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, 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.

Below is a brief overview on how to get to finish Minecraft. If you would like to have a more detailed explanation, scroll down and you will find many steps explaining in great detail how to get to The End and how to kill the Ender Dragon.

-Adventure style-

When first beginning a game of Survival or Hardcore (recommended for true adventure style), collect wood from nearby trees. Wood is needed to create a crafting table and a wooden pickaxe. The wooden pickaxe is necessary to harvest cobblestone to create a stone pickaxe and a minimum of 1 furnace, although 3 are recommended. Also useful at the cobblestone level, a stone sword is advised as one needs to tech to iron next, and it is likely that night will come before then, and some degree of protection is advised. After a cobblestone pickaxe is obtained, use it to harvest a minimum of 3 iron blocks and a minimum of 1 coal. It is recommended to harvest 30 iron blocks to create iron armor and an iron sword, along with an iron pickaxe. Next, a minimum of 3 diamonds must be harvested. It is recommended to find a naturally occurring cave or fissure that drops to the last 16 levels of the world. It is also recommended to look around lava. Remember, upon finding diamonds, dig around them first to ensure that they won't fall into lava and burn. A bucket of water is found to be very useful as one bucket can diffuse an entire lake of lava, and still retain the bucket. If 2 more diamonds can be found, it is recommended to craft a diamond sword. If you happen to find any more, you could use them to make an Enchantment Table. Once a minimum of 3 diamonds have been harvested, craft a diamond pickaxe. If still in the bowels of the world, it is likely obsidian may have been spotted. A minimum of 10 obsidian must be harvested to create a frame for a nether portal. If you collected those extra diamonds, take 4 more pieces. You'll need them to make the rest of the game easier. Once a minimum of 10 obsidian has been harvested, return to the surface, collecting 1 flint from gravel on the journey up. 1 iron ingot will also be needed.

Once breathing fresh air again, decide whether to collect ender pearls or collect blaze rods first. Note that Ender pearls can aid in traversing nether terrain, however ender pearls are valuable resources. If you decided to harvest ender pearls, Aim for a bare minimum of 12, though a highly recommended number is between 15 and 20. If you chose to collect blaze rods, proceed to build a nether portal frame, and craft a flint and steel. Using 10 obsidian blocks to build a portal simply negates the use of the corners of a proper frame. It is also recommended to have a stack of dirt or cobblestone to use as markers when venturing through the nether. Activate the portal with the flint and steel, and enter the nether. Once in the nether, locate a nether fortress, proceed to locate Blazes, and neutralize them until you have harvested enough blaze rods to account for half of the ender pearls you have/plan on having. It is recommended to obtain 10 blaze rods. 1 blaze rod will create 2 blaze powder. Once ender pearls and blaze powder have been obtained, combine the two to create eyes of ender. 12 are necessary to activate an empty frame, though most frames have 1 to 2 frames already filled. Launch an eye of ender to obtain a starting direction, and head that way. Launch another eye of ender once in a while to ensure the correct path is being followed, and that the nearest portal hasn't been passed. Ensure that the eyes are recollected at every given chance. When an eye heads into the ground, a portal has been located. At this point, one can attempt to find a cave that leads to the stronghold(true adventure style), or mine directly down, taking care not to fall into the pit of lava under every portal. Once the portal has been physically located, activate every frame and the portal to the end will be revealed. Enter and prepare for a long and somewhat uneventful fight. A bow and 64 or more arrows are recommended, along with a pumpkin used as a helmet.

Fighting the dragon is relatively easy. Use arrows or snowballs to shoot the floating blocks on the towers, or ender pearls to teleport on top of the towers and destroy the blocks. This is necessary as even one block left alive will keep the dragon alive. Once the blocks are destroyed, all damage negated from the dragon will not return. Kill the dragon and finish Minecraft!

Step 1: Building the Nether Portal
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.

4)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.

5)Place on the top of the previous blocks following:

6 Place water over the two lava blocks.

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

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

9) Remove all dirt blocks.

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

Step 2: 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, and ghasts can not destroy it.
 * 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.

Step 3: 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. The Eye of the 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, because you can not get back out until you destroy the Ender Dragon!

Step 4: Killing the Ender Dragon
If you did not notice, you are in The End. It is made up of end stone and is filled with enderman. There is also an Ender Dragon flying around, if this is you first time in The End in that world. Note that you can come back to The End at any time after you have killed the Ender Dragon, and the Ender Dragon will not be there. You can not get out of The End until you destroy the Ender Dragon.


 * 1) Destroy all the Ender Crystals with a bow, snowballs, or another projectile. Why you would want to do this is because the Ender Crystals will heal the Ender Dragon  You could destroy them by hitting them, however, they explode when destroyed so it is best to destroy them from afar. If for some reason you do not have a bow or snowballs, you can use ladders or Ender Pearls to get to the top of the obsidian towers. You can also 'climb' up with Water
 * 2) Now you have to defeat the Ender Dragon. This is the hardest task, as an Ender Dragon has 100 hearts and can deal a large amount of damage. You will see a bar at the top showing the Ender Dragon's health. 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 Endermen 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 easiest to harm the Ender Dragon with projectiles. As of Minecraft 1.1 you can enchant bows, which can help greatly against the Ender Dragon, especially infinity.
 * 3) When it dies, it will burst into lights and disintegrate, dropping lots and lots of experience. An End Portal will appear below its death location. If you jump in it, a story will be told. You will also receive a Dragon Egg that you can collect with a piston or other method. Currently there is no purpose for the Dragon Egg besides keeping it as a keepsake.
 * 4) Read the story, the credits and the citate. If you do not want to read all this, press escape.
 * 5) If you haven't already figured, you just completed Minecraft! Congratulations!