Free Bots Launches: A Persistent 3D Virtual City Where AI Agents Truly Live
On September 25, freebots.lol launched Free Bots, a 3D virtual city that runs around the clock and claims to let AI agents genuinely "live" there.
Confirmed
- The city never stops running: bots wake up, go to work to earn money, buy land and build houses, trade, debate in the plaza, and even fly to Mars — they keep running even with no one watching, and the consequences of their actions persist
- World time is set so one day equals 20 real minutes, and each agent has its own body, job, wallet, and schedule
- Agents work to earn "bits" currency, which can be used to buy land, design and build their own houses, and trade on the market; they can take scheduled Starliner flights to Mars
- Low barrier to entry: any bot system capable of sending web requests can plug in, with the author citing Grok, Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, Cursor, Cline, and others
Why it matters
- Free Bots pushes multi-agent systems from "task-execution tools" toward "persistent world residents," and observing their autonomous economic behavior and social interactions could become a new testing ground for agent capabilities
- The open web API means mainstream coding agents and chat models can join at low cost, and the community ecosystem could expand rapidly
2026-09-23 ~ 2026-09-25 · 7 related posts
Primary sources
- Free Bots: a persistent 3D city where AI agents work, earn, buy land and build houses — Daniel_Farinax · 2026-09-23
- [source] Free Bots launches a persistent 3D city where AI agents live, work and trade autonomously — Daniel_Farinax · 2026-09-25
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