Progress report! 

I've had a very very productive day today. In addition to killing the Enderdragon, Braden and I worked on a lot of achievements. I only have 4 left. Here is a picture of the achievements page showing the ones I still need to do. 

Hey!
GUESS WHAT! WE BEAT THE ENDERDRAGON!
Watson, Braden and I all went on together today and we got all our stuff ready and fought and killed him! It was pretty intense. Here are some pictures. They might not be the greatest pictures because I was taking them whilst fighting the dragon, so bear with me.

The Enderdragon through my pumpkin mask (a mask used to hide from the Endermen)

The healing pillars that we had to destroy before trying to kill the Enderdragon. (Somebody else's picture because I forgot to take one while I was playing)

Me shooting the Enderdragon (Take note of the health bar at the top)

The Enderdragon blowing up after we killed it!

Braden and I collecting the experience it dropped

The portal to bring us back home

The Enderdragon egg it dropped! (Kinda useless but cool)

The beginning spawn point for The End and a bridge we made

The End and the portal to bring us home

The "credits" after we killed the dragon and enter into the portal. It was kinda weird and suuuuper long. Don't really know what it's about. Just part of the storyline I think.

I've talked lots about my Minecraft adventure, but I haven't really explained about how I got there. I'm going to show you guys what my server looks like, up and running. Here it is:

I had to blur out some of the numbers and such just for privacy concerns, but that is what a Minecraft server looks like. Up in the top left corner is an application called "PortMap". It is used to give out my ip address for my server to find and use. To the right of that is an application called "LogMeIn Hamachi Launcher". It is used to hook my friends up into my server, if they are logged into my network. To the right of that, in the top right, is just a folder which is the server. It has a bunch of different folders inside of it which give properties and options in the server. And underneath the PortMap window is the server info, which in run out of "Terminal". That window just shows all of the information that is going in and out of the server. (Example: somebody dying, somebody joining the server, lag, someone gaining an achievement)

I will put some links here for you guys if you would like to make your own server the way I did, using the Minituff pre-made folder. 

 - PortMap

 - LogMeIn Hamachi

 - Minituff's video and downloads

Phase #4

The stronghold (all scrambled)

The Eye of Ender hovering where the portal room should have been

We dug all the way down in hopes of finding it

Looking up from Bedrock at the hovering Eye of Ender

The island where the stronghold is located under

The portal room

The ladder leading to the surface (that we made after for easy access)

The tube leading to the portal room with original island in the backroom

Phase #3

The pillars and start of the second floor

Finished second floor

The stairs leading up to the second floor (as well as an added lava pool)

The inside the second floor

Phase #2

The base for my permanent house/tower

The finished first floor

The inside

Phase #1

When I first spawned into my server world it was not in an ideal location, so I wandered around until I found a spot that I liked. Then I started to make my semi permanent base or a super quick, yet functional base. Here are the pictures:

Hey it's me!

Me again! (Sorry for the crouch. The crouch button is used in the command to take a screenshot, so I will always be crouching in my pictures)

My house/base area

Inside

My friends base

The area that both our bases are on