The End borders no other planes and can generally only be accessed via special portals though it comes close the Nether in some places and enderman can use their special teleportation to travel to and from the End. The most notable feature of the End is the central island which contains a collection of 12 obsidian pillars that extend seemingly infinitely into the darkness. In the center of these pillars, composed of seemingly indestructible stone, sits the lone, known, exit portal. Located elsewhere on this island can also be found the obsidian platform. A perfectly square, immovable and indestructible, platform of obsidian that sits on the island and acts as the arrival point for all of the ancient portals leading to the plane.

The majority of the terrain in the End is composed of a strange beige stone shaped into numerous floating islands with purple chorus plants growing up from them in strange, tall, branching stalks that sound like a haunting choir when the wind blows. These plants can be harvested both for building materials, in the form a lavender "popped" chrous fruit being turned into a substance called purpur, and sustenance, in the form of strange unpopped chorus fruit whose energies momentarily cast the eater from reality before returning them elsewhere.