Q&A for How to Make a Nether Portal in Minecraft

The nether is not actually located underground, and you won't find it by digging. The nether exists in a different dimension, and can only be accessed by the nether portal.

From Nether, you can get lots of good stuff, including mobs and a Nether fortress (if you find one).

The nether is comprised mostly of netherrack with lakes and rivers of lava. You'll find occasional soul sand pits, and glowstone will hang from the ceiling. You may be able to find nether quartz in caves. You may come across a nether fortress, loaded with loot and dangerous enemies.

Yes, if you follow the steps. You can also go into the nether portal when you are in the creative mode.

No, the nether is a different dimension, so you would end up nowhere. Don't try, it will waste your energy.

You would need obsidian which is found in mines and flint and steel which is crafted from flint (from gravel) and iron ingots.

You can get yourself some coal from a wither skeleton, gunpowder from a chest and some quarts from the ores. Open your inventory with e and put the ingredients stated before in your mini crafting table. The outcome should be a fire charge. Take that fire charge and shoot it at the portal, and it should open right up.

It might not work if you don't put the size in correctly, especially when you go to use your flint. It should be 5 up and 4 across.

You make one with 3 diamonds and 2 sticks in a T shape inside a crafting table.

Stronghold are structures that occur naturally underground and are primarily important because they house end portals. Strongholds can be located using eyes of ender.

You will respawn as usual, but you will have to go back to the stronghold.

A lot! As long as the portal is a square/rectangle, it can work. You can make your entire wall a Nether Portal if you're feeling crazy.

Pick a random direction and mine. Or, if you spawned in a cave, follow the cave until you get to the city of nether or hit the end. Most caves will end close to the surfaces, so try to start digging there.

Yes. Follow the steps, and make it out of obsidian. It might look different, but it will still be the Nether.

Try again. Make sure the measurements of the obsidian are correct. Light it a few times, sometimes it's buggy.

Mobs that live in the nether include Zombie Pigman, Ghast, Magma Cube, Blaze, Wither Skeleton, Skeleton, Chicken Jockey, and Enderman.

Usually just find them in villages with 30 villagers or more.

Just go in it again! It should get you back to your overworld (normal world) portal!

Take your sword (diamond if possible), your bow and arrows (for the ghast and long-range fighting), charge and FIGHT!

Get Eyes of Ender, maybe 20. Throw them, and walk that direction, but catch them before they fall. Keep throwing until the Eye stops on the air when you throw it. It'll most likely be in water, so bring a boat. If in water, swim, and you should see a building. If on land, dig until you reach it!

You'll require four Netherracks and three Wither Skeleton Heads (a very rare drop when killing with Skelotons). Place one Netherrack on the ground, then a row of three on top. Then put a Wither Skeloton Head on each of the three Netherracks.

No. The end portal naturally generates in strongholds; you can't make it yourself.

You can't. The only way to make one is using cheats. You have to find one in a Stronghold.

Actually, there is a different portal called the End Portal. You have to find it; it transports you to The End dimension.

The End is a dimension made of green end blocks. "Ender" isn't really a thing, it's just added to a mob or object's name to show that it is from The End.

You can't really hatch the dragon's egg. Once you've defeated the Ender Dragon, a new one won't spawn.

It probably isn't a glitch. Make sure you light it up with a flint and steel. Nether portals have to be bigger than 3x2, but smaller than 23x23.

Yes, you can. You can find obsidian in chests in villages, ruined portals, nether fortresses, and bastion remnants. You can also get obsidian by bartering with piglins.

There are structures called ruined portals in the game that were added in the 1.16 update. They are incomplete nether portals that spawn in the overworld. They aren't lit and aren't complete, so you have to manually fill them in and light them.

Blaze bridges are not a thing that exist in Minecraft. However, you can find blaze spawners in Nether fortresses in the Nether. Nether fortresses can generate in all Nether biomes. Each Nether fortress can have up to 2 blaze spawners. Look out for open rooms made of nether brick fences and blocks with a spawner in the middle.