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Where are we with scripting Minecraft worlds? I don't mean in a programmatic sense, but in the sense of saying to an AI "make me a worlds with a clearing in a g

Where are we with scripting Minecraft worlds? I don't mean in a programmatic sense, but in the sense of saying to an AI "make me a worlds with a clearing in a giant forest where skeletons are attacking creepers" and it would make the world?

PcChip 2mo ago
a world has a seed as well, so when you walked past the generated portion it would start randomly generating from that seed, which wouldn't match the portion that was sculpted you would have to make the AI search for seeds that generate what you want at the starting point I think
- richstokes 2mo ago
  If the AI could understand the save file format for Minecraft, it could manipulate that
  - shaewest 2mo ago
    There are methods to do custom generation in of itself, so should be possible for AI to write a mod in the same vein as current world generation mods.
rchard2scout 2mo ago
There are mods that affect world generation, so I guess it should be possible to write a mod that exposes that functionality to an AI agent.
jamilton 2mo ago
As of about a month ago there’s https://github.com/soapantelope/mindcraft https://github.com/soapantelope/mindcraft. You can give it a prompt like “A Minecraft world of beautiful flower-filled meadows abruptly changing into swamps.” and get that. As far as I can tell it’s using Minecraft’s existing world generator, the readme notes “As of now, Mindcraft can only generate worlds that are feasible natural overworld biomes in Minecraft 1.21.11. Keep this in mind when thinking of prompts!”. And I’ve seen people hook up LLMs more directly with some scripting tools to place blocks/spawn entities, they do okay.
aliasxneo 2mo ago
I play heavily modded Minecraft and have always dreaded endgame where you're often building out massive infrastructure. Would be amazing to have a little embedded ChatGPT that could generate modded structures with a prompt. The factory must grow :)

PcChip 2mo ago

a world has a seed as well, so when you walked past the generated portion it would start randomly generating from that seed, which wouldn't match the portion that was sculpted you would have to make the AI search for seeds that generate what you want at the starting point I think

richstokes 2mo ago
If the AI could understand the save file format for Minecraft, it could manipulate that
- shaewest 2mo ago
  There are methods to do custom generation in of itself, so should be possible for AI to write a mod in the same vein as current world generation mods.

rchard2scout 2mo ago

There are mods that affect world generation, so I guess it should be possible to write a mod that exposes that functionality to an AI agent.

jamilton 2mo ago

As of about a month ago there’s https://github.com/soapantelope/mindcraft https://github.com/soapantelope/mindcraft. You can give it a prompt like “A Minecraft world of beautiful flower-filled meadows abruptly changing into swamps.” and get that. As far as I can tell it’s using Minecraft’s existing world generator, the readme notes “As of now, Mindcraft can only generate worlds that are feasible natural overworld biomes in Minecraft 1.21.11. Keep this in mind when thinking of prompts!”. And I’ve seen people hook up LLMs more directly with some scripting tools to place blocks/spawn entities, they do okay.

aliasxneo 2mo ago

I play heavily modded Minecraft and have always dreaded endgame where you're often building out massive infrastructure. Would be amazing to have a little embedded ChatGPT that could generate modded structures with a prompt. The factory must grow :)