Zedwork

Yes, the end is going to be reset.
This will happen on the 25th of febuary with the release of 1.9.

This of course means we will be without an Ender Xp Farm. But not to matter, we shall build another!
And it will be better than ever before, putting all other ender farms to shame.
Some design ideas:
-Should probably do an endermite design as this is incredibly quick.
-A proper front area with storage, and proper support for two players using it at the same time.
-Like the old community one, ender pearl disposal system with personal item recovery.
-Build far out from the main island to ensure absolutely no spawns outside the farm from the main island.
-In the meeting putting a facade over it was mentioned, this could definatly be done.
-As big as possible, then tune it up to stupidly large xp rates.

Who's with me in building this?
Use this topic to say if you want to help, and to discuss ideas.

I'm down for helping building it, the endermite farm is super quick. I'd love for it to work with tnt as well. As in it having a block of water you could fire of a tnt in, thus killing all the endermen quicker.

I will be glad to help build just tell me hen and what to place and I will do so

I'm happy to help asap, just tell me at when and where and I'll get going.

We've had some brilliant ideas and an offer of help from the lovely EarthCow! Here they are:

-Start with a large area (presumably at void level) and make a platform covered with water. This will prevent falling based deaths either into the void or from impacts.
-Spawn rates could be low due to people exploring the end but the farm would be worth it.
-Slabbing the end island would help as the farm would not stop when somebody entered. (I'm not overly keen on doing this due to me not liking how slabbing looks, and the end could actually look quite nice after the reset.)
-Estimate on time taken for spawning stucture: Less that an hour. (I feel this is optimistic, but there are many minions to build it so just maybe...)

I declare the new Ender farm open!

Big thanks to all those who helped build it, without you it would not have been nearly as good.

To access the new and improved farm enter the end and turn around. Head down the tunnel and down the stairs to the farm. Once there you will be in a large open area, with the xp grinder up some stairs in front of you. Ender pearls are collected in the chest bank underneath these stairs. On the floor below there is a store for players items, claim a chest with a sign and put your stuff in it. Please don't junk up multiple chests, you can throw garbage out the windows.

Due to 1.9 combat changes this farm is much faster than either previos ender farm. With the sword sweep attack (done by simply attacking with the sword fully charged) you can kill huge numbers of endermen in a single swing resulting in vast amounts of xp in one shot. I reccomend using wooden or stone swords for this, they work just fine.

Unfortunatly due to other 1.9 changes people like to explore the outer end. When this happens the farm grinds to a halt. However, the main island has been lit up to prevent spawns and so people on here do not affect farm rates.

Woho! Good work everyone and thanks Dax!