Why Does My Stronghold Not Have a Portal?
Your stronghold not having a portal can be due to the version of the game you’re playing, as in Bedrock Edition, not all strongholds have a portal room, unlike in Java Edition where every stronghold has an end portal. The presence or absence of a portal in a stronghold is determined by the game’s generation algorithm, and in Bedrock Edition, there’s a chance that a stronghold might not have a portal room, making it necessary to explore other strongholds to find one.
Understanding Strongholds and Portals
What are Strongholds?
Strongholds are structures in Minecraft that can contain an end portal, which is necessary for accessing The End. They are generated randomly and can be found by using eyes of ender.
How to Find a Stronghold with a Portal
To find a stronghold with a portal, players can use eyes of ender, which will float towards the direction of the nearest stronghold. It’s essential to have enough eyes of ender to lead you to the stronghold.
Frequently Asked Questions
- Is it possible for a Stronghold to not have a portal? In Java edition, every stronghold has an end portal, but in Bedrock edition, only some of them do, making it possible for a stronghold to not have a portal.
- Do eyes of Ender always lead to a portal? Eyes of ender will always fly towards the End Portal’s stronghold, but they might not always lead directly to the portal room.
- Why aren’t my End Gateways spawning? If a player has previously killed the Ender Dragon before the 1.9 update, they must respawn the Dragon and then kill it again for the End Gateway to appear.
- How many eyes of Ender should I have before I go to The End? You’ll need to insert 12 Eyes of Ender into the End Portal frame to activate it, so it’s recommended to have a few extra eyes of ender before heading to The End.
- Can’t find the End Portal in Your Stronghold? If you’re having trouble finding the End Portal in your stronghold, try digging around the surrounding area, as strongholds can have many rooms, sometimes hidden behind walls.
- How rare are End Portals? In Legacy Console Edition, there was only one end portal per world, and there’s an extremely low chance for all twelve end portal frames to be filled in strongholds.
- What unlocks a Stronghold? New players will need to clock significant gametime before unlocking their Stronghold, which is given as a reward for completing the quest, Clerk Theo’s Invitation.
- Are Strongholds always under villages? In Bedrock Edition, strongholds are usually found underneath villages, but they can generate randomly.
- What is the depth of a Stronghold? There is no fixed depth to find a Stronghold, but it’s best to look beneath the world height of Y=0.
- How far apart are Strongholds? There are only three strongholds in the Overworld, which generate roughly between 600 and 1200 blocks from the ORIGIN of the Overworld.
- Can Eyes of Ender be wrong? The only way an eye of ender is wrong is if the chunks were already generated with a version older than 1.18, which can be fixed with a chunk reset.
- What is the max stack of the Eye of Ender? The Eye of Ender is crafted using Ender Pearls, which stack to 16, and it follows the same pattern.
- How do you farm Ender Pearls? Players can farm Ender Pearls by killing Endermen in the forest, and using a Looting III sword can increase the drop rate.
- How rare is an 8-eye portal? There is only a 2.6% chance that 8 eyes of ender will be enough to fill the end portal frame, making it a rare occurrence.
- What are the weird portals in Minecraft? Minecraft’s Ruined Portals are unique generated structures that can appear in any biome in either the Overworld or the Nether, and are incomplete Nether Portals that can have either large or small sizes, and under various states of decay.