The road to completing a nether portal in Minecraft is long and potentially arduous. When playing survival mode, its not as easy as whipping out obsidian blocks and igniting them. It sometimes requires hours of preparation. Finishing that nether portal means gaining access to the hellish Nether, a place filled with hostile mobs, intimidating environments and imposing nether fortresses. Its also the only place to find a wide variety of unique materials and crafting items, making it a valuable location to have access to.
There are two viable methods of getting to the Nether, so youre not out of luck yet. Read on to find out how.
How To Make Portals in Minecraft
Required Materials to make a Nether Portal
In Minecraft, these are the materials you can use to craft a nether portal:
Build a Nether Portal: Mine obsidian blocks
This is an involved process, so we grouped the instructions into four parts.
Obsidian blocks create the frame for your Nether Portal. To obtain obsidian, you need a water bucket, a diamond pickaxe, and a pool of red-hot lava!
Step 1: Equip your water bucket and gather water.
Step 2: Find a pool of lava and shower it with the water.
Step 3: Once the lavas cools, retrieve the water using the empty bucket.
Step 4: Mine the resulting obsidian using a diamond pickaxe.
Build an End Portal: Build the Frame
Standing or hovering in place, set 12 End Portal Frame blocks on the ground in a 25 x 25 square grid — three on each side. You must place these blocks in a specific direction or the End Portal will not ignite.
Step 1: Consider yourself standing on block zero. Without moving, count two block spaces forward — as shown above — and place your first End Portal Frame block in the “two” spot. Place the second and third blocks on each side of the first block.
At this point, there should be an empty block space — the number 1 shown above — between you and the End Portal Frame blocks.
Step 2: Without moving, turn 90 degrees in place and repeat Step 1.
Step 3: Without moving again, turn 90 degrees in place and repeat Step 1.
Step 4: Finally, without moving again, turn 90 degrees in place and repeat Step 1 to place the final three blocks.
As shown above, we placed a grass path block in the center to demonstrate where we stood while using red wool blocks to demonstrate the one-block space between the player and the End Portal Frame blocks.
Note the arrows. The End Portal Frame block engravings absolutely must point inward toward the player for the portal to open. If not, the portal won’t activate.
The layout shown above is incorrect. Notice how the engravings don’t point inward but instead point away from the frame. These engravings absolutely must point inward, which is why placement is extremely important.
FAQ
How do you make a portal in minecraft in creative mode?
- Nether Portal (block) – The purple, indestructible, transparent, vortex-animated block that fills in a nether portal.
- Ruined portal – The naturally-generating formations of obsidian.
- Funky Portal — April fools portal, made by throwing a book and quill into a nether portal.
What are the 4 portals in Minecraft?
- Nether Portal (block) – The purple, indestructible, transparent, vortex-animated block that fills in a nether portal.
- Ruined portal – The naturally-generating formations of obsidian.
- Funky Portal — April fools portal, made by throwing a book and quill into a nether portal.
How do you create a portal to the nether in Minecraft?
- Nether Portal (block) – The purple, indestructible, transparent, vortex-animated block that fills in a nether portal.
- Ruined portal – The naturally-generating formations of obsidian.
- Funky Portal — April fools portal, made by throwing a book and quill into a nether portal.