Hikasa Tomoshika’s Team Downs the Ender Dragon Four Hours In, Behind a Rival Team

VOMS — Hikasa Tomoshika’s team defeated the Ender Dragon about four hours into a Minecraft race on Wednesday, finishing behind a rival team that had already taken the dragon down.

Six players split into two teams of three on identical terrain. A mod powered up each team’s guest as missions were completed, and one participant said they had built it for the day. Hikasa Tomoshika led one team and said at the start that they had barely played Minecraft survival.

“We lost a bit because of me, but we had fun, so I think that’s a win. I think everyone won.” — One of the six, in the closing remarks

The first mission, mining 50 iron ore, was cleared about 34 minutes in, after the team found iron and chests in a structure that viewers likened to a school building. Its reward let the guest dig two blocks at a time. The team then found diamonds, mined obsidian, lit a Nether portal around the 1:18 mark and gained double movement speed on entering the Nether.

The hunt for blaze rods began in the Nether around 1:46. On the way back, a fall scattered a player’s belongings; teammates recovered nearly everything, but the collected blaze rods burned. The team gathered them again, which added attacks that set targets on fire, and had all 16 ender pearls by about 3:07, luring Endermen with boats. The pearls brought a longer attack reach.

At 3:20 the rival team appeared in their world in spectator mode and announced that it had already beaten the dragon without losing any items. Hikasa Tomoshika’s team kept going, used eyes of ender to narrow down the way to the End, and entered it around 3:37. The dragon behaved oddly partway through the fight and the server was restarted at about 3:54. The dragon fell around 4:01, the ending credits rolled and the players found themselves enlarged. One of them climbed onto an enlarged player’s shoulders for a group picture, and the participants thanked one another in the closing remarks.