How to Find the End Gate in Minecraft

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Advanced players can reach the end of Minecraft – aka The End. Players go to the end to battle the Ender Dragon and explore the city in the clouds filled with treasures. However, before you do this, you need to find the End Portal using Eyes of Ender. Be fully equipped before you embark on the “long-term” and challenging quest.

Bedrock: The End players version is only available on version 1.0 or later (released in December 2016) and not in the old world.

Creative Mode Player: If you can’t activate the portal, create a new portal around you while you’re standing in the middle. This ensures the blocks are placed in the correct orientation.

Table of Contents

Create Eyes of Ender

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Enter the Nether (Hell). Finding and activating the End Portal requires you to have materials found only in the Nether – Minecraft’s underground world. Let’s create hell’s gate and go through to get started. ^{[1] X Research Source}

To create the portal to hell, you need to arrange the obsidian into a rectangle four blocks wide and five blocks high, no need to fill the space in the rectangle. If you don’t have enough obsidian, you can skip the corners. Activate the obsidian blocks below with the igniter.
Hell is a dangerous area. Prepare your own quality food and enchanted diamond equipment. You may also need shields, bows and arrows, and wood to craft the necessary items.

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Kill the fire demon to pick up the fire stick. The Fire Demon is a floating yellow monster surrounded by smoke. This type of monster is found in the fortress of hell – a structure with columns placed on a sea of lava. Defeat the fire demons and pick up the fire rods they left behind. You usually need at least 5 sticks of fire to find and activate the end portal, and this usually takes 7 days or more. ^{[2] X Research Source}

You will easily find the fortress of hell if you follow the x axis (east or west).
It is very difficult to kill fire demons, and fire rods only appear when you kill them yourself or use a tamed wolf. Equipping a magic bow, or a few snowballs (it takes 7 balls to kill 1 fire demon) will help you.

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Kill Enderman to pick up Ender Pearl. Endermans are black creatures with tentacles that only attack when you look at them. If you don’t have many ender pearls, kill Enderman until you have enough. Each fire stick requires two ender pearls. ^{[3] X Research Sources}

This is easier when you have Looting enchanted on the diamond sword as this increases the chance of getting more ender pearls.
Enderman is found in the Overworld (the terrestrial world) in groups of 1-4. You can also find Enderman in groups of 4 in hell, but very rarely. They appear at light level 7 or lower.
Be careful when killing Enderman because they have enough power to make you lose your life.

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Create Eyes of Ender. The Ender Eye has the ability to find and activate the end portal. You usually need at least 9 ender eyes for this, usually more. The recipe is as follows: ^{[4] X Research Source}

Place the fire stick in the crafting area to turn it into 2 parts fire powder.
Place a part of fire powder and ender pearls anywhere in the crafting area to create ender eyes.

Find the End Portal

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Use the Eye of Ender. Position the ender eye and press “use” while you hold it. The eye will fly into the air, and travel a short distance horizontally to the nearest fortress. (The entire end portal is found inside the fortress.) ^{[5] X Research Source}

In the PC version of Minecraft, the nearest fortress is at least 1408 blocks away from the starting point of the world. ^{[6] X Research Source} You need to move to this minimum distance before using the ender eye.
The ender’s eyes will leave a light purple trail while moving, so you can follow them even if you can’t see them.
The ender ward is only effective in the terrestrial world, instead of hell.

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Pick up ender eyes. Each ender ward has a 20% chance of being broken each time you use it. Most of the time, you can pick up the ender ward where it lands. ^{[7] X Research Sources}

That’s why it’s so important to have some ender eyes ready.

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Follow the movement of the ender’s eyes. Forts are usually far apart in the PC and Bedrock versions, and there is only one fortress in the console version’s world. To avoid wasting ender eyes, you need to walk at least 500 blocks before using wards again. ^{[8] X Research Sources}

Try to walk as straight as possible. If the pointer is placed over the hovering eye, you are looking in the perfect direction. Check your coordinates and try to keep the angle of view.

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Keep throwing eyes until you see an eye drop. If the eye falls to the ground, you are near an underground fortress. If the eye floats back to the original place, you have passed the fortress location. ^{[9] X Research Source}

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Dig fortress. Dig down the stairs until you find the room in the fortress. The ender’s eyes are pointed towards the fortress, not the end portal. Maybe you haven’t found what you’re looking for yet, but you’re close to it. ^{[10] X Research Source}

This does not apply to all versions of Minecraft.

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Find the Portal Room (room with a gate). Each fortress has a gated room, with stairs leading to the area above the sea of lava. You need to pay attention to the spawning silverfish appearing on the stairs. The portal ends at the top of the area, with the border made of a green square. Be prepared to fight the silver on the stairs. ^{[11] X Research Source}

It is possible that the fortress will have many rooms, but they do not always communicate with each other. If you hit a dead end, dig the surrounding area to find more rooms. Finding a room with a gate can be time-consuming.
It is very rare that there are other structures (such as a well) in the room with the gate. If the building blocks the gate, you cannot use that gate. On the computer, you can find other fortresses. On consoles, since there’s only one fortress in each world, you can’t get to the bottom without using a cheat code.

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Enable the termination port. Unless you’re very lucky, the portal won’t activate once it’s found. To activate, you need to place ender eyes on each of the 12 green squares (end portal frame) around the portal. Portals usually have several ender wards available, so you don’t need to create 12 ender wards yourself. ^{[12] X Research Source}

About 10% of ender eyes will appear in the square, so you don’t need to worry because there will usually be about one or two eyes.

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Jump into the gate. When you place the last ender eye on the portal, a glittering black portal will appear. Jump in here when you’re ready to enter the end portal and fight the Ender Dragon. ^{[13] X Research Source}

Note, this is a one-way trip (at this time). You cannot return from the portal unless you kill the dragon or die.

Use binocular throwing (Java version only)

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Open your coordinates. Press F3 on a computer, or set up and use the map on a game console. Find the value of x, z and Facing (direction of view) in the information displayed on the screen. ^{[14] X Research Source}

On some Mac computers, you need to press Fn + F3 or ⌥ Option + Fn + F3 .

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Throw ender eyes. Move the cursor to where the eye is hovering. Write x, z and Facing values on the screen. The x and z coordinates show where you are on the map, and the Facing shows the direction you’re looking at. You only need the first number that appears after the Facing, no need for the second. ^{[15] X Research Source}

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Repeat the operation at another location. Move about 200 to 300 blocks away from the last position. Do not follow the direction of the eye movement, or face the eye. Using the ender eye again, move the cursor to where the eye is hovering, and write the new x, z and Facing values. ^{[16] X Research Source}

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Enter these values into the online tool. The information you wrote describes two lines on the Minecraft map, each of which points towards the fortress. Finding the intersection of two lines requires trigonometry, but you can use online tools to do the math. Try this tool, or search keyword “minecraft stronghpd locator” (minecraft fortress locator). The tool will give you the x and z coordinates of the nearest fortress. ^{[17] X Research Source}

Since the PC version has multiple fortresses, it is possible that the two ender eyes will be directed at two different fortresses. However, this is unlikely if the two points are less than a few hundred blocks apart.

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Self-calculation. If you can’t find an online tool, you can calculate the coordinates using the following three formulas: ^{[18] X Research Source}

Call one group of coordinates X ₀ , Z ₀ and F ₀ , and the other group X ₁ , Z ₁ and F ₁ .
If F ₀ > -90, you will add 90 to get DEG ₀ . If F ₀ < -90, add 450. Repeat with F ₁ to get DEG ₁ . This sets the f-value between 0 and 360 degrees.
Use the calculator to find $S$ $0$ $=$ $tan$ $($ $EASY$ $E$ $WOOD$ $0$ $)$ ${displaystyle S_{0}=tan(DEG_{0})}$ ${displaystyle S_{0}=tan(DEG_{0})}$ and $S$ $first$ $=$ $tan$ $($ $EASY$ $E$ $WOOD$ $first$ $)$ ${displaystyle S_{1}=tan(DEG_{1})}$ ${displaystyle S_{1}=tan(DEG_{1})}$ . Convert the calculator to degrees, instead of radians.
The x-coordinate of the fortress $X$ $S$ ${displaystyle X_{S}}$ ${displaystyle X_{S}}$ To be $Z$ $first$ $-$ $Z$ $0$ $+$ $S$ $0$ $X$ $0$ $-$ $S$ $first$ $X$ $first$ $S$ $0$ $-$ $S$ $first$ ${displaystyle {frac {Z_{1}-Z_{0}+S_{0}X_{0}-S_{1}X_{1}}{S_{0}-S_{1}}}}$ ${displaystyle {frac {Z_{1}-Z_{0}+S_{0}X_{0}-S_{1}X_{1}}{S_{0}-S_{1}}}}$ .
The z-coordinate of the fortress is $S$ $0$ $X$ $S$ $+$ $Z$ $0$ $-$ $S$ $0$ $X$ $0$ ${displaystyle S_{0}X_{S}+Z_{0}-S_{0}X_{0}}$ ${displaystyle S_{0}X_{S}+Z_{0}-S_{0}X_{0}}$ .

Find the fortress using “seed” in the world

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Find information “seed”. Every Minecraft world has a sequence of letters and numbers called a “seed”. This is information that defines the topographic map, including the location of the fortresses. Find and copy (or write down) this series of information: ^{[19] X Research Sources}

Java Version: Type /seed . If the commands are not enabled, you need to enable them first with the following: Esc → Open to LAN → Allow Cheats → Start LAN World .
Console version: Open the world select menu and look for the “seed” information next to your world. (If the information doesn’t show up here, you’ll need to download the “seed” finder.)
Bedrock version: Access the main menu. Press Play , then select Edit . The “seed” information is displayed below the name of each world.

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Create a Creative world with “seed” information. Create new worlds in Creative mode. On the world creation screen, enter the exact “seed” information that is showing. (First, click More World Options in the desktop version.) ^{[20] X Research Sources}

Choose the same world type as your main world.

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Find the fortress. Since you’re in Creative mode, you can put loads of ender eyes in your inventory. Use them and fly in their direction until you see the fortress. ^{[21] X Research Source}

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Write the x-, y-, z- coordinates of the fortress. Since you used the “seed” information of the world, the Survival world also has a fortress with the same coordinates. ^{[22] X Research Source}

On a computer, you would press F3 to see the coordinates. On some Mac computers, press Fn + F3 or ⌥ Option + Fn + F3 .
On game consoles, you need to use the map to find the coordinates.
On the Pocket version, the simplest way is to use a third-party program.

Leaving the end

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Fight and slay the Ender Dragon. After you go through the end portal, the only way to get out is to kill the dragon. You need to use swords, bows and arrows, and plenty of armor to defeat dragons. This takes a lot of preparation time and effort; so go through the gate when you’re ready. ^{[23] X Research Sources}

The dragon guards the portal back to the world, so you must defeat it first.

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Go through the obsidian gate. After defeating the dragon, you can go through the portal. Here’s how to bring you back home in the normal gaming zone. ^{[24] X Research Sources}

You even get to see the Minecraft game production team for going to the bottom.

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Return to the nearest resting place if you die. Another way to get you out of the end portal (besides killing the dragon) is to lose the battle and die. This will quickly return you to your previous resting place, but you will lose everything you have, so this is not a good option. ^{[25] X Research Sources}

That’s why it’s important to prepare to fight the ender Dragon before you pass through the portal. If you are not prepared, you may lose items.

Advice

Unlike hell’s portal, you don’t have a chance to turn around when entering the end portal; so be prepared.
Carry lots of cobblestones or other building blocks that Enderman can’t move. If your character appears in an area far from the end island, you need to build a path. If possible, you can use Ender Pearls to quickly travel to the main island.
Chances of seeing a fortress appear in a well is 1/1000.
If you go to the bottom gate in Peaceful mode, Enderman will not appear.

Warning

Eyes of Ender will not lead you to the correct place in a desktop world created before October 2011, or a console world created before April 2013.

Steps