's a JS port or WASM build of Minecraft, Minecraft could be rendered in a headless browser?

riazrizvi 4y ago

This is cool. I’d like to do this with one of my adult children who has been into Minecraft for years. Was a setup/getting started guide captured from the session that you can share?

Whackbat 4y ago
The workshop repo has detailed instructions you can follow: https://github.com/lambdaisland/witchcraft-workshop https://github.com/lambdaisland/witchcraft-workshop :)
grumpyprole 4y ago
This one's older, but here's an example using Haskell: http://www.timphilipwilliams.com/slides/minecraft.pdf http://www.timphilipwilliams.com/slides/minecraft.pdf The main idea is algebraic composition (a non-commutative monoid).

rcgorton 4y ago

74ls00 4y ago

It's only tangentially related, but I just wanted to say that being able to programmatically hack around with the minecraft world via python on the raspberry pi is what first made programming fun for me. I distinctly remember building a binary clock; actually writing code to achieve something I wanted rather than some arbitrary class exercise