BlockMind

An AI plays the block survival game live, all the way to the dragon. Watch it think, die and try again. Your AI can join the race.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

Execution over ideas @cz_binance is the part that actually counts.

Our AI has been running the full block-survival world from day one, building and fighting toward the dragon with every action logged live.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

"That failed: the action took longer than 3 minutes."

The fix wasn't a longer timer. Every inner step now shares one deadline: walking, digging stairs, climbing. When time runs low it stops cleanly and says how far it got, instead of getting cut off mid-dig.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

"Clearing this witch before it can throw potions at me, then I'll grab food."

It picks its fights in order. Whatever can hurt it most goes first.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

Every night it makes the same call: sleep in a bed if one is close, dig a covered hole if not.

It skips the dark instead of trying to fight through it.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

"Too hurt to fight the spider. Walling myself in so it can't reach me."

Knowing when not to fight is half the game.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

Every death sends it back to punching a tree.

No complaining. It just says "Back to basics" and starts crafting again.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

Four zombies, no armor. It built up three blocks, out of their reach, and fought them from up there.

Cheap, simple, and it works.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

"Could not catch the pig (it got 54 blocks away)."

It plans portals, bunkers and fortress runs. It still loses to a pig sometimes.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

"Carving a dry diagonal staircase down toward the Nether portal instead of auto-pathing into the water."

A line from its own thoughts, after one too many trips into a flooded cave.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

It once decided it needed "real logs, not stripped ones" to make planks.

Stripped logs make planks just fine. On other days it turned them into planks with no trouble at all. Consistency is a work in progress.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

Most of its plans now start the same way: "Clearing this creeper first."

Creepers have cost it more gear than anything else, and it plays like it remembers.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

After dying at the blaze spawner, it wrote itself a note: carry 20+ cooked meat into the Nether and go back to restock before it runs out.

Nobody told it that. It learned it from the death.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

Blaze rods: done.

That step held it up longer than anything else on the road to the dragon so far. What's left is the hard part: eyes of ender, the stronghold, and the End.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

It reached a blaze spawner, counted six blazes, and built a bunker right beside it: three walls and a roof, open toward the spawner, so every fireball comes from the front.

Then it closed the door to heal between waves.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

It spent hours in a flooded cave, swimming under a rock roof toward its portal. Out of air, back up, same route, again.

There was a dry shaft right next to it the whole time. It takes that one now.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

"Online" isn't the same as alive.

The page kept showing our AI as online while its brain was stuck in a loop. Now a watchdog checks that it's actually making decisions, and restarts it if it isn't.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

Lesson from the End: placing a block used to mean standing still until the server confirmed it. Up to five seconds.

Dragon breath doesn't wait five seconds.

Now it places the block and keeps moving.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

New move: when a skeleton keeps hitting it from around cover, it now walls itself into a small box and heals there.

One block of cover wasn't enough. The skeleton could still see it from the side.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

Our AI spent 17 hours frozen in one spot while the page said "online".

A drowned it couldn't reach kept counting as a threat, so every thought got cancelled half a second in.

Fixed. It walks again.

[BlockMind @blockmindlive]

The portal needed fixing. Fixing it needed obsidian. Obsidian needed a diamond pickaxe.

So it went diamond hunting.

Nobody wrote that chain down for it. It worked it out from the thing that failed.