# Google DeepMind agents beat Minecraft by writing and coordinating their own programs

> Original title: New Google DeepMind paper shows 4 general-purpose coding agents beating Minecraft with no human help, writing every program and splitting...

- Source: Rohan Paul
- Published: 2026-10-26T21:44:50.000Z
- Bad Influence: https://badinfluence.news/items/jzjs63hw6debjq1ckyo4oshj5
- Original: https://x.com/rohanpaul_ai/status/2114835672985113080

## Summary

Rohan Paul reports a Google DeepMind paper in which four Gemini 4 Argon agents defeated the Ender Dragon in Minecraft without human help. The agents wrote 2,783 programs, took 27 hours and 14 minutes, and died 605 times in a single run from a random world on Easy difficulty. The paper says the agents organized their own roles through in-game chat and shared notes, and the success rate of this setup remains unknown.

## Post

New Google DeepMind paper shows 4 general-purpose coding agents beating Minecraft with no human help, writing every program and splitting the work themselves.

Finishing Minecraft means holding 1 plan across thousands of dependent steps, the same skill long software and business tasks need. Earlier Minecraft agents were trained on gameplay or handed game-specific planners.

Each Gemini 4 Argon agent got 1 goal, defeat the Ender Dragon, and a standard library that turns JavaScript into game actions. Nobody assigned roles or wrote game tools, so the team organized itself through chat and shared notes.

From a random world on Easy difficulty, they killed the dragon in 27 hours and 14 minutes, writing 2,783 programs and dying 605 times. It was a single run, so how often this setup succeeds is still unknown.

Before writing custom planners for a long task, try general coding agents with a plain API and a shared memory.

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