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Tinker Tuesday for September 1st, 2026

This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers.

Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.

If you want to be pinged with a reminder asking about your project, let me know, and I'll harass you each week until you cancel the service.

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I've been working on a large-scale AI map builder for Minecraft. The idea would be to efficiently create sets for Minecraft YouTube videos (ARGs, roleplays, etc.).

Surprisingly complex, requires a lot of hand-holding on my part to get even SOTA AIs to build anything remotely appealing. I think a truly complete version of this project will require an AI that interfaces with Minecraft the way current agentic AIs interface with code. It will need to use all sorts of shortcuts, like using a bash command to spawn a sphere of b size at x, y, z rather than actually placing the blocks manually.

Since that's out of scope for me I think my next step is to try to build some kind of ThreeJS-Minecraft translator, since AIs seem to be able to build pretty good ThreeJS maps.