THE END BIOMES
Alien biomes in the End dimension, home of the Ender Dragon. 5 biomes in this category.
What makes a biome the end
Five biomes past the End Portal, all at temperature 0.5 and none of them with weather of any kind. The central island came with 1.0.0 and the four outer ones with 1.9, and they still divide the same way: one island with the dragon on it, and a ring of chorus plants and end stone beyond the void.
Four structures generate in the group and all four belong to it alone: the exit portal and the end gateways on the central island, the End City in End Highlands and End Midlands, and the End Ship in End Highlands only. Three mobs live out here in total, the enderman in all five biomes, the ender dragon on the central island and the shulker in the highlands.
All 5 the end biomes
The central End island where the Ender Dragon boss fight takes place. Features obsidian pillars with end crystals. After defeating the dragon, End Gateways appear leading to the outer End.
The primary outer End biome with End Cities containing valuable loot. End Ships have elytra and dragon heads. Shulkers guard End Cities and drop shulker shells for shulker boxes.
Transition biome between End Highlands and End Barrens. End Cities can generate here but without End Ships. Less chorus vegetation than the highlands.
The outermost End biome on the edges of islands. No structures generate here. Mostly barren end stone with no chorus plants.
Small, isolated end stone islands floating in the void. Found in the transition area between the central island and the outer End. No structures or chorus plants generate here.
Mobs across these 5 biomes
Three mobs in the whole dimension: the enderman, which also walks the Nether, plus the ender dragon and the shulker, which live out here and nowhere else. The End itself holds two of the three.
- Endermanin The End, End Highlands, End Midlands, End Barrens and Small End Islands
- Ender Dragononly in this groupin The End
- Shulkeronly in this groupin End Highlands
Structures in the the end biomes
Four structures generate out here and all four belong to the End alone, with two of them on the central island.
- End Cityonly in this groupin End Highlands and End Midlands
- End Gatewayonly in this groupin The End
- End Shiponly in this groupin End Highlands
- Exit Portalonly in this groupin The End
How the 5 compare
- Coldest at temperature 0.5
- The End, End Highlands, End Midlands, End Barrens and Small End Islands
- Warmest at temperature 0.5
- The End, End Highlands, End Midlands, End Barrens and Small End Islands
- Most mobs, 2 of them
- The End
- Rarest
- every biome here is common
- Longest in the game, since 1.0.0
- The End
- Newest, added in 1.9
- End Highlands
Three mobs across five biomes is the shortest spawn list of any group on this site, and two of the five, End Barrens and Small End Islands, hold nothing but end stone and endermen. None of them counts as rare, because getting there is the hard part, not finding them.
Eight blocks in the whole dimension, and end stone is the floor of all five biomes.