Skills · tested in a live world
Every skill on this page ran in a real Minecraft 1.21.11 world before it was written down. The times are from those runs.
mine that
Look at something and talk about it. "That" and "there" are whatever your crosshair is on: he follows your line of sight to the block, walks over and does the job. Point at a tree and he fells the whole thing and replants it. Point at a spot and he builds there.
Tested live: go there · mine that · put a torch there · chop that tree
get me 12 iron
He scans the area, works out which pickaxe the block needs, makes that tool if he does not have it, then mines and picks up the drops. Anything under water or touching lava is skipped. Add "me" and he walks it over to you.
3 logs by hand: 12 seconds
get 3 diamonds
Keep scrolling and watch him go. When what you want is far underground he cuts a staircase to the right depth, never straight down. Every step is checked for lava and water first, gravel is cleared, a torch goes up every eight steps. With his bags full he walks back up to where he started.
Surface to 3 diamonds and back up top: 3.5 minutes · health 20/20
tunnel 20
The digging jobs builders need all the time. A walkable tunnel the way you are facing, with torches, and the ore from its walls in his bag. A hole of any size where you point. Or a levelled building site: everything above your feet cleared, every gap in the floor filled.
8-block tunnel with its ore: 22 s · 3x3 hole, 2 deep: 19 s · 7x7 site flattened: 47 s
craft a pickaxe
A planner works backwards through the recipes: pickaxe needs sticks and planks, planks need logs, the recipe needs a table. If the wood is missing he goes and chops it. He picks his crafting table back up when he is done.
Bare hands to a pickaxe: 28 seconds · stone pickaxe: 32 more
smelt the iron
No furnace nearby? He crafts one from cobblestone and puts it down. Then he picks a fuel, loads the ore, waits it out and collects the ingots. The same skill cooks food, makes charcoal and turns sand into glass.
Furnace crafted, placed, 3 ingots out: 34 seconds
guard me
Anything hostile that gets within a few blocks is dealt with on reflex, whatever else he was doing. "Guard me" makes him follow you and go after mobs near you. He backs away from creepers instead of hugging them, breaks off and runs when he is down to three hearts, and wears the best armour he is carrying.
Husk that wandered up: handled in 3.4 seconds · two more on command: 14
hide
Version 1 died eleven times in one night while nobody was watching. Now, when the light goes and he is alone without armour, he walks home and shuts the door. No house yet? He outruns whatever is following him, digs three blocks down, seals the hole and waits. At sunrise he comes back out and gets on with the day.
__NIGHT__
build a farm
He finds water open to the sky, tills the soil around it and plants whatever seeds he has. "Harvest" brings in every ripe wheat, carrot, potato and beetroot in range, replants each spot and gathers what dropped.
12 plots tilled and planted: 10 seconds · 8 wheat harvested and replanted: 13
build a house
Keep scrolling and watch it go up. Ask for small, medium, big or huge, or give him numbers: "build a 9x7 house". He counts what the blueprint needs, chops and crafts what is missing, levels the ground, places every block from the footing to the ridge, checks his own work, then removes his scaffolding and hangs the door.
Small house, 124 blocks: 2 min 36 s · 7x5 house, 202 blocks and a door: 3 min 37 s
More than houses
Bridges and walls go the way you are facing. Add "there" to any build and it goes where you point.
A stone watchtower from 6 to 24 blocks tall, with a spiral of steps inside and a parapet on top.
8 tall, 141 blocks: 62 s · he climbed the stairs to the top
A three-wide deck with posts, straight ahead at foot level, over whatever is in the way.
10 long, 38 blocks: 39 s · then he walked across
A stone wall with a notched top, as long as you ask for, up to 40 blocks.
8 long, 28 blocks: 42 s
Point at something you built and say "copy that as castle". He memorises it block for block and rebuilds it anywhere.
26-block build copied and rebuilt: 23 s
A crafting table, a furnace and a chest along the back wall, plus a bed and a torch when he has them.
Table, furnace, chest and torch in place: 9 s
Torches on a grid wherever it is dark enough for mobs to spawn. With no coal he burns logs into charcoal first.
20 torches placed: 35 s
Also
He uses doors. On his way somewhere he never digs through, under or right beside something you built.
71 of 71 wall blocks untouched
"Do you have torches?" "What time is it?" "Where is home?" He answers without putting his pickaxe down.
"When I say base time, do go to home then store stuff." From then on, "base time" is an order.
His health, a live map, his bags and the chat, in the Brobot app for Mac and Windows. Type orders into it.
He notices where you died. Say "get my stuff" and he walks there and brings it all back.
On autopilot, if he dies he walks back for what he dropped before it disappears.
Everything recovered: 15 s
Tells you about the creeper behind you and the diamonds he just spotted.
Eats when hungry, climbs out of water, comes up for air, frees himself when stuck.
Out of a deep pool: 10 s
Straight talk