On September 7, international YouTuber "RedLogic" posted a video testing whether the Ender Dragon could be defeated in *Minecraft* without player intervention. This video has generated a lot of buzz.
A Chain of Coincidences Leads to the Ender Dragon’s Downfall
The video tests whether, given enough time, the Ender Dragon can be defeated solely by in-game events—without any player intervention. The general sequence of events leading up to the defeat is as follows.
Blocks carried by an Enderman accidentally combine to create a Snow Golem
The snow golem reaches the area near the End Portal, and a creeper explosion clears a path
The snow golem, having reached the End, destroys all the End Crystals
The Snow Golem deals damage to the Ender Dragon and defeats it
In any case, to defeat the Ender Dragon, a mob must reach the End, and under conditions of no player intervention, a naturally formed End Portal is required. RedLogic began the experiment by searching for a world that met these conditions.
He also used Monte Carlo simulations for the verification. Rather than calculating every minute detail one by one, he sampled the “time until the next event occurs” based on probability, thereby reducing the verification time. Note that the “year” numbers appearing in the video represent the elapsed time within the simulation.
After the simulation began, the first major development occurred around year 35,510. A snow golem, created from blocks carried by an Enderman, triggered a Creeper to explode, partially clearing a path leading to the End Portal. Approximately 2,000 years later, a series of additional explosions completed the route.
Once the Enderman reached the End, it spent millions of years carrying and placing blocks, gradually building a platform high enough for the snow golem’s attacks to reach the End Crystals.
After approximately 3 million years had passed, the snow golems’ attacks finally struck the End Crystals, destroying the first one. By the time the eighth one was destroyed, over 100 million years had passed, but eventually, all ten were destroyed over the course of this vast span of time.
Although it is now possible to defeat the Ender Dragon, this is where the real challenge begins. The Snow Golems attack the Ender Dragon by provoking Creepers to explode and drawing the Ender Dragon into the blast, but the first attack—delivered 28 million years after the last End Crystal was destroyed—dealt a mere “4” damage.
Nevertheless, the damage from these explosions gradually accumulated, and the final blow landed approximately 1.975 billion years into the simulation. The Ender Dragon was finally defeated. This lengthy simulation demonstrated that the Ender Dragon can be defeated even without player intervention.
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