Credit Sequence

The End Poem is a freehand poem written by musician Julian Gough that appears when the player uses the exit portal, before the credits. It has been in the public domain, under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) Public Domain Dedication, since 2022.

Obtaining
After entering the End dimension and killing the Ender dragon, the exit portal is activated, allowing the player to enter and view the End poem followed by the credits. The player is then teleported to their spawn point if available, or the world spawn point if not. The End Poem and credits only show upon the player's first entry of exit portal. The player can also trigger the poem and credits to show by entering an End portal built using Creative mode or commands.

The End poem and credits can be successively sped up by holding, then additionally , then the other. They can be skipped entirely by pressing $$ or "skip" $$.

The credits can also be accessed by clicking on the copyright information on the main menu screen $$ or by pressing the "credits" button in the "profile" section of the Settings screen $$. They can also be viewed on the Minecraft website.

Contents
The poem and the credits last for a total of 62 minutes 42 seconds unaccelerated. The poem lasts 7 minutes and 42 seconds, and the credits last the remaining 55 minutes.

The poem takes the form of a scrolling dialogue between two speakers who are discussing the player's accomplishments, dreams, and relation to the rest of the universe. The speakers claim to be all the universe that is distinct from the player, and that the player is reading their cosmic thoughts as words on a screen. The credits appear below the End Poem. During the poem and credits, the track  ("Alpha" in the official soundtrack) plays.

Technical details
$$, the End Poem and credits are stored in client.jar; the text of the End Poem is located in, the text of the credits is in  , and the text of the quote is in. $$, the text of the End Poem is located in, the text of the credits is in  , and the text of the quote is in. They can both be edited with a resource pack. The first speaker's dialog uses the formatting code  (or dark aqua), and the second speaker's uses   (or dark green). The player's name is inserted with, and the scrambled text is stored as. The poem is shown the first time the player enters the exit portal based on their  tag being 0, after which it is changed to 1  once the player first enters an End portal while in the End.

End quote

 * The following quote is attached to the End of the credits. Though signed as "Unknown" in-game, this quote was written by Horace Jackson Brown Jr. in his book, P.S. I Love You.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

- Unknown

Copyright
While the Poem has been in the game since its release, Mojang and Microsoft neither own the poem or the permission to use it, according to the original author Julian Gough. Julian stated that due to poor and unpleasant communication between him and Carl Manneh, then-CEO of Mojang, he refused to sign a contract to fully transfer the rights of the Poem to Mojang after he finished the Poem, though they reached an informal agreement. In August 2014, a month before Microsoft purchased Mojang for $25b, Carl contacted Julian again, asking him to sign the contract. Julian refused once more, therefore owns all rights to the Poem. On December 7th, 2022, Julian announced that the End Poem is released under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license.

Credits
The credits appear after the End Poem, and credit Mojang Studios employees, employees from partnered companies and development studios, listed persons under "Special thanks" and Mojang Studios Alumni. The credits sequence lasts 55 minutes.