Follow up to this. Still on Switch. Started new world. Worked my way up to fight the dragon again. Another good battle. Made save points along the way. Beat him, same thing looked to happen. Loaded save pint but this time ensures I was right by the portal when the dragon died. When the XP fell I caught part of it. The rest fell in the portal, not disappeared. Found that anything that falls through the portal goes back to world spawn. Head to spawn of that world and there was the XP. Hooray. Loaded up the original world this happened to me, went to original spawn, AND THERE WAS MY XP! So not a bug! Just wished this info was easier to find. Hope this helps someone out there! On to End Cities!
Follow up to this. Still on Switch.
Started new world. Worked my way up to fight the dragon again. Another good battle. Made save points along the way. Beat him, same thing looked to happen. Loaded save pint but this time ensures I was right by the portal when the dragon died. When the XP fell I caught part of it. The rest fell in the portal, not disappeared. Found that anything that falls through the portal goes back to world spawn. Head to spawn of that world and there was the XP. Hooray. Loaded up the original world this happened to me, went to original spawn, AND THERE WAS MY XP! So not a bug! Just wished this info was easier to find. Hope this helps someone out there! On to End Cities!