IT Home On October 19, researchers at Google recently published a paper stating that they used four Gemini 4 Argon agents to successfully complete Minecraft, beating the Ender Dragon in just 27 hours.
Google placed 4 Gemini 4 models in a randomly generated world, and they could coordinate with each other through the chat box in the game. However, the researchers did not develop any strategy for them; they only stated the ultimate goal, and all actions were planned by the agents themselves. The researchers could observe them via a dashboard and issue commands to pause/terminate the test, but they had no right to intervene.
After the game started, these agents quickly divided up different tasks: some built Shadowbeast farms; some collected food; some focused on exploration. They shared combat skills and retrieved lost equipment after their teammates died.
Throughout the entire game process, the 4 agents sent 229 messages, ran 2783 programs, and died 605 times. It took them 13.5 hours to reach the Endless Void, and the remaining time was used entirely to defeat the Shadow Dragons. The whole process involved 1.35 billion input Tokens, and by ordinary user standards, the cost is approximately $1,620 (IT Home note: at current exchange rate, it is about 10,842 RMB).
The research team said: “As far as we know, this is the first time an AI agent has completed the entire game of ‘Minecraft’ from start to finish in full autonomy. The entire process used only the standard Mineflayer library, without using a seed map or human assistance.”