What does HackerNews think of baritone?

Maybe a bit tangential to the original comment, but have you also checked some practical implementations of path planning in Minecraft, such as Baritone (https://github.com/cabaletta/baritone)? Practical as in, it is actually deployed widely to automate various kinds of complex tasks (building structures, automate mining, killing other human players) for bots in anarchy servers?

Although the method uses a variant of A* and might not be that “fancy” in academia terms, it’s astonishing how far it can achieve (see demos like [1] and [2]) and might actually be far more useful to study it closely instead of more theoretical papers.

[1] https://youtu.be/c2OFyoECOhQ

[2] https://youtu.be/rQFPvU2ew9Q

Step 1: install Baritone

Step 2: type "#mine iron_ore"

https://github.com/cabaletta/baritone

https://youtu.be/CZkLXWo4Fg4?t=80

I always wonder why so few people know about Baritone. It can do so much: move the player, clear areas, mine ores and other blocks, construct simple surfaces such as roads or even paste complicated Schematicas layer by layer. Perhaps it takes away too much of the fun.