Minecraft is now too big for RL: dev suggests training on older versions instead
gandamu_ml · x · 2026-09-14
In a thread on CUDA-replicated Minecraft worldgen, gandamuml notes that earlier versions are a better fit for RL in most ways. Porting the game revealed how extremely large it has become — far more than needed to learn or demonstrate some intelligence. Fine-tuning an agent trained on an older version onto the latest one could still be fun, he muses.
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