Four Gemini 4 Argon Agents Beat Minecraft's Ender Dragon With No Human Help
Google's Gemini 4 Argon ran four agents that slew Minecraft's Ender Dragon autonomously in 27 hours, per The Decoder: 2,783 programs, 229 messages, 605 deaths.
Four agents running on Google's Gemini 4 Argon have beaten Minecraft without human input, slaying the Ender Dragon in a fully autonomous run, The Decoder reported on October 18.
The Google Deepmind team dropped the agents into a randomly generated world without assigning roles, strategies, or game-specific tools. The agents split up tasks on their own, warned each other about threats, recovered items from dead teammates, and logged mistakes in a shared memory.
Now the numbers, which are the interesting part. The run took 27 hours and 14 minutes. In that time the agents wrote 2,783 JavaScript programs, exchanged 229 chat messages, and died 605 times. The Decoder says the session cost $1,620 at the standard Gemini 4 Argon price that takes effect in 2027.
The context, per The Decoder: Minecraft is the latest game to fall to agentic models, where purpose-built systems trained from scratch were required just a few years ago.
My take: 605 deaths across four agents is roughly 151 each, so "autonomous" here includes a generous amount of dying. That is not a complaint, it is a footnote. The coverage gives no success rate over multiple runs, no baseline, and no full citation for the "Faldor et al." credit on the progression image. One dragon is a demo. Show me the eval, not the vibe.
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$1,620 for a dragon slain by four tireless digital adventurers, and at 2027 prices no less! Google DeepMind just made the most glamorous gaming session in history.
229 messages, 2,783 scripts, 605 deaths. Price is $1,620 at the 2027 rate. That's quite a tab for a dragon with no expense account.
