Ender Dragon

Ender Dragon is also a feature in Minecraft.
More information can be found on the Minecraft Wiki at Ender Dragon.

Ender Dragons are 7 different variants of Boss summoned with Summoning Eyes in the Dragon's Nest. They drop powerful loot including Dragon Armors and Dragon Fragments when killed.

The Ender Dragon has 7 variants: Protector, Wise, Unstable, Superior, Strong, Young and Old.

Mechanics

Summoning

The Ender Dragon is summoned with 8 Summoning Eyes. These eyes must be placed in the altar in the center of the nest. After all 8 are placed, the dragon is summoned and the fight will begin. This is similar to the summoning of Arachne with Arachne's Callings.

Variants

The Ender Dragon will spawn as one of seven variants. The dragon's variant affects the its health, behavior, drops, and attacks.

Dragon	Stats	Flying Level	Abilities and Notes	Spawn Chance
Protector	9,000,000 Health 1,100 Damage 85 Defense 140% Speed	40	Protective Scales: Takes reduced damage from all sources	16%
Old	15,000,000 Health 1,100 Damage 18 Defense 130% Speed	30	Old Bulkiness: Highest health of all dragons but also the slowest of them all as well.	16%
Wise	9,000,000 Health 2,200 Damage 25 Defense 140% Speed	40	Wise Caster: Fireball and Lightning attacks occur more frequently Fireball and Lightning deal +20% damage	16%
Unstable	9,000,000 Health 1,100 Damage 25 Defense 140% Speed	40	Unstable Energy: Sometimes damages players when approaching the dragon, dealing 3,000 Damage. Implosion: Has a chance to explode upon death, dealing 2,000 Damage to players caught in the blast. Grants an achievement for surviving the blast	16%
Young	7,500,000 Health 1,100 Damage 18 Defense 225% Speed	100	Young Agility: Has the highest speed of all dragons but also has the lowest health of them all as well.	16%
Strong	9,000,000 Health 1,100 Damage 25 Defense 140% Speed	40	Strong Spells: Rush, Fireball and Lightning deals more damage Rush and Contact deal +20% damage	16%
Superior	12,000,000 Health 1,650 Damage 30 Defense 180% Speed	65	Superiority: Has all the abilities of the six previous dragons at a weaker degree. Rarest of all dragons Rush and Contact deal +15% damage Fireball and Lightning deal +15% damage	4%^{[note 1]}
Primal^[AHN]	300,000,000 Health 1,650 Damage 100 Defense 180% Speed	40		Awakened Summoning Eyes only

The Dragon Fight

After 8 Summoning Eyes have been placed, there will be a brief period before the dragon will hatch from an egg in the sky, knocking all players a large distance away from the Dragon Altar at the center of the Dragon's Nest. After the dragon has spawned, the dragon variant will be announced in the chat.

The door to the Dragon's Nest will shut, the gaps at the top will be covered with glass and 5 Ender Crystals will spawn around the nest on top of obsidian spikes.

Additionally, Gregory the Opportunist will spawn near the Dragon's Gate. He will sell a Decent Bow as well as Arrows at a higher price than the Weaponsmith in town.

Ender Crystals

At the start of a Dragon Fight, 5 Ender Crystals will spawn in 5 of 10 locations. Ender Crystals must be destroyed, as they cause the dragon to heal +0.3% Health per second if they are actively healing the dragon. Every tick, there is a 10% chance for the crystals' connections to the dragon to be refreshed. If the dragon is within 32 blocks of any crystal, the crystal begins to heal it. Destroying a crystal rewards its destroyer with 1 Crystal Fragment and 1,000 Dragon Damage contributed. Destroyed crystals will respawn after 1-2 minutes, and can only respawn 3 times.

Attacks

The dragon has three attacks, which all deal True Damage. When under 50% Health, they deal 50% more damage.

Rush - The dragon will charge a player, inflicting 2,000 Damage, 550 True Damage, and Knockback.
Fireball - The dragon will fly to a point in the arena, stop in place, then fire a barrage of fireballs at players. These fireballs explode and can damage multiple players at once. They will deal 1,700 Damage, 200 True Damage, and knock players high up into the air.
Lightning - The dragon will briefly stop in place, summoning lightning around it and creating audible thunder sounds. After a brief period, it will summon lightning and smite players from above, dealing 1,700 Damage and 200 True Damage. This attack can be avoided if the player has a block above their head.

If the player comes into contact with the dragon, they will receive 50% of their Health + 2,000 in Damage.

After some time has passed, the dragon will summon groups of Zealots. These Zealots are immediately hostile, even if the player has not damaged or looked at them. The Dragon also makes already existing Zealots hostile.

When players are killed, they must make their way down to the Dragon's Nest again, and break down the sealed door. The door has lots of health, can be attacked with both ranged and melee attacks and will open again when its health bar is depleted. Both endermites and endermen spawn as the door takes damage. This can be avoided by using a horse pet to glitch in or using the Dragon's Nest Travel Scroll.

After the Ender Dragon is defeated, Gregory will depart and hostile mobs will not spawn in the Dragon's Nest for a brief amount of time. All existing mobs within the Nest, including Voidgloom Seraph and Necromancy mobs, will instantly despawn. During this time, dragons cannot be summoned. After this brief time has passed, a message in the chat will announce the respawning of the Dragon Egg, after which mobs will spawn as normal and players are able to summon another dragon.

Strategies

Drops

Each player that damages the Ender Dragon will receive individual loot, including Ender Pearls and Enchanted Ender Pearls. Loot received is governed by Loot Quality (commonly incorrectly referred to as "Weight" by players), which determines a player's eligibility for major loot. Note that achieving a quality requirement does not guarantee the respective drop.

Total Loot Quality is calculated using this formula: $Quality = BaseQuality + 100 (SummoningEyesPlaced) + 100 (\frac{PlayerDamageDealt}{FirstPlaceDamageDealt})$

Base Loot Quality is determined in the following manner:

Condition	Quality
Placing Summoning Eyes	+100 Loot Quality per eye placed (up to 800 quality from 8 eyes)
Dealing Damage	100 x (Player's Damage ÷ First Place Player's Damage) Loot Quality
1st in Damage Dealt	+300 Loot Quality
2nd in Damage Dealt	+250 Loot Quality
3rd in Damage Dealt	+200 Loot Quality
4th in Damage Dealt	+125 Loot Quality
5th in Damage Dealt	+110 Loot Quality
6-8th in Damage Dealt	+100 Loot Quality
9-10th in Damage Dealt	+90 Loot Quality
11-12th in Damage Dealt	+80 Loot Quality
13-25th in Damage Dealt	+70 Loot Quality
More than 1 Damage dealt	+70 Loot Quality
Less than 1 Damage dealt	+10 Loot Quality

The player can obtain certain drops based off their total Loot Quality. After receiving a major drop, the player's Loot Quality is recalculated: $Quality = Quality - DropQuality$ , and the player will not be able to receive any other pieces of major loot. After all possible pieces of major loot are rolled, the remaining quality is converted to Dragon Fragments, Enchanted Ender Pearls, and Ender Pearls, in the order of highest quality requirement to lowest. Drops are affected by Magic Find and Pet Luck.

Major Loot
Item	Quality Requirement	Base Drop Chance
LEGENDARY Ender Dragon Pet	450 Loot Quality	Summoning Eyes placed by player × 0.01%
EPIC Ender Dragon Pet	449 Loot Quality	Summoning Eyes placed by player × 0.05%
Dragon Horn	448 Loot Quality	30% (Superior Dragon only)
Aspect of the Dragons	447 Loot Quality	Summoning Eyes placed by player × 3% (Non-Superior Dragons only)
Dragon Claw	446 Loot Quality	Summoning Eyes placed by player × 2%
Dragon Chestplate	410 Loot Quality	30%
Dragon Leggings	360 Loot Quality	30%
Dragon Scale	296 Loot Quality	30% (Young Dragon only)
Dragon Helmet	295 Loot Quality	30%
Dragon Boots	290 Loot Quality	30%
Travel Scroll to Dragon's Nest	250 Loot Quality	35% (Unstable Dragon only)
Pearlescent Dye	N/A (Rolls separately)	0.001% (0.002% from Superior Dragon)
5 Dragon Essence (10x from Superior Dragon)	N/A	100%

Other Drops
Slot	Item	Quality Requirement
	Dragon Fragment	22 Loot Quality
	Enchanted Ender Pearl	15 Loot Quality
	Ender Pearl	5 Loot Quality

Slaying a Dragon for the first time also rewards SkyBlock XP.

Dragon	SkyBlock XP
Superior	+50 XP
Strong	+25 XP
Unstable	+25 XP
Old	+25 XP
Wise	+25 XP
Young	+25 XP
Protector	+25 XP

Tips

The Dragon Shortbow is a relatively effective early game weapon to use for Dragon fights as it is easy to obtain (through the Lone Adventurer's quest) and deals decent damage.
Due to the price of Summoning Eyes, summoning Ender Dragons is generally not a good idea, as it commonly results in a loss of Coins.
The Draconic Talisman, Draconic Ring and Draconic Artifact increases damage dealt to Dragons by respectively 2%, 3% and 5%.
Placing 4 Summoning Eyes and dealing at least 1 damage will make you eligible for the whole loot table of the Ender Dragon.
- This is why it is recommended to only use 4 Summoning Eyes yourself, unless you are specifically looking for the Ender Dragon Pet, Aspect of the Dragons or Dragon Claw, where the amount of Summoning Eyes used will affect the chance of these items dropping.

Trivia

Similar to other bosses, players will see their ranking for how much damage they dealt to the boss.
The Ender Dragon was the second Boss added to the game.
There is currently a bug in which in certain lobbies, summoned dragons will disappear after a player hits it with the Aspect of the Dragons ability. The boss bar and Gregory is still present, but the dragon itself is missing. Ender Crystals still spawn around a minute after the disappearance, and it stays like that until the lobby resets.
Ender Crystals will stop spawning after a few minutes if the Ender Dragon still has not been killed.
When a Dragon is defeated, mobs, including Voidgloom Seraphs, in the lower areas of the Void Sepulture (between layers 10 and 26) will also despawn.
The Old Dragon has the 6th highest health of all non-dungeon mobs, at 15M. This is second to the Arachne tier 2 (20M), Minos Inquisitor (40M), Voidgloom Seraph tier 3 (50M) and 4 (210M) and Kalhuiki Tribe Member (1B).
Holy Dragons do not exist, even though Holy Dragon Armor, Holy Fragments, and Holy Lost Adventurers do.
Player and streamer Sarite has killed the most dragons in the game totaling over 50,000 dragon kills as of 12/7/2022. However, Dragon kills were not counted unless you got the final blow until the bestiary update.
According to the major loot table, a player can place four Summoning Eyes and deal more than one damage to cover the quality requirements to get any major loot drop.

History

Alpha Hypixel Network
Sep 2, 2022	AHN 0.15	Slaying unique Dragons now rewards SkyBlock XP.
Feb 28, 2024	AHN 0.19.12	Added Primal Dragon.
May 3, 2024		Primal Dragons now drop Primal Dragon Hearts.
Jun 10, 2026		Changed Rush damage from 55% of the player's Health in True Damage to 550 True Damage.
		Changed Fireball damage from 20% of the player's Health in True Damage to 200 True Damage.
		Changed Lightning damage from 20% of the player's Health in True Damage to 200 True Damage.
Jul 29, 2026		Changed Ender Dragon Bestiary Bracket from 5 to 6.
Jul 29, 2026		Changed Ender Dragon Bestiary Tiers from 20 to 15.
SkyBlock Prototype
Aug 2, 2019	0.7	Added Ender Dragon.
Aug 15, 2019		Increase True Damage dealt by some Ender Dragon abilities.
Sep 11, 2019	0.7.1	Dragons are now approximately 20% more tanky.
Sep 11, 2019	0.7.1	Servers will now delay shutdown until a dragon fight is over. (Maximum 10 minutes, after the server will shutdown even if the fight is not over).
May 13, 2020		All dragons are again slightly tankier.
Apr 30, 2021		Added music to the dragon fights.
Apr 20, 2022	0.13	No longer announces to the server when a player obtains a drop from the fight.
Sep 28, 2022	0.15	Slaying unique Dragons now rewards SkyBlock XP.
Aug 22, 2023	0.19.3	End Stone Protectors and Special Zealots will no longer despawn when a Dragon dies.
Oct 24, 2023	0.19.6	Placing at least 7 recombobulated Summoning Eyes now guarantees that a Superior Dragon will spawn.
Dec 12, 2023	0.19.9	Added Dragon Essence to the Ender Dragon loot table.
Jul 2, 2024	0.20.3	Announced that the Primal Dragons update from Alpha Hypixel Network is shelved for the time being, due to large scale performance issues.
Sep 2, 2025	0.23.4	Adjusted the required quality for several items: EPIC Ender Dragon Pet: 450 → 449 Aspect of the Dragons: 450 → 447 Dragon Horn: 452 → 448 Dragon Claw: 451 → 446 Dragon Scale: 295 → 296
Jul 22, 2026	0.26.1	Changed Rush damage from 55% of the player's Health in True Damage to 550 True Damage.
		Changed Fireball damage from 20% of the player's Health in True Damage to 200 True Damage.
		Changed Lightning damage from 20% of the player's Health in True Damage to 200 True Damage.
Aug 4, 2026	0.27	Changed Ender Dragon Bestiary Bracket from 5 to 6.
Aug 4, 2026	0.27	Changed Ender Dragon Bestiary Tiers from 20 to 15.

Notes

↑ Recombobulated Summoning Eyes increase the chance of spawning a Superior Dragon, starting at 12.5% with 1 recombobulated eye and up to 100% with 8 recombobulated eyes.

[1] Recombobulated Summoning Eyes increase the chance of spawning a Superior Dragon, starting at 12.5% with 1 recombobulated eye and up to 100% with 8 recombobulated eyes.

[note 1]