Game Theory: Minecraft, Do NOT Kill The Ender Dragon!

The video begins with a humorous reference to the bee physics debate, comparing it to the Ender Dragon's ability to fly despite its seemingly small wings.

MatPat welcomes viewers to Game Theory and mentions the channel is approaching 15 million subscribers, making a joke about the notification bell and Ender Dragons getting wings.

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The theory is overdue in the Minecraft lore series and will focus on Gene, the official canonical name of the Ender Dragon, and why players should not kill her.

Gene is the confirmed official canonical name of the Ender Dragon, given by Minecraft creator Notch and the development team, similar to how Steve was named.

• End ships found throughout the dimension have dragon heads mounted on their masts as trophies from battles • These ships are constructed from obsidian and represent impressive feats of ancient Builder engineering • Evidence suggests multiple dragons once existed in the End before being hunted to near extinction

The Mobestiary hints that shulkers may have been engineered by Builders, with their purpur blocks possibly being man-made rather than natural adaptations.

Builders likely hunted dragons to conquer the skies and obtain elytra wings, allowing them to achieve flight like they had dominated other dimensions.

Despite evidence of dragon hunting, end crystals are carefully constructed and placed to protect and heal the Ender Dragon during battle.

• End crystals are artificially constructed from an eye of ender, gas tier, and glass encasing • They are positioned atop obsidian pillars protected by additional glass cages • This setup makes the dragon significantly harder to kill

The evidence suggests either a civil war between Builder factions or a single civilization that realized it had over-hunted dragons and reversed course.

Someone deliberately built an elaborate security system to keep the remaining Ender Dragon alive, suggesting remorse and commitment to species preservation.

Large animals like whales, elephants, and the Ender Dragon reproduce slowly with high parental investment in few offspring, making them vulnerable to extinction.

• Eastern Pacific gray whales were hunted for blubber and nearly went extinct despite having only primitive hunting technology • African elephant population declined from 12 million to 396,000 in a hundred years due to ivory poaching • Woolly mammoths faced extinction partly due to human hunting during the Ice Age

Builders likely hunted Ender Dragons to the brink of extinction without restraint, similar to how humans have historically over-hunted megafauna.

Gene is the last remaining Ender Dragon, and her egg is unfertilized because there is no male dragon left to fertilize it, making reproduction impossible.

Endermen are the evolved descendants of ancient Builders who now peacefully coexist with Gene, though they retain their old dragon hunting instincts if provoked.

If Endermen take splash damage from the Ender Dragon during battle, they break their peace treaty and retaliate, showing their ancestral hunting spirit remains.

Players cannot craft elytra wings because Gene's body cannot be harvested for materials, and no other dragons exist to provide resources for crafting.

Freeing the End may not mean liberating Endermen from tyranny but rather freeing Gene from her eternal torment as the last of her species, preserved forever by those who destroyed her kind.

Players should not kill Gene to prevent the extinction of her species, but killing her might also be seen as merciful freedom from eternal loneliness and suffering.

Gene remains forever alone, forever sad at the loss of her entire race due to Builder overhunting that cannot be reversed or atoned for.

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