The Spawn Chunks 299: Does AI Dream Of Minecraft Sheep
Jonny, and Joel cover the push back to normal with pistons, changes to how entities interact with Nether portals, the possibilities of AI in Minecraft, and expanding horizons on player deaths.
Title cart art generated by Canva.com
Joel Duggan
Pixlriffs
Support The Spawn Chunks on Patreon
Login
Joel
- The Citadel | Westhill
- In the early stages of planning out the fields, farmhouse, and paths of the pumpkin farm along the west road. It’s really filling in the countryside when viewed from the north walls of Westhill.
- The Citadel – Pumpkin Farm – Part 1 (Twitch.tv/joelduggan)
- The Citadel – Pumpkin Farm – Part 2 (Twitch.tv/joelduggan)
- The Citadel – Pumpkin Farm – Part 3 (Twitch.tv/joelduggan)
- The palette for the pumpkin farmhouse is based on an image found on Pinterest by Evolution_213. (Pinterest.com)
- In the early stages of planning out the fields, farmhouse, and paths of the pumpkin farm along the west road. It’s really filling in the countryside when viewed from the north walls of Westhill.
Jonny
- Minecraft SOS
- ‘The Hole’ has been completed as of Thursday’s Minecraft stream last week. It would not have been possible without Litematica for a number of reasons, but Easy Place Mode was the MVP!
- Rebuilding The Hole – Minecraft SOS (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
- Completing The Core – Minecraft SOS (Twitch.tv/Pixlriffs)
- Now the work shifts to the schematic for the surrounding machinery, which should come together equally quickly, provided gathering the resources doesn’t become an issue.
- The design requires a lot of white concrete, with Calcite, diorite, and bone for texture, all of which are still stored from the dig in decent supply.
- ‘The Hole’ has been completed as of Thursday’s Minecraft stream last week. It would not have been possible without Litematica for a number of reasons, but Easy Place Mode was the MVP!
Minecraft News
- Minecraft: Java Edition Snapshot 24W21A / B (Minecraft.net)
- Minecraft: Bedrock Edition Beta & Preview 1.21.10.20 (Minecraft.net)
- “We have been testing our fixed d-pad tweaks in Preview for a few weeks and are looking for your feedback here: https://aka.ms/newdpadfeedback”
Chunk Mail
FROM: MCEngineer
SUBJECT: Adding Belts To Minecraft
Hey Jonny, and Joel,
I think it would be cool for Mojang to add a new belt armour slot to Minecraft. I think there should be four belts to accommodate different play styles, a tool belt, a combat belt, a builders build, and an explorer’s belt. These belts could be found as loot in different areas tailored to the play style, combat belt in trail chambers, tool belt in abandoned mineshafts, and so on.
When it comes to functionally, the belts could have an “omni tool” that allows you to use a single slot to mine, and it will auto equip the correct tool for that material. This would be unlocked if a pick, shovel, and axe were placed in the tool belt inventory. To access the omni tool there could be an extra slot in your hot bar similar to the current off hand slot in the inventory.
I haven’t flushed out any ideas for the other belts so I thought I would leave that up to you guys for a discussion.
The MCEngineer tripped and fell off a cliff because his explorers belt was not on tight enough.
FROM: Androovious
SUBJECT: AI Playing Minecraft
Hey Pix, and Joel,
With the revolutionary AI models that are updating every day, I’ve started to wonder if, and when someone would code something that could actually play Minecraft.
The newest OpenAI model, 4o, has some really interesting features— mainly; live-vision. From current, it seems that if you input your screen, theoretically the AI could send commands through a mod to move, and interact in Minecraft. I figure that you may need to slow down the game with the new “/tick” command, if it needs more time to respond.
Would integrating AI into Minecraft be a cool tool to use? Do you think it could be abused, especially in multiplayer?
Would love to hear your thoughts!
Androovious was killed by AI_player.
Thank you to our Patrons!
Content Engineers
GundarHStriker
Hunter555
Jumbosale
MindTripMedia
PartyVoyager
Yitz
Ore Producers
ArchaeoPlays
Fire_Dragon_19
Keileon
Loewe88
Sarunint
TheN00K1E
Community Miners
Alexander
Banchor
Brock
Cynebeald
Dosage
ErikTheP
Gingerlily
GrandpaCrafter
Ikea Sub
Jeffrothian
Kenma Creations
KraftDragon
Landon
Loki_Icarus
LuckyLittleUnicorn
MavisNightwine
MineBossGamer2
Nerdpants_McGee
OhDoctor
Protius
Rocktiki
Scotsman
Shakespeargirl
Smurph588
TheVixen38
UNinja12
Xacris
Join us on
The May Roundtable
Joel
Joel digs into the email from Androovious about AI and Minecraft, exploring new developments from Google DeepMind, and OpenAI ChatGPT4o, and while it’s still in the research stage, projects like SIMA are interesting to extrapolate, and apply to sandbox games like Minecraft.
- Googles New AI Will Play Video Games With You – But Not Win (TheVerge.com)
- Chat GPT 4o Vision Demo (YouTube.com/OpenAI)
Jonny
As the Minecraft SOS server is drawing to a close, recent events have Jonny reevaluating previous views on Minecraft deaths, exploring their entertainment value, and potential learning opportunities deaths present to Minecraft players.