Battle for The End 1

### Participants

Black1ightningg, GreenHound862, JustCaIImeBMX, Peculier32, Plaguedoctor487, POS princess91, SunBroHannah, UptonOgood1, RescueLynn81, WhiteLikePaste, XTEZNAA V87

## Chronology

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The Battle for The End *(also referred to as The Battle for The End 1)* was a PVE event that took place on December 5th, 2021 at 7 pm PST. It is notable for being the first officially sanctioned event to take place after the transition to a server.

## History

WhiteLikePaste, having had very little interest in The End, had never defeated the Ender Dragon or obtained the dragon egg himself. It wasn't until The Old World was opened as a realm in 2019 when two players, Madd Trucker49 and KASS474 defeated the dragon and acquired the egg.

Ultimately the two were suspected to have been duplicating items. To hide this, they left The Old World shortly after griefing their own base and the dragon egg was considered lost.

In May 2021, while attempting to obtain dragons breath, Campr247 discovered an issue with reviving the dragon. It was around this time that discussions began around the possibility of resetting The End, as had been done with The Nether the previous year. However, WhiteLikePaste decided to hold off in order to see if The End would be the focus of the 1.19 update.

Following the temporary relocation to The Jungle after an issue with the world size on realms, WhiteLikePaste decided to use it as an opportunity to perform some maintenance on The Old World while it was offline. Once it was determined that the 1.19 update would not impact The End, he decided to include a reset into his plans.

Originally the plan was for the Battle for The End to close out the original world used for The Jungle. However, while preparing for the event, it was discovered that the Ender Dragon had gone missing. Black1ightningg and WhiteLikePaste searched The End for it, but were unable to locate the dragon. Terrato09 suggested that the dragon may have possibly fled The End to the Overworld and was most likely somewhere around 0,0 in The Jungle map.

A group of players gathered around 0,0 where the dragon appeared. The event was pushed back to December after the return to The Old World and the go ahead was given to kill the dragon from The Jungle Map. But it was quickly learned that interacting with the dragon for too long would cause the realm to crash, so the it was decided that it would be left alone.

The Battle for The End was moved to December 5th as opposed to the usual end of month timeframe to avoid interference with the holidays. The End was considered off limits until after the event to avoid the same issue that had been encountered in The Jungle Map.

## Event

Although the event was scheduled to begin at 7 pm CST, the majority of the time was spent waiting for all of the participants to unite at the Bagera Dojo. From the dojo, everyone would access The End via the portal located beneath The Forgotten Temple The only exception was SunBroHannah, who chose to take The End portal from The Island. The actual battle with the Ender Dragon was very quick as the large majority of players had come fully equipped in enchanted netherite armor.

The only casualty was WhiteLikePaste, who was killed by an enderman having forgotten to reequip his chestplate after using his elytra. Although he suspects that Plague was involved.

Attempting to leave The End proved much more difficult than expected as no portal appeared. The portal was actually located beneath The End island requiring everyone to dig down towards the void. Once the portal was reached, everyone returned to the overworld.

## Aftermath

Immediately following the event, the participants *(with the exception of Plaguedoctor487)* reunited at The Museum for a group photo at the new Dragon Egg exhibit. With the event concluded, The End was reopened to everyone.

Originially The Battle for The End was intended to be a one-off event. However, after the creation of The Multiworld, a 2nd one was held.