How to find the End portal

After touring the length and breadth of the world of Minecraft, you are looking to find out if there are still any secrets to uncover. You have learned of the existence of the End, a dangerous dimension, made up of islets suspended in the void. You know well that dangers await you in that place, but your priority now is to try to figure out how to find the portal of the End, so as to access it.

This is the way it is, isn’t it? Don’t worry, because I’m here to help you. In today’s guide, in fact, I will show you how to find this portal in the world of Minecraft and, above all, how to activate it, so as to access the End. I warn you that this place will be dangerous, as it is defended by a huge dragon. You will therefore have to equip yourself well and collect all the resources to face this new adventure.

Courage: let’s not waste any more time and immediately start reading this guide. Sit comfortably and carefully read all the advice I will give you in the next paragraphs. I am sure that in a short time you will be able to find the portal to reach the End, so as to prepare yourself to face the new challenges that await you. All that remains for me is to wish you a good read and, above all, good fun!

Index

• Gather the necessary materials
• How to find the underground fortress
  • Finding the Fortress through the Eyes of Ender
  • Find the Fortress via the coordinate system
  • Find the Fortress via command console
• Create the portal for the End in Creative mode
• Open the End portal
• Explore the End

Gather the necessary materials

As I already told you in the introduction, the End is a dimension that is accessible through a portal. It is not possible to build it in Survival mode, but you can find it inside the underground Fortresses. Before going into this topic, which I will talk about specifically in this chapter, it is good to first find all the resources necessary to open the portal and, above all, to face this adventure.

The End Portal only opens if you have the Eyes of Ender. You need twelve to open it, but you’ll need to get a few more so you can also find the place where the portal resides. But I’ll talk about this topic in the next chapter: now let’s focus on the materials to collect.

To craft an Eye of Ender, you need one unit of Ender‘s Pearl and one unit of Blaze‘s Dust. The Pearl of Ender is mainly obtained by defeating an Enderman, but there are several other ways to recover this resource: for example, it can be found in the chests found in the Forest Mansion or in those at the altars of the underground Fortresses; alternatively, it can be purchased from village healing NPCs for emeralds.

The Dust of Blaze, on the other hand, is obtained from the processing of the Blaze Rod, an object that is obtained by defeating the Blaze, creatures that live in the Nether. Surely you have heard of this place but, if not, I refer you to my guide dedicated to this topic.

I warn you that these creatures of fire are very aggressive but you can take advantage of their weak point, that is the water: for example by using snowballs, you can take away up to three points of health from them.

When you have these materials, put them together on a workbench to create the Eye of Ender. As I mentioned earlier, you will need twelve in total just to open the End portal. However, I advise you to create at least two or more others, as you will need them to locate the underground fortress, which I will tell you about in the next paragraphs.

How to find the underground fortress

An underground fortress is a place that contains the End portal room inside. There are several fortresses in the world of Minecraft, but you can reach the one closest to you through the methods that I will show you in the next chapters.

Finding a Fortress through the Eyes of Ender

To find an underground Fortress, you need the Eye of Ender. This object, in addition to being the access key to the End portal, is also a sort of compass. When you equip it and interact on it, it will fly up, towards the direction the fortress is. It won’t take you a long way, but it will point you in the direction you need to go. In other words, the Eye of Ender is drawn to the presence of the portal, even if it is distant and deep underground.

When the Eye of Ender is used, however, there is a 20% chance that it will be consumed and, therefore, lost forever. For this reason, in addition to the amount you will have to keep to open the portal, you will have to bring several others with you.

First, interact with Ender‘s Eye and see the direction it moves. Once this is done, go to the place where it fell to pick it up and move at least 300 (or more) blocks away, in the direction you were told, before throwing it back into the air.

After having distanced yourself a lot from the first launch, interact again on the Eye of Ender to check the direction in which to continue: if you are instructed to continue in the same direction again, it means that you are still distant; instead, if it goes back, it means that you have passed the location of the Underground Fortress. In the latter case, go back a few hundred blocks and try to throw the object again.

You will realize that you have arrived above the underground Fortress when, after having launched the Eye of Ender, instead of flying it enters the ground. So you just have to dig, to access the fortress and find the room with the portal of the End.

Finding a Fortress via the coordinate system

There is also another method of finding an underground Fortress, using only a maximum of two Eyes of Ender. This method consists of taking advantage of the Minecraft coordinate system to determine the exact spot where the fortress is located.

I’ll explain in detail how this system works: the world of Minecraft is distributed on a plane and, to orient yourself, X and Z coordinates are available to determine the position of a point on space; the Y coordinate, which has no importance in this guide, represents the height at which the point is, relative to sea level. In addition to these parameters, there is also the one called Facing, which indicates the direction in which the point is looking, with respect to the X and Z axes on the plane.

When you cast an  Eye of Ender, by pressing F3, you get a series of information on the screen, including the values ​​of X, Z and Facing. You need the values ​​that you get from two throws of this object, made from two positions far from each other and which are at different angles. I’ll explain.

If you paid attention during your math lessons at school, you will surely know that, with all the information I have indicated in the previous paragraphs, knowing the position of two points on a graph, you can derive the position of a third point, which corresponds to the intersection of the lines crossing the two points.

I know, maybe you’re thinking I’ll have you grab a pen and paper to draw boring graphs. In reality this is not the case. Now that you have the notion of what you are about to do, just go to one of the many websites that allow you to calculate the location of the underground Fortresses, such as Strongholdfinder.com.

I show you how to use this method: First, press the F3 key and launch the Eye of Ender. As soon as this reaches the highest point, hold the crosshair over it and note the X, Z and Facing values. You will find the first two values ​​next to the wording XYZ and you will have to mark only the first and third values ​​(including any negative signs). In the vicinity of the wording Facing, however, you must consider the first value you find after the opening of the bracket (also in this case, you must note the negative sign, if present).

Now, go to the website I gave you and type the values ​​of X, Z and Facing in the appropriate boxes, in the First Throw section. Then come back into the game and move away from the first launch point: I advise you not to go either in the direction where the Eye of Ender went nor in the opposite one; move right or left at least 300 blocks or more to re-roll.

For the new launch, you have to carry out the same operations I indicated earlier, writing down the values ​​of X, Z and Facing, to bring them back to the Second Throw section. If you have taken the measurements correctly, you will find the X and Z values under the Estimated Stronghold Location heading to indicate the location of the Underground Fortress on the Minecraft map.

Finding a Fortress via command console

If you want to speed up all the procedures indicated in the previous paragraphs, you can use the Minecraft command console. This is available in Creative mode, but you can also activate it in Survival mode.

In the latter case, pause the game and press the Open LAN button. Then click the Commands button to change the wording from No to Yes. Then, confirm the procedure by pressing the Start the world in LAN button, to enable the command console.

To enter in-game commands, press the T key so that a typing box appears at the bottom. To find an Underground Fortress, type the command / locate Stronghold and press Enter on your keyboard. You will receive a message with the X and Z coordinates of the place to reach.

You can decide to reach the place on foot or by teleportation. In this case, I suggest you read my guide dedicated to this topic.

Create the portal for the End in Creative mode

The End Portal can be built in Creative Mode, using the End Portal Frame blocks. To do this, open your inventory and go to the Research tab. In the search box, type the term frame to filter the items and find what you are looking for.

To build the End Portal, you need twelve End Portal Frame units to be placed on a 5 × 5 area. On each side you need to place three of these blocks, taking care not to put them on the corners. If you want to be sure you are not mistaken, I recommend that you take a look at the image above, for the correct positioning of the blocks.

The construction of the portal ring must be carried out from the inside and not from the outside, otherwise the portal will never be able to activate: therefore take care to place the avatar inside the 5 × 5 area and to place the blocks around it, rotating the camera.

After creating the portal, all that remains is to activate it. In this case, I recommend that you continue reading to find out more on the subject.

Open the End portal

Now that you have found (or built) the End Portal, you need to activate it. This operation is really simple. Open your inventory and drag the Eyes of Ender into a quick slot and equip them. With these items in hand, click on a block of the End Portal Frame to activate it.

After activating all twelve blocks, you will be shown a dark colored area inside the portal, demonstrating that the procedure has been carried out correctly. I warn you that it may happen that some blocks of the portal are already active or that you may even find it already open.

Explore the End

Now that you have opened the portal and are well equipped, enter the portal to access the End. Once inside, you will find the avatar on a large island with tall pillars and a dragon flying around them. In whichever direction you look, you will only find emptiness but, beyond the horizon, you will find many small islands where you can find the City of the End.

At the moment, you won’t be able to do anything but fight the dragon. In this guide of mine I will not explain how to defeat him, as the mechanics to succeed in the intent are quite intuitive. Only by defeating the dragon will you be able to access an additional portal that will allow you to reach the distant islands.

After reaching them, search for the City of the End to explore its secrets. Among the treasures that you can find, I would like to point out the Elitre, a set of wings that allows you to reach long distances by flying, if pyrotechnic rockets are also used.

 

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