Google's AI Agents Just Killed the Ender Dragon in Minecraft Without Any Help in What Is Believed to Be a World First
The agents split tasks, shared warnings and recovered items as Google researchers said the run took 27.23 hours.
- Google researchers revealed that four Gemini 4 Argon agents autonomously defeated Minecraft's "Ender Dragon" foe, marking the first end-to-end completion by AI agents without human intervention using the standard Mineflayer library.
- No roles or game-specific tools were assigned to the agents; instead, they coordinated via in-game chat and shared memory, with some building Enderman shelters while others gathered food and supplies.
- Over the 27-hour playthrough, "the four agents wrote and ran 2,783 programs, exchanged 229 messages and died 605 times along the way," the team said, demonstrating the complexity of maintaining coherent long-term planning.
- A fifth agent called "the Observer" monitored the session to ensure fairness. The run utilized 1.35 billion input tokens, costing $1,620 at standard pricing—roughly $15 per agent per hour.
- Researchers stated the goal was to study how agents coordinate in visible settings before real-world deployment. "The skills required to solve Minecraft such as coordinating a team, recovering from failure, and pursuing a goal for more than a day, are also what agents need to work reliably alongside people," they said.
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Four Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft in 27 hours, dying 605 times
Four AI agents running on Google’s Gemini 4 Argon have defeated the Ender Dragon, Minecraft’s final boss, without human help. It took them 27 hours and 14 minutes from their first program, Google DeepMind researchers wrote in a paper published on arXiv. The agents started in a randomly generated survival world on Easy difficulty, with […] This story continues at The Next Web
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Google's AI Agents Just Killed the Ender Dragon in Minecraft Without Any Help in What Is Believed to Be a World First
Google researchers have released a paper claiming that four Google Gemini 4 Argon AI agents just beat Minecraft without any help from humans. It took them just over 27 hours to take down the Ender Dragon in what is believed to be a world first.
Four IA agents from Google DeepMind, all based on Gemini 4 Argon, finished Minecraft in 27 hours and 14 minutes without any human assistance, according to a study published on 15 October 2026.
Four Gemini 4 agents kill the End Dragon of Minecraft without humans: 27 hours, 605 deaths and 810 dollars in tokens. The Gemini 4 entry in Minecraft: four agents coordinate themselves, kill the dragon and no one touched the keyboard was first published in What!.
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