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Plugin channels is the beginning of it.

http://dinnerbone.com/blog/2012/01/13/minecraft-plugin-chann...

Read dinnerbone's blog, he's a key member of the bukkit team.

Maybe they don't want to give specifics until things are more solidified. Were it me I'd hate to make an announcement and then have to double-back and disappoint people.

I haven't played Minecraft before, but I was just about to ask if they have an API. I could see myself programming bots for it, if that is possible.

Well there is an API, it's just an unofficial one, with very active developers :

- http://bukkit.org/

- (well made ruby wrapper) https://github.com/enebo/Purugin

Programming bots should be doable, I've seen plugins that spawned a player that helped you mining.