How do you reliably farm these without making a mob grinder...

you're just relying on rng then you moron

yeah, like trying to find endermen dickhead

recently decided to try to get to the end on hardcore after not touching the game for almost ten years
>found a stronghold under a desert
>dug a bunch of trenches in the desert
>did not place any torches
>battled it out during the night
>mined during the day
as pretty fun

What is Looting?

Villager farm

make an umbrella in the end

kek

Once you reach The End, an Enderman gravity mob grinder is probably the easiest one to make. You just need to get an Ender Mite into a minecart with a hole underneath it to cause fall damage. I know what you said in the OP but having stacks of them is lots of fun and you'll get tons in a matter of seconds
youtube.com/watch?v=Rx0KVAVe76w

just fuck already

I'd just run around in a desert killing endermen.
Anyways I've been thinking about where I'm going to build my base for 1.16
You have the crimson forest with piglins for bartering but hoglins are so fucking strong with twice the health as a player and spawning in packs.
Warped forest is full of fucking endermen.
The soul sand valley is full of ghasts and needs the new enchantment that kills your boots.
I could just build in the old nether but that beats the point and it also has fucking ghasts in it that could blow up my base build.