So I'm making this post because I seem to have found a randomly generated nether portal, and I've never seen or heard this happening before. When I looked it up, the only forum posts I saw were from 2013 and such. Anyways, here is what happened in the time before I found the portal.
- Went through my manually made Nether Portal
- Spent about an hour and a half in there
- Came back and teleported through to the original portal
- Came out, sorted out what I found
- Saved, quit, went to my class
- Came back, loaded up, and went outside my house
- In the far distant sand biome, I see something new
- Go to it and find a Nether Portal. Didn't go to the area between leaving the Nether and saving/quitting. It's a full portal, and when I went through it, I teleported to the same spot my original portal takes me.
So is this just a glitch I haven't heard of yet, or is there a new game mechanic?
Actually, update to this now. After going through my nether portal and coming back, I actually teleported through to the randomly generated one. Quite annoying tbh
What are the coordinates of the different nether portals? If the one in the nether thinks your man made one is too far away, it will generate a new one that is closer to the calculated coordinates.
And if the portal in the Nether is right on the border, so to speak, the left side of it can take you to a different portal in the Overworld than the right side does.
The way to fix it is to write down the coordinates of the portal in the Overworld, divide the X and Z by 8, leaving Y the same, go to those coordinates in the Nether and build and light a portal there. That portal and the one you want to use in the Overworld should then always connect.
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If the recalculated position in the Nether isn't convenient you can shift the position a bit, less than 16 blocks in the X and Z coordinates and at any height up to the bedrock ceiling, though you might have to disable the portal in the desert to make sure the one you want to use is the closest (after recalculating the coordinates).
Have had this happen to me once. Actually had to mine up and out over a large lava lake to get to the correct position in the nether, which is probably why it placed the original nether portal so far away that it created a new portal in the overworld. Although inconvenient, the new portal I made at least dependably returned me to the correct location in the overworld,
So I'm making this post because I seem to have found a randomly generated nether portal, and I've never seen or heard this happening before. When I looked it up, the only forum posts I saw were from 2013 and such. Anyways, here is what happened in the time before I found the portal.
- Went through my manually made Nether Portal
- Spent about an hour and a half in there
- Came back and teleported through to the original portal
- Came out, sorted out what I found
- Saved, quit, went to my class
- Came back, loaded up, and went outside my house
- In the far distant sand biome, I see something new
- Go to it and find a Nether Portal. Didn't go to the area between leaving the Nether and saving/quitting. It's a full portal, and when I went through it, I teleported to the same spot my original portal takes me.
So is this just a glitch I haven't heard of yet, or is there a new game mechanic?
Actually, update to this now. After going through my nether portal and coming back, I actually teleported through to the randomly generated one. Quite annoying tbh
What are the coordinates of the different nether portals? If the one in the nether thinks your man made one is too far away, it will generate a new one that is closer to the calculated coordinates.
And if the portal in the Nether is right on the border, so to speak, the left side of it can take you to a different portal in the Overworld than the right side does.
The way to fix it is to write down the coordinates of the portal in the Overworld, divide the X and Z by 8, leaving Y the same, go to those coordinates in the Nether and build and light a portal there. That portal and the one you want to use in the Overworld should then always connect.
--
If the recalculated position in the Nether isn't convenient you can shift the position a bit, less than 16 blocks in the X and Z coordinates and at any height up to the bedrock ceiling, though you might have to disable the portal in the desert to make sure the one you want to use is the closest (after recalculating the coordinates).
Just testing.
Have had this happen to me once. Actually had to mine up and out over a large lava lake to get to the correct position in the nether, which is probably why it placed the original nether portal so far away that it created a new portal in the overworld. Although inconvenient, the new portal I made at least dependably returned me to the correct location in the overworld,
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