Where it spawns
Waits in the End the first time a player arrives, and can be summoned again with four end crystals on the exit portal.
How it thinks
The Ender Dragon has its own phase system instead of goals: circling the End pillars, landing on the exit portal, breathing dragon's breath, charging at players and flying back to heal at the End crystals.
How Emma beats it
She has three ways to do it: bed bombing (her default), a mace drop, or a bow plus a sword.
- Bed bombing: beds explode in the End. She builds up beside the exit portal's pillar and waits 35 blocks out until the dragon comes in to land.
- As the head passes closest, she places and clicks a bed next to it: within 5.5 blocks while it lands or takes off, 9 while it sits. She waits 11 ticks between beds, the time the dragon can't take damage after a hit.
- She skips any bed spot that would hurt her by more than 2 hearts. Obsidian beside the pillar top shields her from the blast.
- With beds she leaves the end crystals alone: our lab won 10 of 10 on Hard with all ten crystals still up.
- Without beds she shoots every crystal first (staying 12.5 blocks from any she breaks up close), then shoots the dragon's head from 30 to 42 blocks out. She only stays for a sword fight at the perch in full Protection IV armor.
- When it dives at her she sprints sideways, and she runs out of its breath and fireball clouds.
Lab result: Bed bombing: 10 of 10 on Hard. Bow and sword: 3 of 3 with our server mod showing her where the dragon aims, 1 in 3 without.
From Emma's own fighting code and our combat lab (Hard difficulty). All the hard fights