[MC-137467] Ender dragon does not spawn if render distance is set to 10 or below

Workarounds

Set your render distance to 11 or above or:

Craft an ender crystal
Place it down in the end, portal should generate now.
THANKS TO @unknown AND @unknown.

The bug

Ender dragon and exit portal do not spawn when entering the end for the first time in version 18w43a. However, this is not the case of your render distance is set to 11 or above, the ender dragon and exit portal will spawn upon being close to x=0 z=0.

Linked issues

discovered while testing 1

MC-123081 Placing an end crystal when entering The End prevents Ender Dragon from spawning Resolved

is duplicated by 60

MC-137546 Ender Dragon was not spawned & End exit protal was not generated Resolved

MC-137698 Ender Dragon / Altar don't spawn Resolved

MC-137740 Ender Dragon does not appear when you enter The End in 1.14 snapshot Resolved

MC-137742 Ender Dragon does not appear when you enter The End in 1.14 snapshot Resolved

MC-137878 the ender dargon not spawning Resolved

55 more links

relates to 3

MC-139377 End cities can spawn in empty space and on the main island Resolved

MC-138069 End gateway teleports you to the obsidian end platform Resolved

MC-138225 End crystals are spawned in the air when respawning the ender dragon Resolved

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Comments 15

[Mod] Neko 2018-10-24T20:05:36Z

Confirmed. The exit portal doesn't generate either.

Jack 2018-10-24T20:21:19Z

Uh, found a weird glitch regarding this report, placing an ender crystal on either obsidian or bedrock creates an exit portal

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Kirill17 2018-10-27T17:29:21Z

That isn't a glitch
If no exit portal fountain isn't there when you first upgrade to later mc versions or load the end and you place a end crystal near 0 0 it'll load in one

KunzGrunz 2018-11-21T19:44:06Z

Is it possible, that the enderdragon appears when updating the game, without doing anything else ?

If not I would pretend as if there just is no Dragon in my world.

Warren Liddell 2018-11-30T20:46:09Z

I just made a brand new world in 18w48b and while its true initially there is no enderdragon spawned in or the bedrock platform, once i got to 0,0 they both magically appeared//loaded for me

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Meri Diana 2018-12-09T14:24:18Z

It might be the render distance you've set, see MC-140808 which was just resolved as Duplicate of this bugpost here.

Meri Diana 2018-12-09T14:42:08Z

The workaround with render distance 11 is not completely correct.

After some more testing, it seems like there needs to be an area loaded around 0,0.

If you are farther away, you have to set your render distance accordingly, e.g. a render distance of 11 will spawn portal and dragon if you're about 32 blocks away from 0/0, at render distance 10 it will spawn when you're about 16 blocks away of 0/0.

On higher renderdistances you might not have to be as close, but it should be noted that render distance and position matter.

E.g. if you set your render distance to 16 when you have been farther away/outside from the island, e.g. at X or Z = ~<256, it will not spawn the dragon when you reach 256 (16x16), but will spawn the dragon not until you are 7 chunks away from 0/0 (at 112 blocks from 0/0).

So it seems reasonable to currently assume that a certain area around 0/0 has to be loaded.

Meri Diana 2018-12-11T11:13:46Z

Also see MC-140853.

Pierrot Charles 2018-12-18T17:11:44Z

Please upgrade the summary on "Ender dragon and exit portal does not spawn when render distance is set to 10 or bellow". And also upgrade the description.

hmuller 2019-01-18T12:28:58Z

Confirmed Pierrot's comment. I normally play at a view/render distance of 10 chunks. After setting it to 12 chunks, the Ender Dragon spawns as expected, and it is therefore no longer necessary to go to 0 ~ 0 (or near) to cause it to spawn.

Siwy05 2019-02-06T21:00:01Z

Well, this is an awful bug

Johnibur 2019-02-15T14:44:53Z

As an easy fix, just pre-generate the End island by entering it at coordinates 0 ~ 0. For instance, run

execute in the_end run tp 0 100 0

then wait for the chunks to load, then get back to the Overworld (execute in overworld), then you can finally enter the End in survival and the dragon will be waiting for you.
Alternatively, if you have already generated the End wrongly, just delete the region files in your folder DIM1 and start the pre-generated workaround process as described above.
(You need to have op commands, but for testing snapshots, at least one player per world should always have op, as it helps you troubleshooting and fixing stuff).

Th0mas_02 2019-03-03T12:25:57Z

I did notice it aswell, but with the Render Distance 11 or higher as you said, it will spawn.

Bob 2019-03-13T17:57:55Z

If the distance is less than 11 Chunks, there won't be any mobs, not just the dragon.

hmuller 2019-03-15T17:06:18Z

Bob, when playing at a render distance of 10, I had plenty of mobs. The only mob that was not spawning was the ender dragon, unless I travelled near 0 ~ 0 in the End. Setting render distance to 12 eliminated that necessity.