CardinalFang 1; Enderdragon 0

After probably 10 years of playing Minecraft, I finally got the nerve/interest in seeking out and killing the Enderdragon. I watched a couple of videos and did a trial run on a test world. Didn’t seem very difficult, just tedious for someone with such bad aim using a Minecraft bow.

Found the End Portal room hidden behind a brick wall (there was a button the did “nothing” so I broke some stone to reveal an iron door).

As I said, killing the dragon just took a long time…especially while having my vision obscured by a carved pumpkin.

Despite all my planning and prep, my real “goof” was that I broke my bed and brought it to the End with me…leaving me with no defined spawn location back in the overworks. Every time I went through to portal, I just returned to the End.

This video helped me get back…mostly:

But it kept resetting to a spot that was occupied. Luckily I had some screenshots of my base with the coordinates exposed. My biggest fear was that I would wind up spawning somewhere above the Void and loose the Dragon Egg.

The command “/execute in minecraft:overworks run spawn point” seems to take your current coordinates in The End and try to use them to set a corresponding spawn point in the Overworld….but that kept getting an “unavailable” error. From the screenshot, I was able to find an X,Z pair the was on the End island but needed to pillar up to the appropriate Y coordinate. Then when I executed the command and entered the portal, I was home.

I have gone back to the end portal, set my spawn point and successfully cycled through several times. Phew.

I also didn’t realize that the egg continues to teleport when you try to pick it up. I thought I had lost it, but it was just hanging out in the corner of my bedroom.