What Do You Need to Make a Nether Portal?
Nether Portals offer a gateway to the Nether, Minecraft’s underworld. There are a few ways to construct Nether Portals, but they always require the same materials:
At least 14 obsidian blocksAn item that can create fire, such as lava, a fire charge, or flint and steel
The minimum dimensions for a Nether Portal are four obsidian wide and five obsidian high (for a total of 14 obsidian blocks). If you’d like, you can construct even larger frames and build adjacent Nether Portals that share sides.
How to Make a Nether Portal in Minecraft
Follow these steps to construct a portal to the Nether: When you arrive, the portal you built will follow you. To return to the overworld, reenter the portal.
How Much Obsidian You Need and Where to Get It
You’ll need at least 14 obsidian per Nether portal, so you should collect as much as possible. To mine obsidian in Minecraft:
How to Deactivate Portals
There are a few things that can deactivate Nether Portals:
Explosive blastsWaterDestroying the obsidian frame with a pickaxe
Although the obsidian frame can withstand explosions, the portal itself cannot. Nether Portals can be reactivated the same way you originally activated them.
How to Link Nether Portals
Anytime you make a new Nether Portal, a link between the Nether and the overworld is created. Portals work both ways, so you can go back and forth. Once you’re in the Nether, you can place portals in strategic locations to create shortcuts to the overworld. The Nether is smaller than the overworld by a ratio of 8:1 on the X-axis. In other words, if you move one block to the left or right on the map while in the Nether, you will have moved the equivalent of eight blocks in the overworld. The Y-axis ratio is 1:1, so this doesn’t apply when moving up or down on the map.
