I hope you aren’t bored of Minecraft yet. Because I’m not. For this blog post, I asked ChatGPT 4o:

In 250 – 300 words can you explain how to beat minecraft from start to finish. assume the game version is the latest 1.21.8

Sure, this might seem fairly basic but the key thing I was looking for was how would ChatGPT go about beating the game? Minecraft is a 16 year old game now with so many updates over the years. At this point, the “correct” way to beat the game has changed too many times over. And because it is a sandbox game, there is technically an infinite ways to beat the game but what ChatGPT did was interesting to me. It picked the most “efficient” and probably most taken path which I will call the speed run path since speed runners master the steps it outlined.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1g3LXYawA1wnt18Ycp_wo7lW0eijZ_buKaofifOHsF0E/edit?usp=sharing

Dang, the link doesn’t want to embed on the site how unfortunate. But if you take a look, I have Chat’s original response and below some suggested edits I would have made to better communicate and get the facts straight.

ChatGPT isn’t wrong, if you follow its steps you can beat the game that way. But there is so much more nuance and randomness to Minecraft which makes every new world you make a brand new experience.

If I had asked Chat to beat the game while also getting the full experience of Minecraft first, there would be so many more steps and things to do, many of which are completely unrelated to the progression of the game itself. And as I mentioned before, the game has changed over the years, so if I had asked it how to beat the game in previous versions there would be different responses.

Maybe it would have been way more thought provoking to ask Chat how THEY would beat the game? Would they also pick the most efficient route? Or would they choose a more grounded experience that gives them a chance to make the most out of their playthrough?

As for do I trust ChatGPT? I would say yes. I critiqued it heavily for not being specific but I am sure it would have been without such a tight word count constraint. It can be surprisingly accurate if you give it the correct prompt.