I don't want it to be open all the time. I want it to be safe... If there is not a way, I'm going to make a safe base in Nether towards the Nether Portal...
To close a portal, you can break one of the blocks of obsidian and put it back. Although there is no way to directly close a portal in Survival mode, that will still do the same thing.
I don't want it to be open all the time. I want it to be safe... If there is not a way, I'm going to make a safe base in Nether towards the Nether Portal...
EDIT: Forgot to specify.
In the nether the usual way of breaking the portal with water will not work (no water in the nether). Breaking one of the obsidian blocks will work, but there's no way to automate that. What is unsafe about portals anyway?
If you are concerned about the occasional pigman spawning, simply build a fence around the portal to keep them contained,
or build a trap that kills them when they step out of the portal.
In the top picture, it might be a little hard to see, but in front of the portal there is a wood fence post in the middle of the nether brick fences, which does not connect, and that leaves a gap you can walk through but pigmen cannot. Another option would be to just use a fence gate (if/when they "fix" that connection stuff).
In the bottom picture there is a 25 block fall onto hoppers that collect the drops and puts them into a chest. It is the world's slowest gold farm, but it keeps the zombie pigmen out of my base.
I don't want it to be open all the time. I want it to be safe... If there is not a way, I'm going to make a safe base in Nether towards the Nether Portal...
EDIT: Forgot to specify.
To close a portal, you can break one of the blocks of obsidian and put it back. Although there is no way to directly close a portal in Survival mode, that will still do the same thing.
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You can create a redstone mechanism that uses two buttons to toggle the portal on/off - YT clip here:
You can only do this on the Overworld side as water wont work in the Nether.
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In the nether the usual way of breaking the portal with water will not work (no water in the nether). Breaking one of the obsidian blocks will work, but there's no way to automate that. What is unsafe about portals anyway?
If you are concerned about the occasional pigman spawning, simply build a fence around the portal to keep them contained,
or build a trap that kills them when they step out of the portal.
In the top picture, it might be a little hard to see, but in front of the portal there is a wood fence post in the middle of the nether brick fences, which does not connect, and that leaves a gap you can walk through but pigmen cannot. Another option would be to just use a fence gate (if/when they "fix" that connection stuff).
In the bottom picture there is a 25 block fall onto hoppers that collect the drops and puts them into a chest. It is the world's slowest gold farm, but it keeps the zombie pigmen out of my base.
use a lava bucket in the nether to destroy the portal or you could use a disperser with tnt
Tks guys
Good suggestions. I'm going to try some of these.
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