OK. So I just made my first Nether portal and went to the Nether and I pop up in a cave surrounded on all sides by netherake (or however that is spelled) and the cave is completely submerged on all sides by lava. I've tried digging up, left, right, forward, back, and every way to go and all of it just leads to more lava pouring in my cave. And digging down just gets me to bedrock. How do I get out of this cave so I can experience the Nether?
1. Get mcedit
2. Use mcedit to remove the portal
3. Create another portal or create another one in mcedit either way it should spawn your portal in a different place.Create the portal on the overworld of course
1. Get mcedit
2. Use mcedit to remove the portal
3. Create another portal or create another one in mcedit either way it should spawn your portal in a different place.
Create the portal on the overworld of course
I have no idea what mcedit is. Is that some kind of mod? I don't use mods.
It will send you back to the same portal if you are too close to where you built your previous portal. I can't remember how far you will have to go, its several hundred blocks. So try building another portal several hundred blocks out, and if that doesn't work, start counting by thousands.
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1) Stash your stuff
2) Bring a stone pickaxe
3) Go to nether
4) Flood cave with lava to turn off nether portal and make the entire cave surface invalid for future spawning of new nether portals. Using a bucket might help here.
5) Commit suicide
6) Respawn at overworld
7) Go through portal
8) A new portal will be spawned
9) Go back to the overworld and get your stuff
10) Explore nether
You'll just have to be careful when flooding the cave, because if there are any valid areas for spawning nether portals left, you'll end up with a second portal with lava all around you.
Alternatively, you can carefully fill up the cave with disposable blocks (cobblestone/dirt/netherrack) and then turn off the portal with TNT or a bed explosion. Fill in the resulting hole, then commit suicide.
1. Fill in cave with some solid block until it's just the portal and a 1*2 room on the side
2. Mine out the portal completely (Either sacrifice a diamond pickaxe, or use an iron pickaxe and wait ages - obsidian takes 1min to break with an iron pickaxe and dosen't drop, but you just need it to go.)
3. Fill in the portal area so you are in a 1*1*2 room and cannot move
4. Place lava bucket at head level and die
This removes all valid spawning spaces for that portal, and therefore when you next go through your overworld portal you MUST spawn somewhere else. I'd advise also moving your overworld portal to somewhere high up, like the top of a mountain, as then you're more likely to spawn above the lava ocean in the nether.
1. Fill in cave with some solid block until it's just the portal and a 1*2 room on the side
2. Mine out the portal completely (Either sacrifice a diamond pickaxe, or use an iron pickaxe and wait ages - obsidian takes 1min to break with an iron pickaxe and dosen't drop, but you just need it to go.)
3. Fill in the portal area so you are in a 1*1*2 room and cannot move
4. Place lava bucket at head level and die
This removes all valid spawning spaces for that portal, and therefore when you next go through your overworld portal you MUST spawn somewhere else. I'd advise also moving your overworld portal to somewhere high up, like the top of a mountain, as then you're more likely to spawn above the lava ocean in the nether.
Do move your Overworld portal location if you break the one in the Nether as suggested and then suicide. If the portal is unable to find a flat spot with open blocks above it to create itself on within a certain range of the coordinates that it "should" spawn at based on the location of the Overworld portal then it will create its own cave like the one you just found yourself in.
If you break that portal and then go back through your existing portal in the Overworld you will most likely just end up in another cave a few meters away from the first one. You have to relocate the Overworld portal to avoid this happening again.
1) Stash your stuff
2) Bring a stone pickaxe
3) Go to nether
4) Flood cave with lava to turn off nether portal and make the entire cave surface invalid for future spawning of new nether portals. Using a bucket might help here.
5) Commit suicide
6) Respawn at overworld
7) Go through portal
8) A new portal will be spawned
9) Go back to the overworld and get your stuff
10) Explore nether
You'll just have to be careful when flooding the cave, because if there are any valid areas for spawning nether portals left, you'll end up with a second portal with lava all around you.
Alternatively, you can carefully fill up the cave with disposable blocks (cobblestone/dirt/netherrack) and then turn off the portal with TNT or a bed explosion. Fill in the resulting hole, then commit suicide.
1. Fill in cave with some solid block until it's just the portal and a 1*2 room on the side
2. Mine out the portal completely (Either sacrifice a diamond pickaxe, or use an iron pickaxe and wait ages - obsidian takes 1min to break with an iron pickaxe and dosen't drop, but you just need it to go.)
3. Fill in the portal area so you are in a 1*1*2 room and cannot move
4. Place lava bucket at head level and die
This removes all valid spawning spaces for that portal, and therefore when you next go through your overworld portal you MUST spawn somewhere else. I'd advise also moving your overworld portal to somewhere high up, like the top of a mountain, as then you're more likely to spawn above the lava ocean in the nether.
aa. do disable the portal just make a bucket, take some lava and place it in the portall. It disables it and then you jump in the lave, Just wasting one bucket. Then in the owerworld you try the portal again,
So the basic idea is.
1. Find a way to make where the portal is in the nether unusable.
2. Destroy the portal in the nether.
3. Kill self.
4. Respawn and destroy the portal in the overworld.
5. Take the portal in the overworld somewhere else and rebuild.
6. Go back to nether.
As a gamer. I don't like the kill myself part, but this seems like the best option.
"I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like,
'What is beauty?', because that would fall within the purview of your
conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems."
If this is a hardcore world the suicide method is unacceptable! Here are some alternative methods to try:
A: As mentioned above move, or make a new overworld portal. NO the height, or Y coordinate has nothing to do with portal placement. Yes you may have to move several hundred blocks. Try going in different directions if the first move only takes u back to the same portal.
B: Try digging under the lava lake, every ten blocks or so dig up to check for lava. This may be slow going and could take even longer if the world was generated with Large Biomes.
C: This is a more technical method and also my preferred one. Dig up somewhere near the portal. Make sure to check for lava dripping from the ceiling. Clear a 3X3 area in the ceiling where you can see lava dripping. Then place pistons under those blocks. Raise the pistons, lower the pistons, and add more blocks. Repeat this process until the pistons are unable to raise. Now dig up in the center, and ONLY the CENTER. What this does is create a vertical tube that you should be able to climb up and out.
Issues with solution C, the pistons can only push 12 blocks in any direction. The lava lake should not be more than 10 blocks deep. If their is a lava falls directly above your tube it may be extremely difficult to find the surface. Most lava oceans can be found around Y layer 32, if the safety tube is above that and your still finding lava, try making another tube.
If this is a hardcore world the suicide method is unacceptable! Here are some alternative methods to try:
A: As mentioned above move, or make a new overworld portal. NO the height, or Y coordinate has nothing to do with portal placement. Yes you may have to move several hundred blocks. Try going in different directions if the first move only takes u back to the same portal.
B: Try digging under the lava lake, every ten blocks or so dig up to check for lava. This may be slow going and could take even longer if the world was generated with Large Biomes.
C: This is a more technical method and also my preferred one. Dig up somewhere near the portal. Make sure to check for lava dripping from the ceiling. Clear a 3X3 area in the ceiling where you can see lava dripping. Then place pistons under those blocks. Raise the pistons, lower the pistons, and add more blocks. Repeat this process until the pistons are unable to raise. Now dig up in the center, and ONLY the CENTER. What this does is create a vertical tube that you should be able to climb up and out.
Issues with solution C, the pistons can only push 12 blocks in any direction. The lava lake should not be more than 10 blocks deep. If their is a lava falls directly above your tube it may be extremely difficult to find the surface. Most lava oceans can be found around Y layer 32, if the safety tube is above that and your still finding lava, try making another tube.
Hope this helps to avoid the suicide methods
Well said. I especially like your piston solution.
I would probably just go with option B by going down to bedrock and tunnel along doing test holes up every 50 blocks until you find one that lets you go up to Y=30 without encountering a lava lake. Place ladders as you're digging up to keep lava from flowing in on you when digging up.
Option A would require building a new nether portal in the overworld at least 1200 blocks away to avoid linking back to your existing portal.
2. Use mcedit to remove the portal
3. Create another portal or create another one in mcedit either way it should spawn your portal in a different place.Create the portal on the overworld of course
I have no idea what mcedit is. Is that some kind of mod? I don't use mods.
So If i move the portal it will make a new portal in the nether? I was under the impression it would just send me back to the same portal.
2) Bring a stone pickaxe
3) Go to nether
4) Flood cave with lava to turn off nether portal and make the entire cave surface invalid for future spawning of new nether portals. Using a bucket might help here.
5) Commit suicide
6) Respawn at overworld
7) Go through portal
8) A new portal will be spawned
9) Go back to the overworld and get your stuff
10) Explore nether
You'll just have to be careful when flooding the cave, because if there are any valid areas for spawning nether portals left, you'll end up with a second portal with lava all around you.
Alternatively, you can carefully fill up the cave with disposable blocks (cobblestone/dirt/netherrack) and then turn off the portal with TNT or a bed explosion. Fill in the resulting hole, then commit suicide.
The danger is of course the bits of lava that are placed in netherrack in 1.5.
Either that, or break the portal overworld-side and move it, but it will need to be quite a distance to prevent it connecting to your existing portal.
2. Mine out the portal completely (Either sacrifice a diamond pickaxe, or use an iron pickaxe and wait ages - obsidian takes 1min to break with an iron pickaxe and dosen't drop, but you just need it to go.)
3. Fill in the portal area so you are in a 1*1*2 room and cannot move
4. Place lava bucket at head level and die
This removes all valid spawning spaces for that portal, and therefore when you next go through your overworld portal you MUST spawn somewhere else. I'd advise also moving your overworld portal to somewhere high up, like the top of a mountain, as then you're more likely to spawn above the lava ocean in the nether.
It's a program where you can edit your worlds and what is in them, so technically it's not a mod.
Do move your Overworld portal location if you break the one in the Nether as suggested and then suicide. If the portal is unable to find a flat spot with open blocks above it to create itself on within a certain range of the coordinates that it "should" spawn at based on the location of the Overworld portal then it will create its own cave like the one you just found yourself in.
If you break that portal and then go back through your existing portal in the Overworld you will most likely just end up in another cave a few meters away from the first one. You have to relocate the Overworld portal to avoid this happening again.
So the basic idea is.
1. Find a way to make where the portal is in the nether unusable.
2. Destroy the portal in the nether.
3. Kill self.
4. Respawn and destroy the portal in the overworld.
5. Take the portal in the overworld somewhere else and rebuild.
6. Go back to nether.
As a gamer. I don't like the kill myself part, but this seems like the best option.
"I'm an engineer. That means I solve problems. Not problems like,
'What is beauty?', because that would fall within the purview of your
conundrums of philosophy. I solve practical problems."
A: As mentioned above move, or make a new overworld portal. NO the height, or Y coordinate has nothing to do with portal placement. Yes you may have to move several hundred blocks. Try going in different directions if the first move only takes u back to the same portal.
B: Try digging under the lava lake, every ten blocks or so dig up to check for lava. This may be slow going and could take even longer if the world was generated with Large Biomes.
C: This is a more technical method and also my preferred one. Dig up somewhere near the portal. Make sure to check for lava dripping from the ceiling. Clear a 3X3 area in the ceiling where you can see lava dripping. Then place pistons under those blocks. Raise the pistons, lower the pistons, and add more blocks. Repeat this process until the pistons are unable to raise. Now dig up in the center, and ONLY the CENTER. What this does is create a vertical tube that you should be able to climb up and out.
Issues with solution C, the pistons can only push 12 blocks in any direction. The lava lake should not be more than 10 blocks deep. If their is a lava falls directly above your tube it may be extremely difficult to find the surface. Most lava oceans can be found around Y layer 32, if the safety tube is above that and your still finding lava, try making another tube.
Hope this helps to avoid the suicide methods
Well said. I especially like your piston solution.
I would probably just go with option B by going down to bedrock and tunnel along doing test holes up every 50 blocks until you find one that lets you go up to Y=30 without encountering a lava lake. Place ladders as you're digging up to keep lava from flowing in on you when digging up.
Option A would require building a new nether portal in the overworld at least 1200 blocks away to avoid linking back to your existing portal.
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I tried it with terrible results. I gave my wife my glasses for a second, a creeper showed up and now my wife is pregnant.
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