Research2026-10-15

Four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated Minecraft’s Ender Dragon. They controlled players via the Mineflayer library. They coordinated through in-game chat and shared memory. No humans assigned roles or wrote game logic. The team wrote 2,783 programs to win in 27 hours and 14 minutes. They died 605 times. This is the first end-to-end autonomous Minecraft completion by AI. The run used a randomly generated world on Easy difficulty. Researchers monitored but did not intervene. The paper describes the setup, strategies and limits of the result.

What changed

No AI team had completed Minecraft end-to-end without human-written game logic.

What it unlocks

AI agents can now autonomously coordinate long-horizon tasks in open-ended environments.

  • 2,783 programs written
  • 27 hours 14 minutes to win
  • 605 deaths
  • 4 agents

What you need to act on it

  • Gemini 4 Argon access
  • Mineflayer library
  • sandboxed Minecraft survival world

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