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Step-by-Step Guide: How to Make a Portal in Minecraft

Minecraft is a popular sandbox game that lets players explore craft build in a blocky world full of dangers wonders. One of the coolest features of Minecraft is the ability to travel between dimensions which opens up new challenges resources adventures. To access these alternate realms you need to create a portal a mystical gateway that connects your current location with another place. In this guide we’ll show you how to make a portal in Minecraft step by step both for the overworld the Nether.

Required Materials

Before you start building a portal you need to gather some materials that are essential for the recipe. Here are the items you’ll need:

– Obsidian: a dark hard block that can be mined with a diamond pickaxe. You need at least 10 blocks of obsidian to create a portal but you can use more if you want to make it bigger or fancier. You can obtain obsidian by finding natural sources in lava lakes or creating your own by pouring water over lava.

– Flint steel: a tool that allows you to ignite flammable objects such as wood wool or portals. You can craft flint steel by combining flint iron ingots in a crafting table or by looting it from some structures such as desert temples or nether fortresses.

Building the Overworld Portal

The first portal we’ll create is the one that connects the overworld the main dimension of Minecraft with the Nether a hellish dimension full of monsters fortresses rare resources. Here are the steps to build the portal:

1. Choose a location for your portal. It should be a flat open area that is not too close to other structures or water sources as they can interfere with the portal’s activation transport.

2. Clear the area of any blocks of grass dirt or other fillers. Use your pickaxe to mine a frame of obsidian that is 4 blocks wide 5 blocks tall leaving an empty space in the middle.

3. Stinside the frame ignite the bottom corners of the portal with your flint steel. You should see a purple swirly effect that indicates the portal is active.

4. Step into the portal wait for the teleportation to complete. You’ll see a loading screen then appear in the Nether which is usually darker redder scarier than the overworld. Be prepared for a hostile environment as there are new mobs like ghasts piglins hoglins that can attack you on sight.

5. To return to the overworld you simply need to re-enter the portal in the Nether. It will transport you back to the same location where you created the portal in the overworld.

Building the Nether Portal

If you want to explore other dimensions besides the Nether such as the End the dimension where the Ender Dragon resides you need to create a different type of portal known as the End portal. Here are the steps to build the portal:

1. Collect some blaze rods ender pearls. You can obtain blaze rods from blazes fiery mobs that spawn in Nether fortresses ender pearls from endermen tall black mobs that teleport attack when provoked. You need at least 12 ender pearls 6 blaze rods to activate the end portal.

2. Craft some eyes of ender by combining blaze powder ender pearls in a crafting table. You need at least 12 eyes of ender to fill the frames of the end portal.

3. Find a stronghold a large underground maze made of stone bricks cobblestone that contains the end portal. Strongholds are rare hard to find but you can use eyes of ender to locate them by throwing them following their trajectory. They will point in the direction of the nearest stronghold but you may need to throw several of them to reach your destination.

4. Once you find a stronghold explore it until you find the end portal room which is characterized by a ring of empty frames made of bedrock a pool of lava. Place a block in the middle of the pool use your eyes of ender to fill the frames starting from the corners ending with the middle blocks. The frames will activate create a purple vortex that leads to the End.

5. Step into the vortex wait for the teleportation to complete. You’ll appear in the End a mysterious dimension made of a black void islands of end stone a giant dragon that you need to defeat to finish the game.

6. To return to the overworld you need to defeat the dragon enter the exit portal that spawns at the center of the End. It will transport you back to the overworld in a different location than the one you left.

Conclusion

Creating portals in Minecraft is a fun useful way to explore new realms conquer new challenges. By following this step-by-step guide you can make portals to the Nether the End two of the most intriguing dangerous dimensions of Minecraft. Remember to gather the necessary materials choose the right locations for your portals prepare for any risks or rewards that await you in your journeys. Happy portal making!