This Minecraft tutorial explains the spawn events that you can use for an ender dragon in Minecraft Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Education Edition.

Background

In the latest version of Minecraft Bedrock Edition and Education Edition, the entity value for an ender dragon is ender_dragon. The ender_dragon entity has a unique set of spawn events that can be used in Minecraft commands such as: /summon and /event. (The spawn event parameter is called spawnEvent in the Minecraft help for the /summon command and eventName in the Minecraft help for the /event command.)

What is a Spawn Event?

Spawn events allow you to trigger certain in-game events for an entity in Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Education Edition. Currently, you can only trigger one spawn event at a time when you use the /summon or /event commands.

List of Spawn Events

Here is a list of the spawn events that you can use for an ender dragon in Minecraft Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) and Minecraft Education Edition:

Minecraft ID Description Bedrock Edition
(Added in)
minecraft:start_death Ender Dragon is starting to die 1.12.0
minecraft:start_fly Ender Dragon is starting to fly 1.12.0
minecraft:start_land Ender Dragon is starting to land 1.12.0
minecraft:entity_spawned Ender Dragon has spawned 1.12.0

Definitions

  • Minecraft ID is the Internal code for the spawn event that would be used in game commands.
  • Description is the description of the spawn event.
  • Bedrock Edition (Added in) is the version of Bedrock Edition that the spawn event was first introduced.

Spawn Event Example

To summon an ender dragon that is starting to die in Bedrock Edition (PE, Win10, Xbox One, PS4, Nintendo Switch) or Education Edition:

/summon ender_dragon ~ ~ ~ minecraft:start_death

Next, learn how to use the game commands in Minecraft.

Command Examples

Here are some game command examples for an ender dragon in Minecraft:

 How to Summon an Ender Dragon

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