Minecraft Dungeons:Heart of Ender

The Heart of Ender, otherwise known as the Arch-Visage and the Arch-Vessel is the final boss of Minecraft Dungeons. It appears in the Obsidian Pinnacle after defeating the Arch-Illager. It is the last boss in the main game, not counting the DLC bosses or the Mooshroom Monstrosity.

Lore
The Heart of Ender is the manifestation of the voice that the Orb of Dominance speaks to the Arch-Illager with, as seen in the book The Rise of the Arch-Illager. Through the various actions Archie committed during his reign as the Arch-Illager, it can be assumed that the Heart of Ender is vile, sadistic, cruel, and merciless, akin to an embodiment of pure evil itself. It shows no regret or guilt for its actions, as shown by Archie’s personality when he was a proxy to the orb. Its main goal is the complete submission and loyalty of all living beings, no matter what is necessary to accomplish its desires. The only other emotion equal to its cruelty is its hatred towards its enemies, a hatred so strong that it continues to burn postmortem. This said hatred can sometimes eclipse its intelligence, as its shattered conscience was willing to spread its corruption throughout the land even though those actions put its well being at risk. Its arrogance eventually came to head when its desires of revenge revealed to the world that it survived and had been reborn and currently residing in The End. Another example is that when reborn, it was willing to destroy the very world it wished to control.

Appearance
The Heart of Ender is a large, half translucent hostile mob that resembles an Enderman. Its head is similar to an Enderman's, but it is slightly elongated and has a more toothy mouth. It has six tendril-like appendages attached to its torso, which also give the Heart of Ender the ability to crawl. It also appears to fade out near its bottom, where the Arch-Illager is preserved with the Orb of Dominance inside its mouth.

Behavior
The Heart of Ender has 4 different attacks. The first three are used in order, while the fourth is used between each attack. Its attacks are the most powerful in the game, capable of draining the player's health pool within a second.

Ender Mortars
The Heart of Ender leans back and spits out a cluster of replicas of the Orb of Dominance from its mouth. When a replica touches the ground, it explodes in a small radius, leaving behind purple flames that damage players on contact. This attack is followed up almost immediately with an Ender Deathrays attack.

Ender Deathrays
The Heart of Ender raises up and fires 4 purple beams from its stomach in a plus formation, which spin clockwise, dealing massive damage on contact. It is its most powerful attack. It is also its most dangerous attack. This attack is followed up almost immediately with an Ender Visage attack.

Ender Visage
The Heart of Ender sinks into the ground, before unattackable heads in its likeness rise out of the ground facing different directions, each firing a purple beam from its mouth, which deals heavy damage before sinking back into the ground. Once all the heads have started firing, the Heart of Ender rises out of the ground, and the attack pattern repeats.

Ender Void
In between the above attacks, the Heart of Ender sometimes "crawls" around the arena, leaving a trail of a black, void-like substance behind it, which deals light damage to the players on contact.

Drops

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Tips

 * As always with bosses, items like or  with enchantments like,  combined with artifacts like  and  can deal lots of damage in a very short time, draining the boss's health                        NOTE: Lightning rod requires souls, so save up souls before the fight.


 * You will most likely want an artifact like or  to deal with the "'Ender Deathrays'" Instead of a,  or  or  can help avoid the "'Ender Deathrays'".
 * When the Heart of Ender does a Ender Mortar attack, it is best to either  GET OUT OF THE WAY  or use a.
 * During it's Ender Visage, can help tremendously to shield against the lasers. Alternatively, you can hide in the corner of the map
 * Armor enchantments like, and  can help.  will decrease damage taken,  will give you more souls to use the  and  and  will tank for a few vital seconds, hopefully enough to deal huge amounts of damage

Drops

 * Heavy Crossbow
 * Wonderful Wheat
 * Great Hammer
 * Katana
 * Claymore
 * Slayer Crossbow
 * Lightning Rod
 * Ember Robe
 * Azure Seeker
 * Wither Armor
 * Voidcaller
 * Hammer of Gravity
 * Stormlander
 * Dark Katana
 * Master's Katana
 * Heartstealer
 * Broadsword
 * Doom Crossbow
 * Soul Crossbow

Trivia

 * The Heart of Ender is called "Arch Visage" and "Arch Vessel" in some of the game files.
 * The Arch-Illager’s distorted laughter can be heard in the Heart of Ender.
 * Despite being the hardest and final boss in Minecraft Dungeons, it doesn't have the largest amount of health out of any boss in the game; that record belongs to the Mooshroom Monstrosity.
 * In fact even with the health of the Arch-Illager and Heart of Ender combined, it still has less health than Redstone Monstrosity.
 * The Heart of Ender's hitbox is actually the same size as the Arch-Illager; it can only be damaged by hitting the Arch-Illager standing below it.
 * The Heart of Ender's Beam Loop has the hightest DPS of any hostile mobs attack list in the game, even more powerful than the Mooshroom Monstrosity's range attack.
 * A clear enderman voice can be heard within some of the Heart of Ender sounds: Mortar Barrage, Vessel Voice, and Hurt
 * The "Orb Death" sound made from when the Heart of Ender is defeated resembles the death sound of the Wither from the base game.
 * The hurt sounds of the Heart of Ender contain traces of both the Enderman and Phantom hurt sounds.
 * The “mortar shoot” noises are also partly sampled from the Ender Dragon’s hurt sounds.
 * If an entity is standing behind the two short pillars, only the Ender Visage attack can damage it. However, the chance of one of the heads spawning behind the pillars is extremely low.
 * The Heart of Ender uses the same boss music as The Arch-Illager.
 * The Heart of Ender’s beam is the same texture as the Corrupted Beacon.

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