The End

The central island, and the only biome in the game with a boss standing on it. Obsidian pillars ring a bedrock platform, end crystals sit on top of them healing the Ender Dragon, and end stone stretches out to the drop.

Everything about the fight is here: shoot the crystals down before you touch the dragon, and when it falls the exit portal opens and end gateways appear to carry you out to the islands. Endermen crowd the ground between the pillars, so keep your eyes down.

The climate is a number and nothing more: 0.5, permanently weatherless, no rain and no snow under that black sky. minecraft:the_end has been the finish line since 1.0.0, and 1.21 still puts the dragon on it.

The central island, entered through an End Portal that a Stronghold holds. End Highlands, across the void, and Small End Islands are what lies beyond it.

Reach it through an End Portal built in a Stronghold; you arrive on the central island.

Common in the sense that there is exactly one and every world has it. The dragon is waiting the first time and the exit portal only opens once it is down, so blocks and a bow go in the hotbar before you step through. Getting there means finding a stronghold and opening the way in, and after that there is no hunt at all. Walking in any direction usually finds the edge quickly, because the central island is small, and the dragon rarely waits, since it tends to come at you rather than hold its perch against the pillars.

Endermen fill the central island, four at a time, teleporting between the obsidian pillars, picking up blocks and turning hostile the moment you look one in the head. On ground this open, that mistake is expensive.

The ender dragon is what makes this biome special: it is the dimension's boss, it spawns here and nowhere else, and beating it drops a huge pool of experience and opens the End Gateways to the outer islands. Defeating it is the central challenge of the entire dimension.

Nothing else lives on this island. No animal is listed, no other monster is listed, and the fight is the biome. The enderman teleports, picks up blocks and turns hostile if you look directly at its head, while the ender dragon is the dimension's boss, dropping a huge pool of experience and unlocking the End Gateways when defeated. Per attempt the enderman is all of the hostile spawns, four at a time, and between fights it is all you meet, so this is the biome to visit if you want the fight itself and intend to find almost nothing else.

Enderman

Ender Dragon

End Stone, Obsidian and Bedrock. The obsidian is the ten pillars around the middle, and no other biome page here lists it as a block of the biome; the bedrock is the cage on top of them and the frame of the exit portal.

End stone is the whole floor of the island and it is worth carrying home: endermen cannot pick it up, it does not burn, and it is the only pale stone on this site that has nothing to do with snow.

The pillars and the platform you arrive on are both placed by rules that belong to this biome alone, which is why the centre island looks built rather than grown.

The one thing you cannot get anywhere else on this island is the obsidian off the pillars, and it takes a diamond pickaxe to move a single block of it.

End Stone

Obsidian

Bedrock

The central island holds two pieces of bedrock that matter more than any chest. The exit portal is the fountain that activates once the Ender Dragon dies, dropping you home with the dragon egg sitting on top of it, and it is the only way out on foot.

An end gateway is the second, a small bedrock portal that opens after the dragon falls and teleports you out to the outer End islands where the cities are. One ender pearl through it is the whole journey.

Around both stand the obsidian pillars with end crystals on their tops, healing the dragon until you break them. Nothing else generates on this island; the end stone under your feet is the entire building material. Exploring the island offers a player challenges rather than loot, since neither piece of bedrock holds a chest. Each of these is able to send you somewhere else, as thoroughly one way as any door in the game, and neither has a chest of its own; well worth knowing before the fight.

Two passes, and neither is scenery: the obsidian spikes and the exit platform. Nothing else generates on the central island at all, no ore, no plants and no gateways. It is the only biome in the game whose entire generation list is there to stage a fight.

The End is classed cold for farm animals and frogs, which is the one detail that surprises people about a dimension with no weather at all.

Endermen are the only mob the central island spawns, and no rule on this list touches them.

The central island builds nothing. No city, no ship, no portal ruin: the obsidian pillars and the exit portal are terrain rather than structures, which is why they are always in the same arrangement.

It is the only biome on this site with an empty structure list and a boss on it.