End Midlands

The middle band of an outer End island: flatter than the highlands, greener than nothing, and the place where the chorus thins out.

End cities generate here as well, but never with a ship attached, so the loot is purpur, shulker shells and whatever the chests hold rather than an elytra. Endermen are the only mob, in the numbers the End always gives you.

The climate is a formality: 0.5, permanently weatherless, no weather, no rain, no snow, a black sky and the void underneath. minecraft:end_midlands came in 1.9 with the rest of the outer islands, and 1.21 still lays it between the high ground and the edge.

The middle of an outer island in the End, reached the way the rest of it is: Stronghold, End Portal, gateway. End Highlands and End Barrens sit on either side.

It is the middle band of the outer End islands, between the lush highlands and the bare barrens.

Common, and mostly a corridor between the two. End cities generate here as well, so walking inland from a barren rim is worth doing before you throw another pearl. Getting here means opening a portal in a stronghold, and ordinary exploration does the rest of the work: watch for the neighbours either side and keep walking inland.

One mob is listed for the midlands, and it is the enderman, four to a spawn. There is no shulker here because there is nothing built for it to hide in until you reach a city.

An enderman teleports, picks up blocks and stays neutral until you look straight at its head, so crossing this island is a matter of watching your feet and the horizon rather than the mobs themselves. Nothing else spawns on the end stone at all. Counted per attempt, the enderman is all of the hostile spawns, and it turns on you if you look directly at its head at the wrong time.

Enderman

End Stone, and that is the entire block list, but the midlands are where the cities that hold everything else actually stand: the towers reach down from the highlands above and their loot lands on this ground.

It is the flattest useful floor in the dimension, one block deep in every direction, which is why an ender pearl farm or a launch pad ends up built here rather than on the broken edges.

Breaking end stone here is the fastest way to a stack of it, because the surface runs flat for hundreds of blocks in every direction.

End Stone

End cities reach this far in but their ships do not. A towering purpur structure guarded by shulkers can generate on the midlands islands, chests full of diamond and enchanted gear inside it, and only two biomes anywhere here produce a city.

What the midlands lack is the end ship, which stays with the highlands. That makes this the biome you cross rather than the one you clear, sitting between the large highland islands and the barrens at the edge, with end stone the whole way. A city here is the main reason to cross the midlands, and finding one is the whole trip, filled as it is with generation you cannot build yourself. Reasons to seek the midlands out come down to that one, and among the End biomes, only these islands and the highlands carry a city.

Nothing generates here at all: zero placement passes, the same as the barrens. No chorus plants, no gateways, no ore. An end city can still be built on this ground, because a structure is placed by a different system than the one counted here, and that is the only thing that ever will be.

The midlands share the cold classification of the rest of the End, which is a rule about cows on an island where the only mob is an enderman.

It is the flattest place in the dimension and the emptiest in this comparison.

Cities can generate on the midlands as well as on the highlands, which is the whole structural difference between this biome and the barrens next to it.

Nothing else is built out here at all, and nothing spawns except endermen.