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Four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeat Minecraft’s Ender Dragon
Four Google Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated Minecraft’s Ender Dragon, the game’s final boss, in a test by Google researchers.
They began in a randomly generated survival world with one goal and no assigned roles or game-specific tools.
Using the Mineflayer library, the agents controlled players by writing and running JavaScript programs rather than seeing the game as people do.
They coordinated tasks, shared advice and recovered from setbacks through in-game chat and shared memory, while researchers watched but did not intervene.
The run took more than 27 hours; the agents exchanged 229 messages, ran 2,783 programs and died 605 times.
The test highlights long-term planning and teamwork, abilities researchers say AI agents may need for real-world tasks.
It is not evidence that the agents play like people: they had access to game information hidden from human players, and a human speedrunner can finish in under seven minutes.
Four Google Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated Minecraft’s Ender Dragon without human intervention, according to Google researchers.
The run took about 27 hours in a randomly generated survival world.
The agents coordinated through in-game chat and shared memory while using the Mineflayer library to control players through code.
They exchanged 229 messages, ran 2,783 programs and died 605 times.
The researchers say the experiment tested skills such as coordination and recovering from failure that could matter in real-world tasks.
- Who
- Four Google Gemini 4 Argon agents completed the run. A fifth agent monitored the session.
- What
- They defeated Minecraft’s Ender Dragon without researchers intervening.
- When
- The research paper was posted on October 15, 2026. The run lasted about 27 hours.
- Where
- In a randomly generated Minecraft survival world on Easy difficulty.
- Why
- Researchers said they wanted to study how AI agents coordinate and recover from failure before being trusted with real-world tasks.
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Google DeepMind researchers posted a paper describing the experiment.
The agents reached The End, according to IGN.
The agents spent the remaining time trying to defeat the Ender Dragon.
The four agents defeated the Ender Dragon.
- AI model
- Gemini 4 Argon
- Team size
- Four agents
- Game difficulty
- Easy
- Run duration
- 27 hours and 14 minutes, according to Mashable
- Programs run
- 2,783
- Deaths during run
- 605
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What people are saying
No one assigned roles or wrote game logic. The agents planned, wrote, and debugged every program themselves.
Winning required the agents to keep a coherent plan across thousands of dependent steps for more than a day.
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.