End Crystal

Template:ItemEntity An end crystal is both an item and an entity found in the End.

Spawning

Natural generation

An end crystal is found atop each obsidian pillar on the central island of the End, each on top of a piece of bedrock. There are 10 end crystals in total, of which two of them are protected in "cages" of iron bars. All end crystals respawn one after another as the respawning process of the ender dragon starts.

Obtaining

Crafting

Ingredients	Crafting recipe
Glass + Eye of Ender + Ghast Tear	End Crystal

Usage

Healing the ender dragon

Their primary purpose is to recharge the health of the ender dragon, who gains a charge from the nearest crystal within a cuboid extending 32 blocks from the dragon in all directions. The dragon is healed 19px each half-second. If multiple ender dragons are spawned, an end crystal can affect multiple dragons at the same time. The healing beam is neither obstructed nor is its power diminished by entities or blocks.

Respawning the ender dragon

File:End Crystals on the Exit portal.png

How to arrange end crystals on the exit portal to respawn the ender dragon.

As items, end crystals may be placed on bedrock and obsidian, if the two blocks above the bedrock or obsidian block are air or replaceable blocks and no other entities intersect the area. If four are placed on the end exit portal, one on each of the flat sides, the crystals respawn the original end crystals on the obsidian pillars, as well as resurrect the dragon itself, before exploding. The top of each pillar also explodes, destroying any player-placed blocks. This happens even if TNT explosions are turned off in settings.

If the exit portal is ever broken for any reason, end crystals can still be placed on obsidian blocks with the same location as the exit portal.

Explosions

End crystals explode when attacked or damaged in most ways, even by attacks that normally do zero damage. They are not affected by exploding fireworks, and if damaged by an explosion, they disappear instead of exploding.‌^{[Java Edition only]} The end crystal's explosion has an explosion strength of 6, the same as a charged creeper. Any ender dragon charging from the crystal when it is destroyed takes 109px9px9px9px9px damage.

Although an ender dragon damages most blocks and entities in its path, it cannot destroy end crystals simply by going near them.

Beams

The end crystal naturally shoots a beam at the ender dragon and heals it when the dragon is within range. This beam can be manually created using the command /data merge entity @e[type=end_crystal,limit=1] {BeamTarget:{X:0, Y:0, Z:0}}. The beam can be pointed in any direction, allowing it to mark locations or objects.

Properties

File:End Crystal (Slateless).gif

A slateless end crystal.

The base appears to be made of bedrock, with a crystal hovering over it. While in the End, a crystal continually generates fire at its current position, one block above the base (directly on top of the block the base is embedded in), replacing any other block at that location. This fire is capable of spreading. The end crystal entity is not solid and can be walked through freely.

End crystals can be pushed by pistons, but they explode if moved while into fire.

Sounds

Java Edition:

Sound	Subtitle	Source	Description	Namespaced ID	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
File:Explosion1.oggFile:Explosion2.oggFile:Explosion3.oggFile:Explosion4.ogg	Explosion	?	Explosions created by this	entity.generic.explode	subtitles.entity.generic.explode	?	(<1.0)	16

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Item	Namespaced ID	Form	Translation key
End Crystal	end_crystal	Item	item.minecraft.end_crystal

Entity	Namespaced ID	Translation key
Template:EntitySprite End Crystal	end_crystal	entity.minecraft.end_crystal

Bedrock Edition:

Item	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Form	Translation key
End Crystal	end_crystal	426	Item	item.end_crystal.name

Entity	Namespaced ID	Numeric ID	Translation key
Template:EntitySprite End Crystal	ender_crystal	71	entity.ender_crystal.name

Entity data

See also: Chunk format

End crystals have entity data that define various properties of the entity.

History

File:End Crystal 19w38a.gif

Java Edition 19w38a

Java Edition
1.0.0		Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6			32px Added ender crystals.
1.2.1		12w04a			Previously, ender crystals could be spawned using spawn eggs with ID 200 (in a server, these were created using /give 383 1 200). The spawned crystal would be positioned where a natural crystal would be if there was a bedrock block at the location. It was still possible until 1.9 to obtain an end crystal spawn egg, but it would not spawn anything.
1.7.2		13w36a			Ender crystals can now be spawned with the /summon command.
1.8		14w06a			Ender crystals now generate one block lower. The fire they generate destroys the bedrock block that is supposed to be underneath (see MC-47526).
1.9		15w31a			Ender crystals generate at the correct Y-level again.
		15w33c			Respawning the ender dragon now also respawns the ender crystals on the obsidian pillars.
					Ender crystals now have a compound BeamTarget tag that hold the X, Y, Z block location the beam points to.
		15w44a			"Ender crystals" have been renamed to "end crystals".
					32px End crystals can now be obtained as an item.
					End crystals now drop from skeleton trap horses and can be placed only on obsidian or bedrock. Placing several of them atop the end exit portal respawns the ender dragon.
		15w44b			End crystals are no longer dropped by skeleton horses.
					Added crafting recipe for end crystals.
		15w49a			End crystals now require air/replaceable blocks and lack of entities for placement.
		15w51a			End crystals can no longer be placed in Adventure mode.
1.11		16w32a			The entity ID has been changed changed from EnderCrystal to ender_crystal.
1.13		17w47a			Prior to The Flattening, this item's numeral ID was 426.
		18w20b			Renamed to "End Crystal".
		pre5			Entity ID has been changed to end_crystal.
1.14		18w43a			32px32px The textures of end crystals and the end crystal item have been changed.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0		alpha 0.17.0.1			32px32px Added end crystals.
Bedrock Edition
1.6.0		?			32px The model of the end crystals has been changed. It has now two cubes instead of three.
1.10.0		beta 1.10.0.3			32px32px The textures of end crystals and the end crystal item have been changed.
Legacy Console Edition
TU9	CU1	1.0	Patch 1		32px Added ender crystals.
TU31	CU19	1.22	Patch 3		Ender crystals now generate one block lower. The fire they generate destroys the bedrock block that is supposed to be underneath.
TU46	CU36	1.38	Patch 15		"Ender crystals" have been renamed to "end crystals".
					32px End crystals can now be obtained as an item.
					End crystals now drop from skeleton trap horses and can be placed only on obsidian or bedrock. Placing several of them atop the end exit portal respawns the ender dragon.
					Added a crafting recipe for end crystals.
		1.90			32px32px The textures of end crystals and the end crystal item have been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
1.7.10					32px32px Added end crystals.

Issues

Issues relating to "End Crystal" are maintained on the bug tracker. Report issues there.

Trivia

• According to Jeb, the reason behind the current crafting recipe using glass as opposed to chorus fruit or any materials introduced in 1.9 is as a means for players to craft end crystals in older worlds that the dragon has already been killed in.
• Unlike the similarly-explosive TNT, normally hitting an end crystal makes it explode. However, they can be removed safely if they're immersed in water first.
• Since fire is checked only when an entity moves, end crystals do not normally take damage from their own fire.
• Oftentimes, the fire remains after an end crystal blows up.
• A historical rendition of the beacon block featured an animated entity within it, which resembled a yellow miniaturized end crystal. The bedrock platform of the end crystal entity would also render below the beacon, though this would normally be hidden within the block below.
• Using a piston to push an end crystal's fire into an end portal block deletes the end portal block. However, natural portal blocks regenerate if the end crystal is moved.
• An end crystal can instantly kill a player in protection netherite armor if close enough.
• The symbols on the end crystal layout if put in the correct order spell out Mojang, the company behind Minecraft.^{[more information needed]}

Gallery

• Crystal Link.png

  An ender dragon being hit with the "healing beam" of an end crystal.

• Ender Crystal.png

  An end crystal.

• Endercrystal water trick.png

  An example of the end crystal water trick explained in the trivia section.

• EnderCrystalOverworld.png

  An end crystal in the Overworld spawned using /summon end_crystal.

• Ender Dragon Revival.png

  End crystals respawning the ender dragon.

• CagedEnderCrystal.png

  A caged end crystal.

• Respawn ender dragon.png

  A player trying to respawn the ender dragon.

• End Crystal (item).gif

  An animation of the item of the end crystal.

References

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