Tutorials/Complete main adventure

Introduction
Since Minecraft Beta 1.9 Pre-Release 6, it is possible to beat the game upon completion of the Ender Dragon boss fight.

This tutorial shows the steps necessary to locate and enter the End dimension, and then defeat the Ender Dragon.

Notes:
 * 1) You need to be advanced in the game to complete the boss fight and win the game.
 * 2) These steps can be done in any game mode (Survival, Vanilla, Hardcore) and difficulty, although one cannot stay on Peaceful for the entire time because fighting hostile mobs is required to obtain necessary items for locating and activating the End Portal.

Step 1: The Nether
After you have played in a Minecraft world for a while, hopefully you have acquired at least three iron ingots along the way, whether you smelted them or found them in a chest. You will need to craft the ingots into at least one bucket that will be used to create Obsidian for a Nether portal. The only other way to make a Nether portal without buckets involves mining already-created Obsidian with a diamond pickaxe.

The easiest way to make a Nether portal:
 * 1) With your iron craft a bucket. One bucket is all you need but the more buckets you have the better.
 * 2) Fill a bucket with lava. If you have more than one, fill all but one with lava, and the last one with water.
 * 3) Make the shape bellow using Dirt and Lava.


 * 1) Place water over the lava blocks. The lava should have turned to obsidian.  If it turned to cobblestone, then the lava was flowing and not a solid source block.


 * 1) Place on the top of the previous blocks following:

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 * 1) Place water over the two lava blocks.


 * 1) Do step 5 and 6 two times more on top of the current layer.


 * 1) Do steps 3 and 4 one more time at the top.


 * 1) Remove all dirt blocks.


 * 1) Make a flint and steel with flint and iron and use it to light the portal.

The Nether

 * 1) Enter The Nether by standing in your portal.
 * 2) Explore the nether until you find some blazes. This would be easiest if you find a Nether Fortress as these often have blaze spawners in them.  Make sure to mark your trail so you can find your way back.  It would be a good idea to use cobblestone as that doesn't spawn in the nether.
 * 3) Defeat them until you have at least six blaze rods.  (Not all are needed, but you need more luck than knowledge to win the game with one or two.)  This task would be made easier if you had a potion of fire resistance.
 * 4) Craft the blaze rods into Blaze Powder.

Finding a Stronghold and entering The End

 * 1) Back in the overworld, find some Endermen and defeat them.
 * 2) Craft the Ender Pearls you got from the Endermen with the Blaze Powder into Eyes of Ender.  You are likely to need a lot.
 * 3) Throw one of your eyes of ender.  You do this by right clicking.
 * 4) The eye of ender should fly up in the air.  Follow it and when it falls down pick it up and throw it again. If it breaks use another one. (NOTE: The more Eye of Enders that you have in our inventory the bigger chance you have that the Eye of Ender will not break when you throw it) The Eye of Enders should eventually lead you to the Stronghold in which the End Portal is Located Do this until the Eye of Ender goes into the ground.
 * 5) DO NOT dig directly down where the eye of ender enters.  There is the risk of falling into the pit of lava surrounding the End portal. Other potential methods of going down are Staircase Mining and attempting to find a cave that leads into the Stronghold.
 * 6) You will come to a stronghold. Search for the room with the end portal. Your Eye of Ender can help if you throw it is will lead you to the End portal room.
 * 7) In the room there is a square made out of end portal blocks. Be careful. There is a Silverfish spawner in every End Portal room. Some of the End Portal blocks have eyes of ender in the top.  Right click on the ones which doesn't with an eye of ender.  This will consume the eye of ender.  Do this on all the blocks without an eye of ender already.  A portal should form.
 * 8) Jump into The End portal.  Make sure you are prepared!

Killing the Enderdragon

 * 1) Destroy all the Ender Crystals with a bow, or another projectile.  You could destroy them by hitting them but they explode when broken so it is best to destroy them from afar.
 * 2) . Now you have to defeat the Enderdragon. This is the hardest task, as an Enderdragon has 100 hearts and can deal a large amount of damage. You must also be wary of Enderman which are very abundant in The End. It would be wise to wear a Pumpkin as a helmet, (so the Endermen don't bother you) and a piece of Diamond Armor, as this will make the Enderdragon unable to directly harm you. It would still be able to push you about though. It would be a good idea to have plenty of arrows as. It is easist to harm the Enderdragon with projectiles. As of minecraft 1.1 you can enchant bows, which can help greatly against the enderdragon.
 * 3) When it dies, an End Portal will appear below its death location.  If you jump in it, a story will be told. You will also receive a ton of experience and a Dragon Egg that you can collect. Currently there is no purpose for the Dragon Egg besides keeping it as a keepsake.
 * 4) Read at the story, the credits and the citate.
 * 5) If you haven't already figured, you just completed Minecraft! Congratulations!