How to make the Nether portal

The world of Minecraft has no more secrets for you. You have explored far and wide many of its places and spent fantastic moments, even with friends. You have heard of a place, not directly reachable, called Nether which turns out to be a great challenge for those who access it.

Fascinated by this opportunity, you have come to know that it is necessary to create a portal to reach it. However, you have no idea how this is to be built and what materials are needed. If that’s the way it is, you don’t have to worry, because I’m here to help you.

In today’s guide, in fact, I will show you how to make the Nether portal to reach this dark and mysterious place, which hides many dangers but as many treasures. Are you ready to get started? Let’s not waste any more time and get to work immediately! Sit down comfortably and carefully follow all the instructions I have prepared for you in this tutorial. In no time at all, you will have created this portal to continue enjoying this fantastic video game. I just have to wish you a good read and, above all, a good time!

Index

• What is the Nether
• Create the necessary tools
  • Pickaxe in diamonds
  • Bucket
  • Flintlock
• Collect obsidian
• Building the Nether Portal
• Alternative method of building a Nether portal

What is the Nether

The Nether in Minecraft is an inhospitable parallel dimension, similar to hell. It features a gloomy, desert biome with rivers and magma cascades, as well as aggressive creatures that will attack players’ avatars on sight. It is poorly lit, as the only light comes from the luminescence of magma and some rocks, and there is no concept of time, nor of changing climatic conditions.

The Nether puts a strain on players who find themselves in this wild place, as it hides dangers at every corner. So what’s the point of reaching the Nether? Is it so fundamental? The answer is yes, because in order to progress and have access to new projects it is necessary to collect materials that can only be found in this place.

In fact, the Nether can be a source of resources in abundance such as gold (from the elimination of some creatures), of plants such as the Nether wart, essential for alchemical distillates, or of objects of great value that can be found at the interior of chests in the Nether Fortresses.

In this regard, a player will have to bring with him all the necessary equipment to survive and return the collected resources to the dimension of origin. Generally, it is not recommended to carry objects of great value and difficult to manufacture because, in the event that your avatar is deleted, you will be teleported into your world, losing your equipment and the contents of your inventory.

The advice is to bring armor and easy-to-build weapons, such as iron ones, and food for healing. Also, you need to bring blocks to create a room around the portal to protect it and have a more or less safe place to fold back in case of danger.

Furthermore, the fire, which is the predominant element in this place, also used by some creatures as a weapon, can destroy the portal and thus remain stuck in the Nether. It is therefore important to bring some locks with you to reactivate the portal.

I also remind you that it is not possible to build a bed in the Nether, because you would cause it to explode as soon as you try to use it, almost more devastating than TNT.

Having said that, it’s time to take action, showing you the tools and resources needed to build an access portal to this hostile dimension.

Create the necessary tools

The first step to take to create a Nether portal is to create the indispensable tools to collect the resources useful for the purpose. I will therefore show you what they are and I will also point out some tools that can facilitate the activation of a Nether portal.

Pickaxe in diamonds

The main resource for creating a Nether portal is obsidian: this is obtained when interacting on an obsidian block by means of a diamond pickaxe. Before addressing the topic of this very important resource, which I will talk about in the next paragraph, I will show you how to make a pickaxe with this material.

A diamond pickaxe is made of two materials: wood and diamonds. Wood can be harvested by interacting on a tree with bare hands or by means of an ax. Diamonds, on the other hand, can be collected inside mines or, in general, underground with an iron or higher quality pickaxe.

As for the wood, once collected, it must be converted into sticks (two are needed) using a workbench. The process of creating a stick involves placing logs to be converted into boards; subsequently, two blocks of planks must be placed vertically on two squares to get the sticks.

For diamonds, on the other hand, you need to create an iron pickaxe (using two sticks and three iron ingots), the creation process of which is similar to what I will show you in the next lines regarding the creation of a diamond pickaxe. After you have a pickaxe, try to find a cave, a mine or dig tunnels to go as deep as possible to have a better chance of finding the diamond blocks.

Also, in some chests that you can find in the world of Minecraft, you can have the opportunity to find diamonds, to be used immediately for the creation of a pickaxe of this invoice.

Now that you have the resources you need, it’s time to craft a pickaxe out of this precious material. Open the workbench and place three diamonds horizontally on the first line of squares. Then insert two wooden sticks vertically, starting from the central box: in this way you will have formed a “T” with the materials and you will be shown the result, that is a diamond pickaxe, which you can equip or place in your inventory.

Bucket

L ‘ obsidian is generated independently as well as with all other resources in the ground, such as precious metals and stones. Obsidian is obtained from the contact between water and magma. When exploring caves, obsidian can be found due to underground rivers interacting with magma lakes.

However, when this process is not encountered in a “natural” way, it is necessary to perform some forcing. The buckets are just that purpose: to transport water from flooding the magma to create obsidian. A bucket consists of iron ingots and can be used to hold water, but also magma.

To create a bucket, you therefore need a workbench, inside which you have to place three iron ingots. The arrangement to follow is that which provides for the positioning of three iron ingots horizontally and then moving the central one row lower: by doing so, you will create an iron bucket to equip or place in the inventory.

An empty bucket, however, is useless: you will therefore have to fill it. To do this, simply approach the item you want to collect and interact on it, with the empty bucket equipped, to fill it.

Flintlock

The steel is one of the most immediate and easy-to-make objects if you want to generate fire. A Nether Portal requires fire to be activated. You can then understand how useful a flintlock is, especially if you are in the Nether and you have to activate a dead portal to go back.

Making a flintlock requires a workbench, an iron ingot, and a unit of flint. This last resource can easily be found whenever you destroy a block of gravel, very common in the world of Minecraft.

After gathering the necessary resources, place an iron ingot and a unit of flint horizontally. This way, you will instantly create a flintlock to equip or place in your inventory.

Collect obsidian

As already mentioned in the previous paragraphs, obsidian is an essential material for the creation of a Nether portal. Obsidian is generated by the contact of magma with water.

Magma is present in some cases on the surface, but it is easy to find it underground. But before you interact with the magma, it is important that you carry several buckets of water with you.

First, equip the water bucket and interact on the wall of a block that is adjacent to the magma lake. By doing this, a lot of water will be poured into the magma, generating obsidian (a dark-colored stone).

Now, take the empty bucket and interact on the block of water you placed earlier, to immediately collect all the spilled liquid. In this way, you will have free rein, without the water bothering you when harvesting obsidian.

If the magma lake is large enough, you can use multiple buckets of water to convert the magma to obsidian. Always be careful to collect the water for use in other sections of the lake.

If you have followed my directions, you will find yourself in front of an expanse of obsidian, to be collected by interacting with the diamond pickaxe you brought with you.

Building the Nether Portal

The Nether Portal is a rectangular or square-shaped structure that features an obsidian frame. Its dimensions are at least five blocks vertically by four horizontally, but larger portals can be built.

Access to the Nether occurs through the purple surface that is generated inside the portal, after its activation. It is therefore important that the frame of the portal is built entirely of obsidian, but it is not essential that this has the corners, which can be replaced by any material.

To build the Nether Portal, first place four blocks of obsidian horizontally (or two obsidian blocks with two blocks of any material at the ends). At the ends, raise the sidewalls of the portal with four more blocks of obsidian (or three of obsidian and one of any material in the upper margin).

Finally, place the remaining obsidian blocks to close the frame and complete the construction of the Nether portal. At this point, ignite a flame on the portal frame, using for example a flintlock, to see it active.

All you have to do now is position yourself inside it and wait a few seconds to be teleported to the Nether.

Alternative method of building a Nether portal

If you do not have the possibility to collect diamonds to make a pickaxe with the materials listed above (useful for collecting obsidian), you can try to create the portal by generating the obsidian directly at the construction site of the portal.

To do this, you only need about ten buckets to collect magma and the same number for water. As I have already told you in the previous paragraphs, magma can be found underground or in some areas of the surface where it emerges.

Once you have the buckets full of magma and the buckets of water, you can start building the Nether portal. First, though, I recommend that you build a five-block tall structure that will act as a scaffold to reach the highest area of ​​the portal.

First, pour the contents of one bucket of water onto the ground and immediately, over it, pour the magma contained in the other bucket. In this way, the two materials in contact will generate an obsidian block. Continue with this principle to make the base, the walls and, finally, the top edge.

You can follow the scheme I told you about in the previous paragraph, to make a complete portal or one without the corners. After creating the frame, remove the scaffolding and ignite a fire on the portal to activate it and gain access to the Nether. It wasn’t that hard, was it ?!

 

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