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How to Build a Nether Portal in Minecraft

TL;DR To build a Nether portal, you need at least 10 blocks of obsidian arranged in a rectangle that is 4 blocks tall and 5 blocks wide. Light the inside of the frame with flint and steel to activate it.

Gathering Materials

To create a Nether portal, you first need to gather obsidian. Obsidian can be created by pouring water over lava source blocks. To mine obsidian, you'll need a diamond pickaxe, which requires three diamonds and two sticks to craft [1]. You can find diamonds around Y=12 in the game world [1].

Building the Portal Frame

The standard size for a Nether portal frame is 4 blocks wide and 5 blocks high, requiring a total of 14 obsidian blocks if you fill in the corners. However, you only need 10 blocks of obsidian if you leave the corners empty, which is a common practice [2:1][2:2]. You can use other materials like cobblestone to assist in building or as placeholders for the corners [2:4].

Activating the Portal

Once your frame is complete, you need to activate the portal by setting fire to the inside of the frame using flint and steel or a fire charge [2:5]. If done correctly, the portal will turn purple and become functional.

Portal Mechanics

Nether portals connect the Overworld to the Nether dimension. When activated, they attempt to link to another portal at the equivalent position in the opposite dimension. If no portal exists there, a new one will be generated nearby [5:2]. This mechanic can sometimes result in unexpected portal connections when returning from the Nether [5:1].

Additional Tips

  • If you want to deactivate a portal temporarily, you can remove an obsidian block or pour water on the portal blocks [5:3].
  • Be cautious of mobs coming through the portal; fencing off the area can help prevent this [5:8].
  • For more detailed mechanics and strategies involving Nether portals, resources like the Minecraft Wiki are invaluable [5:7].
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How to Build A Nether Portal

Posted by newtxtdoc · in r/Minecraft · 5 years ago
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First, you have to collect a diamond pickaxe. Diamonds can be found around Y=12. You will need at least three of them. Using those three diamonds, you must put two sticks under them in the middle crafting table slots. That will form a pickaxe.

Now you must find obsidian. It is pretty hard to find naturally occurring so try to pour a water onto lava. It will form obsidian. Using your pickaxe, you must mine fourteen blocks of obsidian. Make sure to watch out for lava below the obsidian!

Now find a safe place because it is nether portal building time. Make sure not to misplace any blocks since it takes so long to mine them! Place it in this order:

O - Obsidian; A - Air

0000

0AA0

0AA0

0AA0

0000

(The shape is upright. Don't build it flat!)

Now the last step, you have to make a flint and steel. All you will need is flint from gravel and iron from iron ore. Put them diagonally in a crafting table and BAM! You got one now.

Now for the moment of truth. Light the bottom obsidian on fire and watch the portal activate!

Thanks for reading, hope you have fun in the nether! It is pretty cool.

Edit 1: Apparently you can mine the corners??? That is news to me but I will trust it. Thanks WetWipe6414!

Edit 2: WOWZERS! Apparently you do not even need a pickaxe. If you can't find any diamonds, just use an iron bucket and make a cast with lava and water. CRAZY DAY

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WetWipe6414 · 5 years ago

Dont forget to mine the corners!

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newtxtdoc · OP · 5 years ago

You can mine the corners? WOW :0

minecraft is so cool

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Mathcrafter00 · 5 years ago

You don’t even need to place the corners at all

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newtxtdoc · OP · 5 years ago

So you just need ten? What do you place in the corners instead?

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How do you build a nether portal?

Posted by EntireManagement9914 · in r/ObsidianMD · 2 years ago
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williamsettler · 2 years ago

14 Obsidian in a 4 width x 5 height rectangle frame. Use Flint and Steel to set fire to it. Done

Hope this helped.

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kanersps · 2 years ago

It’s even easier! The corners don’t need to be filled in, so you technically can just mine 10 :)

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Abides1948 · 2 years ago

Agree, use cobblestone in corners to assist build then remove one top section done

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DiMaSiVe · 2 years ago

You don't even need to mine!

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Just stock up some lava buckets, and then throw some water at them

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dru_bullard · 2 years ago

Don’t forget to set fire to the inside of the frame for best results.

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[deleted] · 2 years ago

Creating a backlink for this, thanks.

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RadulphusNiger · 2 years ago

Tags AND links. And probably some community plugins. I mean, this is a NETHER PORTAL.

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house_monkey · 2 years ago

Petition to make this a minecraft sub every Thursdays

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[deleted] · 2 years ago

Hell yeah!

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TheWDave · 2 years ago

Perhaps you meant to post in r/Breath_of_the_Wild ?

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[deleted] · 2 years ago

r/lostredditors

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taozen-wa · 2 years ago

Wrong dimension?

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Is this how you make nether portal? I've never played Minecraft before.

Posted by NightBlad456 · in r/Minecraft · 7 months ago
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dragtym11 · 7 months ago

Yeah, just like that, for the end You make it with glowstone and water (xd)

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8rok3n · 7 months ago

You're missing the eyes, how is it supposed to activate. Idk why everyone calls them eyes though they're nether skeleton heads

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azureBrown · 7 months ago

Pretty sure this breaks rule 3 but idk

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HunterMan_13 · 7 months ago

Yes. Great job

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How do I make a nether portal?

Posted by traveller_time · in r/Minecraft · 5 years ago

I have made a 4×4 obsidian block frame from 12 blocks. Tried steel/flint, fire charge and water but nothing seems to work.

Edit : Thanks guys... I own a portal now!

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

It needs to be 5x4, but you don’t need the corners, so 19 blocks minimum, 5 blocks up, gap of 2, go up by 5 again ( if you’re not having corners, go up by 4, and then the 5th replace with cobble or something ) and then in the gaps of 2, put obsidian there

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That_Uno_Dude · 5 years ago

4x5

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PinballCM · 5 years ago

4x5 or bigger

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casultran · 5 years ago

https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Tutorials/Nether_portals

I think your frame is not big enough. You need at least 2x3 for the portal and in this case the frame is 4x5.

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Today I learned something new about nether portals

Posted by OldAd6571 · in r/Minecraft · 2 months ago

I am probably a little bit late on the Minecraft game. I started playing it about a year ago. My husband caught me and started playing it too! Now we play together in survival mode on a two person server and have the time of our lives! 🤣

The point: I have recently discovered if you remove a brick from a portal it turns it off and you can leave it that way. We’ve had monsters come through. But, if you are working on a nether hub and want to land at that specific portal and it is turned off You will land in a room about 50 blocks below. It is a frightening experience it has happened twice. Today I figured out why.

Nothing like being out of supplies and landing in a dark cave, (expecting to land in a safe place and a warm cozy bed) where mobs are beating the crap out of you.

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Shack691 · 2 months ago

What you’re experiencing is anecdotal, not actually how it works.

The actual way it works is that nether portals will attempt to connect to another portal at the equivalent position in the other dimension, if that fails they will generate a new one at the equivalent position. If the area for a portal is not clear then it’ll scan around to find the closest position it can. This leads to situations where returning will generate a new portal since there’s a viable position closer to its equivalent position than the original portal.

Overworld to Nether is eight times the x and z axis, the y axis is directly equivalent so it’s just that specific section of your nether that portals come out to have an equivalent y of 50.

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ggrieves · 2 months ago

This makes a lot of sense. It explains why I tried moving a portal but it connected back to the same one, it was because there was a structure in the way on the nether side. It also explains why sometimes you will create a portal, go to the other side, then return back to some random new portal in a cavern instead of where you left and you can't ever connect back to the original

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Nevanada · 2 months ago

It's actually real fun to learn because you can use it to make some neat mechanisms, like strategic portal activation and deactivation, to get into a secure location

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OldAd6571 · OP · 2 months ago

Thank you so much for the wonderful and thoughtful answer! I ended up removing the new portal that was created inside the cavern went back to the original, lit it back up, made the trip through and it worked as expected.

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207nbrown · 2 months ago

A much faster way to turn off a portal is to use a water bucket and place it in the portal blocks

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Original_Fern · 2 months ago

That's a great moment of gaming, the spooks and the discoveries. Enjoy the ride! Its so much better when you share it with loved ones

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BatLarge5604 · 2 months ago

Yeah in our realm the entire nether transport system is half slabbed and glass roofed, it's quite the thing to behold but entirely necessary.

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upsidedowntaco_ · 2 months ago

minecraft.wiki is a great resource for the underlying mechanics of the game

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ChibiOkamiko · 2 months ago

My solution to mobs coming through my main gate is to have it fenced off.

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moolord · 2 months ago

I like railroad tracks as the mobs won’t cross them

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tokeo_spliff · 2 months ago

Can someone confirm if this is true in bedrock and java? Ive seen this used before but thought it was patched or version exclusive?

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Garbagemunki · 2 months ago

So today you learned that if you intentionally break a portal it stops working, even when you want it to 🤔

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My ocean house... does anyone know how to make a nether portal?

Posted by Small_Cantaloupe_572 · in r/Minecraft · 4 years ago
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HeyItsYaBoi25 · 4 years ago

press the tab called “creation”

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[deleted] · 4 years ago

Very creative house, that’s the first dirt hut with nothing in it I’ve ever seen!

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MatisParent · 4 years ago

Aww thas so cute :3

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rubiksmaster8 · 4 years ago

to make a nether portal u need 10 blocks of obsidian, two on the bottom then either obsidian or another block on each of the two, the you build up three on each side, then either obsidian or another block on top of that, then put two across those. then you light it up with a flint and steel, or fire charge, hope this helps :)

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Small_Cantaloupe_572 · OP · 4 years ago

Thanks

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rubiksmaster8 · 4 years ago

np

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datboi6942021 · 4 years ago

Your lieing but if not google it

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Can I build a nether portal in the nether?

Posted by [deleted] · in r/Minecraft · 5 years ago

Could I travel 1000 blocks random direction in nether and build new portal to enter random location in normal World? And how would that be build? Water doesnt Work in nether?

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whos_mama · 5 years ago

And since 1 block in the nether equals 8 blocks in the overworld(or something) you would come back 8000 blocks in the direction between one portal and the other, it was created as a faster transportation method.

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andyrooclayton · 5 years ago

Yes it does work but it's kind of annoying because you have to go back to your original nether portal to go back to your base don't build them close to each other

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TrashDaddy_ · 5 years ago

You don't need water to build it, just take obsidian with you and use a flint

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

Just so much quicker with water :D totally forgot about mining obsidian.

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TheRealWormbo · 5 years ago

There is no water in the nether. Anything wet (sponge or water bucket) you place there will immediately evaporate any contained water before it can affect lava.

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Urubar34 · 5 years ago

Water dosn't work in the Nether (and don't try to sleep in the nether)

8 Block in the Overworld are 1 Blocks in the nether

with this tool you can see where the corrosponding portal will be (estimate) and you can also link portals (for example i have two nether portals only a few blocks apart but both bring me to differen overworld locations.)

https://mavenspun.com/games/minecraft/

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

Thanks :)

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Paradigm_Reset · 5 years ago

Yep.

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[deleted] · 5 years ago

Does water Work normal?

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Paradigm_Reset · 5 years ago

I don't understand your question.

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Nether Portal that i made!

Posted by WhiteKnight2045oGB · in r/Minecraft · 8 months ago
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Just wanted to share my newest creation with you. What do you think about it, any ideas or recommendations, let it me know!

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TheWCKD1 · 8 months ago

Mine sits inside of a hole I made in the wall leaded to my mineshaft

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CoolGamer732 · 8 months ago

Good work my friend! (My lazy ass can’t do that in Minecraft)

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WhiteKnight2045oGB · OP · 8 months ago

Yeah yeah, and 5 minutes later having an even better Nether portal then me XD

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ElguerreroGames · 8 months ago

Add some netherock on the floor

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NIGHT956 · 8 months ago

Cool

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First_Platypus3063 · 8 months ago

Sick!

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How do you build you nether portal?

Posted by SITTRA · in r/Minecraft · 2 years ago
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KaptainKub · 2 years ago

No. That's why I use nether reactor cores, easy to make and add a nice blue to contrast the dark purple of the portal

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BoxmBash · 2 years ago

Nah, I use glowing obsidian because it reminds me of the netherrack

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First-Recording2489 · 2 years ago

I fill them with beacons or dragon eggs. Gives nice colour palette to the portal.

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MYSTERIOUS1892 · 2 years ago

I fill them with deny block because people can't break the portal any more

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Crickettt_ · 2 years ago

No corners for the first portal, maybe the 2nd, then full for the rest

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6PikachUwU6 · 2 years ago

I had a 300 hour world and never once made a full portal

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erekox · 2 years ago

I used to steal corners from portal on the nether side and then put them in overworld

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Raterus_ · 2 years ago

You can just mine the whole portal, they'll regenerate next time you use it from the over world!

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Nixavee · 2 years ago

Or you can mine out one block of the portal every time and create a forest of slightly incomplete portal frames in the nether

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NecroticYT · 2 years ago

you can also steal the things that generate whenever your either in netherrack or in the sky

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Adamant_Flame · 2 years ago

Full obsidian is too expensive so i put netherite blocks in corners

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Sexist_taco · 2 years ago

No but it grows underground and above ground with a simple infinite lava farm

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tried to build a custom nether portal any advice?

Posted by Advanced_Glass_6454 · in r/MinecraftBuild · 1 month ago
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ilyasMine · 1 month ago

Looks amazing ! You should put netherrack where the Portal is so it looks liké the nether is infecting the world :)

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how to build a nether portal in Minecraft

Building a Nether Portal in Minecraft: Key Steps

  1. Gather Materials:

    • You need Obsidian blocks (at least 10 blocks for a full portal frame, but 14 for a complete rectangular frame).
    • Flint and Steel or a Fire Charge to ignite the portal.
  2. Mining Obsidian:

    • Obsidian is created when water touches a lava source block. Use a diamond or netherite pickaxe to mine it.
  3. Constructing the Portal Frame:

    • Place the obsidian blocks in a rectangular shape:
      • Minimum size: 4 blocks tall and 5 blocks wide (2 blocks high and 3 blocks wide inside).
      • You can leave out the corners for a total of 10 blocks, or use all 14 for a complete frame.

    Example layout:

    O O O
    O     O
    O     O
    O O O
    

    (O = Obsidian)

  4. Igniting the Portal:

    • Use Flint and Steel or a Fire Charge to ignite one of the inner blocks of the frame. The portal will activate and turn purple.
  5. Entering the Nether:

    • Walk into the portal to be transported to the Nether dimension.

Tips:

  • Make sure to prepare adequately before entering the Nether, as it can be dangerous. Bring weapons, armor, food, and building blocks.
  • Consider building a safe area around your portal in the Nether to protect yourself from immediate threats upon arrival.

Takeaway: Building a Nether portal is straightforward, but ensure you have the right materials and preparation for your journey into the Nether!

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