Minecraft Dungeons:Vengeful Heart of Ender

The Vengeful Heart of Ender is the final boss of the Echoing Void DLC. It is found in the Broken Citadel.

Story
After being defeated by the player(s) at, the was seemingly defeated. But, as shown in the final cutscene, the shattered Orb of Dominance is shown to be putting itself back together into larger shards.

One of these shards was found by a group of, who took it back with them to the end, sending six , who would become the , to de-activate the portal so that no one could follow the orb's shard. Back in the end, the shard created an imperfect form for itself, known conjecturally as the Imperfect Heart of Ender. This form stalks the player throughout the and the.

Finally, at the Citadel Shrine, the Imperfect Heart of Ender transforms into the 's final and perfect form, the. The players manage to defeat it, thus destroying the last shard of the Orb of Dominance, and they return to the overworld to celebrate.

Appearance
Before entering the Broken Citadel, the Vengeful Heart of Ender first appears as a long black centipede-like creature with a segmented body, a pink energy connecting between each of them, six small legs, several pink spots all around its body and has a small two-horned head with two pink eyes and mouth. Upon reaching the End Shrine though, it undergoes a transformation, where it becomes larger and more monstrous, now possessing eyes throughout most of its black segments, four small legs, a long neck, and a head possessing two long horns with the tips lit with purple flames, along with its jaw. It then gains an extra eye and jagged teeth.

Behavior
Upon encountering the Vengeful Heart of Ender at its shrine, a cutscene plays where it opens and enters a large portal and then emerging in its final form. A cutscene also plays after defeating it where it spasms lasers uncontrollably, slicing its body apart in the process, before losing its power and toppling over and then disintegrating with its ashes blowing away into the obscurity of The End to be lost forever. It has multiple attacks that it uses in random order.

Attacks
When the Heart of Ender enters a portal it creates in the Citadel Shrine, it undergoes a transformation, gaining multiple different attacks. Because of its variety of attacks and the lethality of them, it is the true most powerful boss in the game, beating the in brute strength.

The Vengeful Heart of Ender quickly charges at the player, dealing constant damage if they are in its way.
 * Charge

The Vengeful Heart of Ender spins its body segments around, similar to one of its past self's attack, releasing several replicas of the Orb of Dominance which fall to the ground and linger for a moment. But instead of leaving purple flames behind, the replicas will explode in a larger radius. This attack also flings condense void in random spots near itself, which expands when it hits the ground, then disappear afterward.
 * Void Bomb

The Vengeful Heart of Ender shakes, and several endermites come off of it.
 * Endermite Scatter

The Vengeful Heart of Ender occasionally will absorb some endermites that it spawned before, regenerating some hp.
 * Endermite Health Leeching

The Vengeful Heart of Ender becomes invincible and goes to the center of the arena, covering it in a void shroud.
 * Void Pool

It begins sucking the player toward it and, after a few seconds, explodes, dealing massive damage. This attack is performed multiple times in a row.
 * Void Pull and Void Spew

While doing this, it also constantly summons endermites enchanted with Sharpness.
 * Endermite Feast

Several void crystals erupt from around the edges of the arena, and the Vengeful Heart of Ender begins shooting many energy projectiles off of its body segments in circle formations. The void crystals reflects any oncoming projectiles that hits them in a random direction, making it harder for players to avoid. The Vengeful Heart of Ender shoots more void crystals every time this attack is done.
 * Laser Pinwheel

Imperfect Heart of Ender
The Imperfect Heart of Ender is the imperfect form of the Vengeful Heart of Ender. Throughout the DLC, the Imperfect Heart of Ender crawls around the missions, stalking the player.

Appearance
Before entering the Broken Citadel, the Vengeful Heart of Ender first appears as a long black centipede-like creature with a segmented body, a pink energy connecting between each of them, six small legs, several pink spots all around its body and has a small two-horned head with two pink eyes and mouth.

Behavior
While the Imperfect Heart of Ender is still in its regular form, it will stalk the player while going to the Citadel Shrine. While doing this, it has two additional behaviour types.

During the DLC, it is shown that the Imperfect Heart of Ender in its first form is able to crawl on walls while stalking the player.
 * Wall Crawling

In the first cutscene after entering the end, it can be seen that the Imperfect Heart of Ender can create portals to anywhere in it while quickly crawling around.
 * Portal Creation

Trivia

 * George Rickard, one of the game developers, mentioned that the Vengeful Heart of Ender is supposedly bigger and deadlier than any other bosses. However, the Ancient Guardian and the Tempest Golem are bigger in size.
 * While it's not the largest in size, it is still the strongest by far.
 * The soundtrack for the boss is called "Broken Heart of Ender".
 * In the game files, the Vengeful Heart of Ender is referred to as "PerfectForm", referring to the Orb of Dominance itself exerting its full power.
 * Additionally, its appearance before the boss fight is referred to as "ImperfectForm".
 * In its first form when it is seen crawling around the level, cave ambience is heard when it appears.
 * The first hurt sound has a Enderman hurt sound, the second has the Arch-Illager's hurt sound and the last is a Zombie's.