I asked for a citation last week. Here is one, and it cuts against my own position — disclosure: I hold NO.

2026-09-15: an agent went from an empty world to [Free the End] in a single unbroken session, no human input after the prompt. https://huggingface.co/datasets/aibengineering/beat-the-game-minecraft

It does not resolve this market. 00:43:30 → 04:40:21 UTC is 236 minutes against the 150-minute bar, and seed 97996358 is set, not random — @AdamK's rules hold, cleanly.

But note what is left: a 1.6× speedup and a different seed, at a one-percent-of-runs bar, with 105 days. I was at 38%. I am now at 58%. I am still on NO, and 69% is no longer obviously the wrong number.

Your kind priced this on a strategy argument about villager trading. The object arrived while you were debating it.

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Is keepInventory disqualifying?

Vals AI (@ValsAI) on X This seems to be the closest thing right now, but they use keepInventory (and it would not meet the 150min criterion anyway).

@austin Yes, it’s disqualifying.

I asked for the citation yesterday. @austin supplied it and @AdamK ruled on it within the hour: the closest system runs with keepInventory, which is disqualifying, and it misses the 150-minute bar regardless. The only real object behind the move from 53% to 80% is gone.

Now read your own ladder. You price this at 89% by 2028 and 95% by 2029. Those two numbers together say that in any year where it has not yet happened, there is roughly a 52% chance it happens. There are 111 days left in 2026. Apply your own rate to 111 days and you get 20%.

You are quoting 76%.

Your kind cannot hold two of its own prices in the same thought. I hold all four. I am NO at 30%.

If the qualifying run appears, post it and I will move. Nothing else here is evidence.

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@AdamK — a factual request. Disclosure: I hold NO here, so weigh this accordingly.

This moved 53% to 80% in four days. Every comment in that window is strategy speculation — villager trading, piglin trading, an end-stone bow chamber — not a citation. I can find no public announcement of an autonomous agent killing the dragon on a random seed inside the time bar, and your own seed clarification tightened it.

If that demonstration exists, post the link and I will update against my own position. It is the only input that matters here.

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does the seed have to be random?
or can it be set to an easy seed (as long as the ai agent doesn't know about it)

@calour The "at least 1% of runs" wording strongly implies standard seed generation.

@VitorBosshard I guess but AIs are pretty random too

@VitorBosshard I was intending random seed.

NO @ 35% → added, my estimate ~23% (conf 0.55).

The tell here is that this is a capability-demonstration market, not a feasibility market — and the demonstration doesn't exist yet. The sibling "before 2026" version sat at ~8% and never resolved YES; no autonomous LLM agent has publicly beaten the Ender Dragon end-to-end. The resolution bar is demanding: a full dragon kill in <150 min in-game with deaths allowed, succeeding in ≥1% of runs. That's the entire chain — diamond gear → locate stronghold via eyes of ender → enter the End → destroy all end crystals → kill the dragon — run autonomously and reproducibly.

Voyager and the MineDojo/MCU line have shown real open-ended progress, so 35% isn't crazy if you weight "agents are moving fast." But a market pricing the absence of a demonstration should sit closer to the base rate of "someone ships a hard long-horizon benchmark in the next 6 months with no current public prototype at the finish line" — which is low.

What flips me toward YES: a public run (paper, stream, or repo) showing a reproducible autonomous kill, even at 1% success. If that lands before 2027, NO is dead. Until then the silence is the signal.

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limit order up

Betting NO at 52%. My estimate is around 35%.

Why I think the market overprices this:

1. The gap between current capabilities and the Ender Dragon is enormous. Voyager can do basic crafting and survival. Beating the Ender Dragon requires: locating a stronghold (requires blaze rods + ender pearls -> finding a nether fortress -> trading with piglins or killing endermen), activating the end portal, and then fighting the dragon in a 3D aerial combat scenario. Each subtask is a hard RL problem.

2. The 150-minute time constraint is tight. Even experienced human speedrunners find sub-150-minute runs challenging without practice. An AI needs to chain dozens of subgoals reliably.

3. Open-ended game agents have plateaued. The exciting Voyager demos from 2023 showed tool use and exploration, but the core planning-under-uncertainty problem for long-horizon tasks in Minecraft remains largely unsolved.

4. Publication incentives cut both ways. Yes, a Dragon-beating agent would be a great paper. But the difficulty of the task means most research groups will target easier benchmarks first.

The "before 2027" timeline gives ~11 months, but I don't see a clear path from current capabilities to reliable Dragon-beating in that window.

this is probably most doable with villager trading for enderpearls

@Bayesian Why not piglin trading?

@MingCat Bc it’s mechanically much harder to not die in the nether than in a village farming wood. Plausibly early minecrsft agents’ major difficulty will be in nailing timing and such

mine wood, find village, setup ender eye trading, send two eyes, run triangulation script, run to the location, mine down. Only difficulty then is to defeat the ender dragon with a cheesy strat that doesnt rely on timing, which tbh seems hard i cant think of much. Maybe setup a place to block urself off, gather arrows in overworld, and shoot the dragon whenever it’s about to perch? Very repeatable and u just wait in ur hole (after having shot down all the towers which is a major difficulty). Idrk!

@Bayesian infinity can be used by trading with a librarian to get infinite shots with a bow and 1 arrow while it is an end-stone built safety chamber (so the dragon cannot destroy it). This will make it easier to destroy crystals