Show HN: FLE v0.3 – Claude Code Plays Factorio(jackhopkins.github.io)
75 pointsby noddybear10 days ago8 comments
  • bottydim10 days ago
    haha, I am sure somewhere, some PhD student told their supervisor: “No, seriously, I have to play 600 hours of Factorio… for science.”
  • dnlkwk9 days ago
    This is dope. When is it appropriate to start enabling multiple agents for one player to see if they can collaborate and divide up roles?
  • georgeh4cks10 days ago
    Loving the ‘Claude plays’ integration. Great work
  • bigjobby6 days ago
    Class. This is what Claude was designed for
  • dang10 days ago
    Related. Others?

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    • noddybear10 days ago
      This is our earlier work. Since May we've made it really easy for the community to build their own agents to play the game: you can now hook up your terminal to get Claude Code to play the game.
      • dang10 days ago
        That's great!

        (just for clarity: links to past threads in no way imply that the new post isn't welcome! They're just because some readers enjoy poking back through past related discussions as well)

      • typpilol10 days ago
        Is there going to be some kind of plugin support for other games?

        Id love to see Claude playa age of empires.

        Claude plays command and conquer.

        I already know there a huge AI starcraft 2 scene, but I don't think those are LLM AI.

        • noddybear10 days ago
          I am really keen on plugging into Age of Empires 2 - although practically I think we need a couple of years of improvements before LLMs would be smart/fast enough to react to the game in realtime. Currently they can't react fast enough - although specially trained networks could be viable.
        • yeasku10 days ago
          Open AI tried to create a Dota 2 AI with reinforcement learning. Some of its best people worked on that.

          They had to dumb down the game and keep the bot playing on the same patch, even then it could not win against a proffesional team.

          • Crespyl10 days ago
            I'm pretty sure that AI did take at least a few games off of the pros. IIRC the professional team only had one win, the last match.

            I do agree that the game was terribly dumbed down to make it tractable. I keep hoping they'll revisit Dota 2 to see if they can find meaningful improvements and tackle the full game.

            • typpilol9 days ago
              The last time they deployed it... It beat the current world champions
              • Crespyl9 days ago
                Yes, the OpenAI Five bots won a best of three in their custom format, back in 2019. The bots won the first two games, then a third game was played which the humans won, which is the point I was trying to make (I'm not the GP).

                Unless you know of another time the bots were deployed formally against a pro team more recently, which I'd love to hear about.

                [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20190413210513/https://venturebe...

  • yeasku10 days ago
    Are bitters and cliffs disabled?
    • noddybear10 days ago
      Biters are disabled, but cliffs are not
  • kyars10 days ago
    Live-stream is epic
  • scaroath9 days ago
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