SMPEarth Moon Landing

The group photo at the Northern End Portal prior to the moon landing.

The **SMPEarth Moon Landing** was a massive server-wide event where numerous players ventured to *the End* (which has been recreated as The Moon) and collaborated to fight a modified version of the Ender Dragon, dubbed Big Bertha. It was held on Day 45.

Chronologically, this would be the second time a number of players ventured to the End dimension, as the first time was the Midnight End Raid of Day 5. Yet story-wise, the earlier expedition was deemed un-canon following the Fake End Landing trails.

## History

*See previous teasers and clues revealing the lunar realm in the main article: The Moon*

### Prelude

    At 9:24 am GMT, a tweet was posted on the official SMPEarth Twitter account.

Hours later, it was decided that everyone would go to the Moon via the Northern End Portal. TanningOil and AllanahVA were the first people to arrive there, while the rest attempted to travel using planes. However, flying a plane became a problem, most probably due to the immense number of online players at the time.

Josh recommended flying "only if [they] have a proper good connection" and would gladly bring them to the portal himself via teleportation if necessary. But he ended up doing the latter as it was much easier and saved time. Josh then was slain by the Ender Dragon and proclaimed that his death was caused by one fatal hit by the OP beast, invoking fear amongst some of the participants.

### The Assembly

Before long, most of the players arrived by the portal, one by one, and they joined the global voice chat on their Discord. The VC ended up getting flooded with multiple voices in varying volumes, to which Sneegsnag urged others to use Discord Nitro to counter the horrendous sounds. As they waited for more players to congregate, Technoblade announced his claim to the dragon egg, much to others' disagreement. Allanah and Krinios both had competing claims on the Moon itself. Meanwhile, Grunk constructed an altar by the portal made up of bookshelves, glass blocks and a single iron door to "summon a deity".

Techno then tried to instigate a war for the prized dragon egg, again evoking chaos in VC. Sophie, prompted by a viewer, suggested everyone to gather and take a group photo to commemorate the assembly for the event. SalC1, JoshA20, and Chip would build bleachers out of quartz stairs and wood facing the portal following this suggestion. KaraCorvus tried to convince everyone that they should sit with the portal at the background. Yet, she was ignored and left unheard amidst the crowded noise. Fortunately, Sylvee reiterated the suggestion and got everyone's attention to reposition themselves. Chip then used InkTea's alternate account and went into spectator mode to obtain the optimal vision of the entire team. WilburSoot was the last person to arrive, just in time to be in the momentous group photo.

Once the photo was taken, Chip asked for no fighting in the Moon, but Techno and Sneeg disagreed and demanded conflicts. The players began placing eyes of ender to complete the portal, but it did not seem to work. InkTea pointed out this was possibly due to how the admins originally positioned it in creative mode. Chip then fixed the thing and opened the wormhole to the lunar dimension.

### Defeating Big Bertha

Grunk was the first person to jump in followed by the rest who found themselves struggling to traverse the lunar realm, now with low gravity. The group soon came face-to-face with Big Bertha, the Second Ender Dragon. Some began to climb up the obsidian towers and extinguished the end crystals, some used planes and elytras to fly past the beast and engage in airborne attacks and melee confrontations, while others use assortments of weapons such as bows and arrows, diamond swords, and even beds and guns.

But not everyone took part in killing the dragon - Grunk got distracted and began exploring and looting the Moon Octangula, while a few players were collecting dragon's breaths with numerous glass bottles. Though he was late, RTGame managed to participate in the event as well.

The battle against the beast went much longer when Technoblade and CaptainSparklez noticed the end crystals were regenerating, effectively healing Big Bertha. Chip called an airstrike in an attempt to kill the dragon, but Kara was the only one who died instead. VoiceOverPete provided an epic commentary to the last few seconds of the event. The battle dragged on as Big Bertha's health appeared to freeze at 20%. Eventually, SalC1 was able to rush in and land two critical blows with bed bombs, allowing TimeDeo to deal the final killing blow on Big Bertha, earning him the 'Free the End' achievement. Unfortunately, Deo immediately met his demise when he hit the ground too hard via ender pearl.

### Aftermath

*Main article: The Dragon Eggs*

Contrary to the usual case of a single egg spawning after the beast's death, Chip informed that there were more than one eggs that could be found in the alleged "Egg Zone" and so the hunt for the other two dragon eggs began. The eggs are counted as such, following the **First Dragon Egg** acquired by Kara, Jordan and IAmSp00n from the First Dragon fought in the End Raid.

* Immediately after the conclusion of the dragon fight, Technoblade amidst the chaos of other players trying to acquire the coveted item, managed to secure the **Second Dragon Egg**.
* Jordan was later able to grab the **Third Dragon Egg**, discovered earlier by Grunk, at the Moon Octangula. Technoblade narrowly missed the chance to grab another one for his faction.
* Chip spawned the **Fourth Dragon Egg** in the Hidden Moon Base. It was initially retrieved by Sneegsnag, then passed to Philza for achievement's sake. However, Wilbur managed to trick Philza to pass the egg to him as well and instantly logged out.

Wilbur's possession of the Fourth Dragon Egg led to a conflict between the Antarctic Empire and Newfoundland, thus kickstarting a chain of events such as the infamous kidnapping of Pee Dog and the beginning of The First Dragon Egg War.

Meanwhile, now that the beast has fallen, people began to access the lunar gateway and reached the outer Moon cities, where they roamed and raided for loots such as shulker shells, end rods, purpur blocks, chorus plants and most importantly, pairs of elytras.

## Trivia

* TimeDeo landed the final hit against the dragon, making him one of two people to have this achievement. The other one being CaptainSparklez during the The End Raid.
* As of Day 45, there are 3 Dragon Eggs in existence.
	+ The First Dragon Egg obtained during the Fake End Landing mysteriously disappeared from Kara's house prior to the official landing. JoshA20 would later note that this Egg was made of paper mache when trying to explain himself to Kara.
* It is commonly mistaken that the Dragon Eggs are numbered based on their order acquired from Big Bertha. The numbering actually runs from the First which was obtained in The End Raid.
* The viewer who prompted Sophietexas to ask for a photo prior to the Landing was none other than the wiki's own Sethy.

## Gallery

WilburSoot arriving late to the group picture.Several SMPEarth members attacking the dragon.

Big Bertha •
The Dragon Eggs •
 Wars
 Landmarks & Locations
The Outer Moon Cities •
The Moon Octangula •
The Hidden Moon Base •
The Enderman Farm