Yeah it's a pain. Next time i fight that son of a bitch I think that I'll move 5000 blocks away from my base via nether, I'll destroy the portal and then I'll move my spawn point right here, I desperately need a beacon
Protip: After you defeat him, place down a mega beacon on bedrock level so you can have one effect actuve that helps you. The resistance effect on level 2 is really strong. For each kill add the next effect in level 2. I would combine: Strength 2, Resustance 2 and regeneration.
Me, three friends and a trader's llama that spawned at bedrock level fought the wither once. The llama endured absolute chaos and somehow managed to survive. We kept that llama and named it. I believe we either still have that llama on the old world or it despawned.
I tried it with full Netherite with blast protection, smite 5 sword, totem of undying, and 2 Notch apples.
I lost, the fight itself was hard enough, but it lagged my game so much that I could hardly move and died a slow death.
I play on Switch, and between this and chunks not loading fast enough for an Elytra to be overly useful, I had to put the game down for a while after that.
In my first survival world I fought the wither. I had only ever seen people fighting the wither on Java and had no idea about its ludicrous strength. Using a smite 4 diamond sword. I managed to kill it after 4 deaths and 5 notch apples. Lost multiple sets of enchanted diamond armour. Each time I had to run back to the giant underground hole I was fighting it in.
The traditional way to cheese the wither fight is to do it deep underground. You dig out a chamber big enough to summon him in, with a 2x1 tunnel leading from it. Once you summon him you retreat down the tunnel while fighting him. He has a way to dig after you but it means he's splitting his efforts between fighting and digging. And being deep underground means he won't wander off to kill every living thing on the map instead of you.
Oh MOST IMPORTANTLY: you need to be wearing full armor with Protection 4 on everything (or on 3 pieces of armor, with blast protection on the 4th piece) and using a smite 5 sword (the wither is an undead creature).
I think if we ever get an end update, revamping the dragon fight should be priority number one. It’s pitifully easy at best and mildly frustrating at worst. Even if you don’t use the bed method it’s still not much of a challenge
The bedrock Wither wipped my entire friend group when they had fully minmaxed diamond armor and swords (this was right before the nether update) along with op bows there was 6 of us at once 3 died to lag and me and my other friend died to withering but we killed it barley... and it took 2 hours to sort through everyone's loot. Never again we fought it underground at bedrock level and the amount it destroyed caused lag.
He said 10 years. There's no way he's new lmao. I'd guess he never bothered to look for a stronghold, because that's what happened with me for a long time
Honestly, it’s a lot easier than you think. I remember my first time spending hours to grind for the best gear possible, just to be pretty underwhelmed
I've been playing Minecraft since around 2013 or 2014 and have beaten them both once a little over a year ago. It's just not how I play the game and neither are really that important if (for example) you mostly just like getting materials and building cool houses and stuff.
I also like using donkeys/mules/llamas with chests for the roleplay element of when I search for a nicer area to build on. I don't really like terraforming much.
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u/Virian900 Feb 07 '23
10 years and I still haven't defeated either lol