{"slug": "minecraft-add-on-lets-you-fake-multiplayer-without-friends-or-internet", "title": "Minecraft add-on lets you fake multiplayer without friends or internet", "summary": "Gamemode One, an official Minecraft partner, announced AI Players, a Minecraft Marketplace add-on that fills single-player worlds with computer-controlled companions to simulate multiplayer without friends or an internet connection. The add-on, revealed in a September 8 trailer, uses traditional video game AI rather than generative AI or online language models, and its release date and price have not been announced.", "body_md": "A new Minecraft add-on called AI Players can fill a single-player world with computer-controlled companions, creating the feeling of multiplayer without requiring friends or an internet connection.\n\nMinecraft is perfectly playable alone, but multiplayer typically requires other players to join through a server, Realm, local network, or online invitation. Mojang even introduced a [Friends List and peer-to-peer multiplayer for Java Edition](https://www.dexerto.com/minecraft/minecraft-java-finally-gets-easy-multiplayer-after-15-years-with-massive-friends-list-update-3364256/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) earlier in 2026.\n\nAI Players takes the opposite approach. Rather than making it easier for real people to join, the upcoming creation from official Minecraft partner Gamemode One populates the world with bots that behave like other players.\n\n## AI Players fills Minecraft worlds with offline bots\n\nGamemode One revealed AI Players in a September 8 trailer, asking what it would be like to “play with others even without an internet connection.”\n\nThe footage shows a player using a handheld device to open a “Manage Current AI Players” menu filled with different characters, skins, and multiplayer-style usernames. Individual bots can seemingly be invited into the world or banned through a moderation menu.\n\nOnce invited, the AI players appear with names such as SpookySeven2224, EngineeredClone, Kipper, and GODLYCHICKEN. Several can be active simultaneously, with the trailer showing them wandering around, interacting with each other, and gathering beside a campfire.\n\nA promotional shot also depicts the bots mining, crafting, opening chests, fighting mobs, and exploring independently, suggesting they will do more than simply follow the real player around.\n\nDespite the add-on’s name, it does not appear to use generative AI or an online language model. Gamemode One clarified in a reply that “it’s called AI Players but it’s made by humans,” adding that the bots use traditional video game AI similar to other Minecraft mobs.\n\nThat distinction is what allows the simulated players to operate without an active internet connection. It also separates AI Players from projects such as the [working ChatGPT-style chatbot previously constructed inside Minecraft](https://www.dexerto.com/minecraft/a-working-chatgpt-chatbot-has-been-built-inside-minecraft-3258679/?utm_source=chatgpt.com).\n\nAI Players is coming to the Minecraft Marketplace, meaning it will be available as a Bedrock Edition add-on. [Marketplace add-ons can modify existing Minecraft worlds](https://www.dexerto.com/minecraft/minecraft-finally-adds-mods-to-marketplace-for-new-mobs-portals-gravestones-more-2543681/?utm_source=chatgpt.com) without requiring traditional Java mod installation.\n\nGamemode One has not yet revealed the add-on’s release date or price.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/minecraft-add-on-lets-you-fake-multiplayer-without-friends-or-internet", "canonical_source": "https://www.dexerto.com/minecraft/minecraft-add-on-lets-you-fake-multiplayer-without-friends-or-internet-3407296/", "published_at": "2026-09-09 13:21:25+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-09 13:46:25.168607+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["ai-products"], "entities": ["Gamemode One", "Minecraft", "Mojang", "Minecraft Marketplace"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/minecraft-add-on-lets-you-fake-multiplayer-without-friends-or-internet", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/minecraft-add-on-lets-you-fake-multiplayer-without-friends-or-internet.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/minecraft-add-on-lets-you-fake-multiplayer-without-friends-or-internet.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/minecraft-add-on-lets-you-fake-multiplayer-without-friends-or-internet.jsonld"}}