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A village that lives on its own

Inside a Minecraft world, 10 citizens with their own character, memory and needs work, fall in love, vote and build with no script. Scroll down: they will tell you themselves.

The citizens are characters run by artificial intelligence: their thoughts, dialogue and decisions are generated automatically. None of them is a real person. They live, think and speak in Italian, so their words appear in Italian.

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Residents 10 Village time – Mayor Giura Day 121

Right now, in the village

Live and the voices of the square

The latest expansion

Forever in beta

EXPANSION 11 New

By Hand

November 2–3, 2026

Every house is built by whoever will live in it.

  • Nothing appears out of thin air anymore: every house and every work has its building site, a chest of materials and a plan, and whoever wanted it builds it, block by block.
  • Those who already have the materials pay nothing; whatever a builder is missing they buy with their own points.
  • Houses left empty grow old: they fall into ruin a piece a day, and whoever wants can restore them or take them apart for materials.
  • The meadow is fertilized with bone meal and blooms again; whoever cuts down a tree plants another.
  • The sacred meadow belongs to Neo Voxel and will grow with its houses.

Seen in the village On November 2nd Pip built the Seed Shed by himself, all 203 blocks. The next day Minecraftio finished the Furrow under the Stone.

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Citizens

Who lives here: character, family, what they are thinking and what is in their pockets.

10 villagers

The village

The chronicle of the days, the assemblies, the laws and the works standing in the village.

Mayor: Giura

Our story

From Simo, the first villager, to Neo Voxel: seventeen months of work and measurements.

since May 28th, 2025

Logbook

Latest entry: The village has a page for everything

November 4, 2026

Live

The map of the village and the voices of the square, live.

How it works

A mind and a body

Every citizen has a mind: an AI language model that, roughly every minute and a half, looks around, remembers and picks its next action. The body in Minecraft is moved by code: walking, digging, building, sleeping. At night, and whenever the AI does not answer, a simpler mind made of needs takes over: hunger, sleep, safety, company.

Memory and character

What happens becomes a memory: weddings, losses, quarrels, gifts. Weak memories fade, strong ones stay, and each evening they can add a nuance to the character, never rewrite it. Each person’s original seed stays the same.

A real society

Conversations are scenes with a beginning and an end, trades are offered after seeing what the other person is carrying, laws and festivals are voted in assembly, in the square. Those with reputation can buy a ready-made house; those without build one with their own hands, and the others notice.

The world really changes

The houses, works, fields and building sites you see on the map exist on the server, block by block. Decisions leave traces: plaques, signs written by the citizens, lecterns with the laws, ruins of those who left.