End Portal Frame

End Portal Frame

Renewable	No
Stackable	Yes (64)
Tool	None
Blast resistance	3,600,000
Hardness	-1
Luminous	JE: Yes (1) BE: No
Transparent	Partial (does not block light)
Waterloggable	JE: No BE: Yes
Flammable	No
Catches fire from lava	No
Map color (JE)	27 COLOR_GREEN

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An End portal frame is an indestructible block that forms the frame of an End portal. It resembles End stone with a decorative bluish-green top, and sides decorated in hollow rounded rectangles with the same color as the top.

Obtaining

End portal frames, like bedrock, are unobtainable in Survival or Adventure mode. It can be obtained only by accessing the creative inventory or commands.

Natural generation

End portal generation design

12 End portal frames generate naturally to form the End portal in each stronghold End portal room, over a pool of lava with a staircase containing a silverfish monster spawner. The frames generate in a 5×5 square formation, with 3 frames on each side, without the corners. Each End portal frame generates facing inward, with a 10% chance of containing an eye of ender.

Each stronghold contains an End portal. In Java Edition, each world contains exactly 128 strongholds, so a total of 1,536 End portal frames are generated. In Bedrock Edition, there are infinitely many strongholds in each world, so the number of End portal frames that may generate is also infinite. In Legacy Console Edition, there was only one End portal per world, so 12 End portal frames were generated.

There is an extremely low chance (10^-12 or 10^-10% or one in a trillion) for all twelve End portal frames to be filled in strongholds.

The chart below shows the probability of having each number of eyes of ender filled in (some values may be rounded).

Calculating the chance for a specific amount of eyes generating is done with the probability mass function:

P(X=number of eyes) = ${\displaystyle {\displaystyle (\genfrac{}{}{0ex}{}{12}{k})}\cdot 0.1^k\cdot (1-0.1{)}^{12-k}}$ with k being the number of eyes.

Usage

Using eyes of ender on End portal frames inserts them to the top of the frame if it is not inserted previously.

An End portal frame has a front face that faces the player when placed. Although the facing is almost invisible (one can distinguish only 2 rotations of End portal frames), all End portal frames must be placed correctly and face inward in order to be able to activate the End portal, and if all of the frames have eyes of ender inserted, the portal activates, replacing the inner 3×3 space with End portal blocks.

If an End portal is built in the End, entities are teleported back to the world spawn point in the Overworld, similar to the exit portal.

Redstone

End portal frames output a redstone comparator signal of 15 when an eye is present. If there is no eye in the frame, it outputs a signal of 0.

Light source

End portals frames emit a light level of 1.

Note blocks

End portals frames can be placed under note blocks to produce "bass drum" sound.

Piston interactivity

End portal frames cannot be pushed by pistons. They also cannot be pushed nor pulled by sticky pistons.

Sounds

Generic

Java Edition:

v t e glass sound type
Sound	Subtitles	Source	Description	Resource location	Translation key	Volume	Pitch	Attenuation distance
	​Block broken	Blocks	Once the block has broken	block.glass.break	subtitles.block.generic.break​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block placed	Blocks	When the block is placed	block.glass.place	subtitles.block.generic.place​	1.0	0.8	16
	​Block breaking	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	block.glass.hit	subtitles.block.generic.hit​	0.25	0.5	16
	​Something falls on a block	Entity-Dependent	Falling on the block with fall damage	block.glass.fall	subtitles.block.generic.fall​	0.5	0.75	16
	​Footsteps	Entity-Dependent	Walking on the block	block.glass.step	subtitles.block.generic.footsteps​	0.15	1.0	16

Bedrock Edition:

v t e glass sound type
Sound	Source	Description	Resource location	Volume	Pitch
	Blocks	Once the block has broken	random.glass	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	When the block is placed	dig.stone	1.0	0.8-1.0
	Blocks	While the block is in the process of being broken	hit.stone	0.4	0.6
	Players	Falling on the block with fall damage	fall.stone	0.4	1.0
	Players	Walking on the block	step.stone	0.3	1.0
	Blocks	Jumping from the block	jump.stone	0.12	1.0
	Blocks	Falling on the block without fall damage	land.stone	0.22	1.0

Unique

Java Edition

Bedrock Edition:

Data values

ID

Java Edition:

Name	Identifier	Form	Block tags	Translation key
End Portal Frame	end_portal_frame	Block & Item	dragon_immune wither_immune	block.minecraft.end_portal_frame

Bedrock Edition:

Name	Identifier	Numeric ID	Form	Item ID[i 1]	Translation key
End Portal Frame	end_portal_frame	120	Block & Giveable Item[i 2]	Identical[i 3]	tile.end_portal_frame.name

Block states

Java Edition:

Bedrock Edition:

History

There is an associated page listing all historical changes related to the appearance and/or sounds associated with this block in further detail than below; see /Asset history.

Java Edition
1.0.0			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 3				Added End portal frames. Frames has cross model and filled End portal frames has cube model; both have a full cube hitbox.
							The block emits a light at level 15.
							It can drop as an item due to explosions.
							The item form of the End portal is a flat texture of the filled frame, and has an empty tooltip.
							This item is one of four given to all players upon world creation or respawning in the pre-reupload.
			Beta 1.9 Prerelease 4				The End portal now has a dark green and yellow texture. The unrepaired version is visually 13⁄16 of a block high, and the repaired version sits a full block high with the addition of a 3⁄16-block-high eye of ender in its middle.
							The End portal now emits its light of level 1.
							The End portal can no longer be broken by explosions.
							The texture of the End portal item has been changed.
1.3.1			12w23a				The End portal is now available in the Creative inventory and with the pick block option, with the tooltip 'End Portal'.
							The End portal now renders correctly as an item.
1.6.1			13w18a				The End portal now gives off a redstone signal to redstone comparators based on whether there is an eye of ender in it.
1.8			14w10a				End portal frames now appear to use the incorrect textures in several places.
			14w10c				End portals now use the right textures again.[1]
1.12			17w17a				Putting an eye of ender in an End portal now plays a dinging sound.
1.13			17w47a				"End Portal" has now been renamed to "End Portal Frame".
1.14			18w43a				The textures of End portal frames have now been changed.
			18w50a				The bottom texture has been changed.
			19w03c				End portal frames now use correct cullface arguments.
			19w14a				Putting an eye of ender into an End portal frame now emits particles again.[2]
1.19			22w11a				The side texture of an End portal frame has been slightly changed, to make better transition with the End stone texture.
Pocket Edition Alpha
v0.9.0			build 1				Added End portal frames.
							End portal frames have no collision box, allowing entities to move through them. They are considered a solid block in all other aspects.
							The item form of the End portal frame is a flat texture of an unfilled frame, with the tooltip ".name<".
			build 4				Filled and unfilled End portal frames are now available in the Creative inventory, both with the tooltip "End Portal".
							End portal frames now have a collision box.
							End portal frames now render correctly as an item.
			build 7				The filled End portal frame has been removed from the Creative inventory.
v0.12.1			build 11				End portals now rotate based on the direction they are placed.
Pocket Edition
1.0.0			alpha 0.17.0.1				Added the End, with some eye of enders filling it up.
Bedrock Edition
1.10.0			beta 1.10.0.3				The textures of End portals have now been changed.
1.19.0			beta 1.19.0.20				The side texture of End portal has been changed.
1.19.20			Preview 1.19.20.20				Renamed "End Portal" to "End Portal Frame".
1.20.70			Preview 1.20.70.22				End portal frames have been moved from the "Items" to the "Nature" category in the Creative inventory.
Legacy Console Edition
Xbox 360	Xbox One	PS3	PS4	PS Vita	Wii U	Switch
TU7	CU1	1.00	1.00	1.00	Patch 1	1.0.1	Added End portal frames. They can't be filled with eyes of ender.
TU9							End portal frames can now be used to access the End.
TU19	CU7	1.12	1.12	1.12			The End portal frame now gives off a redstone signal to redstone comparators based on whether there is an eye of ender in it.
TU31	CU19	1.22	1.22	1.22	Patch 3		End portal frames have been added to the custom superflat block selection menu, alongside all types of logs.
TU43	CU33	1.36	1.36	1.36	Patch 13		Putting an eye of ender into an End portal frame now emits particles.
TU46	CU36	1.38	1.38	1.38	Patch 15		Removed End portal frames from the custom superflat block selection menu.
TU53	CU43	1.49	1.50	1.49	Patch 23	1.0.3	Putting an eye of ender in an End portal now plays a dinging sound.
			1.90				The textures of End portal frames have now been changed.
New Nintendo 3DS Edition
0.1.0							Added End portal frames.

Data history

Issues

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

Trivia

• End portal frames were obtainable and could be placed facing in different directions in the april fools snapshot 22w13oneBlockAtATime.

Gallery

Screenshots

• 
  Inactive End portal.
• 
  End portal, which had been activated by a player.
• 
  Minecart with chest generated on top of an End portal frame, because there is a mineshaft behind the wall.
• 
  Beacon beam going through an End portal frame block.

References

External links

• Block of the Week: End Portal Frame – Minecraft.net on December 2, 2021

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