I'm planning on building a chapel around the next one. None of the obsidian will be visible, it'll just be a hallway that leads into the portal space. No need for corner blocks there.
If youre looking for an ancient look its best to go with corners.
If youre looking for a more modern lookit might be best to make an 0-shaped portal. Theamount of obsidian blocks you use to shape it depends on how 0-like you want it to look.
And the only way to make Nether portals is to build a chapel around them or place them in your underground castle at bedrock level.
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no corner blocks for me either. they're a waste of precious, precious obsidian.
If youre that concerned with obsidian you can just make a portal via molding lava into a portal shape and just add water.
I use the four corners. To me it looks better that way. Maybe next one I make I'll leave off the top two corners so that I can put flaming netherrack there instead... I also tend to use the cooling lava method to cast my portals... I find mining obsidian to take to long and a pain in the butt... so I just use lava to cast anything I want out of obsidian.
I don't like to have obsidian blocks just hovering in mid-air, so I do fill up the top corners. I also like to have the portal level with the ground, so I leave out the bottom two corners since they're not visible anyway.
since i dont make my portals buolt into the ground, they show the corners. since obsidian is now easier to mine, i can gather more. I have a efficieny 3 / unbreaking 2 diamond pickaxe.
...I'll just add the corners. what else will i use it for?
I've only made one and we haven't gone through it yet, but I do this.
But you can't tell that the bottom corners are missing because they are level with the platform I put the portal on (modeled it after the Dark Portal in WoW)
Burning netherrack blocks in the corners. And of course you can't see the bottom since I always set it to be level with the floor. In that case the bottom corners are either empty, or just the same material the floor is made out of.
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^^ That's how I do mine.
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And the only way to make Nether portals is to build a chapel around them or place them in your underground castle at bedrock level.
If youre that concerned with obsidian you can just make a portal via molding lava into a portal shape and just add water.
Wait, no, that isn't right...
I like to keep the corners on mine. Makes the structure feel more solid. Just looks fragile to me without them.
1. Find lava.
2. Add water.
3. Build house on top of obsidian
4. Congrats! You now live on top of a material more valuable than gold!
Exactly this.
/troll
I am utterly embarrassed by how I acted four years ago...
...I'll just add the corners. what else will i use it for?
Then I upgrade to
And thanx to MCEdit, on one world I have
Note: Sponge=Glowstone, Water=Portal block
But you can't tell that the bottom corners are missing because they are level with the platform I put the portal on (modeled it after the Dark Portal in WoW)
Burning netherrack blocks in the corners. And of course you can't see the bottom since I always set it to be level with the floor. In that case the bottom corners are either empty, or just the same material the floor is made out of.