The End



The End is a dark, space-like dimension floating in the void.

Accessing


To get to the End, you must find a stronghold, find the portal room, and activate the end portal.

The room consists of a 5x5 square of end portal frames, with the corners cut out, making a total of 12. The portal hangs over a lava pool, with a staircase leading up to it. A silverfish spawner sits in the staircase. It is recommended to destroy the spawner, as the silverfish may annoy you while you prepare to enter the End.

You can activate the portal by placing 12 eyes of ender into the 12 portal frames. Once all the eyes of ender are placed, the portal will activate and let out a loud roar. As soon as it is activated, the portal will destroy all blocks and entities in the central 3x3 square, including bedrock or another portal frame, and replace them with end portal blocks. As soon as you are ready to go, jump into the portal, and you will immediately arrive in the End.

Environment
The End consists of one large island surrounded at a distance by many smaller islands, all mainly comprised of end stone. There is a gap between the central island and the outer islands of about 1000 blocks with nothing but the void.

The starless sky and the void of the End are both composed of a blank, static pattern. The day-night cycle is absent in the End, similar to the Nether, being replaced by a constant dim light.

Most items and blocks function in the End exactly as they do in the Overworld, with a few notable exceptions:


 * Beds will cause an explosion 25% stronger than TNT and cause fires when one attempts to them, as they do in the Nether.
 * Lava flows faster in the End as it does in the Nether, but only to a distance of 3 as in the Overworld.
 * Water behaves the same as in the Overworld.
 * Compasses are unable to find the original spawn point, as spawn points cannot be set within the End.
 * Clocks are unable to determine the position of the sun and moon, as there is no day-night cycle in the End, therefore going haywire.
 * Nether portals cannot be activated by the player in the End (although they can be placed through commands or external programs and editors).
 * Fire burns indefinitely on bedrock, but will not naturally spread onto other blocks of bedrock, similarly to netherrack.

Central Island
All players begin their exploration of the End with the central island. Unlike nether portals, entering the end portal will instantly teleport you to the End, giving no time to back out. Upon arrival in the End, you will spawn on a 5x5x1 obsidian platform with 3 air blocks above it. The platform can generate on the island, within it, or at a short distance from it, close enough to throw an ender pearl to reach the island.

Once you enter the End, there is no way back unless you either die or defeat the ender dragon. The dragon will spawn naturally and fly around above a number of towers of obsidian arranged in a circle around the central fountain, which fills up at the end of the battle. On top of each tower lies an end crystal, some of which are protected by cages of iron bars. These crystals will heal the dragon, but can be destroyed by hitting it with a sword, or shooting it with an arrow.

Once defeated, the dragon will rise up into the sky and disintegrate, with bright beams of light flashing from its body. It will then explode, drop up to 80 levels worth of experience orbs, activate the exit portal and generate an end gateway portal, giving you access to the End’s outer islands. Atop the portal lies a dragon egg. After killing the dragon, it can be respawned an unlimited number of times by placing four end crystals on the sides of the exit portal. Every time you respawn and slay the dragon, another gateway portal will be generated, up to a maximum of 20; however, it will not drop another dragon egg.



When you enter the exit portal, the "end poem" will be displayed afterwards, therefore "completing" the game. You will then respawn in the Overworld at your respawn point, with all of your belongings.

Outer Islands
When the ender dragon is defeated, you can return to the End through the same portal, and it will remain in the same state as you left it. When you enter one of the gateway portals that generate after killing the dragon, they are instantly teleported over the 1000 block void to the End's outer islands. These gateway portals can only be entered through the use of ender pearls, due to the one block tall gap between the bedrock blocks. There are other ways of getting to the outer islands, such as flying the 1000 blocks with an elytra (and probably using rockets, assuming you already have an elytra) and making a flying machine, or even possibly making a one-thousand-block-long bridge; however these ways of crossing the void are extremely inefficient.

These outer islands generate infinitely, topped with a forest of chorus trees that may be harvested for its fruit, and perhaps flowers to grow it at home. You may find end cities on these islands, which are inhabited by shulkers and hold valuable loot. End ships may generate alongside these cities, and hold even more valuable loot, including the elytra and the dragon head.

Mobs
The End is home to only 3 naturally occurring mobs. Endermen will spawn naturally throughout the entire dimension. The dragon only spawns once naturally on the central island, but can be respawned by placing 4 end crystals on each side of the exit portal. Shulkers only appearon the outer islands, within end cities, and do not respawn once killed. Other mobs, excluding bosses, may be sent into the End through an end portal.

Naturally generated
Naturally generated includes blocks that are created through the world seed.

Naturally created
These blocks are created through a combination of events that lead these blocks to be placed by natural causes, not by the player.

Structures
These blocks are generated as part of end cities, but only when the "generated structures" option is on.

Technical information
The End is saved in the same way normal worlds are, in the  subdirectory of the world save.

Deleting the DIM1 directory will reset the End, including all player-made changes.