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by cyber_kinetist 1540 days ago
Maybe a bit tangential to the original comment, but have you also checked some practical implementations of path planning in Minecraft, such as Baritone (https://github.com/cabaletta/baritone)? Practical as in, it is actually deployed widely to automate various kinds of complex tasks (building structures, automate mining, killing other human players) for bots in anarchy servers?

Although the method uses a variant of A* and might not be that “fancy” in academia terms, it’s astonishing how far it can achieve (see demos like [1] and [2]) and might actually be far more useful to study it closely instead of more theoretical papers.

[1] https://youtu.be/c2OFyoECOhQ

[2] https://youtu.be/rQFPvU2ew9Q