Nothing can stop the slow, unrelenting crawl of the Minions empire. The babbling buffoons have gotten three Despicable Me movies, a cartoon series, and a Minion-centric spinoff movie, and they’ll star in an upcoming sequel to the offshoot called Minions: The Rise of Gru. Their reach knows no bounds, and now, they’re available in Minecraft. […]
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BASALT Minecraft competition aims to advance reinforcement learning
Join AI & data leaders at Transform 2021 on July 12th for the AI/ML Automation Technology Summit. Register today. Deep reinforcement learning, a subfield of machine learning that combines reinforcement learning and deep learning, takes what’s known as a reward function and learns to maximize the expected total reward. This works remarkably well, enabling systems […]
Minecraft: How To Make An Auto-Sorter
Chests, barrels, and shulkerboxes all exist in Minecraft to help players store their possessions. With the vast amount of blocks available in the game, it’s still very easy to become disorganized. Rather than spending countless hours sorting and re-sorting your items, build this auto-sorter! Related: Minecraft: How To Make A Super Smelter An auto-sorter will gather […]
The New Minecraft Update Has Me Excited To Play Again
I recently jumped into the latest Minecraft update, eager to venture through the unknown wilds to generate chunks of sparkly new content. My girlfriend found an axolotl, tamed it, brought it home, and I named it Post Maxolotl. Sadly, we watched as it fizzled into death because we didn’t know it needed water – yep, […]
Minecraft: How To Make A Snow Farm
Snow is a common material in Minecraft, but it’s very easy to run out of it. Instead of running out of snow, you can build this simple farm for an endless supply! This is one of the easiest farms that you can create, so it’s an important addition to your base. Normally, snow can be […]
Minecraft: How To Make Candles
In the new 1.17 Caves and Cliffs update, Minecraft introduced a brand-new cool and aesthetically pleasing light source. While players already have torches and lanterns to decorate their builds with, candles were a missing feature for a long time. Now, thanks to the sea pickle design, candles are a real part of the game. Their appearance […]
Minecraft: How To Make A Spyglass
For the longest time, the OptiFine mod was one of the only ways for Minecraft players to be able to zoom in on something in the distance. However, since the 1.17 update, the first part of Caves and Cliffs, Mojang has decided to provide a convenient in-game way of zooming into the horizon and inspecting […]
Minecraft: How To Make A Water Elevator
Water is in fact not a source of hydration in Minecraft, but rather a valuable tool that can be used as decoration or as a way to interact with other materials. It’s essential when it comes to creating crop farms that can be used to feed livestock but is equally important in cobblestone and obsidian […]
Minecraft: Everything You Need To Know About The Daylight Cycle
In a sandbox survival and creative game like Minecraft, time actually plays quite an important role. In-game time serves as a way to make thousands of calculations for the player, and to determine how the environment responds and behaves in certain situations. That’s why understanding the daylight cycle is such a crucial and underrated part […]
Minecraft: How To Cure A Zombie Villager
You might notice a different type of zombie while exploring in Minecraft. Zombie villagers are a type of hostile mob. They will rarely spawn naturally, however, depending on the game difficulty, there is a chance that regular villagers will become zombie villagers if killed by a zombie. You can kill them but curing a zombie villager will […]