What to do if I lost my nether portal?
If you lost your nether portal, don’t worry, you can easily find it or create a new one by understanding how nether portals work and by following a few simple steps, such as rebuilding the obsidian frame, activating the portal with flint and steel or a fire charge, and mining obsidian to create a new portal. To find your lost nether portal, you can try to remember its location in the Overworld, use torches or blocks to guide you back, or rebuild a new portal and see where it takes you in the Nether.
Understanding Nether Portals
To find a lost nether portal, it’s essential to understand how nether portals work and the relationship between the Overworld and the Nether.
FAQs
1. How do you find your nether portal if you lost it?
If you’re in the Nether and your portal in the Overworld gets destroyed, just go back to the Overworld and see where you end up, then mine the obsidian from the new portal that you just entered the Overworld through, so that you can build another one at your base.
2. How do I restore my nether portal?
You can use the existing obsidian to rebuild the Nether Portal, but you must replace the crying obsidian with obsidian, since crying obsidian is not a proper material to construct a Nether Portal.
3. How do you replace a nether portal?
Unless you’ve broken the Netherside portal, and died to get home, you’d need to build an Overworld portal more than 1024 blocks away from the first to get it to generate a new portal in the Nether.
4. How do I get back to the same nether portal?
To get back to the same nether portal, place torches or blocks to guide you back, and make sure to note the coordinates of your nether portal in both the Overworld and the Nether.
5. Why won’t my nether portal take me back to the same place?
Your overworld portal and nether portal may have the wrong coordinates, because for one block in the Nether you go 8 in the Overworld, so look at your coordinates in the Nether and line them up with the Overworld coordinates of your overworld portal.
6. Do you need two nether portals?
This situation occurs when the Nether portal’s location is roughly equidistant between the 2 Overworld portals (within 8 blocks Overworld distance difference), and building 2 Nether portals side by side is probably better for destination clarity than building a 2-in-1 portal.
7. What to do when you find a broken portal in Minecraft?
To repair a ruined portal, rebuild the obsidian frame and activate the portal with flint and steel or a fire charge.
8. Can you make a new nether portal in Minecraft?
A nether portal is built as a vertical, rectangular frame of obsidian (4×5 minimum, 23×23 maximum), and the four corners of the frame are not required.
9. How do you restore a portal in Minecraft?
To restore a portal, rebuild the obsidian frame and activate the portal with flint and steel or a fire charge.
10. How long do Nether portals last?
When a player in the Overworld or the Nether stands in a nether portal block for 4 seconds, the player is taken to the other dimension.
11. What is crying obsidian for?
Crying obsidian is a new decorative block in Minecraft, used to craft a respawn anchor, with 6 crying obsidian and 3 glowstone blocks.
12. Can a nether portal spawn?
Portals try to avoid spawning over lava, in midair, or inside rock, but they do so by spawning nearby, thus, a new portal from the Overworld has a disproportionate chance of being next to an abyss, lava lake, or netherrack wall.
13. Is it rare to find a broken portal in the Nether?
In the Nether, ruined portals with air pockets generate from Y-level 32 to 100, and ruined portals without air pockets have a 50% chance to spawn from Y-level 27 to 29, and a 50% chance to spawn from Y-level 29 to 100.
14. What are the 4 portals in Minecraft?
The four portals in Minecraft are the Nether portal, the End portal, the exit portal, and the ruined portal.
15. Why did my nether portal teleport me somewhere else?
It is possible to end up in a situation where a Nether portal “randomly” places the player in 1 of 2 possible Overworld destination portals, because the Nether portal has two effective coordinates as it is 2 blocks wide.