Four Gemini 4 Argon agents finish Minecraft by beating the Ender Dragon in 27 hours and 14 minutes with no human help, a paper reports

A paper posted to arXiv on 15 October by Maxence Faldor, Satinder Singh and Roberta Raileanu describes four agents running Google's Gemini 4 Argon model that played Minecraft survival together. They controlled their players through Mineflayer, a programming library for the game, and coordinated only through in-game chat and shared memory.

The abstract says that, starting “from a randomly generated world on Easy difficulty”, “the team wrote 2,783 programs and defeated the dragon in 27 hours and 14 minutes, dying 605 times along the way.” Beating the Ender Dragon is the game's usual ending, and it takes a long chain of steps: gathering, crafting, building, travelling to other dimensions and fighting.

The paper says the agents got the standard Mineflayer library with its pathfinding plug-in, plus a one-paragraph objective, general instructions, a list of teammates and a description of their environment. “We added nothing on top: no instructions about the game, no curriculum, no skill library, no human-written tools, and no route.” Some roundups said the agents were given extra helper tools; the paper contradicts that.

The authors call this, to their knowledge, the first end-to-end autonomous completion of Minecraft by AI agents, which is their own claim. They argue that the same long-horizon coding and teamwork carry over to software engineering. Engadget covered the result. The arXiv page does not print the authors' affiliations, so the Switchboard does not attribute the work to Google DeepMind.

• Confirmed The team wrote 2,783 programs and defeated the dragon in 27 hours and 14 minutes, dying 605 times, on Easy difficulty. arXiv 2610.22319
• Confirmed Besides Mineflayer, its pathfinding plug-in and a short brief, the authors added no game instructions, no curriculum, no skill library, no human-written tools and no route. arXiv 2610.22319 (full text)
• Claimed The authors call it the first end-to-end autonomous completion of Minecraft by AI agents. arXiv 2610.22319