[MCPE-19426] Strongholds sometimes don't generate the End Portal Created: 24/Dec/16  Updated: 12/Mar/24  Resolved: 12/Mar/24

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft (Bedrock codebase)
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: 1.16.0.58 Beta, 1.0.0, 1.0.3, 1.0.4.1, 1.1.0.9, 1.0.9.1, 1.1.5.0, 1.2.0.25, 1.2.6.2, 1.2.5.52, 1.2.8.0, 1.2.9.1, 1.2.10.1, 1.2.10.2, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, 1.18.12 Hotfix, 1.19.0, 1.19.2 Hotfix, 1.19.10, 1.19.22 Hotfix, 1.20.60.21 Preview, 1.20.62 Hotfix
Fix Version/s: 1.20.70.22 Preview, 1.20.70

Type: Bug
Reporter: Bill Bigge
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 41
Labels: structure, world-generation

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Issue Links:
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is duplicated by BDS-933 there isnt any end portals spawning Resolved
is duplicated by BDS-7355 End portal not spawning in stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by BDS-11777 No end portal Resolved
is duplicated by BDS-14175 Not generated end portal in stonghold Resolved
is duplicated by BDS-14947 ender portal ungenerate Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-25764 Strongholds Does not Generate Correctly Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-28400 No end portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-30296 Stronghold without End Portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-31232 I found stronghold below villager wel... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-31467 /locate Doesn't locate Strongholds Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-33216 No ender portal in stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-38035 Stronghold its broken Resolved
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is duplicated by MCPE-43882 Lucario play Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-45376 end does not appear Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-45538 End portal doesnt spawn in literally ... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-46783 Eye of Ender leads to an area near a ... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-47875 The end portal does not appear in my ... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-48795 Strongholds do not have end portals Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-48955 End Portal does not exist Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-48984 Portal of The End missing Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-49106 Stronghold missing Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-49522 Stronghold generating incorrectly Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-50362 I serched for a strong hold and when ... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-50644 end portal and stronghold are not whe... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-51078 No se genero la stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-51800 My Endroom didn’t spawn in my stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-52283 Stronghold Not Loaded Properly Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-53726 Stronghold Missing End Portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-56567 Stronghold has no end portal Resolved
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is duplicated by MCPE-58144 ender portal gone Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-61955 I cant find the end portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-62345 There is NOT END PORTAL Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-62911 [Duplicate] Nonexistent End Portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-64155 I haven’t end portal Resolved
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is duplicated by MCPE-65826 End Portals not spawning Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-65991 End portal has not been generated Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-66957 The end portal does not spawn/ is not... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-67086 All 3stronghold does not hold end portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-67612 End Portal not showing up Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-68876 There’s no end portal in our world! Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-71803 No Ender Portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-72471 Missing End Portal Resolved
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is duplicated by MCPE-75181 end portal not in stronghold Resolved
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is duplicated by MCPE-77186 Stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-77350 A stronghold doesn't have a end portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-78946 the portal does not appear at the end Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-79818 No End Portal in Stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-83439 My dungeon didnt spawn with a portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-85582 no end portal in stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-88258 The end portal room is not generated Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-89316 There is no portal to the end Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-89622 End Portals are missing Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-89749 Stronghold bug Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-89980 I dont have any portal in the all str... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-90489 Strongholds dont generate properly Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-90979 the stronghold has no portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-91258 Minecraft the end Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-91718 End Portals not generating within Str... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-92597 the stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-93175 Portal end Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-94802 The end portal doesn't exist Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-95050 My world has a stronghold but no end ... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-95343 Hi Mojang okey some time the strongho... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-99272 Strong hold generation Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-100231 the ender portal is not spawning Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-100800 My world has a problem is that it doe... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-103006 My end portals won't load in any of m... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-104048 is there no end portal? Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-104077 So my world has no end portal i have ... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-104404 In my sigle player world i have found... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-105935 Strongholds sometimes do not generate... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-107388 NO PORTAL STRONGHOLD Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-109599 Stronghold end portal frame is not sp... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-112378 Stronghold incorrectly generated Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-113075 I found stronghold and just a path.No... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-113371 Portal didn't spawn in stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-115329 The stronghold doesnt have portal ,ch... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-116065 Some strongsholds don't generate with... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-117356 underwater stronghold with no portal ... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-117523 ender portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-117733 the End portal have not in the Strong... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-118694 There isn't an End Portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-119612 No end portal in stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-120015 spawning bug Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-121043 I cant find the end portal where the ... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-121563 No end portal? Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-121631 No portal room in stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-127570 Me and my friend have found a Stronho... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-128179 I found the stronghold but there is n... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-130526 There wasn't a end portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-131585 Neither the end portal frames nor the... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-132392 The end portal did not spawn Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-132495 no end portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-133179 End portals not properly spawning Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-133734 the portal to the "end" is not created Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-134278 I was playing and then in the strongh... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-135533 End portal room doesn't exist in stro... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-138611 Minecraft, Bedrock Realms - End Porta... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-139089 End portal room not generating in str... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-139557 I'm in my survival world me and my fr... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-147342 My dragon gate has disappeared Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-150266 stonghold without a portal? Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-150386 Doesn't Have an End Portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-150692 Broken Strongholds Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-153347 Stronghold not existing Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-154111 Stronghold not generating properly, a... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-157952 There is no ends portal in my world Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-157966 I found a stronghold without any end ... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-158050 stronghold with no end portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-158124 The stronghold doesn't generate compl... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-159047 No EndPortal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-159529 Strongholds sometimes not having port... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-159827 no end portal in the stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-162377 Stronghold generated with no end port... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-177381 Missing stronghold portal structure Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-179342 no Portal room in Stronghold Resolved
is duplicated by REALMS-4075 portal al end no visible Resolved
is duplicated by REALMS-8613 NO END PORTAL Resolved
is duplicated by REALMS-10430 end portals missing in strongholds Resolved
Relates
relates to MCPE-18827 Ocean Monuments sometimes generate ho... Resolved
relates to MCPE-19324 eye of ender sometimes fail to point ... Resolved
relates to MCPE-23485 End cities aren't generating completely Resolved
relates to MCPE-30965 3 strongholds, no end portal Resolved
relates to MCPE-167106 Structure generation differs from Jav... Open
relates to MCPE-178944 Stronghold Stops Generation Prematurely Open
relates to MCPE-23742 Generated structures can sometimes ge... Resolved
Confirmation Status: Confirmed
Platform: Windows
CHK:
ADO: 771608

 Description   

Haven't been able to locate the end portal in strongholds in version 1.0.0 on windows 10 or Android I used eye of ender twice to find stronghold (Because the locate command produces an error..!) but despite excavating the entire structure found no end portal.

Examples:
Seed: 8
Coordinates: -1402 -47 -1500

Seed: 34031138
Coordinates: 932 31 1807



 Comments   
Comment by kmb [ 20/Feb/24 ]

Tested using the provided seeds in the 1.20.70.22 Preview and it looks like the End portals are generating properly now. Is this issue fully fixed then?

Comment by [MCPE Mod] Auldrick [ 03/Jan/23 ]

Watchers: After the Caves & Cliffs changes to world generation, we started getting new reports of problems like this one. Mojang responded by reopening this report for review. Unfortunately, they neglected to delete or modify the explanation of "Works As Intended" resolution in the description, leading to some people being confused about the status of this issue.

The bug tracker's helpers and moderators were unaware of this because when a bug ticket is resolved, there is normally no longer a reason for us to continue tracking it. Fortunately, somebody asked for a clarification on the Mojira subreddit, which was exactly the best way to get our attention under the circumstances.

The current status of this issue is: Mojang are again reviewing whether improvements can be made to prevent stronghold portals being overwritten by later world generation. I don't know how narrow or broad this review may be (i.e. whether they're focusing on just projecting stronghold portals, or strongholds as a whole, or structures in general) and at the moment our liaison with Mojang is unavailable due to the holiday/vacation. However, I am once again watching this report, so you can expect future updates on this issue here.

Comment by Sef [ 10/Aug/22 ]

For Bedrock, is there any way to program our Eyes of Ender to ONLY locate a stronghold WITH an End Portal and have all the other Strongholds be a fun thing to accidentally discover while exploring?

Given that this is a parity issue created by programming differences and choices made during said programming, I feel like the consequence of these choices should be a "fix" that's just for Bedrock.

After all these years, I still don't understand how Stronholds weren't prioritized to not be overwritten - realism or not.

I've played Minecraft since it's 1.3 days on Java and while I've always appreciated the beauty and improvements in realism, nothing - and I mean NOTHING - has frustrated me more as a Bedrock player than this Stronghold issue that, because of programming differences, is considered as "working as intended" when it's honestly not.

I don't give two hoots about my overgrown caves being randomly bisected by some random structure. I don't care if my villages spawn half on the flat Plain and half on a Mountain. I don't care if I suddenly get a teeny tiny desert next to nothing but Jungle.

And you know, I don't even care about the time I exited a Nether Portal and nearly drowned because my game decided to randomly pop me out over an Ocean through an Overworld Portal who knows how many blocks overhead and in midair.

But I care about this Stronghold issue and with all these new world generation changes, I care a WHOLE LOT.

I don't cheat. At all. No locate command. No chunkbase. No creative. No x-ray mods. No asking a friend to even confirm for me that I'm going in the right direction (aka Stronghold WITH Portal) that my Ender Pearl is suggesting.

Minecraft takes time to explore and discover and few things are more frustrating than to finally get to a Stronghold... And discover that there is no End Portal in sight.

It doesn't matter that there are more to find - what matters is the wasted time. You have to triangulate. You have to dig REALLY deep and who knows where you'll end up and how much of what supplies you'll need. The cost of wasted time is even more important given the expanded X and Y coordinates.

To get to the End - the literal "end" of the game, there is only ONE way - through an End Portal - and this is why I just can't fathom why Strongholds and their proper generation wasn't THE priority from the get-go.

That said, with all the new changes, I feel like it's time re-address this issue... Unless everyone on vanilla Bedrock prefers the possibility of blindly digging from +150 to -50 only to find a Stronghold with no End Portal.

Comment by B C [ 25/Jul/22 ]

Some of the screenshots that were added by Tommy Dendy are from a stronghold with a portal that was overwritten by other parts of the stronghold. The reasoning that Auldrick gave when resolving this bug report as "Works as Intended" would apply to this case, but not to cases where the stronghold didn't even generate a portal room. It confuses people by making them think that it is intended that the end portal room is not required to generate in strongholds. An example of a stronghold without a portal room is the seed pollinating sandboxes, at coordinates (74659, -21, -2044).

Comment by electric_use64 [ 05/Jul/22 ]

This also happen for version 1.11+

Comment by Just_a_guy12345 [ 05/Jul/22 ]

I am saying it kinda late but because of the 64-bits seeds to match the java seeds. the strongholds that are incomplete are only strongholds generated under a village.

I don't know if it would be a good idea and i am sure my suggestion may take a lot of changes and surely will be a pain in the butt but my idea is to try and mimic the way the strongholds generate in the java ( inside of circles  around of spawn).

Pros

It aims towards the idea of parity between the two editions on how the structures are generated in the world.

It already kind of exists because every stronghold doesn't have one village above it.

Cons

It will take a LOT of time and a Lot changes in the code of the game and will be very frustrating for person/people who will do it.

Many changes will happen to generation of the structures.

There won't be infinity strongholds.(i dont think anyone cares about this one)

 

In my opinion it's not worthy that needs to be spent that much of energy for this bug.

I am sure devs have at least one better idea than this.

Comment by BlueFlare3125 (Inactive) [ 26/Jun/22 ]

This is supposed to work

Comment by [Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay Wells) [ 26/Apr/22 ]

Reopened for review.

Comment by bdm68 [ 15/Dec/21 ]

A way of fixing the missing portal room is some intelligent post-processing to add it in as the last structure if it wasn't added earlier.

Assume that the structure generation keeps a list of valid and unused connection points (doorways, etc).

At the end of stronghold generation, if the portal room was not generated:
(1) go through all of the unused connection points and find those that lead to a place where a portal room can be placed without overlapping. If any were found, choose one at random and place the portal room there.
If no suitable connection points were found at (1):
(2) go through all of the unused connection points and find any that can be extended to a location outside of the structure where a portal room can be placed without overlapping. Choose one at random. Extend this connection point with the particular corridor pieces it needs to reach the location. Place the portal room there. (This is easier to do if these connection points are limited to those that need only one corridor piece to reach a suitable location for the portal room, at the cost of failing more often).
If no suitable connection points were found at (2):
(3) Find a suitable place close to the stronghold and place the portal room there without a connection to the rest of the structure. Create a locator map for the portal room. Alter the loot table for a loot chest in the stronghold and add the locator map to that chest. (For this to work, the stronghold must have at least one loot chest. If there are none, create one.) This last step will probably be unnecessary, but it's included in case the stronghold generates weirdly. It's also better to have a stronghold with a disconnected portal room than none at all.

Other possible fixes:

  • Include a dummy structure in the structure pool that is the same size as the portal room. These contain nothing, but can reserve space for the portal room. These can be generated within the stronghold like other structures. A portal room can overwrite these but no other structure can overwrite them until a portal room has been generated. When a portal room is generated, all dummy structures are removed and are no longer available for selection in the structure pool.
Comment by Branko Šaškovič [ 01/Jul/21 ]

It’s about the generation and seed. 

Comment by Conrad Sues [ 10/Feb/21 ]

I propose one idea for a solution to this problem: Generation assistant blocks. Use a block like say, the old stonecutter or tile.end_gateway.name, anything as a marker, then generate the portal room over anything in its way.

Pros: prevents overlapping of the portal frame (or any other part of the room) 

Cons: if the marker is overlapped, it won't generate. Can destroy other parts of the stronghold. Is impractical to implement.

Comment by Ziad El-Moursy [ 25/Jan/21 ]

It's not like they place all of the structure in every seed by hand! You're talking as if you know of a way by which they could stop overlap without messing up every single structure in every seed in the game. There are specific algorithms used to generate every Minecraft structure, and in order to "move" any structure, they need to change these algorithms, altering almost every aspect of Minecraft's world generation. Nobody could fully understand the details of the code and process that goes into the game other than its developers, and sure they would use the code algorithms that are most beneficial to all aspects of the game. Minecraft is a game that has been developing for more than 10 YEARS! Sure you don't think that the developers would be goofing around all that time. I don't work for Mojang and I don't know any of the employees personally, but I do get furious when people are inconsiderate. If you want to be of any help, only give constructive feedback, perhaps if you know of a way by which this could get fixed. Thank you.

Comment by Bernardo Gomes Negri [ 15/Sep/20 ]

Can't they just... you know, stop being lazy and fixing the overlap, perhaps by moving one structure slightly to the side when that happens?

Comment by [MCPE Mod] Auldrick [ 30/Aug/20 ]

It's not that Mojang intended to generate a stronghold without a portal, it's that when they designed the algorithms for structure generation they had to compromise. Realism requires a certain degree of unpredictability, that is, randomness, but randomness also creates a risk of overlapping structures where the one generated later overwrites the earlier one. I'm not sure it's even possible to eliminate that risk, but doing so would require a fast computer with a lot of memory because the number of structures in a world is huge and the cost of checking for overlaps would increase as the square of that number. So the "intended" part is that Mojang chose a balance that tries not to generate overlaps/overwrites too often. Strongholds are a special case because the portal is the main reason people look for one, so if it doesn't have one it's frustrating and annoying.

I've had this problem as well, and I thought it was just bad luck, but it's possible that as new structures get added to the game, this issue becomes more and more of a problem. I think Mojang is aware of it, because I know from experience that the algorithm generating strongholds changed at least once in the past year (because a stronghold I knew about from a Creative copy was no longer there when I later tried to find it in Survival). But you might like to register a suggestion on the Feedback site that stronghold portals be given special protection from being overwritten. The devs might be able to figure out a way to do it.

Comment by Johnny oliver danny [ 21/Aug/20 ]

I don't understand why this is intended though, it can be so annoying when you go to a stronghold and no end portal is present, it has happened to me more times then I can count

Comment by Douglas F Correa [ 29/May/20 ]

@srnatthan Yep.

Comment by Natthan [ 22/May/20 ]

It is bad to have to spend an ender's eye to reach stronghold and not have a portal.

Comment by [Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay Wells) [ 18/Jul/19 ]

Thank you for your report!
However, this issue has been closed as Working as Intended.

There is a chance that strongholds may not generate with a portal room, but infinite worlds will have multiple strongholds within them.

Remember not all differences between game versions/platforms of Minecraft are bugs. If you need help or have a suggestion you might like to follow a link below.

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Comment by Sebastian Dinator [ 19/May/19 ]

Affects 1.14.1

Comment by ShowMeep [ 26/Apr/19 ]

Affects 1.11

Comment by Tommy Dendy [ 01/Mar/18 ]

the chest were not there I put them there

Comment by Tommy Dendy [ 01/Mar/18 ]

screenshot I am sending show what might be start of stairs to end portal

Comment by Tommy Dendy [ 01/Mar/18 ]

I am going to send some screenshots from stronghold in survival mode. I have seen pictures of end portals with a lava pit on either side so I am sending what might be half of a end portal room.

Comment by Tommy Dendy [ 01/Mar/18 ]

I am leaving a comment for mega_spud. I found stronghold in survival and creative but no end portal. I am sending screenshot from creative mode. Ender eyes went inside wall of room with stone slab arch and stopped. I destroyed some walls to find eyes but no end portal

Comment by Robert Register [ 01/Mar/18 ]

I also have this issue

This stronghold seems to only have an entrance and no portal.

Seed: -396676922

Stronghold at -1150, 41, -235

Comment by TelepathicGrunt [ 28/Jan/18 ]

I found a Stronghold that only generated the stairs and a Library. The seed is 1526307400 and the Stronghold is at -348, 43, 2180. I put on an xray texture pack to check it and it turns out the Stronghold did not generate anything else.

I tested the seed on v1.2.10.1 on my Xbox one afterwards and it is the same result. This means this bug is still present on 1.2.10.1

To check future stronghold more easily, this is the xray texture pack I used to see the entire Stronghold: http://www.mediafire.com/file/1i25xsiyqc1dsp4/XrayForUnderground.mcpack

Comment by Matt Smith [ 01/Jan/18 ]

@Andrew Kennedy
The eyes took me up into solid rock at 688, 30, -1104 with no portal, structure, water, cave in sight. I'm not sure what bugged it out but that at that initial split staircase the down staircase hallway doubles back on itself which maybe aborts the generation? There is also the floating torch near where the split staircase goes up to support that hypothesis. I would code it so that generation starts from the end portal though, so that doesn't make too much sense. The other possibility is that 688,-1104 is a chunk boundary, so maybe when generation starts it should run a check and move the portal to the middle of the adjacent chunk.

Head to +250, +650 and the eyes will take you to a good, verified stronghold. You will need a lot of eyes though because it's a long ways off. Also under a village though, so that helps.

Edit: before deleting the copy of the world, I thought I would see if I could find the portal without flying or instant breaking blocks. (Not without difficulty) The 2nd stronghold is in several disconnected sections and I had to go through caves to find the one with the portal. In so doing, I learned that the eyes do not point to the portal, which seems like its own separate bug report! The eyes for the second stronghold also point to a chunk boundary, btw. It's possible then, that thete is a portal at your original stronghold but I didn't find it either. I spent quite a bit of time exploring around your first stronghold and did not find even a second segment of stronghold, although I did find the obvious ravine and a less obvious ine to the west connected to the cave systems there. I scanned the ravine walls for stone brick but didn't see any.

I had a bad stronghold in a world that I since abandoned. I was hoping this would give me some insight to it but it did not.

Comment by Andrew Kennedy [ 31/Dec/17 ]

Same problem with me as well. I'm playing on Windows 10 version 1.2.8. I have a stronghold that seems to not have an end portal. My world seed is 4879820. The staircase leading to my stronghold is at 691, 20, -1100. If someone could check if I in fact do not have an end portal in my stronghold, that would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Comment by BD [ 27/Oct/17 ]

Same issue in version 1.2.3 on Android. World seed: 2028677636 stronghold located at 896, 22, -400.

This world has been pretty fun. There are a ton of villages very close to my spawn, and when I found the stronghold so close to home I was thrilled until I entered and could not locate the end portal. I created a creative copy of the world and started replacing stone and gravel around the stronghold with air to make sure I wasn't missing something, but I haven't found the portal room. As far as I can tell it just doesn't exist. Major bummer since this probably means I am going to have to travel super far to find another stronghold. First time I've seen this issue.

Comment by Scott Roxburgh [ 03/Feb/17 ]

HI - Same problem windows 10 pocket edition version 1.0.2

World Seed is -1119388186. stronghold is a long way south west of spawn. I've seen this stronghold in a creative version of the world and it was fine. (Back in a pre 1.0 version). I had since visited it in my survival version of the world, onlyto find the stronghold wasn't there. I dug down looking for it to bedrock.

Now in version 1.0.2, I finally got some eyes of ender and tracked them back to the same spot. So I did a lot of digging and finally found some of the stronghold structure, but there is no end portal room that I can find. I've excavated all around the generated structure including above and below to ensure I'd been everywhere. No joy.

I've read elsewhere that more than one stronghold will generate per world. The eyes of ender just take you to the nearest one. Is this true? I've invested a lot of time in this world and do not want to abandon it!

Cheers,
Scott

Comment by [Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay Wells) [ 24/Dec/16 ]

Ok thanks for the extra information. Using commands I've had a look at the seed and couldn't find any end portals in the vicinity so it does appear to be an incomplete stronghold.

Comment by Bill Bigge [ 24/Dec/16 ]

Well I ended up using TNT to try and find it so the whole stronghold is wrecked now.
The seed is -1682121092 (MC WIN10)
Coordinates of stronghold -950 20 -388

Comment by [Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay Wells) [ 24/Dec/16 ]

Please upload a copy of the world save you are having issues with (use export world function). We'll also need the coordinates of the affected strongholds

Failing that please share the seed and coordinates of the worlds affected.

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