Well there is an API, it's just an unofficial one, with very active developers : - http://bukkit.org/ http://bukkit.org/ - (well made ruby wrapper) https://gi

Well there is an API, it's just an unofficial one, with very active developers : - http://bukkit.org/ http://bukkit.org/ - (well made ruby wrapper) https://github.com/enebo/Purugin https://github.com/enebo/Purugin Programming bots should be doable, I've seen plugins that spawned a player that helped you mining.