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Infinite Craft

neal.fun

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Re: Infinite Craft

#151
Hint: by going the Warrior-Spartan-King-Leonidas-300 route, you get the endless supply of numbers to combine, starting from 300. I wonder you can make it output anything with this, as it's definitely powered by a LLM.

Re: Infinite Craft

#152
Apparently I made 2 first discoveries, Meteorism and Rap God. Seems interesting, but after a while of things not combining it gets a little stale. I agree with others I kind of would like to see the lineage of the elements. I know of this video where Carykh graphed is own combination game, but all new element names were user provided. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rQWwfYSUckY

Re: Infinite Craft

#153
Some interesting finds.

Future + Time = Present (with a gift icon) Present + Present = Gift

(So it's using the words not the concepts)

Paradox + Snowman = Yeti

(Makes sense)

Arnold Schwarzenegger + Narwhal = Shwarzenwhaler

(Shwarzenwhaler has 0 hits on Google, it made it up)

Shwarzenwhaler + Time Machine = Hitler (with a crown icon)

(I kid you not!)

Unicorn + Hitler = Unihitler

(I continue to kid you not!)

Re: Infinite Craft

#155
post #93

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Ahh, neat application of it. Explains the somewhat dubious combinations I was seeing.

Forest + fire = smoke Mud + water = swamp Swamp + plant = Venus Flytrap Okay, okay. Venus Flytrap + Smoke = smoke detector

I got (hurricane + crocodile = hurricodile) lol

Re: Infinite Craft

#157
post #101

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Like crafting in Minecraft? :)

I might be revealing my ignorance - is this how crafting works in minecraft? I've never played it before.

You craft in minecraft by arranging basic items on a 3x3 grid. If you do it right then a more complex item is created.

For example, a pickaxe is shaped roughly like that (two vertical sticks as a handle, and 3 other materials on the top row as a blade). You can make a better pickaxe by using nicer/rarer materials on the top row.

It isn't really improvisational, there are correct patterns and the UI has a recipe book now so you don't really need to use the grid if you do not want to. Back when the game was in beta these weren't documented and the community would just brute force the discovery.

Re: Infinite Craft

#158
This is fun. It would be interesting to build a single graph of concepts that all users contribute to. Then you wouldn't have to run LLM inference on every request, just the novel ones, plus you could publish the complete graph which would be something like an embedding space.

Re: Infinite Craft

#159
I combined Fish and Fire and got Sushi, which is a dish that is famously made without any fire whatsoever. The game also decided to pair the Wheat emoji with the word Amber.
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