End Barrens

The End barrens is a biome used to generate the outer End islands.

This biome generates as part of the outer islands of the End, forming the outer edges of End midlands and highlands, with steep cliffs below the edge. Neither end cities nor chorus trees can generate in this biome.

The following mobs naturally spawn here:

In Java Edition

Mob	Spawn weight	Group size
Monster category
Enderman	1	4

These music tracks play while the player is in the end barrens:

Title	Preview	Java Edition		Bedrock Edition
		Weight	Probability	Weight	Probability
The End		1	100%	—	—

Name	Identifier
End Barrens	end_barrens

Java Edition
1.9			15w31a				Added infinitely generating outer islands, separated from the central island by a gulf of about 1000 blocks.
1.13			18w06a				The outer islands of the End biome are now divided up into four separate biomes: The End - Floating Islands, The End - Medium island, The End - High island, and The End - Barren island.
			18w19a				"The End - Barren island" has been renamed to "End Barrens."

Java Edition
1.13			pre5				The biome ID sky_island_barren has been changed to end_barrens.
1.18			21w37a				Prior to the removal of numerical biome IDs, this biome's numerical ID was 43.

Issues relating to "End Barrens" are maintained on the bug tracker. Issues should be reported and viewed there.

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  An End barrrens single biome world before 1.18.

v t e The End
Dimension	The End
Biomes	The End JE only End Highlands End Midlands End Barrens Small End Islands
Items	End Crystal
Building blocks	Chorus Flower Chorus Plant End Rod End Stone Bricks Purpur Block Slab Stairs Pillar
Functional blocks	Dragon Egg Dragon Head
Mobs	Enderman Endermite Ender Dragon Shulker
Terrain features	Central island Erosion Outer islands
Structures	End City Ship
Features	Chorus Plant End Gateway End Platform End Spike End Podium End Island

v t e Biomes
Overworld Landforms Beach Snowy Stony Shore River Frozen Snowy Frozen Peaks Grove Jagged Peaks Snowy Plains Ice Spikes Snowy Slopes Snowy Taiga Cold Taiga Old Growth Pine Old Growth Spruce Windswept Hills Forest Gravelly Dappled Forest​[upcoming: Third Drop 2026] Temperate Birch Forest Old Growth Cherry Grove Dark Forest Pale Garden Forest Flower Meadow Mushroom Fields Plains Sunflower Swamp Warm Badlands Eroded Wooded Desert Jungle Bamboo Sparse Mangrove Swamp Savanna Plateau Windswept Stony Peaks Ocean Frozen Ocean Deep Cold Ocean Deep Ocean Deep Lukewarm Ocean Deep Warm Ocean Caves Deep Dark Dripstone Caves Lush Caves Sulfur Caves
The Nether Basalt Deltas Crimson Forest Nether Wastes Soul Sand Valley Warped Forest
The End JE Central The End Outer End Barrens End Highlands End Midlands Small End Islands BE The End
Other Specialized JE only The Void Unused/removed Hills Birch Forest Hills Desert Hills Jungle Hills Bamboo Snowy Mountains Taiga Hills Giant Tree Snowy Wooded Hills Modified Dark Forest Hills Desert Lakes Modified Badlands Plateau Wooded Modified Jungle Edge Swamp Hills Taiga Mountains Snowy Modified hills Giant Spruce Taiga Hills Gravelly Mountains+ Shattered Savanna Plateau Tall Birch Hills Other Badlands Plateau Deep Warm Ocean Mountain Edge Mushroom Field Shore BE only Legacy Frozen Ocean Proto-biomes Removed Ice Desert Rainforest Seasonal Forest Shrubland Tundra Unimplemented Sky Joke 20w14∞ _generated:id Between Biome For Player With No Time For Nonsense Shapes 24w14potato Arboretum Corruption Fields Hash Wasteland Others Hub The Moon