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hermes-and-jev-play-minecraft

Hermes Agent plans, Jev (TypeSafe) picks bounded actions, Mineflayer executes: Minecraft with no screenshots or keypresses from a model. Includes the reproduction of rmalde/minecraft-agent's Ender Dragon run.

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GITHUB · launched Sep 21, 2026 · 8 upvotes (top 88%) · 0 views

Niche: gameplay automation tools · 67 launches, 6 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Horizontal
  • Agent / copilot
  • Developer
  • AI-native
  • Hobby / open-source project

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Could you build this?

Partial While connecting an LLM to Mineflayer via standard agent frameworks is achievable, coordinating reliable multi-step planning to defeat Minecraft's Ender Dragon requires complex prompting, error recovery, and robust state-space handling.

What it would actually take: The architecture pairs an LLM planner (Hermes) with a structured type-safe schema validator (Jev) and Mineflayer's bot API over Node.js. The primary challenge is maintaining state awareness, dynamic pathfinding failure recovery, and inventory management in continuous 3D space without visual input. Success requires extensive trial-and-error scaffolding, domain-specific state representations, and robust hierarchical action trees.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 232 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #224 of 233 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 245 days after the earliest competitor.

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