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
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
Dont forget to mine the corners!
You can mine the corners? WOW :0
minecraft is so cool
You don’t even need to place the corners at all
So you just need ten? What do you place in the corners instead?
14 Obsidian in a 4 width x 5 height rectangle frame. Use Flint and Steel to set fire to it. Done
Hope this helped.
It’s even easier! The corners don’t need to be filled in, so you technically can just mine 10 :)
Agree, use cobblestone in corners to assist build then remove one top section done
You don't even need to mine!
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Just stock up some lava buckets, and then throw some water at them
Don’t forget to set fire to the inside of the frame for best results.
Creating a backlink for this, thanks.
Tags AND links. And probably some community plugins. I mean, this is a NETHER PORTAL.
Petition to make this a minecraft sub every Thursdays
Hell yeah!
Perhaps you meant to post in r/Breath_of_the_Wild ?
r/lostredditors
Wrong dimension?
Yeah, just like that, for the end You make it with glowstone and water (xd)
You're missing the eyes, how is it supposed to activate. Idk why everyone calls them eyes though they're nether skeleton heads
Pretty sure this breaks rule 3 but idk
Yes. Great job
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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!
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
4x5
4x5 or bigger
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
A much faster way to turn off a portal is to use a water bucket and place it in the portal blocks
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
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.
minecraft.wiki is a great resource for the underlying mechanics of the game
My solution to mobs coming through my main gate is to have it fenced off.
I like railroad tracks as the mobs won’t cross them
Can someone confirm if this is true in bedrock and java? Ive seen this used before but thought it was patched or version exclusive?
So today you learned that if you intentionally break a portal it stops working, even when you want it to 🤔
Very creative house, that’s the first dirt hut with nothing in it I’ve ever seen!
Aww thas so cute :3
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 :)
Your lieing but if not google it
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?
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.
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
You don't need water to build it, just take obsidian with you and use a flint
Just so much quicker with water :D totally forgot about mining obsidian.
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.
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.)
Thanks :)
Yep.
Does water Work normal?
I don't understand your question.
Just wanted to share my newest creation with you. What do you think about it, any ideas or recommendations, let it me know!
Mine sits inside of a hole I made in the wall leaded to my mineshaft
Good work my friend! (My lazy ass can’t do that in Minecraft)
Yeah yeah, and 5 minutes later having an even better Nether portal then me XD
Add some netherock on the floor
Cool
Sick!
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
Nah, I use glowing obsidian because it reminds me of the netherrack
I fill them with beacons or dragon eggs. Gives nice colour palette to the portal.
I fill them with deny block because people can't break the portal any more
No corners for the first portal, maybe the 2nd, then full for the rest
I had a 300 hour world and never once made a full portal
I used to steal corners from portal on the nether side and then put them in overworld
You can just mine the whole portal, they'll regenerate next time you use it from the over world!
Or you can mine out one block of the portal every time and create a forest of slightly incomplete portal frames in the nether
you can also steal the things that generate whenever your either in netherrack or in the sky
Full obsidian is too expensive so i put netherite blocks in corners
No but it grows underground and above ground with a simple infinite lava farm
Looks amazing ! You should put netherrack where the Portal is so it looks liké the nether is infecting the world :)
how to build a nether portal in Minecraft
Building a Nether Portal in Minecraft: Key Steps
Gather Materials:
Mining Obsidian:
Constructing the Portal Frame:
Example layout:
O O O
O O
O O
O O O
(O = Obsidian)
Igniting the Portal:
Entering the Nether:
Tips:
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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