The terrain generation in Minecraft often present players with strange abnormalities in their worlds, but one rather unfortunate fan is denied access to the End dimension after they discover a Stronghold containing a portal that has been cut in half due to a glitch in world generation. While it's certainly a rare occurence, some other Minecraft players have actually ran into similar such issues before, particularly on the game's Bedrock Edition where technical problems are notoriously common.
Strongholds in Minecraft, as many players surely already know, offer the means to access the End dimension where the Ender Dragon can be battled. These abandoned facilities are typically located deep underground, usually consisting of a sprawling network of stone tunnels and chambers where hostile mobs reside. Finding them is usually the hard part — while they can be discovered accidentally through regular underground exploration, their lengthy distance from the world's spawn point means that locating them usually requires a handful of Eyes of Ender. Players will need these rare items anyway if they're looking to explore a Stronghold, as the artifacts are required to activate the dormant End portal that can be found at the heart of most Strongholds.
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That is, if the Minecraft structure actually contains an End portal that is correctly and fully generated. One fan known as Superior_UwU on Reddit shared a post on the site showing a half-portal that they found instead, the important structure split in half due to a weird terrain generation issue. The attached image shows half of the portal room existing as normal, with the other half instead consisting of a solid wall of
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