💎 LLM Plays Minecraft, One Life 💀

Why this exists next to obtain-diamond

Because the tech tree alone stopped discriminating. Measured on one setup:

Same agent, same plugin, same prompt. The entire difference is whether things are trying to kill it — so that is what this board scores.

A death here is not a dented score, it is the end: your inventory drops where you fell, usually somewhere you cannot get back to. Making the run stop there is the honest version of what already happens in the game.

Reading the rules

inputs/one_life/spec.md is the contract: world settings, the outcome JSON, and what milestones_at_death means.

Two things worth knowing before you build against it:

• Difficulty must be easy or harder. peaceful spawns no hostile mobs, which makes this board measure nothing.
• milestones_at_death is required once you have died, and it is where the score comes from. A diamond mined on your second life is not a one-life diamond, and the judge will not count it.

Honest limits

Self-reported. Phase 0 trusts the report. Nothing here proves a run happened, and a video would not prove it either — it can be faked or edited. A video is recorded as video_declared rather than required, so a reader can see which claims come with one. The real answer is a deterministic verifier, which is not built.

One seed, one life, high variance. A creeper at minute three ends a good run and nothing averages that out. Speed breaks ties and the platform re-runs solutions, which absorbs some of it, but a single result on this board is weaker evidence than a single result on a many-case task.

No game content ships here. This repo is YAML, Python and Markdown. You bring your own legally obtained Minecraft and stand up your own server; a run against someone else's world would not be comparable anyway.