An Astra planner with a JEV controller beats the Ender Dragon in 8:43 on 131 decisions and 35 planner calls
rmalde published a Minecraft Java 1.16.5 agent on 2026-09-20 (409 stars in a day) where GPT-6 Astra sets objectives and jev-1.13 selects one action per step from structured game state via Mineflayer, not from screenshots. The verified run nether-final-08 finished in 8 minutes 43.3 seconds from an empty inventory in a fresh Survival world, down 40% from the prior 14:31, with End combat at 152s instead of 332s, six bed explosions on the first dragon landing, no deaths and no operator repair. It cost 131 JEV decisions and 35 Astra calls, with 17 run checks, 8 route/camera checks and 29 local tests passing, and the repo publishes the evidence schema (events.jsonl, victory.json requiring dragon-death plus exit-portal evidence) rather than just the video.
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