

It only takes one portal block to teleport to the Nether. Like bedrock, portal blocks cannot be broken (although they can disappear) however, they can be placed via mods. The purple portal blocks emit light of level 11, which is less powerful than a torch but is more powerful than glowing Redstone ore. Nether Portals can't be activated in the End.Īs of update 1.7.2, Nether Portals can be made into different shapes and sizes, allowing players to build portals on a massive scale, with a minimum size of 4×5 (without corners) and a maximum size of 23×23. Once the frame is constructed, a player can set the space inside the frame on fire, using flint and steel, or lava and a flammable block, or some other means, for example, a fire charge. This fills the space within the frame with purple-colored portal blocks, which has an animated swirling texture and resembles a vortex and is accompanied by sound and particle effects. Adjacent Nether Portals can share obsidian blocks. The four corner blocks of the frame are not required to activate the Portal, but Portals created by the game will always include them.

5 Linkage Between Overworld and the NetherĪ Nether Portal consists of a rectangular frame (4×5 minimum, 23×23 maximum) of obsidian.
