When destroying an end crystal, the explosion does not destroy blocks. I tested this in both the Overworld and the End, and I got the same result.
How to reproduce:
Place an end crystal, or find one naturally generated on an obsidian pillar.
Place at least one block near the end crystal that can be destroyed by explosions. You can skip this step if such a block already exists nearby.
Destroy the end crystal, and notice that all surrounding blocks remain intact.
I tested this with dirt, which has a low blast resistance, so I expected it to get destroyed.
While the impacts of this bug are minor, it prevents players from using end crystals as a "fancier" substitute for TNT.
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This seems to have been fixed as it blows up all blocks as expected at least to my untrained eye. Dirt, cobble, netherrack, endstone, etc..
I am on 1.14.30.
Yeah um it's still possible to obtain bedrock in vanilla survival 1.14.30.
It involves using the crystals to block portal blocks so the end gate keeps regenerating, then breaking 1 bedrock on the edge and mine snow from a snow golem there and hope you mine the snow just as the bedrock respawns.
Making lag machines to reduce server tick-rate will give a higher chance you mine the snow on the same tick that the bedrock regenerates
My comment from 1/10 above was completely erroneous, but I'll leave it there because Walter H has responded to it.
I did a little testing and found that end crystal explosions do not destroy blocks when you have mob griefing turned off. If you turn mob griefing on, end crystal explosions do destroy blocks, even in creative mode.
I think they did this to patch the exploit of using end crystals to obtain bedrock blocks in survival mode. Would be nice to know if not breaking any blocks is what they intended.