Other Minecraft Interfaces

This page lists and compares a number of different Minecraft Interfaces other than MineRL.

Created

Dependency

Maintained

Competition

Unified obs/action spaces

Project Malmo

2016

Minecraft

No

No

No

MarLÖ

2018

Malmo

No

Formerly

No

MalmoEnv

~2018/2019

Malmo

No

No

No

MineRL

2019

[1.0.0 Minecraft] [<1.0.0 MalmoEnv]

Yes

Yes

[1.0.0 Mostly] [<1.0.0 No]

IGLU 2021

2021

MineRL

?

Yes

?

MineDojo

2022

MineRL 0.4.4

Just Released

No

Yes

Project Malmo

Original Minecraft Java platform/mod built by Microsoft for AI research. Many other Minecraft libraries depend on Malmo.

MarLÖ “Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning in MalmÖ”

A Python library which provides a gym-like interface for interacting with Malmo/Minecraft, specifically for multi-agent scenarios.

MalmoEnv

A Python library which provides a gym-like interface for interacting with Malmo/Minecraft.

IGLU “Interactive Grounded Language Understanding in a Collaborative Environment”

A Python library for building interactive agents for natural language grounding tasks. Note: the 2022 competition depends on a faster Minecraft Clone, while the 2021 competition depends on MineRL.

MineDojo

A framework built on MineRL, which “features a simulation suite with 1000s of open-ended and language-prompted tasks”.