Part 8: The Far Shore

Part 8, The Far Shore, is the End part of the quest book. It has three chapters and 64 quests: the hunt for the End Remastered eyes in Sixteen Lanterns, the dragon and the first End structures in The Far Shore, and the outer islands in Past the Last Island. <!-- src: Q §1.2, §2.8 -->

The part opens when you complete Nine Days, Wearing It, the gate quest of Below the Bedrock in Part 7: The Listening Dark. That one quest opens all three chapters at once, so you can work on them side by side. Stores for the Dark, the capstone of Past the Last Island, is the gate that opens Part 9: The Stars. The other two chapters are not gates. <!-- src: Q §1.5, §2.8 -->

The book does not lock the End itself, only its own quests. What locks the End is the portal: see The End Portal & the 16 Eyes. <!-- src: Q §7; BM §4 -->

At a glance#

In The Far Shore, one of the four optional quests is visible: What She Never Saw. Every other optional quest in this part is hidden, and the hidden quests are named only in the spoiler blocks at the end. <!-- src: Q §2.0, §2.8 -->

Sixteen Lanterns#

The first year she had nine. <!-- src: Q §1.2 -->

What you do#

This chapter is the eye hunt. It has 21 quests, 19 of them required: A List of Sixteen opens it, then one quest for each of the 16 eyes from End Remastered [NeoForge/Fabric], then The Stair in the Floor, which asks you to follow a thrown eye to the stronghold. The capstone, The Nine She Lit, is completed by entering the End. <!-- src: Q §2.8; BM §4 -->

Each eye quest names the place, mob or action that yields its eye. Quest titles are simply the eye's name, such as The Old Eye or The Cryptic Eye. <!-- src: Q §2.8; data/quests.json titles -->

The portal frame in the stronghold has 12 sockets, and any 12 of the 16 eyes fill it, so you do not need all 16 to enter the End. Vanilla Eyes of Ender can neither be used nor thrown, and a thrown End Remastered eye breaks 10 % of the time. <!-- src: BM §4 -->

What to bring#

• Food and gear for the Wither and the Elder Guardian, which drop eyes. <!-- src: BM §2.1, §4 -->
• Emeralds and a patient cleric for the Evil Eye, and levels to spend on enchanting for the Cryptic Eye. <!-- src: BM §4 -->
• Spare Eyes of Ender for the Exotic and Witch eyes, which are crafting ingredients. <!-- src: BM §4 -->

Rewards#

• Each eye quest pays an item (gold, redstone, iron, emeralds, a totem of undying, soul lanterns and similar) and a Traveller's Cache roll. <!-- src: Q §2.8 -->
• The capstone pays a soul lantern, an Ashfall Cache roll, 5 levels and 2 embers. <!-- src: Q §2.8 -->
• Chapter totals: 28 XP levels and 2 embers, from 16 Traveller's, one Lamplighter's and one Ashfall Cache roll. <!-- src: Q §2.0, §2.8 -->

The Far Shore#

A sky with no weather in it. <!-- src: Q §1.2 -->

What you do#

This is the dragon chapter. It has 19 quests, 15 of them required, and starts with No Wind There. Through the Floor sends you into the End, and The Towers First asks for 16 obsidian for the towers. Chorus wants chorus fruit. <!-- src: Q §2.8, §3.1 -->

Next come the BetterEnd: Remastered eternal portal (The Portal That Waits) and the fight itself, The Dragon. The optional What She Never Saw asks you to kill the dragon a second time with four end crystals. After it, The Egg That Moves and Something It Breathed want the dragon egg and dragon's breath. <!-- src: Q §2.8; BM §3 -->

The second half tours the End. A Gateway is an End gateway, An Empty City an End city, and Boxes That Argue asks for 8 shulkers. A Ship With No Sea, A Castle on Nothing and The Spire are structures from MES - Moog's End Structures. The capstone, Wings, wants elytra and 10,000 blocks flown. <!-- src: Q §2.8; data/quests.json titles -->

What to bring#

• Weapons, armor and food for a long boss fight, and 16 obsidian for the first quest. <!-- src: Q §2.8 -->
• Four end crystals if you want the optional second kill. <!-- src: Q §2.8 -->
• Elytra for Wings, which also counts 10,000 blocks flown. <!-- src: Q §2.8 -->

Rewards#

• Through the Floor pays a choice kit, What to Carry Out: 16 ender pearls, 64 scaffolding or 8 smoked hams. <!-- src: Q §4.4 -->
• The Dragon pays an Ashfall Cache roll and 6 levels. <!-- src: Q §2.8 -->
• The capstone pays a lantern, 64 fireworks, an Ashfall Cache roll, 5 levels and 1 ember. <!-- src: Q §2.8 -->
• Chapter totals: 46 XP levels and 1 ember, from 9 Lamplighter's, 3 Traveller's and 2 Ashfall Cache rolls. <!-- src: Q §2.0, §2.8 -->

Past the Last Island#

She kept flying. That was always the problem. <!-- src: Q §1.2 -->

What you do#

This chapter covers the outer End, built from BetterEnd: Remastered, Nullscape and AdventureZ. It has 24 quests, 22 of them required. It starts with There Is Always More, which also needs 1,000 blocks flown. <!-- src: Q §2.8, §3.1 -->

Most of the middle is biome by biome: The Fog Country, The Chorus Forest, The Megalake, The Shadow Forest, The Amber Land, Crystal Mountains, Dragon Graveyards and The Void Barrens, each with a matching item. A Village Out Here asks you to wait inside the End village; that task is optional. <!-- src: Q §2.8, §3.2 -->

Then the metals: A Hammer First, Thallasium, Terminite and Aeternium, with their anvils. A Rift and a dragon skeleton come from Nullscape, and The Eternal Crystal and Eternal Light are the way home through the Better End eternal portal. <!-- src: Q §2.8; W §1.3 End -->

Three bosses appear here. The Standing Stone is the Obsidilith, a Bosses of Mass Destruction boss in an End arena with 300 HP (config); Boss Ultimatum covers it. The Ruler Out Here is The Eye from AdventureZ, with 800 HP by the mod's code, summoned through a ritual with a dragon egg; Boss Ultimatum covers it too. The Depths asks for a kill of the Void Shadow. <!-- src: BM §2.2, §2.8, §2.10 -->

The capstone, Stores for the Dark, wants 32 foods, 64 firework rockets and 16 crystal shards. <!-- src: Q §2.8 -->

What to bring#

• Elytra and plenty of firework rockets: the outer islands are far apart. <!-- src: Q §2.8; W §1.3 End -->
• Food stocks for the capstone and for travel. <!-- src: Q §2.8 -->
• Gear for the End village and for The Eye. <!-- src: Q §2.8; BM §2.8 -->

Rewards#

• Nine Ashfall Cache rolls across the chapter, plus Lamplighter's and Traveller's rolls. <!-- src: Q §2.8 -->
• The capstone pays a soul lantern, a choice kit, Stores for the Crossing (16 dumplings, 4 shulker shells or 16 lanterns), an Ashfall Cache roll and 5 levels. <!-- src: Q §2.8, §4.4 -->
• Chapter totals: 63 XP levels and 3 embers, the largest chapter payout in the part. <!-- src: Q §2.0, §2.8 -->

Tips for this part#

• Items are never consumed by quests, so the same food or fireworks can finish more than one task. <!-- src: Q §5 -->
• Open each quest and click its rewards; nothing is claimed automatically, and each team member claims their own copy. <!-- src: Q §4.2 -->
• The eye quests are all required, but the portal itself only needs 12 eyes. Collect the easy ones first. <!-- src: Q §2.8; BM §4 -->
• Dragon Scales drop in numbers that rise with the number of players: at least 3, plus 2 per extra player, with an 80 % chance of extras. <!-- src: BM §2.1 -->
• Ember rewards go to your wallet in the journal. <!-- src: Q §6 -->
• Reward tables are explained on Rewards, Loot Caches & Choice Kits. <!-- src: Q §4.3 -->

Spoilers#

These blocks name the hidden quests of this part. Open one only if you want to be told.

Spoiler: hidden quests in Sixteen Lanterns

There are two hidden quests, both optional.

• she waited a year: enchant 100 items.
• a pupil, not an eye: obtain a Witch Pupil.

Spoiler: hidden quests in The Far Shore

There are three hidden quests, all optional.

• a door to nowhere: visit the mystical archway structure.
• somebody wrote first: visit the manuscript shrine structure.
• forty-eight years, lit: reach the third level of the bond with the Lamplighter.

Spoiler: hidden quests in Past the Last Island

There are two hidden quests, both optional.

• a jar of sulphur: visit the sulphur springs biome and collect 16 crystalline sulphur.
• she ate them raw: obtain 16 blossom berries.

See also#

• The Quest Book - the hub for all ten visible parts
• Part 7: The Listening Dark - the previous part, whose gate opens this one
• Part 9: The Stars - the next part, opened by Stores for the Dark
• Chapter Gates & Book Order - how the chapters unlock
• The End Portal & the 16 Eyes - every eye and the 12-socket portal
• The Ender Dragon - the fight in full
• The End - the dimension itself
• Rewards, Loot Caches & Choice Kits - what caches and kits contain