How to Play Minecraft with AI (mindcraft tutorial)

The Mindcraft tutorial targets technically inclined players comfortable with terminals and config files, walking them through the steps to run Andy, the GPT-based Minecraft bot, on a local machine.

Mindcraft’s “allow insecure coding” flag enables language models like Claude to write and execute arbitrary JavaScript in the bot process, dramatically expanding capability while introducing security risks.

Each Mindcraft bot—Andy, Claude, or any custom agent—is defined by a JSON profile that serves as both personality description and capability configuration for the underlying language model.

Mindcraft’s creators, Colby and Emergent Garden, act as maintainers of a fast-moving open-source project while situated in a broader ecosystem of forks, rival bots, and commercial efforts from large AI companies.