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End Spike

Ten obsidian pillars ring the central End island, topped with crystals that heal the ender dragon. Players destroy the crystals during the fight and can mine the pillars for obsidian.

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From the Minecraft Wiki, summarised

How it generates

Pillars rise from Y=0 through the central island, with their crystals between Y=76 and Y=103. The ten positions form a ring around the exit portal, and the seed shuffles their sizes.

Biomes

  • The End

It's a feature, not a Java structure; Java calls it minecraft:end_spike. It has no spacing grid and no salt of its own. Resummoning the dragon rebuilds the pillars and crystals and clears nearby player builds. Two of the shorter pillars have iron-bar cages.

Variants

  • Uncaged pillar · Eight crystals have no iron-bar enclosure.
  • Caged pillar · The second- and third-shortest pillars enclose their crystals with iron bars.

Notable loot

  • Obsidian (mined)
  • Iron bars (mined)

History

  1. Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4Java

    Obsidian spikes appeared with the End during Java 1.0.0 development.

  2. Beta 1.9 Prerelease 6Java

    Crystals were added to the tops of spikes.

  3. 15w31aJava

    Java 1.9 development arranged exactly ten pillars around the exit portal.

  4. 15w33cJava

    Resummoning the dragon began rebuilding pillars.

  5. 1.9-pre1Java

    Iron-bar cages returned on two shorter pillars after being temporarily removed.

  6. 1.0.0Bedrock

    Pocket Edition added End spikes.

  7. 21w37aJava

    Initial pillar generation was restored after a regression in the 1.18 experimental builds.

  8. 26.3Java

    Spike feature definitions moved to worldgen/feature as part of the configured-feature registry migration.

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Sources

The description, generation rules, variants, loot, mobs and history above are summarised from the Minecraft Wiki article End Spike, 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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