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Where stone and grass blocks make up most of the overworld, and netherrack makes up most of the Nether, almost all of the solid mass of the End is made up solely of end stone.

End stone looks like a yellow-ish concave cobblestone and is what makes up the islands in the end. It will drop itself if mined with any pickaxe and will drop nothing if mined without one. The block is also notably resilient for how common it is - the block takes noticeably longer to mine with even high-tier tools, is quite explosion resistant, and is one of the select few blocks which the Ender Dragon cannot destroy by flying through, making it useful for permanent constructions on the central island if you intend to re-summon the Ender Dragon. Endermen are also incapable of picking the block up.

Once obtained it can be used to make 4 end stone bricks by putting it in a 2 by 2 square in a crafting table or the crafting area of your inventory. It can also be put in a stonecutter to make end stone bricks, end stone brick stairs, end stone brick wall or 2 end stone brick slabs. Unlike stone from the overworld, which can itself be used to make stairs and slabs, end stone itself does not have any direct stair or slab variants, even though both of them have brick variants, which both have associated stair and slab blocks.

End Stone also finds its use in farming, being the sole base block on which chorus trees can grow on. Chorus flowers can only be placed on end stone - no other block will allow it to be placed. Perhaps one of the more famous glitches in Minecraft's history was the zero-tick farm, involving rapidly moving an end stone block beneath a chorus flower, which would cause it to immediately grow upwards for completely free. The bug was originally discovered by ToseRedstone in 2016, and popularised by ilmango in February of 2017, the bug persisted in the game for over three years and was widely used for not only chorus flowers but also various other plants after changes to the game made them similarly affected.

If, instead of using it for agricultural purposes, you want to farm the end stone itself, there are several methods to obtain a steady stream of this brawny block. If you remove all the end stone from underneath the central exit fountain on the main End island, and then kill the dragon, a new outcrop of end stone will form underneath the portal, and you can keep on constantly summoning the dragon and digging this area out for a horribly inefficient but verifiably renewable supply of end stone. Some of the more tech-savvy players, however, have found out how to exploit end gateway portals to continually generate new islands of end stone, and these islands can be detonated and regenerated for a faster way to gather greater quantities of end stone with no further player interaction.