El Ender Dragon tiene un comportamiento muy interesante. A diferencia de muchas criaturas, el Ender Dragon es uno de los pocos que interactúa con el ambiente donde vive ([[El fin]]) ya que protege su mundo: si se altera algún bloque de El Fin, el dragón actúa diferente, por ejemplo si colocamos [[TNT]] y la hacemos estallar rompiendo una cantidad de bloques, es mucho más probable que el dragón ataque al causante.
=== Ataque ===
El Ender Dragon atacara a la velocidad de la luz o mejor dicho: instantáneamente, golpeándote con un latigazo, esta es la única forma de ataque de el; del resto no tendrá otra forma de hacerte daño.En XBOX 360 el dragón lanzará cargas de ácido de Ender, y con frecuencia se posará sobre el portal ya existente pero inactivo.
=== Estrategia ===
El Ender Dragón es inteligente y los jugadores, cuando combaten con él, ven que se mueve de un lado para otro. Pocas veces caerá en picada e irá en tierra a atacar, esto solo lo hará cuando se haga lo que la sección de comportamiento dice. Una de sus ventajas, (siempre y cuando no muestre las alas) es que como en El Fin no hay noche ni día, todo esta oscuro pero morado con negro y como el Ender Dragón es escamoso y Morado se camufla en el cielo.
La desventaja cuando los jugadores luchan contra él, es que el Fin como esta lleno de Enderman les toca a los jugadores subir rápidamente, la estrategia común es que dos se queden peleando contra los Enderman mientras los de arriba disparen flechas contra el Ender Dragon el único momento en debes sacar la espada es cuando venga surcando sobre tu cabeza con el fin de atacarte, golpéalo en la barriga, El propósito de el Ender Dragon tiene una buena lógica, no solo es hacerte daño, sino que su objetivo es más letal, quiere empujarte con su fuerza y tirarte del pilar si tienes la armadura de Diamante no será casi problema, pero si llevas una menor a la de diamante si será problema.
== Edición de consola ==
[[File:Ender Acid Fire Charge.png|frame|Ender Acid Fire Charge]]
En ambas ediciones, la de [[Xbox 360 Edition|Xbox 360]] y la de [[PlayStation 3 Edition|PlayStation 3]], el comportamiento del Ender Dragón es ligeramente diferente. Cuando vuela, el Ender Dragón dispara ''cargas de Ender'', que no pueden ser devueltas, por el jugador. After flying for approximately 30 seconds, the Ender Dragon will come down and hover over the unfinished bedrock portal, and remain there for another 30 seconds. The Ender Dragon will spew out "Ender acid", which deals damage, onto nearby players. Players may continually strike it with a weapon at this time. The Ender Dragon also fights endermen during this time, implying the reason for returning to the "nest" is to stop the growing clusters of endermen from stealing the egg.
Also, instead of the portal being spawned underneath the Ender Dragon's death, it is spawned in the middle of the island as soon as you enter the End. However, until the Ender Dragon is defeated, it will remain deactivated, and the Dragon Egg will not be on its podium. Until it has been killed, this is used by the Ender Dragon as a nest, where it will hover over it and attack the player with "Ender acid".
One final difference between the Console and PC versions is that some of the Obsidian Pillars have iron bars surrounding the crystal. This prevents the player from shooting it from a distance with a bow, ensuring the player has to climb some of the Pillars.
|Originally, dragons were a possible planned mob, hinted at by [[Notch]] during the [[Spider Jockey]] update.
|He also mentioned that dragon lairs may be an addition [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v{{=}}NszGurDUlHc in the video description of this video] They remained a potential work-in-progress until the Ender Dragon was announced.}}
|Notch released a video showing a small clip of [[the End]] that also shows the Ender Dragon fly into the top of the frame. {{ytl|Hyi5xNmyptY|Brightened version here}}}}
|A player named stropping_notch asked Jeb if Dragon riding is an idea, to which he replied it is. It is not clear whether this means it is an idea ''under consideration'' or not, however, or whether it would apply to the [[Red Dragon]]s or the Ender Dragon.}}
|In a Reddit post Notch also said, "They will be different dragons. The Ender Dragon will probably become larger, and the ones in the main world will be this size, won't go through terrain, and will be red because dragons are red."}}
|Notch stated in a twitter post that "Dragons have 6 limbs", consisting of 2 wings, and 4 legs.}}
{{History|r}}
{{History||1.0.0|snap=Beta 1.9-pre4|Added Ender Dragon. The Ender Dragon existed in the code, mostly functional, however the dragon had not been enabled ingame yet and players were unable to damage it. Certain mods would allow the spawning of the Ender Dragon, but again, no physical interactions were available.}}
{{History|||snap=Beta 1.9-pre5|Added the ability for players to damage Ender Dragons. They required mods or a mob-spawner to be brought into the game however. The ender dragon's health was changed to {{hp|1}} to test its new death animation.}}
{{History|||snap=Beta 1.9-pre6|Officially implemented Ender Dragons into the game. This includes a single Ender Dragon as a boss battle, spawning naturally when the player first enters the End.}}
|Jeb mentioned that he wouldn't be adding any more boss mobs until he makes the Ender Dragon "more fun first". Despite this, the [[Wither]] was added before any major changes were made to the Ender Dragon.}}
{{History||1.3.1|Fixed the bug where after being damaged once, Ender Dragons would do no contact damage.|Experience drop reduced from 20,000 to 12,000}}
{{History||1.4.2|snap=12w34b|"Boss Health" now says "Ender Dragon".}}
{{History||1.4.2|Before this update, Ender Dragon used the same damage sound from the [[Player]]. Ender Dragons now have their own sound.}}
{{History||1.5|Fixed a bug where swords take no damage when used on the Ender Dragon.}}
{{History||1.5.1|snap=13w11a| Before this snapshot, the gamerule mobGriefing doesn't prevent the Ender Dragon from destroying blocks when they fly through them. Now, mobGriefing from the {{command|gamerule}} command prevents the Ender Dragon from destroying blocks at their sight.}}
{{History||1.8|snap=14w20a|The Ender Dragon no longer breaks barriers.}}
{{History|xbox}}
{{History||TU9|Added the Ender Dragon. This Ender dragon has two exclusive new attacks (Ender Acid & Ender Charges) and a new behavior being that he will float over the exit portal spewing out the acid towards the player for a short time then fly off again.<ref>http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1707692-mcxbla-title-update-9-list/page__hl__%22ender+acid%22</ref>}}