Performing the Eternal Ritual to Return to the Overworld

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To return to the Overworld from the End, you can perform the Eternal Ritual. This method is not simple, but it allows for a return.

Locating the Eternal Portal

While exploring the End, you may discover ancient ruins. These ruins contain a structure known as an Eternal Portal. An Eternal Portal consists of a frame made of Runed Flavolite and six pedestals arranged around it. These structures are the remnants of grand portals that once connected the End and the Overworld.

Eternal Portals generate in regions of the world. The world generator attempts to place one Eternal Portal within every 40x40 chunk region. Each portal will be at least 12 chunks away from any other portal.

Activating the Portal

To activate an Eternal Portal, you must complete two steps:

Recover the Frame: The Runed Flavolite frame may be destroyed. If it is, you must repair it.
Place Eternal Crystals: Six Eternal Crystals must be placed onto the pedestals surrounding the frame.

The portal will become active immediately after the final Eternal Crystal is placed.

Obtaining Materials

Both Runed Flavolite and Eternal Crystals, which are necessary for the Eternal Ritual, are acquired through an Infusion Ritual.

The Eternal Portal is the rarest thing in the mod

The Eternal Portal generates at spacing 40 with a separation of 12, in the raw-generation step. That makes it the least common of BetterEnd's eight structures — for comparison, End Village sits at 34, the giant ice stars and glowshrooms at 16, and the megalakes at 4.

If you are looking for one specifically, expect it to be a journey rather than an encounter.

What the ritual is for

The mod's own description of the Eternal Ritual calls it a not-so-simple way back to the Overworld, and that is the honest summary: it is a deliberate, material-heavy alternative to the vanilla exit rather than a convenience.

The other ritual

Do not confuse it with the Infusion Ritual, which is a separate system carrying 46 recipes and exists to infuse items with elemental power. That one is a crafting mechanic you will use repeatedly; the eternal ritual is a one-off piece of infrastructure.

Materials

BetterEnd's crafting side is large — 576 crafting recipes, 97 stonecutting, 29 smithing transforms, 21 smithing and 8 alloying recipes — so the components for a ritual are made rather than found.