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There is NO LORE in Minecraft. Any and all Minecraft "lore" is FANFICTION. Just like there is NO PROGRESSION in Minecraft, or at least there never should be. Slaying the Ender Dragon and freeing the End is just another thing you can do in a free-to-play game, but not in the way that term's usually meant: here it means free as in freedom, not free as in beer.

You could just as truly (in a game where there is no One True Way To Play) "beat the game" by setting your goal of making 37 rows of 37 sheep-shagging redstone machines. That, too, would be progression: YOUR progression, as YOU decide. "This world… is mine to craft."

Elder millennials and Gen-X gamers understood this back in the 90's, 80's, and even 70's: games like Nethack and Daggerfall, which were also procedurally-generated like Minecraft, YOU decided on the fly what "side missions" you wanted to "complete" like making a pudding farm or deciding how best to steal that enchanted sword surrounded by guards without being caught and sent to jail.

You have no idea what a "pudding farm" is, do ya zoomers?