What would be your advice/roadmap for someone who wants to start with automated exploration of emergent behaviour in systems that are similar to GoL? I think i

What would be your advice/roadmap for someone who wants to start with automated exploration of emergent behaviour in systems that are similar to GoL? I think it would be interesting to try transfering some of the automated search techniques to Minecraft's redstone mechanics, even though it probably doesn't fit the definition of a celular automata. Redstone is a feature in a videogame Minecraft that acts similar to logic circuits. Because building mechanics in Minecraft is inately restrictive (building is snapped to the 3d grid of "blocks", and there is only a limited number of blocks that all have predefined behaviour), there is naturally a community of people using redstones in ways that serve no purpose to the core gameplay loop, such as flying machines (think GoL's ships) [0], computers (since Minecraft's redstone is practically Turing-complete) [1] [2] or printers/autobuilders [3]. I would go so far as to say that redstone is the GoL for nerdy Zoomers. [0] https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Flying_machines https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Flying_machines [1] https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition/redstone-discussion-and/redstone-creations/3043582-8-bit-computer-turing-complete https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/minecraft-java-edition... [2] https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Redstone_computers https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Redstone_compute... [3] https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Printing https://minecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Tutorials/Printing