[MCPE-19699] End gateway portals don't work if the destination area on the outer end islands has already been generated. Created: 11/Jan/17  Updated: 10/Jul/19  Resolved: 10/Jul/19

Status: Resolved
Project: Minecraft (Bedrock codebase)
Component/s: None
Affects Version/s: 1.0.0, 1.2.10.2, 1.6.0, 1.7.0.3 Beta, 1.8.0, 1.8.1, 1.9.0
Fix Version/s: 1.9.0.0 Beta, 1.12.0

Type: Bug
Reporter: Isaac 64
Resolution: Fixed Votes: 94
Labels: None

Attachments: PNG File F00F7DFE-12EF-4026-965E-14CAA3924F1C.png     PNG File end.png    
Issue Links:
Duplicate
is duplicated by MCPE-24593 Cannot teleport to the end city Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-31082 End gateway spawn killed me Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-31274 End gateway teleports me inside end g... Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-33006 Suffocating in End Gateway Portal Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-36624 End portal gateways not working Resolved
is duplicated by MCPE-39448 End Gateway Suffocation Resolved
Relates
relates to MCPE-40538 I get stuck in end gateway but don't ... Resolved
relates to MCPE-41513 Stuck in the Loading Screen (After en... Resolved
relates to MCPE-41556 The End Island Portals Cause Enless L... Resolved
Confirmation Status: Confirmed
Platform: Windows
CHK:
ADO: 139760 / 175480

 Description   

I explored and mapped out all the nearest outer end islands encircling the main island before spawning in all 20 End Gateway Portals. I've now defeated the dragon 20 times but the portals generated on the main island AFTER I explored all the outer islands don't work. The enderpearl teleports you within the end gateway block and you suffocate with your head trapped in the bedrock above.
I've since re-explored the areas in the outer end islands corresponding to the broken portals, where the destination portals and their small islands should be and they haven't generated at all.
I guess this is because I had already generated that area before the destination portal was unlocked thus blocking its generation and breaking the original portal.
I hope you can find a bug fix or workaround!



 Comments   
Comment by Erik R [ 28/Mar/19 ]

After two weeks of playing, I recommend the usage of the teleport command (https://www.digminecraft.com/game_commands/tp_command.php) to free yourself. No further bugs. Everything is normal, except I will never trust an end portal ever again. 

Follow these steps:

  • (get a realm)
  • reupload the world into a realm
  • try to join over and over again until success
  • toggle cheats on
  • using the teleport command while trying to remeber the dircetion of the portal you entered to get back to the main island (f.e. in my case relocate 20 blocks south)
  • export your world
  • (get rid of the realm)

Note: There were still some issues rendering the area properly. I managed to leave the end. No bugs until now. I was able to revisit the end without lag. It is a great advice to never use an end portal again, unless you have a backup of your world.

@mega spurd Perhaps you can add this workaround above. It is a smooth way, because you don’t lose your stuff, only your achivments.

Comment by silentwisperer [ 25/Mar/19 ]

This is still affecting 1.10!

Comment by Brian Green [ 20/Mar/19 ]

Can confirm this is still an issue in current Release channel and 1.9.x Beta channels. It is reported to be fixed in pre-release internal version: 1.11.0.3.

Comment by Adam [ 20/Mar/19 ]

 I had a very similar problem in beta 1.9.0.2 on windows 10. Unsure if my world at that time was just broken. Like some chunks were just corrupted. But who knows, maybe your experiencing same thing as I did in beta 1.9.0.2.

Word of warning: I investigated the bug further, and found out I was endlessly teleporting between 2 coordinates.

Comment by Jeff Reinhart [ 20/Mar/19 ]

Same issue. Death by suffocation. Initial description is spot on. I was hunting for another elytra when this bug dropped. That effectively halted why I wanted to play. I hear the argument about rapid development to keep the game fresh, but if you can't pay people to test core world travel functions such as portals, I don't want to pay for you to host my realm. This isn't the first time either. The invisible walls in the last version was another example of world travel halted by a bug. It is because of this sloppy rollout policy that I just cancelled my realm subscription.

Comment by Goshen Watts [ 19/Mar/19 ]

Can anyone confirm if the new update has resolved this issue?  I'm not able to test at this moment.

Comment by Alex Shields [ 05/Mar/19 ]

This just happened to my buddy in our realm. He tried going through a few different ways, standing close, standing far away, making sure he was at face level with the portal. Died each time. 

Comment by Andy Brown [ 02/Mar/19 ]

My son has had this happen several times on the first portal in the End having revisited the End to look for more End Cities. Platform: Xbox One, v1.9.0

Comment by Brian Green [ 02/Mar/19 ]

JA, What are you talking about? lawn not expanding?

Comment by JA [ 02/Mar/19 ]

Already from some beta versions like the lawn does not expand to the other blocks of land, could you fix it please.

Comment by Brian Green [ 02/Mar/19 ]

@Jaron
A moderator has confirmed that this issue is resolved in 1.11.0.3. I know that might be a couple months off but might be better than losing 6 months.
Also if you upload your world to a realm and re-download it after it usually fixed the issue where you can not join the world. Obviously don't try that portal again.

Comment by Jaron [ 01/Mar/19 ]

Erik. This happened to me. 5 year old world won't load now. I was lucky I had a copy saved. Still lost 6 months of work tho.

Comment by G J Piper [ 01/Mar/19 ]

I got stuck a couple of times, but instead of waiting for it to crash, or logging out, I force-closed the game using my Switch OS (in spite of it's warning about losing your save) so as to not keep my position. So upon re-launching the game it always restored me to my last point just before I'd entered the gateway. Might be something to remember about all buggy situations when using the Switch in Minecraft — you can force it to close and it will lose the last minute or two of game-play, even in a Realm.

Comment by Erik R [ 01/Mar/19 ]

You lucky guys didn’t leave the game while stucked. Otherwise it is possible to break your save game. A literally game breaking bug should be something for a hot fix.

Comment by Erik R [ 01/Mar/19 ]

There is a fix coming. Honestly mojang should inform and warn us to not use end portals at all till this has been fixed. I can not understand why this issue is so low prioritiezed to get fixed, as I understood, at the earliest with the next major update. Or why it happend at all with the amount of beta testing prior 1.9. 

Comment by Goshen Watts [ 24/Feb/19 ]

Interesting that since respawning the enderdragon; the new Portal works fine for me (Bedrock Win10) - also, the new portal landed me in a place that I had already explored, and still worked and generated end cities etc.   Also (so far) all the portals that send you back to the main island have worked; including one I had used ages ago. 

I've been back and forth a few times, no other issues so far.  However still a bit strange that a fix hasn't been forthcoming already - it's a pretty major issue effecting a lot of people...

 

 

Comment by Damian Ganoe [ 23/Feb/19 ]

The same thing happened to me on Xbox one. Please tell me you found a solution...I put years into this world

Comment by Daniel Barnes [ 23/Feb/19 ]

I am on Nintendo Switch realm. I did not explore any parts of the end at all. I used the portal right after Ender dragon fight and it worked like normal. I went back to the overworld for awhile. When I came back to the end and tried using gateway again I just get stuck inside the portal. The screen is total blackness. Only thing I can see is cords, I keep teleporting between the two locations constantly and get stuck in this continuous loop. For some reason hunger bar completely goes to zero from full in a matter of seconds. And starving to death is the only way I can escape.

Comment by Carl Bowling [ 18/Feb/19 ]

Im on realm Windows 10 1.9 and I got stuck in pitch blackness.  was suffocating until I ate food, somehow eating caused me to fall out into darkness...

Comment by Krista Johnson [ 17/Feb/19 ]

@Brian Green I also lost all that too as well as an Ender Chest

Comment by Brian Green [ 17/Feb/19 ]

@Kjun5946 Welcome to the club. Unbreaking III + Mending Elytra and full max level enchanted Diamond gear. It was a sad day.

Comment by Krista Johnson [ 16/Feb/19 ]

I've been having the same issue in a Multiplayer Realm 1.9 already released (Xbox Better together version). I revisited the End and threw my Ender Pearl into the gateway, I was going to map the islands I was going to visit. I saw on my level 4 map (in my offhand) teleporting me between two locations and I thought I would be able to go through but I found myself suffocating and I "fell out of the world," obviously losing all my gear and loot.

Comment by Brian Green [ 15/Feb/19 ]

@Matthew Wiens please  check MCPE-41513.
Mega_Spud is requesting sample worlds that have the loading issue.

Comment by Matthew Wiens [ 15/Feb/19 ]

When I try to teleport to the End cities, my coordinates will rapidly switch between two places repeatedly, and then I'll usually get stuck in darkness or bedrock. I've tried a few times now, and now I'm actually completely unable to load the world after quitting while stuck teleporting. The loading screen is stuck on "Building terrain".

Comment by Goshen Watts [ 14/Feb/19 ]

To add to the above...  The exact same issue now occurs with my other world (both are survival and on Bedrock Edition)!

In my 2nd game; the teleporting / death in the portal happened a bit different - sometimes it would get stuck and I'd sit there in blackness without taking damage; but dying was the only way out   

[Luckily, i've died most times and so haven't quite had the game loading crash that others have... and when dying, you re-spawn several blocks above your bed... which I think may be related...maybe some co-ordinate thing is creating issues. ]

Comment by Goshen Watts [ 14/Feb/19 ]

Just wanted to comment as I've got exactly this issue.   Except I've only got one Gateway (killed ED just once so far).

I was going through my end gateway portal for the first time in a few months...  Was using the water method.   Got stuck in bedrock as described above.  The first time, I was "released" and promptly fell into the void.   All other times since, I haven't been able to get out, and die from suffocation in the endless teleporting loop thing.   Doesn't seem to make any difference if I use the water or a enderpearl.

Is this an issue that we should expect a fix for, or do I need a workaround... eg kill the EnderDragon again and see if a new portal works?

 

 

Comment by Brian Green [ 11/Feb/19 ]

Please read my last post on the linked issue MCPE-41513 . the TL:DR: is I was able to recover the world by making the world a realm loading into the realm and letting it kill me on an extended load, then downloading the realm back to the computer. If you've still got your free realm trial it might be worth a shot. If not I wouldn't suggest spending the money on a "might work".

Good luck.

Comment by Erik R [ 11/Feb/19 ]

Well, would like to help to send you a corrupted world. But don’t know how to export it (ios). If it helps I can post my last screenshot stucked in the portal before closing the world. .... well ... it doesn’t work too, because this website for a mobile game support isn’t optimised for mobile using   (Replacement, No sad face available)

 

Comment by [Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay Wells) [ 11/Feb/19 ]

This is also being tracked at MCPE-41513 - which may be a different issue to that originally described here.

Comment by [Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay Wells) [ 11/Feb/19 ]

If your world is not loading after experiencing this bug, are you able you provide a copy of the world? (If it's bigger than 10MB, you might need to use a file sharing site such as OneDrive.)

Comment by Tyler [ 10/Feb/19 ]

I've also experienced this problem but the world won't load up again after a save-and-quit. I had opened 3 end gateway portals, but it broke when I tried to go back through the first gateway I opened to continue deconstruction of an end city. I had explored all around the first end gateway portal before  I opened the other 2 so I had no way of generating the 1st portal at the end islands, it just suddenly failed to work after defeating the ender dragon, going through the 3rd gateway, coming back to the main island, saving and quiting, getting on the next day and suddenly portal 1 doesn't want to work. I did have a spare enderpearl on me so I might be able to escape if the world would ever load. I still remain trapped stuck inside the end gateway portal

Comment by Gabriel Guedes [ 09/Feb/19 ]

My world is 250hr+ and it doesn't load. Our only hope is a patch.

Comment by Alejandro [ 09/Feb/19 ]

I just threw the goddamn pearl to the portal and the game crashed and it doesn't load anymore, a f**** 40+ hour survival world..

Comment by Shelly Hardic [ 09/Feb/19 ]

Just experience this 1.9.0 both of us are on ipads. Throw a pearl get stuck in bedrock. We were able to enderpearl and get through while sufficating. Bug also pops up the water bubbles. I got through but my husband was teleported to a black voidish area. After logging out and back in he was back in the bedrock, he was able to get through after that. We are on realms, world was made after 1.8 came out.

Comment by Jay Sirrom [ 08/Feb/19 ]

Our hosted Bedrock Realm is experiencing the issue of the players becoming suffocated when attempting to go through an end gateway portal using ender pearls. Is this being considered part of the same bug ticket? Players are using a variety of platform devices from xbox through nintendo switch and mobile android. This has only begun happening since the realm updated to 1.9.0.

Comment by G J Piper [ 08/Feb/19 ]

Ah ha! This is also my issue: https://bugs.mojang.com/browse/MCPE-41556

Comment by [Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay Wells) [ 08/Feb/19 ]

Sorry for the ongoing issue, and thanks for the updated information. Can this be reproduced in new worlds as well (by exploring the outer islands first) or does it only affect existing worlds?

Comment by Rob Vesse [ 06/Feb/19 ]

Had previously done some exploring in the end but today after the update I just get teleported into the bedrock and get stuck until I suffocate/glitch out somehow

Comment by Gabriel Guedes [ 06/Feb/19 ]

This has happened to me. I turned off my Switch and restarted the game. Now I can't reload my save at all, so I am stuck in the loading screen (the one with the game tips). No backup either because I don't have a Nintendo Online Subscription, so I can't upload saves to the cloud

Comment by GMO Heaven [ 06/Feb/19 ]

I've seen multiple separate instances of what looks like this bug on Reddit. These are all apparently coming since 1.9 was released this morning.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ann501/help_with_broken_end_city_portal/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/ann501/help_with_broken_end_city_portal/efunghw

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/anlctn/my_end_gateway_put_me_in_an_invisible_barrier/

Edit: More added below!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/annd7k/stuck_in_end_gateway/

Comment by 12coolkn [ 05/Jan/19 ]

I dont know maybe break bedrock and try to regen it

Comment by Murilo Richard Santos [ 04/Jan/19 ]

I defeated the Ender Dragon once and spent a long time exploring the outer islands. After I defeated the dragon a second time, I was not able to enter the second end gateway either, so I got stuck.

But I tried to use a bucket of water to try to swim (I would be with a block of height) but I died suffocated, when I came back and took the water had no more end gateway.

Occurred January 03 2019, Windows 10 edition, 1.8.0

Comment by Calvin [ 19/Dec/18 ]

Still present in 1.8.0. My first portal functions correctly, but any new portals just leave me trapped inside. 

I opened the world in an editor. The coordinates for the exit portal just read 0 0 0 instead of somewhere in the outer islands.

Comment by Russ Bean [ 30/Aug/18 ]

I have been having this issue with a world generated new with Win10 version 1.5.0.  Two of the end gateway portals generated work fine.  Two portals cause my character to be trapped inside with suffocation damage.  

Comment by [Mojang] Mega_Spud (Jay Wells) [ 23/May/18 ]

Are you able to provide a copy of the world save where the portals are not working please?

Comment by Charles Jackson [ 08/May/18 ]

I can also confirm that I have NOT pre-explored the Outer Islands. Defeated the Dragon twice already, those portals work fine. Opened a third portal, and it traps me inside and suffocates me unless I can manage to jump out or use an ender pearl to escape.

Xbox One - 1.2.13.60

Comment by Joe [ 04/Mar/18 ]

I can confirm that I have NOT explored any of the end at all. Once I killed the dragon, I get teleported into the gateway and sufficate to death. Win 10 Survival, no mods.

Comment by Aries Dane [ 11/Feb/18 ]

I can confirm the same issue. I built a slime machine to grab some loot from the end city prior to defeating the ender dragon.

Now after defeating the dragon, when I throw and ender pearl into the gateway I just get trapped in the blocks.

You can jump up on top of the portal to avoid suffocation, but still.

PS.

To the Minecraft developers - Please don't fix this issue by making the end cities only generate once the dragon is defeated like it used to behave in 1.1.5 because that sucked.

It's very anti-climatic to only be allowed to explore the end-cities after defeating the dragon, whereas sneaking across to acquire shulker boxes & loot beforehand is much more fun.

Comment by Jason Schulz [ 12/Jan/18 ]

I appear to be having the same behavior (teleport inside gateway and suffocate). It is happening on my first gateway and I have not explored the outer islands, but with the view distance at 60 chunks I can see they have been generated.

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