Unstable Ender Dragon

The Unstable Dragon is one of the seven variants of the Ender Dragon, the boss summoned by placing 8 Summoning Eyes in the altar at the centre of the Dragon's Nest in The End. The variant is picked when the dragon hatches; this one appears in 16% of fights.¹

What sets it apart: players who get close are sometimes hit for 3,000 damage, and it may explode when it dies, dealing 2,000 damage to anyone caught in the blast. Surviving that blast earns an achievement.¹

The fight (all variants):¹

• Rush: charges a player for damage, true damage and knockback.
• Fireball: stops in place and fires a barrage of exploding fireballs that launch players upward.
• Lightning: stops, then strikes players with lightning. A block above your head protects you.
• Touching the dragon costs half your health plus 2,000. Below 50% health all its attacks hit 50% harder.
• Ender Crystals on the obsidian pillars heal it while it is within 32 blocks of one. Breaking a crystal gives a Crystal Fragment and counts as 1,000 damage toward your dragon damage.
• Later in the fight it calls in groups of hostile Zealots.

The nest door locks during the fight; players who die have to break it down to get back in.¹

Sources

1. Ender Dragon · Hypixel SkyBlock Wiki Community wiki read 2026-09-26