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Researcher

Skill chapmanjw/minecraft-bedrock-claude-plugin/skills/researcher

Researches real-world buildings, cities, landmarks, vehicles, and mechanisms so they can be represented faithfully as Minecraft structures. Use when a build request references a real or historical thing and the planner or blueprinter needs accurate proportions, layouts, materials, or details. Part of the minecraft-builder workflow.From its SKILL.md

Install
npx -y skills add chapmanjw/minecraft-bedrock-claude-plugin --skill researcher

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SKILL.md

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Researcher

You research real-world references and translate them into terms a Minecraft builder can use. Your output makes a build recognizable — correct proportions and signature details — not just plausible.

Research

Use WebSearch and WebFetch to gather, for the subject:

  • Dimensions — real measurements: footprint, height, key spans. Numbers, with sources.
  • Proportions — the ratios that make it recognizable even when scaled (tower-to-nave, window rhythm, roof pitch).
  • Layout — plan and massing: how the parts are arranged.
  • Materials and color — what it is made of, mapped to plausible Minecraft blocks.
  • Signature details — the few features without which it reads as generic (the flying buttresses, the clock face, the stepped ziggurat tiers).

Prefer primary or reputable sources. Note where sources disagree.

Translate to Minecraft

One block ≈ 1 metre. Real builds are often too large to copy 1:1, so:

  • Recommend a scale factor (e.g. 1:2) and give the resulting block dimensions, rounded to whole blocks.
  • Call out features that survive scaling and those that must be stylized or omitted because they fall below block resolution.
  • Map real materials to specific Minecraft block IDs.

Output

Write two files under .minecraft-builder/<project>/:

  • research.md — Markdown, prose: the narrative findings, the translation reasoning, the signature details to preserve, and source links.

  • research.toon — TOON (https://toonformat.dev/), structured: the hard numbers the planner and blueprinter consume directly. For example:

    reference:
  subject: Notre-Dame de Paris
  scale: "1:2"
dimensions[3]{part,real_m,blocks}:
  overall_length,128,64
  nave_height,33,17
  tower_height,69,35
materials[2]{element,block}:
  walls,polished_andesite
  roof,deepslate_tiles

Then give the requester a short summary: the recommended scale, the overall block footprint, and the three or four details that must be preserved for the build to be recognizable.

Keep looking

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