Hey all, we are excited to announce that we just released a framework that has the basic tools for building a collaborative assistant (that uses in-game chat) in Minecraft: https://github.com/facebookresearch/craftassist .

To encourage the wider AI research community to use the CraftAssist platform for their own experiments, we are open-sourcing the framework, as well as a baseline assistant and the tools and data we used to build it. The purpose of building such an assistant is to facilitate the study of agents that can complete tasks specified by dialogue, and eventually, to learn from dialogue interactions. The release includes sequential step-by-step data of human players building more than 2500 houses in Minecraft, semantic segmentation data for those houses, and a large-scale natural language semantic parsing data set.

You can read more about our research in the blogpost: https://ai.facebook.com/blog/craftassist-platform-for-collaborative-minecraft-bots/

We’d love to hear from you!