Four Gemini agents autonomously complete Minecraft, defeating the Ender Dragon in 27 hours
Four autonomous agents running Gemini 4 Argon took 27 hours and 14 minutes to defeat the Ender Dragon in Minecraft survival mode, with no human intervention throughout and without receiving game-specific training; the DeepMind research team disclosed this experiment in an arXiv paper. During the process, the agents wrote and ran 2,783 programs, exchanged 229 chat messages, died 605 times, processed about 1.35 billion input tokens, and cost about $520 at discounted prices. The paper states this is the first end-to-end autonomous completion using only the standard Mineflayer library, without pre-exploring seeds or human-written game-specific tools.
Why read thisThe paper discloses that four general-purpose agents autonomously completed the game without game-specific training, comparable to the specialized training approaches of AlphaGo and AlphaStar.