Mine craft - easier than expected!

If you can stretch your memory back a month or so I talked about some games I'd like to complete in the coming months. Well pretty much a day or two after posting it my friend and I slayed the Ender Dragon in a couple of hours of concerted effort. To be fair there were many hours of preparation leading up to that final push though.

My friend had started the world where we did the deed, building good accommodating for us all to store our resources and rest at night in relative peace. This is very important as night time can be very dangerous in minecraft and when you're settling into some crafting you need a safe haven to be able to get on with it without creepers blowing you and your hard work apart.

Once we had plenty of iron, it was then onto hunting Endermen, which come out mostly at night. I recommend pumping character levels into a beastly sword and then lingering around large deserts, as it's easier to spot Endermen's creepy eyes in the distance.

After gathering enough of the Endermen's eyes you then need to find the fortress in the main world and also make some daring dashes into the Nether to find ingredients for brewing and alchemy - I don't want to give too much away, but there are things that need to be made with special ingredients!

After you've found the fortress and gathered the necessary items you can then open the portal leading to, The End!

I now have important advice - don't go into The End, "all guns blazing". On your first venture into The End go basically naked, with just a pick axe, lots of ladders and lots of dirt blocks. You'll need to get your barings and find the Ender Dragon, build a bridge maybe or dig yourself out of a hole. Then run for the towers and put your ladders up the sides.

When you've got ladders up the sides of each tower in The End, die. Respawn, put some armour on, take a good sword, bow and lots of arrows and destroy all the orbs at the tops of each of the towers, then using your bow you can now kill the Ender Dragon. Your best bet is to wait until it lands and unleash on it then.

The End is also full of Endermen, so a bucket of water is also useful. Endermen don't like water.

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I love the different realms in Mine Craft, they add nice levels of detail and the fact you need to visit them to find special ingredients gives them an added purpose. I look forward to one day playing Mine Craft on a PC or next-gen console where the worlds will be much bigger and there'll be more to explore!