So, Minecraft.

[DeeBye]

My son and I found a Stronghold purely by chance. We were walking around in the desert a couple of hundred blocks from our home when we both heard the sound of a zombie breaking down a door. There was no village or anything close to us, so I was about to attribute it to some kind of audio bug when by son said, "I bet there's a stronghold below us and a zombie is bashing an iron door". My son is a genius sometimes.

So we dug down and sure enough we found some mossy and cracked stone bricks. After 30 minutes or so of exploring the stronghold we found the end portal. We've never found one before. We barely had enough ender pearls saved up to make ender eyes to activate it.


Killing the end dragon was a bit tougher than we thought it would be, but we eventually did it. I wish I took more screenshots of the actual fight. It mostly consisted of my son sniping the dragon and telling me where it's position was while I took out the healing towers. Some of them were out of range of my bow from ground level and I had to ladder up the sides of them. That was kind of frantic.


After killing the dragon we decided to make an enderman farm to collect ender pearls because they rule. We built a ~150 block walkway out into the distance, away from any end stone blocks. The fences are for safety because my son and I are clumsy and fall off of things a lot.


We started building a 25x25 block platform for our enderman farm and they started piling up really fast when there's literally nothing else they can spawn on. We plan on making some piston/pressure plate thing up high so they spawn there and then fall to their death onto this platform while we just walk around and collect free ender pearls.