How to make a portal in Minecraft (Nether or End Portal)
14.03.2024 - 13:53
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Minecraft has been around for ages, and it's seen countless updates and expansions over the years. The most entertaining updates have given players new locations to explore and enemies to do battle with – and no where is that more evident than with the updates that brought us the Nether and the End. These biomes are filled with deadly creatures and exciting loot, but they're not exactly easy to reach.
Difficulty
Hard
Duration
1 hour
What You Need
If you want to quickly get to the Nether or the End, you'll need to craft a portal in Minecraft. Unfortunately, these are a bit tricky to build and require heaps of resources. And before you can build an End Portal, you'll need to build a Nether Portal and track down elusive items from a Nether Fortress.
Interested in checking out these high-level biomes? Here's how to make a portal in Minecraft, including instructions for a Nether Portal and End 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.
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Step 3: Once the lavas cools, retrieve the water using the empty bucket.
Step 4: Mine the resulting obsidian using a diamond pickaxe.
Build a Nether Portal: Create flint and steel
This is what you need to light the obsidian frame and create the Nether Portal. Here you need two types of ore: Iron and gravel. With gravel, just mine it with anything — including your hand — until flint appears. Iron ore must be smelted in the Furnace to create iron ingots.
Step 1: Open your Furnace.
Step 2: Place iron ore into the top square.
Step 3: Place fuel into the bottom square, including wood, charcoal, and coal — basically, anything that burns.
Step 4: Drag the resulting iron ingot down into your inventory.
Note: As shown above, you can place more than one iron ore and one fuel into the Furnace at once to create multiple iron ingots in a single sitting. The Furnace will continue smelting until one or all resources are depleted or you close the Furnace.
Next, with flint and iron ingots now in your inventory, you can make the flint and steel tool.
Step 5: Open your Crafting Table.
Step 6: Place one iron ingot into the top square in the left column.
Step 7: Place one flint into