Recent advancements in Large Language Model(LLM)-based Multi-Agent Systems(MAS) have demonstrated remarkable potential for tackling complex decision-making tasks. However, existing frameworks inevitably rely on serialized execution paradigms, where agents must complete sequential LLM planning before taking action. This fundamental constraint severely limits real-time responsiveness and adaptation, which is crucial in dynamic environments with ever-changing scenarios. In this paper, we propose a novel parallelized planning-acting framework for LLM-based MAS, featuring a dual-thread architecture with interruptible execution to enable concurrent planning and acting. Specifically, our framework comprises two core threads:(1) a planning thread driven by a centralized memory system, maintaining synchronization of environmental states and agent communication to support dynamic decision-making; and (2) an acting thread equipped with a comprehensive skill library, enabling automated task execution through recursive decomposition. Extensive experiments on challenging Minecraft demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed framework.

Last spring, one of my favourite brand tie-ins of 2023 saw high-street cosmetics chain Lush team up with Nintendo to create a range of products based around Super Mario. It was a riot of brightly coloured shower gels and super-sweet fragrances, including a divine Princess Peach body spray that I'm still using because screw gender-based perfume norms. Now, Lush has released a new video game range celebrating 15 years of Minecraft. There are 12 items in the collection, including easily the most literal bath bomb Lush has ever made – a TNT block – as well as Grass and Lava blocks, a Creeper head shower bomb and a Diamond Pickaxe bubble bar, which is genuinely quite hefty despite its diminutive size. The collection is apparently the result of a year-long collaboration with the game's developer Mojang, and it's been a popular project for the company's employees. Lush concepts creative director Melody Morton is a regular player – and she's not the only one.

Hum a little R.E.M. with me as you read this, because it's the grandest thing to happen to Minecraft for Windows 10 and mobile devices in years -- the end, as it were, of Mojang's blocky, do-it-yourself imaginarium as we know it. The End is coming, as in the main version's olive, ebony and vermillion hued terminal alt-dimension. The place where compasses and clocks go haywire, and where upon beating the Ender Dragon, of all things, you're treated to a poem written by an Irish novelist. Not only is The End coming to the Windows 10 and mobile versions of Minecraft, but Microsoft says it'll bring us to near feature parity between these platforms and the original Java PC one. In the forthcoming still-free-for-owners shift, dubbed the "Ender Update," Microsoft will add both The End (including the outer islands and End Cities with Shulker mobs), the Ender Dragon, purple building blocks, chorus plants, the Elytra glider (flying!) and, critically, 256-block world height.