The End

The End, formerly known as the Ender, is an other-worldy dimension that will soon be introduced to the MineCraft Universe. It was first mentioned by Notch, and not much else is known about it at this time.

This dimension will be home to a large number of Endermen and the Enderdragon. While the Endermen will continue to exist outside The End, the Enderdragon will be exclusive to the dimension.

In an earlier stage of development, when its landscape and textures were far different, it was known as the Sky Dimension.

You cannot enter The End in 1.9 pre3

Terrain and Characteristics
The End seems to consist mainly of Ender Sand, depicting the area as a vast, barren wasteland. Furthermore, the dimension seems to glow with a green ambient light. Nothing else is known about the place at this time.

Travel Methods
The only way to enter The End (which is still unreleased) is to kill a few Endermen and obtain their Ender Pearls, which are important. You would then have to mine enough Obsidian to make a Portal, so you can travel to the Nether. From there, you would need to kill enough Blaze to obtain their Blaze Rods, the other crucial ingredient. You will then need to craft those rods into Blaze Powder and combine them with the Ender Pearls to create multiple Eyes of Ender. Next, you'd need return to the Overworld and locate a Stronghold. You would then have to navigate through the area until you came across an Air Portal. And finally, you would use the Eyes of Ender on the Portal to activate it.

History
Notch tweeted "raqreqentba", which could be decoded using ROT13, translating to "enderdragon." A Reddit user under the name of "cptqwashi" posted the idea that the new dimension accessed by the new "Crystal Block Portal" would be called the Ender, and would be home to the Endermen and Enderdragons. Notch soon gave more information and said that cptqwashi was "100% correct."


 * Responding to a fan's question, Jeb_ recently released a tweet stating that The End is the Sky Dimension, or rather The End is replacing the Sky Dimension.

Finding an Ender Portal
On 9th of October 2011, at around 9:20am (+1), during his gameplay stream, Jeb began searching for an Ender portal. This appeared to be done by throwing an Eye of Ender, which appeared to float briefly into the direction of the nearest ender portal. It is unsure as to whether an eye leads to a portal, or to a stronghold (portals are situated in strongholds) because it was implied that there was a possibility that there could not be a portal inside a stronghold. This was evident when Jeb said "I KNOW there is a portal in here because of the debug logs".

Trivia

 * Notch first mentioned The End when commenting on the name-change petition of the (then-unreleased) Endermen. He joked that instead of referring to them as the "Farlanders," he should have changed the name of the Far Lands to The End so it would fit. But now, this dimension is an entirely seperate area in itself.
 * The Ender-Portals within Strongholds may have been how the Endermen ended up outside of their native dimension.
 * In order to enter The End, you need to have access to both the Overworld AND the Nether.
 * Unless you have an inventory mod, you shouldn't be able to access The End without participating in some combat beforehand (a number of Blaze and Endermen need to die for you to obtain their respective items).