Somewhat of a misleading title, hee hee. Anyways, it seems Minecraft now has a sort of endgame. This is for prerelease 6.

The End region is fairly well known now, as is the Enderdragon. But guess what, now he dies properly. And with a proper boss style battle. It looks immensely difficult for a single person, or even many people, even with good armor and weapons. Also, Notch seems to want people to test it in multiplayer.

If Mono or someone wants to host a 1.9 Pre 6 server, I would love to try and coordinate a team to take the thing down. Obviously we would just cheat and spawn weapons and stuff, perhaps farm some enchantments, then go try to kill it. Seems like a lot of fun.

I can try hosting a server. Where are the jars again?

Library-application support-minecraft-bin

I meant where can I find the prerelease but I may not be able to after all.

1.9 server is back up.

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Wtf... Thats not legit.

Its [impossible] to do in non-creative. Even notch did it in creative. It was still hard as fuck in creative.

Lots of food
lots of arrows
good projectile prediction
possibly friends who also have the above
=
Success.

In about 72 hours of continuous playing. I don't think you have seen the obelisks heal... You have to destroy them, and that'd be hard as fuck with a bow and arrow.

>Projectile Prediction
or you know like
pillar up higher so you can get a better view of it.

I guess. Would be fine with a bunch of people sniping from the obelisks.

And thus why I suggested we gather a TEAM to go kill the thing. Also, you don't have to destroy the obelisks, just the beam projector at the top. That still requires scaling them, which is dangerous since normal materials are evaporated by the Enderdragon, but still doable. They are one-hit with just about anything. Then comes the dragon itself, which has 10 times the health of a Creeper. A fast, flying, armored Creeper. Get ten people in Diamond armor shooting at it for a few minutes and it shouldn't be too difficult. Also, consider that there are working potions now. They can provide health regen, movespeed, and burst healing. You could also use splash potions to hit it for direct burst damage and poison.

Hell, with all the new changes, the dragon might have to even be scaled up by number of players. It will one-hit players without armor by default though.

Also, Notch noted that the dragon is too easy if he can beat it. I'm wondering if he means alone or with friends. Because I doubt this is a boss most people could kill on their own.