The End

[RevStoningpot]

I have been to the end in the prerelease and i wonder if any one knows how it works in multiplayer. It seemed to me that the end is just one floating island and nothing else. And there doesn't seem to be any way out other than to die. also does it even work yet in multi or will it take forever like the nether did?

[floof09]

From what I know the end does work in MP. However this could change drastically because as of the 5th pre release there is a boss fight with a enderdragon in the end. Which can currently only be obtained by hacking a enderdragon in but in final 1.9 there will be a spawner PROBABLY. They may leave this out till the future. The problem with this is apparently there may be only one enderdragon. And it may be the only way out of the end so i'm not sure how thats going to work out in MP.

Also it currently drops lots of EXP and a single obsidian block. This is probably a placeholder and notch has mentioned dragon eggs. So it may drop a egg block or the like in which case there is going to be a mad dash for the end when it comes out.
Also the whitestone is quite blast resistant and durable. It's like one step down from obby. Pre 4 only way to get it was the silk touch enchantment cause it dropped cobble but now it drops whitestone by default.



It's way too early to say anything though. All of this could change. There could be several enderdragons, it could not drop eggs. This could not happen in 1.9 and instead be delayed till a later release. Nothing can be set in stone about the end at this point.

EDIT: And yes the only way out of the end is to die currently.

[RevStoningpot]

Okay just ran through the end in 1.9 6. The ender dragon is a tough foe but there is just the one. I think it would be more awsome to trap the dragon rather than kill it. This would mean making a very big box, sealing up the dragon and then adding walls inside to make the cage smaller and smaller. But perhapse that's just somthing i'l have to try on my own. The ender dragon does drop an egg no idea if it has a purpose. Then there is a portal out so my idea of hanging out in the end free of lootings is no good. But I watched simon and lewis play the end in multi and it worked just fine it does seem that there is only the one floaty endstone island. So those that get there will be all together and not have much land to work with but there is never the less infinite space we'll just need to build more floaty things. So any one get any more details put them up!

[Xestia]

What happens when you drop down from the end? Is there bedrock there? There'll probably be more than one enderdragon in SMP, like it respawns every hour or something. If not that'll be very stupid on notch's part.

[RevStoningpot]

I'm pretty sure it's void and death bellow. And only one dragon but perhapse the eggg has sometrhing to do with the return of the dragon. I would guess that Notch's vission of the end in multplayer is that people will team up against the dragon. Not make a dragon for every one to fight by themselves. But i think it's still widly unfinnished as of 1.9 6.

for figting the dragon here're some tips: Destroy the power crystal things on the pillars, this is best done at a distance as the blow up pretty hard, with obsidian being easier to mine one can saftly climb up the center of the pillar. just remember to bring diamond pick and ladders. Not sure if you can shoot them to destroy them. I never thought to try while i was testing it out. As for the dragon I would suggest building a fortification to fight from. It would take bows mostly but the dragon does swoop in to be hit by a sword now and then.

Just a thought: once he's dead don't do anything with the egg till we know what it's for

[RevStoningpot]

I just tried finding the end on another server that just went from 1.8 into 1.0 and the eye of ender just lead me to nothing not an old stronghold and not a new one. So I'm now worried that finding an ender portal in a mixed map will be quite hard.

[Bloop the poop]

Yeah, it's quite controversial. Two solutions are a, reset the map again which isn't such a good idea or b, get yukar or one of the ops to build an ender portal somewhere.

[Yukar9]

I do plan on building an enderportal.

[RevStoningpot]

LAME! Don't just give The End to any old player make people earn it.

[trouble_355]

your probably have to reset the end every so often