How to Make Nether Portal in Minecraft

This sandbox game was created in 2011 and offers a nice, extended, interactive space to its players through three distinct dimensions: Overworld, Nether, and end. These areas have different landscapes with their essence of challenges and are interlinked by portals. Just one of these ways one travels between Overworld and the fiery Nether dimension is through a Nether portal. We will outline how to create a Nether Portal in the steps as follows.

How to Make a Nether Portal in Minecraft

Method 1:

Step into the Nether by first creating a Nether Portal. For this, you will want Obsidian. It's a very valued resource. It's mined only with a Diamond Pickaxe. To craft that, you will need three Diamonds and two Sticks, which again is tough to get because of the rarity of the Diamonds.

Obsidian is formed by the eruption of lava into water. It's easily located anywhere that lava naturally occurs, or lava can be poured into a depression and then covered in water. A Nether Portal will need at least 10 Obsidian blocks; for an ideal portal, 14 are needed.

First, place two obsidian blocks on the ground to mark the bottom. Now, make a 4x4 base of cobblestone. On each cobblestone block, place three obsidian blocks, and on top of those, place a placeholder block on each column. Connect the blocks on top using two obsidian blocks, then remove the cobblestone corner blocks.

You will need Flint and Steel to turn on the Nether Portal. Once on, the portal center will glow purple. Bring Flint and Steel so you can turn it back on when you return.

Method 2:

If you can't make a diamond pickaxe, you can still build a Nether Portal with things that are more readily available: lava and water. Make a hole 2 blocks deep and fill it with lava. Then, put water on the lava to turn it into obsidian. This obsidian will make up the base of your portal.

Next, you need to build up a 4x5 obsidian wall behind this hole. You can simply build the obsidian wall by pouring some lava on the wall and then extinguishing it quickly with water. For efficiency, you may want to build the portal near some lava and water so that you don't waste too much time traveling to and fro.

Make sure you have at least 10 blocks of obsidian filled in the portal frame. Once the structure is ready, light it using flint and steel.

This will get you a Nether Portal, open the gateway to a dimension strange and full of danger.