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MineCEraft: Evaluating Language Models as Construction Engineers in the World of Minecraft

Aug 2026 · 0 citations · 29 references
Computer Science

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The MineCEraft benchmark comprises 723 domain-expert hand-crafted natural-language instructions with programmatically verifiable evaluation, providing a safe and controllable experimental environment for assessing LLMs'ability to perform realistic construction engineering tasks.

Abstract

We introduce MineCEraft (Minecraft Construction Engineering Benchmark, pronounced mine-see-ee-raft), an easy-to-use, open-source benchmark designed to systematically evaluate the reliability and limitations of LLMs for construction tasks in Minecraft. The MineCEraft benchmark comprises 723 domain-expert hand-crafted natural-language instructions with programmatically verifiable evaluation, spanning 17 distinct task categories, providing a safe and controllable experimental environment for assessing LLMs'ability to perform realistic construction engineering tasks. With this benchmark, we conduct an in-depth evaluation of state-of-the-art LLMs and perform a detailed error analysis, revealing key failure modes and practical challenges in applying LLMs to construction engineering tasks.

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