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Ender dragon farming is the process of farming Minecraft’s final boss by respawning it using end crystals and killing it with a farm mechanism, ideally with TNT, withers or a player. It does not yield any drops on its own but is one of the most powerful XP farms in the game. You can also farm end stone with this because end stone generates under the bedrock portal frame every time the dragon respawns, and torches with a system that will break them and collect them. You can even farm obsidian with this method using trapped withers in the right places, since the obsidian that makes up the end spikes/towers regenerate when the dragon is resurrected.

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1Components2Designs3Videos3.1FastJaz’s design3.2Rays Works’s design3.3Rail cannon3.4TNT arrow launcher

Components[]

A way to resurrect the ender dragonA way to manipulate where the dragon spawnsAn area where the ender dragon will spawnA way to kill the ender dragonA way to restart the processSystems that will move the player to the right places and make them do the right tasks (e.g. placing the end crystals)

Designs[]

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Videos[]

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FastJaz’s design[]

Works in 1.18

Rays Works’s design[]

Rail cannon[]

This page demonstrates the use of a bug to make a contraption. Bugs of this nature may be fixed at any time without warning. When this happens, the contraption will cease to work.

Use at your own risk.This tutorial is exclusive to Java Edition.

Since Minecraft arrows deal damage relative to their speed, it is technically possible to accelerate an arrow to such speeds that it can instantly defeat the Ender Dragon. These videos explain how to make contraptions to do this.

TNT arrow launcher[]

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