Generating Redstone Style Cities in Minecraft

Shuo Huang1; Chengpeng Hu1; Julian Togelius2; Jialin Liu1

10.1109/CoG57401.2023.10333184

2023

IEEE Conference on Games

2325-4270

979-8-3503-2278-1

2023 IEEE Conference on Games (CoG)

1-4

21-24 Aug. 2023

Boston, MA, USA

Procedurally generating cities in Minecraft provides players more diverse scenarios and could help understand and improve the design of cities in other digital worlds and the real world. This paper presents a city generator that was submitted as an entry to the 2023 Edition of Minecraft Settlement Generation Competition for Minecraft. The generation procedure is composed of six main steps, namely vegetation clearing, terrain reshaping, building layout generation, route planning, streetlight placement, and wall construction. Three algorithms, including a heuristic-based algorithm, an evolving layout algorithm, and a random one are applied to generate the building layout, thus determining where to place different redstone style buildings, and tested by generating cities on random maps in limited time. Experimental results show that the heuristic-based algorithm is capable of finding an acceptable building layout faster for flat maps, while the evolving layout algorithm performs better in evolving layout for rugged maps. A user study is conducted to compare our generator with outstanding entries of the competition’s 2022 edition using the competition’s evaluation criteria and shows that our generator performs well in the adaptation and functionality criteria.

Minecraft Settlement Generation City Generation Procedural Content Generation Competition

第一 ; 通讯

英语

EI

20235215291014

Evolutionary algorithms ; Petroleum reservoir evaluation

Petroleum Deposits : Development Operations:512.1.2 ; Computer Programming:723.1

IEEE

1.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Guangdong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain-Inspired Intelligent Computation, Southern University of Science and Technology, Shenzhen, China
2.Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University, New York, United States

Shuo Huang,Chengpeng Hu,Julian Togelius,et al. Generating Redstone Style Cities in Minecraft[C],2023:1-4.