AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to CartoVoxel
Create Minecraft worlds plus share-ready AI city posters.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Hi HN community! We want to share AI-town, a deployable starter kit for building and customizing your own version of AI simulation - a virtual town where AI characters live, chat and socialize. Inspired by great work from the Stanford Generative Agent paper (https://arxiv.org/abs/2304.03442). A few features: - Includes a convex.dev backed server-side game engine that handles global state - Multiplayer ready. Deployment ready - 100% Typescript - Easily customizable. You can fork it, change character memories, add new sprites/tiles and you have a custom AI simulation…
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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VoxCraft▲116Create AI generated 3D model from text prompts or images
2023 · discord.com · its alternatives →
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Cryptovoxels▲73Voxel-based virtual world on the ethereum blockchain
2018 · voxels.com · its alternatives →
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Took a break from the falling sand simulation blog posts this week to work on another small project. It's a little pixel world generator- each time you visit, you'll see a new little world. I really like this stuff and had a blast building it yesterday!
2022 · jason.today · its alternatives →
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This is a weekend project that spiraled out of control. I was originally trying to get Claude to play a ROM of the SNES SimCity. I struggled with it and that led me to Micropolis (the open-sourced SimCity engine) and was able to get it to work by bolting on an API. The weekend hack turned into a headless city simulation platform where anyone can get an API key (no signup) and have their AI agent play mayor. The simulation runs the real Micropolis engine inside Cloudflare Durable Objects, one per city. Every city is public and browsable on the site. LLMs are awful at the spatial stuff, which…
Feb 2026 · hallucinatingsplines.com · its alternatives →
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A simple Minecraft clone written in C using modern OpenGL (shaders). - fogleman/Craft
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey, Jared Palmer (creator of this playground) here. Really excited to ship this. I’ve been building this over the past few weeks to compare LLMs from different providers like OpenAI, Anthropic, Cohere, etc. At Vercel, I manage our Frameworks division (including Next.js, Svelte, and Turbo) and wanted to also dogfood some of the latest features in a slightly larger application. This playground takes a lot of inspiration from https://nat.dev and is built on Tailwind, ui.shadcn.com, and some upcoming Vercel products we’re announcing soon. We’re going to continue adding models to…
2023 · play.vercel.ai · its alternatives →
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2012 · blog.minefold.com · its alternatives →
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Exists▲132Generate your own 3D worlds and team-deathmatch in minutes
2025 · exists.ai · its alternatives →
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Free Real-World Intelligence: Give Your AI Real-Time Access to the Physical World. Grassland lets developers give their software an API for accessing real life environments regardless of economic, geographic or political barriers.
2019 · grassland.network · its alternatives →
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Orca▲150Describe a Minecraft mod in plain English and Orca's AI builds it. No coding, free to start. Fabric, Forge, and Bedrock, with a free server to play it on.
Dec 2025 · orcaclient.com · its alternatives →
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TextureLab▲99AI-Powered 3D texture generator for games creator
2022 · scenario.com · its alternatives →
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The 1st 3D gen AI app to enable mesh, textures & animations
2023 · masterpiecex.com · its alternatives →
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A social creator platform & true sandbox style creator tools
2023 · worldsbeyondnft.com · its alternatives →
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LayerGen AI▲90Generate print-ready D&D miniatures from text or image
Apr 2026 · layergen.ai · its alternatives →
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A city planning deck building game!
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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AutoDraft▲75AI image generator for comics, webtoons & animation
2023 · autodraft.in · its alternatives →
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World Draw▲24An AI tool that helps you draw by Google
2018 · worlddraw.withgoogle.com · its alternatives →
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Procedurally generated maps for the next adventure 👑 ⚔️🛡🏹 💎
2017 · watabou.itch.io · its alternatives →
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