MiniHack is a sandbox framework for easily designing rich and diverse environments for Reinforcement Learning (RL). Based on the game of NetHack, argu

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MiniHack is a sandbox framework for easily designing rich and diverse environments for Reinforcement Learning (RL). Based on the game of NetHack, arguably the hardest grid-based game in the world, MiniHack uses the NetHack Learning Environment (NLE) to communicate with the game and provide a convenient interface for customly created RL testbeds.

MiniHack already comes with a large list of challenging tasks. However, it is primarily built for easily designing new ones. The motivation behind MiniHack is to be able to perform RL experiments in a controlled setting while being able to increasingly scale the complexity of the tasks.

To this end, MiniHack leverages the description files of NetHack. The description files (or des-files) are human-readable specifications of levels: distributions of grid layouts together with monsters, objects on the floor, dungeon features, etc. The des-files can be compiled into binary using the NetHack level compiler, and MiniHack maps them to Gym environments. We refer users to our brief overview, detailed tutorial, or interactive notebook for further information on des-files.

Our documentation will walk you through everything you need to know about MiniHack, step-by-step, including information on how to get started, configure environments or design new ones, train baseline agents, and much more.

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