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In my previous world, I had a Netherfortress located not 20 blocks away from my portal. It had both Netherwart and a Blaze spawner. I was properly spoiled.
I started a new hardcore mode world, and this time it was a different story....
I very carefully scoured the area around my portal, out to about 500 blocks and found exactly one Netherfortress. It had no Netherwart (lava got it) nor a Blaze spawner. I was not happy.
Finally just decided I would hunt and hunt until I found a Netherfortress with what I needed. I went to the Nether with enough Obsidian so I could build another portal back once I found my target. I headed in roughly one general direction, strafing left and right to check out hopeful sites. After several hours and 3 useless Netherfortresses (damn you lava!!!) I finally found one. It was perfect, had a nice location, Blaze spawner, a little bit of Netherwart (lava only ate one side for a change). Ya! All set for potion magic.
Built a portal in the fortress and jump back to the overworld. Check F3.... oh my god, I'm 13000 blocks away from 0,0 which means I think I'm about 14000 blocks from my home base. Hmmm, not going to jog that and being Hardcore mode there is no suicide subway to get home.
Go back to Nether. The journey to get here from the original portal was really perilous. Lots of building bridges across huge lava lakes while praying the Ghasts stay away until I'm on the opposite shore. Also realized that I would want to go back and forth between my home base and this fortress. What to do?
I decided I would just tunnel all the way back to my original portal. I've learned from previous worlds that unlike the Overworld, the really low Y numbers (<20) tend to be almost void of lava, caves or anything but endless Netherack. I obtained a huge amount of cobblestone from the Overworld via the new portal in the fortress and crafted a pile of picks, dug a whole straight down to Y15 and began digging straight north.
Long story short, I dug this ridiculously long tunnel first N and then E back to my original portal. Only broke through to lava about 5 times and was quick with the dirt so no problem. The relief when I finally dug out a block and saw cobble, knowing I was at my little fortification with the original portal was unbelievable. Also found out that my search for the fortress had worn out 3 pieces of armour (should really be some notification for that) so any battle might have been my last.
In the end, took all of my Iron, all the rail I'd scavenged from Abandoned Mines, piles of booster rails and built a railway back down the tunnel, all 1600 blocks worth (I didn't go in a straight line back to the first portal).
The trip time, one direction, in the Minecart is three minutes and 20 seconds. It actually works out pretty well, gives me a chance to make a cup of tea while the cart churns along.
Now I have the Blaze spawner all locked up, a tree farm, chicken ranch, netherwart farm and potion laboratory all setup in the fortress. It was a journey and fine adventure all around. I even managed to collect 3 Ghast tears from the search (not that I think I'll ever use them).
TL;DR My Netherfortress is 1600 blocks away from my Nether portal. Built a minecart railway to travel to and fro.
Though I didn't need it, the first one was literally within sight of the portal I built, and there's another across a lava lake but within sight of that. Grabbed the netherwort in there and brought it back to my main nether base and started a farm from it. Now I have more than I'll ever use. Oh yeah, one of the blaze spawners is already enclosed in it's own natural cave, no need to do much with it to bock them in. The other spawner in the fortress is out in the open though.
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To tell them how to live is to prevent them living.
Usually, I can find nether ruins 300-500 meters away from my main portal. I will typically move my portal up into the ceiling and tunnel through the ceiling layer, adding a tower with a ladder to get back down to any Nether ruins I find.
As far as adding other Nether portals, I usually always add the portal in the desired destination in the overworld, then move the associated Nether portal into the ceiling and add another tunnel and rail line.
Pro Tip:
1. Get the netherwart
2. Replant right next to your original portal
3. ...
4. Profit.
Well I wanted the blaze spawner too. It also just kind of amused me to build the railway. In truth I'm sure if I fired up Minecraft X-Ray it would happily show me two dozen fortresses that I missed, but that wouldn't be any fun would it?
Well in my current world, I spawned around 30-40 blocks from one...it was one of the biggest fortresses I've ever seen... normally my portals lead quite close to Nether Fortress. By close I mean from around 30-300 blocks away...
If i can't be bothered to find one, I just use an outdated x-ray texture pack, that way the bricks show up as pink so I can spot them easier...
How is it even possible for your house to be 14,000 blocks away when I have generated a world and went to the cords: X: 10,000 Z: 10,000 and it was in the middle of either an infinite ocean or the largest ocean I've seen on minecraft. I'm just curious if it was just the world that generated like that or if worlds have limits out to a certain point then just spawn water.
I started a new hardcore mode world, and this time it was a different story....
I very carefully scoured the area around my portal, out to about 500 blocks and found exactly one Netherfortress. It had no Netherwart (lava got it) nor a Blaze spawner. I was not happy.
Finally just decided I would hunt and hunt until I found a Netherfortress with what I needed. I went to the Nether with enough Obsidian so I could build another portal back once I found my target. I headed in roughly one general direction, strafing left and right to check out hopeful sites. After several hours and 3 useless Netherfortresses (damn you lava!!!) I finally found one. It was perfect, had a nice location, Blaze spawner, a little bit of Netherwart (lava only ate one side for a change). Ya! All set for potion magic.
Built a portal in the fortress and jump back to the overworld. Check F3.... oh my god, I'm 13000 blocks away from 0,0 which means I think I'm about 14000 blocks from my home base. Hmmm, not going to jog that and being Hardcore mode there is no suicide subway to get home.
Go back to Nether. The journey to get here from the original portal was really perilous. Lots of building bridges across huge lava lakes while praying the Ghasts stay away until I'm on the opposite shore. Also realized that I would want to go back and forth between my home base and this fortress. What to do?
I decided I would just tunnel all the way back to my original portal. I've learned from previous worlds that unlike the Overworld, the really low Y numbers (<20) tend to be almost void of lava, caves or anything but endless Netherack. I obtained a huge amount of cobblestone from the Overworld via the new portal in the fortress and crafted a pile of picks, dug a whole straight down to Y15 and began digging straight north.
Long story short, I dug this ridiculously long tunnel first N and then E back to my original portal. Only broke through to lava about 5 times and was quick with the dirt so no problem. The relief when I finally dug out a block and saw cobble, knowing I was at my little fortification with the original portal was unbelievable. Also found out that my search for the fortress had worn out 3 pieces of armour (should really be some notification for that) so any battle might have been my last.
In the end, took all of my Iron, all the rail I'd scavenged from Abandoned Mines, piles of booster rails and built a railway back down the tunnel, all 1600 blocks worth (I didn't go in a straight line back to the first portal).
The trip time, one direction, in the Minecart is three minutes and 20 seconds. It actually works out pretty well, gives me a chance to make a cup of tea while the cart churns along.
Now I have the Blaze spawner all locked up, a tree farm, chicken ranch, netherwart farm and potion laboratory all setup in the fortress. It was a journey and fine adventure all around. I even managed to collect 3 Ghast tears from the search (not that I think I'll ever use them).
TL;DR My Netherfortress is 1600 blocks away from my Nether portal. Built a minecart railway to travel to and fro.
How about you?
Cheers!
1. Get the netherwart
2. Replant right next to your original portal
3. ...
4. Profit.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/626786-v2016-amidst-strongholds-village-biome-ect-finder/
Though I didn't need it, the first one was literally within sight of the portal I built, and there's another across a lava lake but within sight of that. Grabbed the netherwort in there and brought it back to my main nether base and started a farm from it. Now I have more than I'll ever use. Oh yeah, one of the blaze spawners is already enclosed in it's own natural cave, no need to do much with it to bock them in. The other spawner in the fortress is out in the open though.
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To tell them how to live is to prevent them living.
As far as adding other Nether portals, I usually always add the portal in the desired destination in the overworld, then move the associated Nether portal into the ceiling and add another tunnel and rail line.
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Well I wanted the blaze spawner too. It also just kind of amused me to build the railway. In truth I'm sure if I fired up Minecraft X-Ray it would happily show me two dozen fortresses that I missed, but that wouldn't be any fun would it?
If i can't be bothered to find one, I just use an outdated x-ray texture pack, that way the bricks show up as pink so I can spot them easier...
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