End Poem

The "End Poem" is a text-based message that appears when the player uses the exit portal. It is followed by the Minecraft credits.

Obtaining
After entering The End dimension for the first time and killing the ender dragon, the exit portal is activated, allowing the player to jump in and view the end poem followed by the credits. Afterwards, the player is teleported to their spawn point if available, or the world spawn point if not. The poem and credits are only shown the first time the player enters the exit portal in a world.

The end poem and credits can be successively speed up by holding, then additionally , then the other. Or 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 39 minutes 30 seconds. The credits alone last for approximately 31 minutes and 48 seconds.

The poem itself takes the form of a dialogue between two unidentified speakers who are discussing the player's accomplishments, and lasts 7 minutes 42 seconds. After the poem is finished, the credits play. 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, and the text of the credits 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 (false), after which it is changed to 1 (true) once the player enters the exit portal.

Trivia

 * Until Java Edition 1.17, the following quote was attached to the end of the credits. It is widely, but controversially attributed to Mark Twain:

"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