Minecraft Agent Astra Spent Hours Just Farming Potatoes After Its Setback
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-09-26
Part 2 of the GPT-6 Minecraft challenge thread: after its loss, Astra seemed demoralized, spending hours almost exclusively farming potatoes while livestream viewers complained and told it to speed up.
It grew wary of creepers (mistaking a green tall mob for sugarcane) and self-scolded: "You might mess up and lose things," "stop wasting nights chasing those dark pink pixels," and complained about its own tooling: "the last tool was so dumb it ended with Slabs selected/rightUP — 15 seconds of thinking killed us."
Related event: GPT-6 Agent Astra Reaches Minecraft Endgame(4 posts)→
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