Ender Dragon

The Ender dragon is the boss mob in Mine Blocks. You have to defeat it to win the sandbox of Mine Blocks

This boss has 333 ( × 166.5) health and will drop dragon scale and experience when killed.

Spawning

The ender dragon spawns naturally only once in the End, the first time the player enters it.

Commands

The ender dragon can be spawned in another way, aside from its respective spawn egg, while cheats are enabled, using the command /summon enderdragon.

In addition to that you can add data tags to customize the ender dragon. examples:

• /summon enderdragon 1 ~ ~ {health:5, drops:[{item:{id:"diamond"}, quantity:5, bonus:3}]}

• /summon enderdragon 1 ~ ~ {name:"Ender Boss", health:500, defaultDrops:0, drops:[{item:{id:"ender_gem"}, quantity:10, bonus:3}]}

Drops

The ender dragon drops 40 levels of experience when it dies.

When the ender dragon dies, it will drop 60 dragon scales.

Crafting

Crafting with the ender dragon drop:

Drg. Scale Helmet	Drg. Scale Chestplate	Drg. Scale Leggins	Drg. Scale Boots	Drg. Scale Block

Behavior

The dragon has two attacks. The first is a charge attack, where the dragon tries to charge at the player. She does about 6 () hearts of damage. The second attack, is the dragon spitting out an explosive flame wave. That does about 2 () heart for each of the small fireballs the wave consists of. She can destroy anything but obsidian, obsidian backdrops, bedrock, enderstone, and ender gem ore.

Once the dragon is killed, her death animation is played and a portal to the overworld is generated as well as a chest, which contains 16 diamonds and the ender dragon egg, which is obtainable by breaking it but a chance of 50/50 to collect, or placing a torch underneath the block underneath the egg and then breaking the block under the egg.

Tasks

Number	Icon[ng]	Name	Newgrounds name	Description [ng]	Objective	Points[ng]	Requirements
37		Slay the ender dragon	Slay the Ender Dragon	Congratulations! You beat the first boss of Mine Blocks!	Kill the Ender Dragon	100

History

Version	Date	Changes
1.23	Oct 31, 2012	Added End. Added Ender dragon. Added Dragon scales. Added Ender dragon scale armor.
1.24	Dec 22, 2012	Shortened ender dragon spawning text in creative.
1.26.0	Mar 28, 2014	Gave the ender dragon some more health. Ender dragon XP orbs no longer get stuck off-screen.
1.26.5	Jul 03, 2014	Fixed ender dragon health being too low
1.30.3b	Nov 21, 2021	Ender dragon fireballs properly explode when hitting mobs while player is in spectator mode.
1.30.3b	Dec 5, 2021	Ender dragon can no longer nudge the player in spectator mode. Ender dragon no longer disappears in peaceful mode.

Trivia

• The Ender dragon is the boss that is believed to be the ultimate challenge in the game, making killing her "completion of the game" to many.
• The Ender dragon is female, because she drops the ender dragon egg.
• The Ender dragon can be healed by healing crystals. Destroying the healing crystal while the Ender dragon is healing harms the dragon due to the resulting explosion

Gallery

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  The Ender dragon in the End

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  The Ender dragon in the overworld

See also

• Mobs
• Skyhold
• Ender portal
• Endermen