diff --git a/services/minecraft/src/agents/action/tools.ts b/services/minecraft/src/agents/action/tools.ts
index fa2025dc7..9781641a6 100644
--- a/services/minecraft/src/agents/action/tools.ts
+++ b/services/minecraft/src/agents/action/tools.ts
@@ -138,8 +138,8 @@ export const actionsList: Action[] = [
       search_range: z.number().describe('The range to search for the block.').min(32).max(512),
     }),
     perform: mineflayer => async (block_type: string, range: number) => {
-      await skills.goToNearestBlock(mineflayer, block_type, 4, range)
-      return `Arrived at nearest [${block_type}]` // TODO more spacial context?
+      const block = await skills.goToNearestBlock(mineflayer, block_type, 4, range)
+      return `Arrived at nearest [${block.name}] at (${block.position.x}, ${block.position.y}, ${block.position.z})` // TODO more spacial context?
     },
   },
   {
diff --git a/services/minecraft/src/skills/movement.ts b/services/minecraft/src/skills/movement.ts
index 4586eed92..d91ade9ec 100644
--- a/services/minecraft/src/skills/movement.ts
+++ b/services/minecraft/src/skills/movement.ts
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+import type { Block } from 'prismarine-block'
 import type { Entity } from 'prismarine-entity'
 
 import type { Mineflayer } from '../libs/mineflayer'
@@ -43,7 +44,7 @@ export async function goToNearestBlock(
   blockType: string,
   minDistance = 2,
   range = 64,
-): Promise<boolean> {
+): Promise<Block> {
   const MAX_RANGE = 512
   if (range > MAX_RANGE) {
     log(mineflayer, `Maximum search range capped at ${MAX_RANGE}.`)
@@ -52,13 +53,12 @@ export async function goToNearestBlock(
 
   const block = getNearestBlock(mineflayer, blockType, range)
   if (!block) {
-    log(mineflayer, `Could not find any ${blockType} in ${range} blocks.`)
-    return false
+    throw new Error(`Could not find any ${blockType} in ${range} blocks.`)
   }
 
   log(mineflayer, `Found ${blockType} at ${block.position}.`)
   await goToPosition(mineflayer, block.position.x, block.position.y, block.position.z, minDistance)
-  return true
+  return block
 }
 
 export async function goToNearestEntity(
diff --git a/services/minecraft/src/skills/world.ts b/services/minecraft/src/skills/world.ts
index 60f99fb09..05f4a18fd 100644
--- a/services/minecraft/src/skills/world.ts
+++ b/services/minecraft/src/skills/world.ts
@@ -58,11 +58,25 @@ export function getNearestFreeSpace(
 }
 
 export function getNearestBlocks(mineflayer: Mineflayer, blockTypes: string[] | string | null = null, distance: number = 16, count: number = 10000): Block[] {
-  const blockIds = blockTypes === null
-    ? mc.getAllBlockIds(['air'])
-    : (Array.isArray(blockTypes) ? blockTypes : [blockTypes]).map(mc.getBlockId).filter((id): id is number => id !== null)
+  const blockNames = blockTypes === null
+    ? mc.getAllBlocks(['air']).map(block => block.name)
+    : (Array.isArray(blockTypes) ? blockTypes : [blockTypes])
+        .map((name) => {
+          const id = mc.getBlockId(name)
+          if (id)
+            return name
 
-  const positions = mineflayer.bot.findBlocks({ matching: blockIds, maxDistance: distance, count })
+          const closest = mc.getClosestBlockName(name)
+          const suggestion = closest ? `; did you mean ${closest}?` : ''
+          throw new Error(`Unknown block type: ${name}${suggestion}`)
+        })
+
+  const blockNameSet = new Set(blockNames)
+  const positions = mineflayer.bot.findBlocks({
+    matching: block => block && blockNameSet.has(block.name),
+    maxDistance: distance,
+    count,
+  })
 
   return positions
     .map((pos) => {
diff --git a/services/minecraft/src/utils/mcdata.ts b/services/minecraft/src/utils/mcdata.ts
index 8a18ba401..ee50c9e87 100644
--- a/services/minecraft/src/utils/mcdata.ts
+++ b/services/minecraft/src/utils/mcdata.ts
@@ -99,6 +99,45 @@ export function getBlockName(blockId: number): string {
   return block.name || ''
 }
 
+export function getClosestBlockName(input: string): string | null {
+  const names = Object.keys(gameData.blocksByName ?? {})
+  let best: { name: string | null, distance: number } = { name: null, distance: Number.POSITIVE_INFINITY }
+
+  for (const name of names) {
+    const distance = levenshteinDistance(input, name)
+    if (distance < best.distance) {
+      best = { name, distance }
+      if (distance === 0)
+        break
+    }
+  }
+
+  return best.name
+}
+
+function levenshteinDistance(a: string, b: string): number {
+  const matrix: number[][] = Array.from({ length: a.length + 1 }, () =>
+    Array.from({ length: b.length + 1 }, () => 0))
+
+  for (let i = 0; i <= a.length; i++)
+    matrix[i][0] = i
+  for (let j = 0; j <= b.length; j++)
+    matrix[0][j] = j
+
+  for (let i = 1; i <= a.length; i++) {
+    for (let j = 1; j <= b.length; j++) {
+      const cost = a[i - 1] === b[j - 1] ? 0 : 1
+      matrix[i][j] = Math.min(
+        matrix[i - 1][j] + 1,
+        matrix[i][j - 1] + 1,
+        matrix[i - 1][j - 1] + cost,
+      )
+    }
+  }
+
+  return matrix[a.length][b.length]
+}
+
 export function getAllItems(ignore: string[] = []): any[] {
   const items: any[] = []
   for (const itemId in gameData.items) {