Minecraft Dungeons:Heart of Ender

For the final boss of the echoing void DLC, see MCD:Vengeful Heart of Ender.

The heart of ender also known as "arch vessal" is the final boss and the true main antagonist of Minecraft Dungeons. It appears atop the obsidian pinnacle immediately after the heroes defeat 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 inferred that the heart of ender is manipulative, cruel, arrogant, apathetic, and merciless. It shows no remorse 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. It is willing to go through with anything, no matter what is necessary, to accomplish this desire. The only emotion that the heart of ender shows 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 endless void between worlds, no longer wishing to rule the Overworld in favor of enacting revenge by destroying all dimensions.

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 gives the heart of ender the ability to crawl.

Behavior
The heart of ender has four different behaviors. The first is used between each attack, while the other three are used in order. Its behaviors are the most powerful in the game, capable of draining the hero’s health pool within a second.

In between it's 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 heroes on contact.
 * Spider walk

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 heroes on contact. This attack is followed up almost immediately with a four side attack.
 * Mortar barrage

The heart of ender raises up and fires four 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 decal puddle attack.
 * Four side


 * Arch visage

Arch visage
A Arch visage is an unattackable head that the heart of ender summons during its arch visage beam attack.

Appearance
When heart of ender sinks into the ground, unattackable heads in its likeness rise out of the ground facing different directions.

Behavior
Each arch visage that the heart of ender summons fires 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.
 * Beam

Health
The heart of ender has 7500 HP (4500 HP before the echoing void) in the code. On Default I, all mobs have 9.6% health and 12% damage of what is set in the code.

Drops

 * Armor


 * Artifacts


 * Melee Gear


 * Ranged Gear

Data values

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 * In the game files, the heart of ender's decal puddles are referred to internally as, and the  . Decal puddles is the texture of the trail the heart of ender leaves upon defeat.
 * In the game files, the arch visage is referred to internally as the.

Trivia

 * The arch-illager’s distorted laughter can be heard in the heart of ender.
 * A clear enderman voice can be heard within some of the heart of ender sounds: mortar barrage, vessel voice, and hurt. 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. The orb's death sound contains a sample of the Wither death sound.
 * If an entity is standing behind the two short pillars, only one of the arch visage can damage it. However, the chance of one of the heads spawning behind the pillars is extremely low.