Kill the Ender Dragon in Minecraft
The Enderdragon mob in Minecraft is a great mob, with 200 HP. Defeating this beast gives you the victory of a lifetime, here's how to do it.
Contents
Steps
Survival Mode, no Cheats
- Find the Stronghold. You can't craft the end portal frame, as you must find a stronghold first.
- You find this by throwing Eyes of Ender (1 ender pearl + 1 blaze powder [1 blaze rod (from killing blazes in the Nether)]). You will need quite a few. Approximately 9-10 to throw, and 1-10 to actually find the portal. When you throw it, they will fly in the direction of the stronghold. If it keeps landing in one spot, you've found the stronghold. You'll should consider bringing more than 10, because the ender eyes have a 1 in 5 chance of breaking.
- If you need help getting eyes of ender, first learn Make an Eye of Ender in Minecraft, and kill endermen with a tool enchanted with loot as this is a rarer mob.
- Explore the stronghold before finding the actual portal. Do look around because there are chests that may contain useful things like food, armor, or ingots (to craft swords or armor).
- If you have armor and you aren't wearing, put it on. You'll definitely need it.
- Have an enchanted bow and lots of arrows. If your bow has the infinity enchantment, then you'll only need one arrow.
- Place 1 Eye of Ender in each end portal frame by clicking on the frame. Usually, there are a few Eyes of Ender inside some of the frames, so you won't need all 12.
- Wait for the enderdragon to come down when you arrive at The End. Stand there and shoot her with a bow and arrow then attack with your sword when she's there.Before you shoot her, there are special blocks called crystals on obsidian pillars that heal the mob. Destroy them if possible. If you don't know how, try this: [[1]]
- Attack until you kill it.
- Collect your prize. It drops a lot of XP so you can have a lot of enchanting power approximately 60-100 levels, and in the upcoming 1.9 update, you can "mend" your tools automatically using XP.
- Collect your ultimate prize. What is that thing on the top? That is the dragon egg. It is kind of hard to obtain if you don't know how. One way takes a while. You can click on it as if you are obtaining it, but it teleports away. You can keep finding it to obtain it. Once you have done it enough, it will eventually drop as a resource. Or a shorter way is to just place a torch under the block the egg is on the break the block. The egg then drops.
- Keep the dragon egg as a trophy. By clicking the egg in the OverWorld, will create particles and endermen, ender chests, and more. You can keep it as a decoration or like a trophy. Many think of it as a ultimate prize, sometimes below the Wither.
Creative Mode, with Cheats
- Get to the End. An easy way is to be in creative and type /give <player name> 119.
- Break the block you're standing on and place the tile.null.name on that block.
- Wait as you will be teleported to The End on an obsidian spawn.
- Destroy the crystals on the obsidian pillars.
- Attack the Ender Dragon with a sword or a bow.
- This will may help with other Ender mobs in the future.
Tips
- If you want to, try using your bow and arrow to shoot it while it's flying.
- Use an enchanted infinity bow.
- If you run out of arrows, try using snowballs! These can easily be obtained by digging snow with a shovel in the Overworld.
- Never look into an Enderman's eyes! They will go after you. To avoid this, place a pumpkin or a jack o' lantern on your head. This reduces visibility, but you can safely look at Endermen.
- Using beds can be useful. Beds explode when you try to sleep in the end, and the explosion causes the Ender Dragon a lot of damage. Try to time the explosion correctly, when the Ender Dragon gets close to the bed, and make sure you don't get hurt in the process.
- Try hiding behind the pillars, the dragon can't attack you and you can restore your health bar.
Things You'll Need
- Device compatible with Minecraft (PS3, PC, mobile tablet, etc).
- Minecraft
