Minecraft – What do the credits mean after defeating the Ender Dragon in Minecraft

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I'm pretty sure everyone knows what I'm talking about. When you defeat the Ender Dragon and jump into the center portal, these people or unknown beings start talking to each other through text. And I'm guessing they're talking about you, or the "player". There are even some parts that are "censored" or "glitched" that you cannot read. Every time I see this, it gets me thinking:

Who are we?
And why am I here?

Does anyone know what the credits at the end mean? And what they are talking about?

Best Answer

I think you are referring to the end poem. It seems to have been created through commission from Notch, the creator of Minecraft, by Julian Gough. People do find it to be interesting and different.

Unique Item

Dragon Egg - only obtainable by killing the Ender Dragon.

Rare Items

Saddles - Only found in chests in dungeons, Nether Fortresses, Desert and Jungle Temples, and NPC villages. Can also be obtained by trading with Villagers and fishing. It can also be obtained by killing a ravager.
Horse Armor - Only found in dungeons, Nether Fortresses, Desert/Jungle temples, and NPC villages.
Music Disc - Only gained by tricking skeleton into shooting a creeper with its arrow. Also, discs "13" and "cat" are found in 8% of dungeon chests.
Name Tag - Only found in chests in dungeons, Nether Fortresses, Desert and Jungle Temples, and NPC villages. Can also be obtained by trading with Villagers and fishing.
Melon Seeds - Can be found in minecart with chests in abandoned mine shafts. You can also get them from NPCs.

Rare Mob Drops

Ender Pearls - A rare drop from a rare mob (Endermen).
Blaze Rods - Blaze are flying mobs in the nether; hazardous to kill. Can be used to make a few other ingredients via Blaze Powder
Ghast Tear - Prone to falling into lava when you kill the Ghast.
Wither Skeleton Skull - A rare drop from a somewhat rare mob (Wither Skeleton).
Nether Star - An item drop from the Wither Boss
Mob head(other than Wither Skeleton) - Can only be obtained by blowing up the said mob with a charged creeper (creeper struck by lightning).

Rare Blocks

Emerald Ore - A new block that only generates in one biome, and generates between three and eight blocks per chunk. Used as a currency for trading with NPC villagers.
Beacon Block - An item crafted from the Nether Star, 3 Obsidian, and 5 Glass.
Sponge - Found only in ocean monuments and dropped by Elder Guardians.
Ice - can only be mined with a silk touch pickaxe, can only be made in a snowy biome.
Packed Ice - A more compact version of Ice, but doesn't melt in Torch/Glowstone light, only found in the rare Ice Plains Spikes biome, and obtainable only with silk touch enchanted Pickaxes.
Prismarine - Only found in Ocean Monuments. It can be crafted from prismarine shards dropped by Guardians.
Sea Lantern - Only found in Ocean Monuments. It can be crafted from prismarine shards and prismarine crystals dropped by Guardians.

Other

Bedrock/Adminium - Cannot be mined, found at bottom of map or top of the Nether. Must be spawned through the console to place.
End portal and End Portal Frame - 1,152 end portal blocks per world and 1,536 end portal frame blocks. (As of 1.15)
Command Block - Only obtainable via console command.
- Command Cart - Also must be obtained by commands.
Barrier - Obtained by commands.

Minecraft – What are the minimum items I need to get from the Overworld to the End

To reach the enderdragon, you will need to be able to kill Endermen; you'll need their enderpearls. However you plan to do that, you'll want the weapons or potions you plan to use against them, that's very individual.

You'll also need to reach the Nether; this means you need obsidian. If you use the frame-building method, you can make do with just some buckets (3 iron per bucket), lava, and water. You then will need to be able to kill blazes; again, it depends on your preferred method. The safest way is probably to build bows and arrows and go at it with a potion of fire resist (once you kill the first one, you can brew these, having collected netherwort and more iron), but you'll might want to sacrifice safety for speed, so you might want to hold off on the potion aspect.

Ender pearl + blaze powder = eye of ender. Finding a stronghold can be done with the eyes, and once you've found one, you can easily get to the end. Killing the ender dragon, of course, is another story, you might want gear for that. Really, it all depends on your fighting style.

So in essence, it depends on your plan for killing the high-level mobs. You can get away with nothing more than iron tools, sure, so long as you're skilled enough with them.