I've had a long run with a world in Hardcore mode. After I beat the Ender Dragon, I made it to an end city and got all its loot. There was an end gateway portal nearby, which I decided to use to get back to the mainland. When I threw an ender pearl into it, it beamed, but nothing happened. I threw another one, and it took me somewhere just right out of the central island! I watched hopelessly at the island as I fell into my doom... Did throwing ender pearls twice into the gateway cause me to glitch away?
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For clarity, I will write this post using the following terms:
End Gateway: the portal that spawns on the main island near the obsidian pillars after you kill the dragon
End Return: one of the twenty portals strewn about the outer end islands which links to an End Gateway once the gateway is activated
If you go through an End Return before its End Gateway has been activated, it will send you to the End spawn point, the place where you come in initially on the End Mainland, on the small square obsidian platform.
I have on multiple occasions had an ender pearl go into the portal without taking me with it. When I finally get through the portal, I would invariably take a single hit of ender pearl damage as though I had thrown it onto the ground. Once I went through the End Gateway after the first ender pearl had failed, and I was teleported quite a ways away from the End Return on the other side. I suspect that the ender pearl was teleported through as a moving projectile and when I materialized on the other side, the ender pearl continued on its trajectory until it hit the ground a ways away.
This could explain what happened to you if you spawned on the obsidian platform and were immediately teleported to the side of the End Mainland where the ender pearl hit. What happened to you probably isn't very common, but the Ender Pearl bug is common enough that it worries me.
i went into my return portal and then i teleported back to the usual spot but one block over the obsidian platform i usually land on and eating chorus fruit didnt teleport me back
Throwing an ender pearl into a gateway portal takes you to the gateway portal on the main island. If you did not put a floor around it you will fall and if it is over the void you will fall to your doom. This may be works as intended, but it is not desired.