Lounging about at home, AFKing for goods
or crafting God Sets the Delphi boys
keep themselves busy!
Progress, however, demands adventure and
it is this day that they make ready to
take the fight to the enemy of all
players - the Dragon!
The End holding promise of untold riches - 
the group researches a portal location
and prepares for battle.
With their shields adorned with the holy
symbol of Delphi our boys
march onward to victory through
uncertainty and doubt.
Leaving their most prized possessions in
the safe confines of their Ender Chests
they move out to face their destiny and
make history for their great country!
So today we're going to talk about The
End in 2016 and
Delphi's expeditions - of which there were
three.
Let's start with the first one. We wanted
to go kill the dragon
as a group. If you've fought the dragon in
full gear you know
it's a fight you can easily handle by
yourself but we wanted to do it together
all the same.
Laganstoop and SirLeonidas went
ahead of the group. They picked out an
entrance to The End,
trekked through the Nether, made a portal
for the rest of us
and relayed the coords.
We then followed in their wake, through
the Nether and made our way to the
Overworld to meet up.
The plan was very simple. Just hop into
an End portal and kill the dragon.
We were about 5,000 blocks away from
said portal
and started making our way there.
But then...
Alright, alright, so that didn't
actually happen...
If you must know, here's what really went
down.
Ebola__Chan spotted us and tried to escape
through a forest.
I pearled after him and was on his tail
for the whole initial chase.
I kept landing sword hits here and there
but most of what I saw was Ebola's back
and gapple particles flying around.
I remember being in voice chat with at
least  dmonki.
It's possible others were there but I
really don't remember.
As I stuck to Ebola, dmonki kept
relaying to me where the rest of the
team was.
We got to a beach and Ebola decided to
jesus-hack into the ocean.
As I chased him across the water, dmonki was letting me know that he was
just behind me with the rest.
Ebola tried deactivating jesus and
swimming under the water line, using a
bucket to keep breathing - and that was
when the rest of the Delphi crowd was
able to catch up to the battle.
At one point Ebola stopped and looked
around, seemingly re-evaluating the
situation.
Five of us were laying it on him at this
point but he had gapples
so he was relatively good. When I saw him
stop and look around
I did the same. At that time SirLeonidas
had decided to use a boat
to try and catch up to us. Ebola looked
straight at the boat
and I got a bad feeling as to what was
about to happen.
Ebola broke the boat. I tried swimming
into it to pick it up but
it went to him. He swam up and placed it.
I swiped at the boat but didn't manage
to break it..
and the fight was effectively over at
that point.
Ebola sailed away into the sunset,
laughing all the way,
having faced six players and survived.
I think having to fight a spawnfriend
six on one was
always going to be a little embarrassing
even if we did win.
At the onset even I couldn't have
predicted just how embarrassing an event
that would have turned out to be.
When we got to the End portal we made a
record of the moment regardless
and went in to fight the Dragon.
The fight was relatively uneventful
Laganstoop recorded it but has since
deleted the video from YouTube.
Here's a moment I've recreated that I
remember from that video
and I think is a shame to have lost.
I'm not sure how things are now but back
then the Dragon would drop
two eggs at a time, for some reason. Once
we had dealt with him it was time to get
elytra and dragon heads. 
SirLeonidas, Laganstoop and
Pat returned to base but the rest of us
pressed on. We teleported to the End
islands through a gateway and started
travelling where we saw the least damage
and bridges.
If i'm not mistaken that was towards the
negative Z axis. 
On that expedition
we managed to get about six elytra - 
 two for each of us.
Once we had had enough exploring we were
somewhere between
20 and 30 000 blocks into the End and we
just couldn't be bothered traveling all
the way back.
It's important to note that, at the time,
you couldn't use fireworks to fly with
your elytra.
The only method of permanent flight was
to use a bow
enchanted only with Punch 2, Infinity and
Mending
and shoot yourself while in the air. We
built a Stop n' Chill with supplies
that we wouldn't be able to carry
and we also made a suicide booth. I don't
have pictures of how it looked on the
other side
but it was basically a simple
purpur block platform over the Void
with three holes for us to drop through.
We left Delphi's banners over the End City
ones, symbolizing our conquest,
did a new-year-style countdown in
general chat and
killed ourselves at the same time.
Upon us returning to base
Pat had come down from his
new-building-blocks-high
and remembered that elytra existed.
dmonki decided to share his End spoils
and gave Pat one of his.
The second expedition started for one
simple reason
grinding out God Sets in the Overworld
was starting to become
a huge pain in my butt. I decided it was
time to make an Enderman farm so I could
farm experience and enchant more
effectively.
You can see the farm here although it
didn't always look like this.
I actually made it with about 50% netherrack
which the enderman then started to pluck
out of the build..
I had to gradually replace the blocks.
It started with a very small platform
around the kill room that I
inevitably had to expand one of the
reasons for this was
that the farm would just keep going as I
was enchanting the things..
and it got pretty crazy with the
Enderman army sticking around.
Having completed the prototype and made
a couple God Sets
I /kill'ed back to base. I spent a whole
afternoon digging for diamonds and lapis
and then made my way back with CaptainGetz0.
There we made about 40 God Sets in total
with a little help from SirLeonidas
when it came to making it a
fully-fledged End base.
Here's a video from back then that I
sent him.
Right so we need blaze rods.. uh.. we need
blaze rods,
grass blocks, dirt and sand..
would be nice.. we could use a cobble
generator so..
feel free to bring some lava.. 
please do and uh..
you can build it! *chuckle* If you want. 
I'll just do this so you can see everything.
Feel free to pause at any point - this is
what we have.
And there are other chests and what we
have in the other chests
is equipment, enchants and.. *tons* of ender
pearls from the Enderfarm over there.
Riveting stuff! This End farm was
basically located between the main
island where you fight the dragon
and the other End islands - hidden in
plain sight, in the void ocean.
The third and last
expedition came when we 
decided we were all good on
God Sets. Me and dmonki traveled to The End
from Delphi to stock up on Ender Pearls
for the long haul
and since we were there we figured we
would just go find some more elytra and
dragon heads since at the time we didn't
have a dupe.
As before fireworks were a no-go so we
had to bridge between islands.
We got about two more Elytra for each of
us and
shortly after that..
And that's how the third expedition
ended!.. Well..
for me, I guess..
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