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End City

Purpur towers on the outer End islands, with shulkers guarding enchanted gear. Some cities have a floating End ship carrying elytra and a dragon head.

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From the Minecraft Wiki, summarised

How it generates

Cities stand on the larger outer End islands and prefer fairly level ground. Ships float beside a city bridge.

Biomes

  • End Midlands
  • End Highlands

Java (minecraft:end_cities) uses a triangular spread plus terrain checks, so a grid candidate doesn't guarantee a city. Bedrock has a single biome, The End, which covers the outer islands too. Ships are part of minecraft:end_city and have no ID of their own. The ship chance is 12.5% per bridge, not per city; the overall chance per city isn't known. Exact height thresholds aren't confirmed.

Variants

  • City without ship · Towers and bridges can generate without an elytra-bearing ship.
  • City with End Ship · Optional ship has elytra, a dragon head, two loot chests, and healing potions.

Notable loot

  • Elytra (ship item frame)
  • Dragon head (ship bow)
  • Enchanted diamond equipment
  • Diamond spear
  • Diamonds
  • Spire Armor Trim Smithing Template
  • Shulker shells (mob drops)
  • Potions of Healing (ship brewing stand)

Mobs

  • Shulker

History

  1. 15w31aJava

    End cities and ships entered development for Java 1.9.

  2. 15w32cJava

    End ships gained a dragon head on their bow.

  3. 15w41aJava

    Elytra replaced the ship's earlier placeholder treasure.

  4. 1.11Java

    Cities became locatable by command and their equipment could carry curses.

  5. 1.0.0Bedrock

    Pocket Edition added End cities and ships.

  6. 1.20Java

    City chests gained spire armor trim templates.

  7. 1.21.11Java

    Diamond spears were added to End-city chest loot.

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Sources

The description, generation rules, variants, loot, mobs and history above are summarised from the Minecraft Wiki article End City, retrieved 2026-09-30. Minecraft Wiki text is available under CC BY-NC-SA 3.0. We have not checked these facts in game.

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