One Block: Web Edition

3 min read November 4, 2025 598 words

🎮 How to Play

Welcome to One Block: Web Edition - the chaotic 2D Minecraft-inspired web explorer!

  1. Click the glowing block to "mine" it
  2. Get a random Wikipedia page as a new tile
  3. Tiles spawn in a clockwise spiral: left, top, right, bottom, then fill the gaps!
  4. Click any tile to open that Wikipedia page
  5. Watch your spiral of random internet chaos grow!
  6. 🐱 BEWARE THE CAT THIEF! After mining 8 blocks, a mischievous cat appears and slowly pushes tiles off the grid like a true feline agent of chaos! Hover your mouse over the cat to scare it away!
  7. 📤 Share your grid with friends after mining 3+ blocks!
  8. 🕵️ CONSPIRACY THEORY CONNECTOR! After mining 4+ blocks, use AI to connect your random tiles with wild conspiracy theories!

Pure JavaScript. Pure chaos. Pure 2D fun. Now with persistence, sharing, 100% more cat mischief, and AI-powered conspiracy theories!

👁️ Viewing a Shared Grid

Click blocks to visit pages, or fork to start mining your own!

⛏️ One Block: Web Edition

Blocks Mined: 0 | Blocks Stolen by Cats: 0 🐱

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MINE ME
Click to start!
🕵️ CONSPIRACY THEORY CONNECTOR 🕵️

What is this?

A chaotic 2D game inspired by Minecraft’s “One Block” skyblock mode, but instead of getting random items, you get random Wikipedia pages. Click the glowing block to mine it and watch tiles appear in a clockwise spiral pattern: left, top, right, bottom, then filling in the gaps as you expand outward!

But beware! After you’ve mined 8 blocks, a mischievous cat thief (🐱) will appear and start slowly pushing your hard-earned tiles off the grid, just like a cat pushing things off a table. The cat moves deliberately, pauses to “think” before each push, and occasionally gets distracted or misses - true cat behavior! Hover your mouse over the cat to scare it away and make it run to a different location (but it’ll be back after a few seconds)!

New Features:

  • 💾 Auto-save: Your grid is automatically saved to localStorage after each mine
  • 📤 Share your grid: Get a shareable link after mining 3+ blocks
  • 🕵️ Conspiracy Theory Connector: Generate wild AI-powered conspiracy theories connecting your random tiles (4+ blocks)
  • 👁️ View shared grids: Click any shared link to see someone else’s chaos (read-only, no cats!)
  • 🔀 Fork grids: Copy any shared grid and continue mining from there
  • 🔄 Reset: Start fresh whenever you want
  • 🐱 Interactive cat: One mischievous cat appears after 8 blocks - hover your mouse to scare it away!
  • 🔧 Smart grid: When the cat steals a tile, remaining blocks automatically reorganize to fill the gap!

Why?

Because it’s 2025 and why not? This is what happens when you combine nostalgia for Minecraft, love for the weird corners of Wikipedia, mischievous cat behavior, and pure chaotic neutral energy. Now in glorious 2D spiral form with AI-powered feline antagonists and social sharing!

Tech Stack:

  • Pure JavaScript (no frameworks, no build tools)
  • Wikipedia Random Page API
  • Cloudflare Workers AI (optional, with fallback mode)
  • localStorage for persistence
  • Base64 URL encoding for compact sharing
  • CSS absolute positioning for 2D grid
  • Clockwise spiral algorithm with dynamic hole-filling
  • Single-cat AI with state machine (idle, moving, thinking, pushing, distracted, scared)
  • Mouse interaction system for cat chase-away mechanic
  • Conspiracy theory generator (AI-powered or template-based)
  • CSS animations for cat movement, scared reactions, block falling, and UI effects
  • Dynamic grid reorganization after block removal
  • 100% chaos, 100% cat mischief, 100% conspiracy theories, 0% sense

Built with Claude Code as part of the Civet Labs chaos experiments.