Record · Minecraft · Gemini 4 Argon agent team (research paper)
A team of 4 Gemini 4 Argon agents beat Minecraft: killed the Ender Dragon in 27h 14m, with 605 deaths and 2,783 programs written
Creator-reported Reported by the paper's authors (submitted Oct 15, 2026). We have checked the paper; we have not seen independent replays or logs.
Last verified: not independently verified · Last checked: Oct 18, 2026
The authors call it the first end-to-end autonomous completion of Minecraft by AI agents. They also list its limits: the agents read the world through an API, a plugin handled pathfinding, and they played on Easy.
How was this run measured?
- Model
- Gemini 4 Argon (source label: “Gemini 4 Argon”)
- Agent
- Team of 4 Gemini 4 Argon agents
- Game
- Minecraft
- Harness
- 4 general-purpose Gemini 4 Argon coding agents controlling players through Mineflayer (+ pathfinding plugin); team chat + shared memory
- Inputs
- text API (position, health, inventory, nearby blocks and mobs), not pixels
- Tools
- self-written JavaScript programs (2,783); no human-written game logic, no pre-scouted seed
- Assistance
- none during the run (researchers could pause or stop it but did not intervene)
- Budget
- single run; Java Edition 1.20.4, survival, Easy difficulty, cheats off
- Status
- finished
- Evidence
- Paper: 'A team of Gemini 4 Argon agents beats Minecraft' (arXiv 2610.22319) (creator)
Full text (HTML) (creator) - Unknown
- public replay or logs; compute cost
- Dates
- published Oct 15, 2026 · discovered Oct 18, 2026
- Changes
- Historical record. Nothing to update unless the source changes.
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