When I initially spawned in the end on survival mode, I spawned on a small obsidian patch near the main island but hand nothing to build a bridge. So I jumped to my death and came back. But when I returned the Ender Dragon was missing. I built a bridge to the island and explored it entirely, knocked out all the healing towers, but no dragon. I am not sure if the ender dragon when flying around when I spawned the first time.
Could it have not spawned? Been trapped under the island? No idea. But no dragon, no exit portal. If I don't figure this out will have to jump to my death again to escape the end.
Update: Jumped to my death, restarted game, re-entered the end, still no dragon anywhere to be found and still no exit portal indicating it died somehow
When I initially spawned in the end on survival mode, I spawned on a small obsidian patch near the main island but hand nothing to build a bridge. So I jumped to my death and came back. But when I returned the Ender Dragon was missing. I built a bridge to the island and explored it entirely, knocked out all the healing towers, but no dragon. I am not sure if the ender dragon when flying around when I spawned the first time.
Could it have not spawned? Been trapped under the island? No idea. But no dragon, no exit portal. If I don't figure this out will have to jump to my death again to escape the end.
Update: Jumped to my death, restarted game, re-entered the end, still no dragon anywhere to be found and still no exit portal indicating it died somehow
Deleted the DIM1 directory for my saved game, reloaded, The End regenerated with an ender dragon. All good now.