This Minecraft mod lets you command Steve to do whatever you want, which means no more strip mining or wood gathering ever again

Minecraft Caves & Cliffs part 2 concept art of Steve using a pickaxe to mine amethysts in a lush cave while Alex explores above. — (Image credit: Mojang)

As much as I love starting a new Minecraft world, it can be a little bit of a slog. I've spent more hours than I like to admit punching trees and building 4x4 dirt huts to call home. So, if there was a way to get this process streamlined for me, I'd probably jump at the chance. This is why the creation of Steve, a mod that implements AI "agents" powered by systems like OpenAI and Gemini into the game, could be the best friend of players in need of an extra pair of hands.

Created by YuvDwi and shared on GitHub, the Steve mod is pretty straightforward to understand. Essentially, it adds LLM-powered AI agents directly into Minecraft, which respond to your commands and play alongside you. This means you'll have a gaggle of Steves to boss around and ask to do tasks you simply cannot be bothered to do, or the ones you need some extra help with, like culling a bunch of sheep or mining for a specific resource.

What's even more interesting is that you can have multiple agents active as well, and ask them to do different things. They'll even go as far as coordinating with one another to create a streamlined workload rather than one agent taking on the bulk. The example given in the description states that if you "tell three agents to build a castle, they'll automatically partition the structure, divide sections among themselves, and parallelise the construction." Something my pals and I could never do.

As helpful as it would be, though, I'm not sure I'm ready for an AI agent to build a house in no time at all, which puts my mud hut routine to shame. If someone asks me to build a place to live, it needs to take at least a few hours for it to be barely livable, let alone pretty. Though this mod could be a fantastic tool for people who build entire cities in their worlds. It'll certainly take the strain off having to gather all of those resources at least.

Kara is an evergreen writer. Having spent four years as a games journalist guiding, reviewing, or generally waffling about the weird and wonderful, she’s more than happy to tell you all about which obscure indie games she’s managed to sink hours into this week. When she’s not raising a dodo army in Ark: Survival Evolved or taking huge losses in Tekken, you’ll find her helplessly trawling the internet for the next best birdwatching game because who wants to step outside and experience the real thing when you can so easily do it from the comfort of your living room. Right?

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