Especially annoying since the instructions aren’t applicable to mobile
OK, thank you for the detailed response. I guess we'll just have to try the portal and see what happens.
(FWIW, once I found the first elytra, I flew around the end islands looking for more, and saw at least two other island-side portals spawn while doing that. I never tried to use any of them, though. I have not seen any failed chunks (yet?) but I haven't been back to the side of the map where the dragon-generated portal goes.)
On March 1st, you said that the fix repaired already-broken gateways! So I bridged out to the end islands and started exploring, to finally get elytra. Now you say that the portal is permanently broken, and all the other end gateways that generated out there are also broken? And presumably even if we kill the ender dragon again, if the new gateway goes to an already-generated area, it will also be broken???
So essentially I can only get to the end cities from now on by bridging? In other words, the entire end in my realm is broken, permanently?
I just realized - this is fixed in 1.11, but the current production release is 1.9? And 1.10 is the next release? So when are we going to see a fix for this? My kids and I beat the ender dragon right before this bug hit. (On a realm.) Then when we went to go get elytra, we discover the hard way that we just can’t. We’ve been frustrated and angry ever since that Mojang could even let such a major bug into production, and then even more so that it has taken so long to fix - and now I realize it’s going to be, what, six months more before we see a fix? This is shameful, to treat customers with such disrespect.
The same happened to three of us on a bedrock realm. One got through after taking a lot of damage. One died once, and one died twice.
Please see https://youtu.be/I_5LQJHrJeU for why this change is so important. I have a giant potion brewer machine that I could make about 20% smaller if target blocks worked like they do on Java.