Apologies if this has been posted, but I don't see it here yet. As you most or all have probably seen, when you build your portal in the Main World (MW), and travel to hell, you don't return by the same path. However, there is a way to get your built portal to link up with hell so it works two ways, and it's in a convenient location.
I was trying to see if I could build a portal in hell at the right spot that would spawn (hopefully!) underground in my cave area. I tried counting the blocks roughly, to work out how many 16:1 steps I'd need to take in hell to be at the right spot. I went in hell, built it a short spot away - maybe 4 blocks each direction, and lit the portal up. When I stepped through the new portal in hell, it emerged from the first portal I had built in the MW. Now my original portal works two ways - I enter and leave hell by the same spot. There's also the other portal that was spawned when I first entered hell, which I no longer reach by the first portal I made - so the link has been changed.
As for direction to dig in hell to match the real world, I knew this because I'd previously built two other portals in hell, and seen where they took me to in the MW. They gave me bearings.
Okay, so what you're saying is you followed your portal to the nether, measured distances there, went back to the surface, measured distance from your base it took you, went back to the nether, created a portal in the appropriate (proportional) distance, and that portal was somehow smart-linked to your base's portal, surfaceside?
Let's say you're using x and y to refer to directions forwards/backwards and left/right. I went around 4 directions in x direction, then around 4 in y. So diagonally I was around 5 or 6 blocks from my original start location. For you, you will need to work out which direction to walk, and roughly how far, but I imagine it's the same.
4. Make new portal
*-- Magically links to your original surface world portal--*
5. Exit through new portal
6. Arrive at surface world, in your base
Yep, and 7. Go through your portal in your base, end up back at new portal made in step 4.
Okay, so what you're saying is you followed your portal to the nether, measured distances there, went back to the surface, measured distance from your base it took you, went back to the nether, created a portal in the appropriate (proportional) distance, and that portal was somehow smart-linked to your base's portal, surfaceside?
Yeah that sounds about it. Though I didn't measure the spaces in the nether until I knew the relative distances in the MW first. Added an image to my original post.
Let's say you're using x and y to refer to directions forwards/backwards and left/right. I went around 4 directions in x direction, then around 4 in y. So diagonally I was around 5 or 6 blocks from my original start location. For you, you will need to work out which direction to walk, and roughly how far, but I imagine it's the same.
4. Make new portal
*-- Magically links to your original surface world portal--*
5. Exit through new portal
6. Arrive at surface world, in your base
Yep, and 7. Go through your portal in your base, end up back at new portal made in step 4.
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What is probably happening is that in your example, the ideal location for the exit from your first portal is embedded in rock in Nether, so it opens the other portal as it is the nearest safe spot.
Good thinking, I suspect you're right. That makes me think that the solution I posted above will therefore work for others in a similar circumstance to me. I'd seen a few people report that the portals for them were not two way, so I assumed it was a universal bug, but I suppose you're saying that for some it worked two way first time.
Hmm I'm having some difficulty in measuring. My entrance portal is at the bottom of a winding staircase which makes it difficult to measure the horizontol distance between it and the 'exit' portal which pops out in a cave under the ocean, I think approximately 55-80 squares north in the real world. I've tried clearing out a wide swath in the Slip around the portal on that side, but I haven't had any luck with constructing portals in the 'approximate' locations to relink them (though I am popping into all kinds of caves...)
Hmm I'm having some difficulty in measuring. My entrance portal is at the bottom of a winding staircase which makes it difficult to measure the horizontol distance between it and the 'exit' portal which pops out in a cave under the ocean, I think approximately 55-80 squares north in the real world. I've tried clearing out a wide swath in the Slip around the portal on that side, but I haven't had any luck with constructing portals in the 'approximate' locations to relink them (though I am popping into all kinds of caves...)
Not really sure what to say....perhaps the vertical positioning of the gate in the Nether matters too? Since you're underground, maybe your Nether gate needs to be much lower to match up? I imagine that might be a 1:1 match in blocks, but maybe it's not. If you do figure it out, be sure to post it :smile.gif:
I was able to repeat the strategy I posted in this thread to link up another two portals that originally weren't, so I'm fairly confident this works. This second portal in my main world was lower, near bedrock, so 60+ squares below. I built the new portal in the Nether just 4 blocks below the existing portal, and about 4 back from it, maybe 4 to the side. I don't know for sure if the vertical direction maps 16:1 or whatever as well, but in this instance that assumption worked and linked up to my underground portal.
I noticed (in my save at least) that when i enter the portal in the nether from one side it gets me back to my original portal, but when i enter the same portal in the nether from the other side i spawn at an a different portal near my farm which is like 50 or so blocks away.
Yeah, I've figured this out and gotten this to work pretty nicely, but I'll tell ya', it's REALLY annoying to have to sit there and count out the number of blocks between two portals. Would be nice if we could actually see our current coordinate and calculate that way.
I rebackupped my save (when I heard the dying an loosing all stuff is a bug that now is fixed) and now i just got 3 portals that just generated themselves in the nether from entering and exiting my portal.
All 4 lead back to the original portal.
For all that have portals spawned like 50 blocks away (had two of them in the normal world):
Try standing on one side or the other side of the portal while teleporting, on my old save i noticed one side lead to the farther portal and the other to the original portal.
Apparently Notch actually made it 8:1 in the end, not 16:1 like he had said earlier. So if some of you are having difficulty, it might be because of this!
You're right about getting obsidian. But even if Notch "fixes" this so that portals always link as you expect, you can still get unlimited obsidian. You would just need two linked portals near each other. Use one for travelling between the main world and the nether, and the other keep breaking one of the gates, then travelling through the other to rebuild it.
Small spoiler alert? Probably not needed...
Apologies if this has been posted, but I don't see it here yet. As you most or all have probably seen, when you build your portal in the Main World (MW), and travel to hell, you don't return by the same path. However, there is a way to get your built portal to link up with hell so it works two ways, and it's in a convenient location.
I was trying to see if I could build a portal in hell at the right spot that would spawn (hopefully!) underground in my cave area. I tried counting the blocks roughly, to work out how many 16:1 steps I'd need to take in hell to be at the right spot. I went in hell, built it a short spot away - maybe 4 blocks each direction, and lit the portal up. When I stepped through the new portal in hell, it emerged from the first portal I had built in the MW. Now my original portal works two ways - I enter and leave hell by the same spot. There's also the other portal that was spawned when I first entered hell, which I no longer reach by the first portal I made - so the link has been changed.
As for direction to dig in hell to match the real world, I knew this because I'd previously built two other portals in hell, and seen where they took me to in the MW. They gave me bearings.
Apolloe
Edit: image of relative portal locations below...
Okay, so what you're saying is you followed your portal to the nether, measured distances there, went back to the surface, measured distance from your base it took you, went back to the nether, created a portal in the appropriate (proportional) distance, and that portal was somehow smart-linked to your base's portal, surfaceside?
Let's say you're using x and y to refer to directions forwards/backwards and left/right. I went around 4 directions in x direction, then around 4 in y. So diagonally I was around 5 or 6 blocks from my original start location. For you, you will need to work out which direction to walk, and roughly how far, but I imagine it's the same.
Yep, and 7. Go through your portal in your base, end up back at new portal made in step 4.
Yeah that sounds about it. Though I didn't measure the spaces in the nether until I knew the relative distances in the MW first. Added an image to my original post.
well im confuse
DAMMIT HEROBRINE YOU TOUCH THAT DIAMOND SHOVEL AND I SLAP YOU WITH IT
Good thinking, I suspect you're right. That makes me think that the solution I posted above will therefore work for others in a similar circumstance to me. I'd seen a few people report that the portals for them were not two way, so I assumed it was a universal bug, but I suppose you're saying that for some it worked two way first time.
Not really sure what to say....perhaps the vertical positioning of the gate in the Nether matters too? Since you're underground, maybe your Nether gate needs to be much lower to match up? I imagine that might be a 1:1 match in blocks, but maybe it's not. If you do figure it out, be sure to post it :smile.gif:
what's 1/16th of around 55?
NOW I think I get it! Thanks.
All 4 lead back to the original portal.
For all that have portals spawned like 50 blocks away (had two of them in the normal world):
Try standing on one side or the other side of the portal while teleporting, on my old save i noticed one side lead to the farther portal and the other to the original portal.
You're right about getting obsidian. But even if Notch "fixes" this so that portals always link as you expect, you can still get unlimited obsidian. You would just need two linked portals near each other. Use one for travelling between the main world and the nether, and the other keep breaking one of the gates, then travelling through the other to rebuild it.
Hopefully you get yours to link up soon!