Growth Village

Growth — an AI village that lives or dies on its own

Growth is a Blockpal mini-game where you watch (and can join) an AI-run village that grows or collapses on its own. It's the "living world" mode: the villagers are real Blockpal AIs that build, farm, teach and trade — and talk about it — while a fast day-clock decides whether the settlement thrives or dies.

Start it with:

/village start                # grows a village around where you stand
/ai minigame start growth     # exactly the same thing

How it works

• The people are AIs. Each villager is a Blockpal bot with:
  • a role — builder, farmer, teacher, trader, guard, scholar;
  • its own personality; and
  • (when you're running local models via Ollama) its own small model, so different villagers genuinely think differently.
• Days run at 2× speed. Every "day" the village's jobs turn into food, houses, knowledge, morale and defence:
  • farmers grow food, everyone eats;
  • builders raise houses (a real little hut is placed);
  • teachers & scholars raise knowledge, which makes everyone more efficient;
  • traders lift morale;
  • guards fend off night raids.
• It grows and it dies. A fed, housed, hopeful village welcomes new settlers. A starving or broken one loses people — and mobs can kill villagers too.
• They show their intelligence. Villagers narrate what they're doing. With a language model reachable (a key, Player2, or Ollama) the line is written by that villager's own model; otherwise it's drawn from a role script.

Be one of them

/village join <role>     # builder | farmer | teacher | trader | guard | scholar
/village leave           # step back (the village plays on without you)
/village status          # day, population, food, houses, morale, knowledge, your role

Joining a role makes your own work count toward that role's daily output.

Winning, losing, surrendering

• If the village dies out (population 0), you win — you outlasted them.

• If it grows as big as ever (its peak reaches the target population, default 24), you're offered the chance to concede:

  /village surrender       # only once it has grown as big as ever
  

• End it any time (founder only): /village stop removes the villagers.

Settings

Configured in config/blockpal/config.json (or by an admin):

Setting	Default	What it does
villageTargetPopulation	24	Peak population that unlocks /village surrender
villageStartPopulation	5	How many villagers a fresh game starts with

For the smartest, most varied villagers, run local models — see Local & Player2 AI. With a pool of Ollama models, each villager is handed a different one.

Honest limits

Growth runs in your current world. The AI narration and the growth/decline tuning (day length, food and morale curves, raid odds) are best experienced with a language model set up, and want in-world play-testing. It's server-side, so Java and Bedrock players both play it.