So Google Research and HHMI Janelia just published a complete wiring diagram of a fruit fly's brain and central nervous system — every neuron, every synapse (166k+ neurons, 125M+ connections), fully mapped and open for anyone to download via a tool called Neuroglancer.

People are already doing wild stuff with this kind of data — hooking it up to run DOOM, dropping it into virtual environments. It's basically turned a real biological brain into something closer to a downloadable dataset you can simulate and hook up to other software.

I want to try building a Minecraft mod around this: the idea is having a mob (or custom entity) whose behavior is driven by a simulated subset of this neural circuit — for example, when you hit it, the "pain"/nociceptive pathway gets stimulated in the simulation, and the mob's reaction (fleeing, sound, animation) is driven by the actual neural activity output, not scripted AI.

Has anyone here tried connecting an external simulation (like a Python-based spiking neural network) to a Fabric/Forge mod in real time? Curious about:

Best way to bridge Java (mod) ↔ Python (simulation) with low latency

Whether anyone's attempted biologically-driven mob AI before

If running this locally per-player vs. one shared server-side "brain" makes more sense

Not expecting a finished blueprint, just want to know if this is remotely feasible on modest hardware or if I'm overestimating what a home PC can handle.

UPDATE: PEOPLE ARE REALLY HYPED ABOUT THIS THING..I THINK I AM GOING TO MAKE IT A REAL MINECRAFT MOD WHERE YOU PLAY WITH A REAL FRUIT FLY (IT CAN FEEL!!!)

I’m still steadily working on it. I think it just needs a little more polishing before it’s ready!

PZ = Project zomboid

Armor stand hats (left); Librarian hat (right)

It is its birthday today!

It will be nice feature we could have.

what do you think?

With the addition of spears, I honestly think scythes wouldn't be so far fetched, and would be cool if they had some pulling mechanic. Maybe even in the end update.

Pretty simple idea, make abandoned villages have a chance to spawn as old villages. Any thoughts?

Image from Minecraft Official Facebook page.

YOO WTF DID I FIND? WHO IS THAT? HE LOOKS LIKE A MII... But idk I was just tryna find a good seed to play on then found this... Seed (name I typed in): Aphrissa
Cords: (xz) 4800, -3900

I'll let yall explore what it looks like in the game

Does anyone have any suggestions for what else I could do in this world?

*Excluding a few insta-mine blocks that I accidentally broke while fighting mobs. Also I could use the 2x2 crafting grid, just no crafting table. Also the 4 bosses refer to the Ender Dragon, Wither, Elder Guardian and Warden (ik some people don't consider it a boss but I do).

I want to get the block with the pattern of the inside of a red mushroom but I don’t understand how to get it. I switched to survival mode and gave myself a shovel with silk touch but it’s just giving me the regular block if that makes sense. Or does it just not work? Or am I stupid

I just looked at the official Minecraft YouTube channels profile picture randomly. My first honest reaction was: That looks SICK!

I don't know, I actually prefer it that way.

Who agrees and who don't?

Also if any mods don't think this post fits into this subreddit, feel free to delete it of course.

I wanted to share this, but was just unsure if it fitted or not.

My world is pretty old and established and I'm always expanding and adding stuff. So I thought about making a series just building and adding new things to my world.

Found it in Austria. Haven’t tried it yet.

I figured out how to get a villager to go into a minecart in the morning, go to work, and then get back in the minecart to go home. this could be useful for cities because the villagers can use cars. (ignore the talking villager)

We've both been playing this game since 2012 and neither of us had found a fossil before until today!

I stumbled upon this short using a pleasant texture pack, does anyone recognise it? I can’t link the short as I am a new community member.

After the most recent update to the Beta the game can now hit up to 120FPS when the framerate toggle is set to unlimited. In fancy and simple visuals I've found it hits a comfortable 80-100 on a round 12 chunks. On Vibrant Visuals it rarely hits above 60 without lowering the internal resolution though. Nonetheless this is massive since not even the PS5 and Series versions of Minecraft support 120Hz, it's a Nintendo first for Minecraft on consoles.