[MC-140728] End Cities much rarer than they used to be

It's sort of hard to really be sure that this is a bug and not just extremely bad luck, however I've flown around the end in several directions, using /locate EndCity and there seem to be almost no end cities spawning, in a radius of over 8000 blocks at times.

Linked issues

is duplicated by

MC-140937 End Cities not generating

MC-141657 End beacons not working/ End Cities do not exist/spawn

MC-142277 End Cities don't generate within 10000 blocks from center

MC-142715 End cities are very rare.

MC-144248 End Citys not generating

relates to

MC-140231 /locate command locates invalid EndCity location

Comments

migrated 2019-01-10T00:50:27Z

Can confirm on both 18w50a and 19w02a.

On newly-generated worlds, cannot locate any end cities, either by flying around or by using the /locate command (all given locations are invalid).

migrated 2019-01-14T07:43:12Z

I had to go well part 10000 to find any. Once I got that far the locate command would work though. I created MC-142277 before I saw this one.

migrated 2019-01-16T00:28:04Z

I hope this gets fixed. I was lucky enough to get one near 0 0, but obviously I had trouble with the end gateway so I just added /tp command blocks ;/

migrated 2019-01-17T07:39:23Z

I edited the region file to set the teleport point for the gate. From 10000, 0 the closest city was 15000, 4500. I haven't seen cities any closer than 4000 or so blocks, but searching is slow.