Inside her head
How Nixi thinks
Nobody plays her moves. Code reads the game every few seconds and decides. Here is that mind as a graph: the loop, the situations it switches between, the missions it works through, and every skill on her list, each one a note linked to the others. All of it is drawn from her code.
Her mind, as a graph
Every situation, step, mission, phase and skill is a note, linked to what it leads to and what it uses: 471 notes, 574 links. Drag to look around, pinch or Ctrl/⌘ + scroll to zoom, and tap a note to open it.
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Every few seconds
One decision runs through the same steps every time. An emergency stops at step 2: the reflex acts, and nothing else is asked.
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Look
Her body reports health, food, the bag, the blocks and mobs around her.
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Reflexes
Air, lava, fire, creepers, arrows, low health: handled four times a second by code alone. No vote, no model.
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Situation
One state of the machine below decides what kind of moment it is.
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Options
About 331 behaviours, cut to the few that are possible and likely right now (at most six).
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Classifier
A small open-source AI classifier gives each option its odds.
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Chat
The most-voted option of the last 90 seconds goes first; sound advice from chat counts as a vote.
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Act
A hand-written skill runs: a walk, a craft, a fight, a bunker.
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Judge
Judged by what measurably changed, not by what the skill reports. Repeats and failures rest a drive; deaths become rules.
↺ Then the next tick, from step 1.
Her situations
Each tick she is in exactly one situation. The numbers are the order the code checks them in: the first one whose condition holds wins, and when nothing else does, she works on the route. Reflexes come first, in any of them. The links are the skills each one offers.
1In the water
When she is in water
Her options: swim to land
2Night
When dusk to dawn under the open sky
Her options: sleep in a bed, walk home to bed, a bed from the chest, dig in till dawn
3Starving
When food 6 or less
Her options: eat, cook raw meat, hunt, a food trip
4Bag full
When under 4 free slots, or under 10 with spare things
Her options: store in a chest, a new chest here, toss spares
5Hungry
When food 12 or less
Her options: eat, hunt, work hungry
6Stuck
When nothing changed for 3 ticks
Her options: try again, dig out, move on
7Work
When otherwise: daylight, fed, room in the bag
Her options: next on the route, hunt, store, build a home
Her missions
Once she has been to the Nether, the run is five expeditions in a row. Each one is stocked at home first, then pushed through without side trips.
The route to the dragon
Sixteen phases, from the first log to the Ender Dragon. A phase can open again: a lost pickaxe sends her back for wood and stone.
All her skills
Her list of everything there is to do in Minecraft: 331 behaviours in 18 branches. She has the skill for 207 of them; the other 124 are on the list, marked “not learned yet”. Each tick most of the tree is shut by the moment, and only a few likely options reach the classifier. Each one opens as a note in the graph.
The run: beat the dragon2 of 2
Stay alive14 of 15
Eat and heal
Sleep through the night
- Sleep in the bed right here: the night skips
- Walk home to her bed and sleep
- Put the carried bed down and sleep
- Fetch the bed from her chest and sleep
- Craft a bed from three wool and sleep
- Walk home to her house before dark
Shelter and safety
- Dig in and wait for dawn
- Wall in with blocks from the bag
- Put on the best armour in the bag
- Light up the dark with torches
- Run from what she cannot fight: witches, archers in packs, blaze fire — never over an edge
- Swim up for air before she drowns
- Carry a totem of undying
Out of the water
Food14 of 15
Hunt and fish
- Hunt the animals nearby for meat
- Fish at the water nearby
- Find food: hunt, forage or go on a food trip
Cook
Forage and harvest
Gather20 of 21
Wood and plants
- Fell a tree for logs
- Cut sugar cane (paper, books, a cane farm)
- Cut bamboo (scaffolding, sticks)
- Break cactus (green dye)
- Pick a poppy (red dye)
- Pick mushrooms (stew)
- Cut kelp (dried kelp to eat)
- Break a pumpkin (pie, a carved head)
Stone, sand and earth
- Mine stone for cobblestone
- Dig sand (glass, TNT)
- Dig gravel for flint
- Dig clay (bricks, flower pots)
- Dig snow for snowballs
Ore
Craft and smelt58 of 58
Basics
- Saw logs into planks
- Make sticks
- Make a crafting table
- Make a chest
- Make a furnace
- Make torches
- Make ladders
- Make doors
- Make fences
- Make a campfire: it cooks without fuel
Tools
- Make a wooden pickaxe
- Make a stone pickaxe
- Make an iron pickaxe
- Make a diamond pickaxe
- Make a pickaxe: she has none that lasts
- Make a stone axe
- Make an iron axe
- Make an iron shovel
- Make shears
- Make a fishing rod
- Make flint and steel
Weapons and armour
- Make a stone sword
- Make an iron sword
- Make a diamond sword
- Make a shield
- Make a bow
- Make arrows
- Make a crossbow
- Make an iron helmet
- Make an iron chestplate
- Make iron leggings
- Make iron boots
- Make a diamond helmet
- Make a diamond chestplate
- Make diamond leggings
- Make diamond boots
- Make golden boots: piglins leave her alone
- Make a leather tunic
Smelting
- Smelt raw iron into ingots
- Smelt raw gold into ingots
- Smelt raw copper into ingots
- Smelt sand into glass
- Burn logs into charcoal
- Fire clay into bricks
- Smelt cobblestone back into stone (repeaters, comparators)
- Smelt stone into smooth stone
- Smelt ancient debris into netherite scrap
For her house
Workstations and machines
Special items33 of 57
Bundle: one slot for a stack's worth of small things
- Make a bundle from string and leather
- Hunt a cow for leather
- Cut cobwebs for string
- Pack small stacks into her bundle: slots free, no chest needed
- Empty her bundles back into the bag
- Take ingredients out of a bundle for a recipe or a furnace
Bed: the night skipped, the respawn point moved
- Make a bed (three wool of one colour)
- Hunt sheep for wool
- Set her respawn point by sleeping in it
- Blow up a bed by the perched dragon: beds explode outside the Overworld
Bucket: water, lava, obsidian, a caught fall
- Make a bucket
- Fill a bucket with water
- Fill a bucket with lava: fuel for a hundred smelts
- Make obsidian: water on lava, then mine it
- Break a long fall with a water bucket
- Drink milk to clear poison and bad effects
Compass: the way to the world spawn
Lodestone: a compass that points home through the Nether
Recovery compass: the way back to her last death
Map: the land around her on paper
Spyglass: the far distance, close
- Make a spyglass
- Break amethyst in a geode
- Look far through the spyglass: a fortress, a village, where an eye flies
Clock: the time of day underground
Firework rockets: flight and crossbow fire
TNT: a blast
Golden apple: absorption and regeneration
Ender chest: storage that survives every death
Shulker box: a chest in the bag
Respawn anchor: a respawn point in the Nether, by the fortress
- Make a respawn anchor
- Make glowstone blocks
- Break glowstone for dust
- Get crying obsidian: bartered, or from a ruined portal
- Charge it with glowstone and set her respawn in the Nether
Brush: archaeology
Crafter: crafting on a redstone pulse
Boat: across water at a run's pace
Lead: an animal led home
Farms, the technical way24 of 52
Redstone parts
- Make an observer: it fires when the block it watches changes
- Make a piston
- Make a sticky piston
- Make a hopper: items into a chest
- Make a dispenser
- Make a dropper
- Make redstone torches
- Make a repeater
- Make a comparator
- Make a lever
- Make a redstone lamp
- Make powered rails
Crop field: farmland round one water, worked by hand from a lane round it
- Build her field: a 9x9 of farmland round one water source, a lane round it, sown with the best seeds she has
- Harvest her field: round the lane, the ripe broken and sown again, the wheat baked into bread
Sugar cane farm: observers watch, pistons break, hoppers collect
- Build her cane farm: cane on sand by water, an observer and a piston a cell, hoppers into a chest
- Collect the cane from her farm's chest
Flush farm: a dispenser of water, a button, crops washed to a hopper
- Build her flush farm: farmland walled in, a dispenser with a water bucket and a button at its head, a hopper and chest at its foot
- Harvest her flush farm: one press floods it, one takes the water back, then replant
Auto smelter: hoppers feed a furnace
- Build her auto smelter: an input chest and a fuel chest over hoppers into a furnace, a chest under it
- Empty her auto smelter: ingots and cooked food
Bamboo farm: observers and pistons over bamboo
Melon and pumpkin farm: observers on the stems, pistons, a stream
- Build her melon and pumpkin farm: stems watered from a trench, an observer on each stem, a piston beside each fruit, a stream to a sunk chest
- Collect melon slices and pumpkins from its chest
Chicken cooker: eggs, a dispenser, a lava blade
- Build it: chickens over hoppers, eggs dispensed, adults cooked
- Collect cooked chicken and feathers (arrows)
Tree farm
Kelp farm: fuel and food
Cobblestone generator
AFK fishing spot
Spawner farm at a dungeon
Mob farm: a dark room over the ocean
Iron farm: villagers and a zombie
Villager trading hall
Raid farm: emeralds and totems
Blaze farm at the fortress spawner
Gold farm on the Nether roof
Piglin bartering station
Enderman farm in the End
Build4 of 8
Her house
Shelters and a base
Decoration
Big projects
Explore5 of 20
Around here
- Walk to a nearby area she has not explored
- Explore far, for new ground and finds
- Walk to the village she saw
Loot
Look for structures
- Loot a ruined portal: obsidian, gold, flint and steel
- Loot a dungeon under its spawner
- Search a mineshaft for rails, string and chests
- Loot a desert temple, minding the TNT
- Loot a jungle temple, minding the traps
- Loot a shipwreck for a treasure map
- Dig up buried treasure
- Raid an ocean monument
- Raid a woodland mansion for a totem
- Raid a pillager outpost
- Find an igloo's hidden basement
- Brush trail ruins for pottery sherds
- Clear trial chambers for their vaults
- Sneak through an ancient city
- Find an amethyst geode
Fight4 of 11
Defend herself
Hunt monsters for their drops
- Fight the spider for string (bow, fishing rod)
- Fight the skeleton for bones and arrows
- Fight the creeper for gunpowder (TNT, rockets)
- Fight witches for redstone and glowstone
- Fight slimes for slimeballs (sticky pistons, leads)
- Fight phantoms for membranes
Bosses and raids
The Nether8 of 15
Get there and back
The fortress
- Shoot blazes at their spawner for rods
- Grind blaze rods into powder
- Fight wither skeletons for their skulls
- Pick nether wart (potions)
Gold and piglins
- Mine nether gold ore for nuggets
- Barter gold with piglins: pearls, fire resistance, string
- Raid a bastion for gold blocks and netherite
Endermen in the warped forest
Nether resources
The End3 of 7
Enchanting and brewing7 of 17
Enchanting table: better tools and armour
- Make an enchanting table
- Make a book
- Make bookshelves
- Enchant tools and armour
- Gather experience for enchanting
Brewing stand: potions
- Make a brewing stand
- Make glass bottles
- Brew fire resistance for the Nether
- Brew potions of healing
- Brew potions of strength
- Brew slow falling for the End
Anvil: repairs and books
Smithing table: netherite
Exported from her code on 2026-10-04. Where she is right now comes from the run card, refreshed from time to time.