How many of you have started a Minecraft world, made your first house, explored the Nether, and found an End Portal only to stop just short of defeating the Ender Dragon? I've done it more times than I'd care to admit, constantly juggling realms and getting bored of projects. Well, it turns out that we never had to do anything, because given enough time Minecraft may just defeat itself.

It may sound ridiculous but given the exact right seed and circumstances it can happen, Minecraft YouTuber RedLogic proved it.

RedLogic started off by making a simulation which can sort through various Minecraft seeds to find the one which had all the right and very specific requirements such as a completed end portal which was close enough to the surface to be discovered by mobs, and pumpkins, lots and lots of pumpkins. The next step was using a monte carlo simulation to compress billions of ordinary ticks (time passing in Minecraft) into "statistically sampled waiting times".

It then came to running the simulation in Minecraft world seed -535646876083114041:

After a billion years the Ender Dragon's health was whittled down by snow golem attacks and creeper explosions but it wasn't until 1.975 billion years that the last hit connected with the Ender Dragon and killed it. Felling the beast and defeating Minecraft.

After all of this RedLogic shows us what the End and overworld looked like and it's surreal. Blocks are stacked everywhere, creeper explosions have marred the land, and there's no signs of life to be seen.

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