Minecraft:End Poem

The End Poem is a freehand narrative poem written by novelist and poet Julian Gough that can be seen when the Minecraft:player enters the Minecraft:exit portal in Minecraft:the End dimension. The poem is followed by the Minecraft:credit sequence.

Accessing

After entering Minecraft:the End dimension and killing the Minecraft:ender dragon, the Minecraft:exit portal is activated, allowing the player to enter and view the End Poem, followed by the credits. The player is then teleported to their spawn point if available, or the world spawn if not. The End Poem only shows upon the player's first entry of the exit portal. The player can also trigger the End Poem by entering an End portal built using Minecraft:Creative mode or Minecraft:commands.

The End Poem can be successively sped up by holding Template:Key, then additionally Template:Key, then the other Template:Key.Template:Only The poem can be skipped entirely by pressing Template:Key Template:In or "Skip" Template:In. Template:IN, the poem can be paused with Template:Wbtn, sped up with Template:Wbtn, and skipped with Template:Wbtn.

Contents

The End Poem lasts 7 minutes and 38 seconds. It takes the form of a scrolling dialogue between two voices who are discussing the player's accomplishments, dreams, and relation to the rest of the universe. The voices claim to be all the universe that is distinct from the player, and that the player is reading their cosmic thoughts as words on a screen. The credits appear below the End Poem. During the End Poem and credits, the track "Alpha" in the official soundtrack (alpha.oggTemplate:Only/credits.oggTemplate:Only) plays.

Technical details

Template:IN, the End Poem and credits are stored in Minecraft:client.jar; the text of the End Poem is located in assets/minecraft/texts/end.txt. Template:IN, the text of the End Poem is located in Content/data/credits/end.txt. While Java Edition can be edited with a Minecraft:resource pack, Bedrock Edition can not be directly edited. The first voice's dialog uses the Minecraft:formatting code §3 (or dark aqua), and the second voice's dialogue uses §2 (or dark green). The player's name is inserted with PLAYERNAME, and the scrambled text is stored as §f§k§a§b. The End Poem is shown the first time the player enters the exit portal based on their Template:NbtTemplate:Only/Template:NbtTemplate:Only tag being 0/Template:Cd, after which it is changed to 1/Template:Cd once the player first enters an End portal while in the End.

Copyright

While the End Poem has been in the game since its release, Minecraft:Mojang and Minecraft:Microsoft did not own it, and only had "informal permission" to use it, according to the original author Julian Gough. Julian stated that due to poor and unpleasant communication between him and Minecraft:Carl Manneh, then-CEO of Mojang, he refused to sign a contract to fully transfer the rights of the poem to Mojang after he finished it, though they reached an informal agreement. In August 2014, a month before Microsoft purchased Mojang for $2.5 billion, Carl contacted Julian again, asking him to sign the contract. Julian refused once more and therefore owned all rights to the End Poem. On December 7, 2022, Julian announced that the End Poem was released into the public domain under the CC0 1.0 Universal (CC0 1.0) license.<ref>Template:Cite</ref>

History

Gallery

• The logo at the start of the End Poem Template:In
  The logo at the start of the End Poem Template:In
• A section of the End Poem
  A section of the End Poem
• Another section of the End Poem
  Another section of the End Poem
• The logo at the start of the End Poem in Minecraft:Java Edition 1.20.4
  The logo at the start of the End Poem in Minecraft:Java Edition 1.20.4

External links

• Template:W on Wikipedia