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How to make nether portals link up between the dimensions hey guys it’s chad another portal’s obviously been around for a very long time ever since the nether update which is actually when i i just started playing minecraft right before the nether was added to the game well i’m really surprised how many

People don’t realize how you link up nether portals if you have multiple nether portals in the overworld and then multiple in the nether sometimes they won’t link correctly so here this video we are going to explain absolutely everything there is to know about making sure these nether portals will link

Every time you go through them so here we are inside of minecraft and lucky for us we have another portal right here this is decorated because of a previous episode of omgcraft but before we go in we should take a look at our coordinates so

We’re going to go ahead and hit f3 it looks like the coordinates for right here actually are negative i’m gonna not quite jump into it quite yet but it looks like it’s negative 35 uh once i’m inside of those portal frames and negative 36. so pretty easy basically almost

Negative 35 negative 35. so let’s go ahead and jump inside of there when you’re in creative mode you immediately teleport to the other side and you can see on the other side we are at eleven eleven eleven negative five so if you didn’t know this inside of the nether

For every block that you move horizontally which means left right or really east west north south not vertically which is up and down but any horizontal block that you move in the nether you’re actually moving eight blocks in the overworld if you didn’t know those are the two

Different names for the dimensions the nether and the overworld overworld being the world that you first spawn into when you start a game so every block that we move in the nether is eight blocks in the overworld making travel by another really really useful as long as you can link up your portals

So all we really have to do is divide or multiply by eight depending on what dimension what dimension we are in they do have the same zero zero coordinate so you don’t need to worry about trying to align the dimensions in any sort of way they’re already aligned so over back in the

Over world you remember that i was negative 35 and basically we’re just gonna round negative 35 and we don’t really care so much what that middle number is because those uh that number which is also the y-coordinate or in f3 it is the number that shows up in the

Middle which is 65 uh right there in this dimension um that number is the same that one you don’t have to divide by eight so we can almost ignore it unless if you’re in a situation where you want to link up portals on multiple floors of a building

Then if say one portal was at uh y 100 and another portal uh in the nether well then that needs to be at y 100 as well so let’s go ahead and look back at here uh we’re at negative 35 basically negative 35. so if we divide

That by 8 because we are trying to find the coordinates for the nether for to uh work for it to link up well that uh divided by eight is going to be really close to the number four so negative four negative four is if we wanted to get our

Uh our portal to link up exactly we would want this portal to be at negative four negative four and in fact what the game does whenever it tries to bring you to the nether is it will try to put you at negative four negative four which will be right around here

Somewhere around here but as you can see there is nothing around us for uh for us to spawn into this is just open air so this portal was naturally generated and that’s because the game looked for the closest open area to place a portal it happened to be

This right here and so it placed a portal right there which happened to be the closest spot that it could so if we were trying if we were having issues with other portals not linking correctly we could come over here to negative four come this way

To negative oh wait no we’re going the wrong direction here we are at negative uh four again and there we go just about right here is where we would want to build our portal so i’m going to go ahead and do that and build this up there we go light this on fire

And there we go go through and if all goes according to plan we showed up at the correct portal now i do know that there is another portal over here in my world so let’s go ahead and look at this and try to create our another portal which

Should link up and both of them should be in their own separate area also it’s good to note this middle number right here 56 if for some reason we would want it to add multiple portals but right here i’m going to go ahead and stand as close as i can

We’re at negative 17 90 negative 17 90. so i’m just gonna go ahead and round because uh doing any number that’s divisible by eight is going to be probably the most useful so that would be pretty simple at 16 so that would be negative two and then we can ignore the middle number

And then i’m just gonna say uh 11 would probably be the closest number uh to the divisible by eight so negative 211 is gonna be where we want to put our next portal in order for them to link up we happen to link up in the portal that we

Uh that we just created earlier now let’s try to go we’re already at negative 2 if we come this way to 11 there we go we should be able to make a portal this way so let’s build off of here right here ish there we go

Is where we can place our next portal and we should be able to go through this and we’ll be at that larger portal hopefully i’ll go yeah there we go and our other portal is right over there so this is a good example uh so we have

This portal right here i’m going to leave this portal and head over to our first portal and you can see just the massive size difference between the locations that portal is way over there we jump through this portal we are linked correctly to this but you can see

It’s right there is so close to us in the nether but it seems so far away in the overworld that would be a reason that you would want to use the nether to get around and who knows where this portal goes to uh if we look right here

It’s uh what is it whoops it was nine negative five is what i believe it was uh nine i’m just gonna write this down negative five so if we wanted to create a portal in the over world that would connect what we would need to do is multiply

By eight so that would be seventy two by negative 40. 72 by negative 40. let’s go ahead and find that in the over world there we are 72 by negative 40 right here there we go i can’t even see the other portals there’s just too much the other one was over there the

Other one’s on the other side of that bedrock building so if we go through here if all goes according to plan there we go we are linked correctly to that portal over here we go through here we can link up to this portal yep and then if we jump back whoops

This is why we should be safe in another kid kids uh then we should be in the third portal everything linked up correctly so that is how you can link portals in minecraft another really interesting thing about nether portals is that it will remember if you go

Through a portal that portal link for around 15-ish seconds 300 game ticks so if you go through and then you hop back and forth it will remember that link or if you go through and then a friend goes through behind you it will remember that link but after a countdown timer runs

Out then it will make sure to recheck that link and if it doesn’t work then it will generate a new portal for you i had one world where there was a bug where it just kept creating portals all the time and um it was really confusing to me

That i could go through back and forth a few times you know within 15 seconds of each other and then if i waited like half a minute and went through it would generate another one so kind of interesting that it slightly remembers a portal link but then forgets it after about 15 seconds

One more thing before we end out the video is that i will be at so many mind fairs coming up okay if you’re watching this as this video publishes i’m going to be at mine fair austin tex texas uh and this is all in september and october my fair austin texas mine fair

Sacramento california minefaire washington d.c mine fair philadelphia mayan fair charleston north carolina and then of course the big day of minecon on september 29th i’ll be there at the actual live stream being a co-host on minecon so um all those mind fairs that i just mentioned those are

Places you can physically meet me go to mindfair.com to find out more information and to see the whole schedule on their website thanks so much for watching this episode omg craft if you enjoyed it please give this video a thumbs up please also make sure you leave a comment down below letting me

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