How to Raid a Nether Fortress in Minecraft 1.20 & Get Potion Supplies

Nether fortresses are one of the oldest structures in minecraft but still very important to progressing in the game giving you access to brewing ingredients and the end i’ll show you how to find and raid one starting right now now the first big question of course is how do

You actually find another fortress as you usually don’t spawn in one when you go to the nether for the first time although you can’t always get lucky that way and i would say the main way to get them is to literally just explore around the nether looking for nether bricks and

If you see one then you can go right at however there are some other methods of doing it so for instance you can use junk base and go to their general seed map then click to the drop down go to the nether and you can find another fortress that way

Do note it does not show you where zero zero in the nether is so you want to make special note of that to know which fortress is nearest to where you are also something good to know is that if you do find another fortress i’m not

Sure if this is coincidence or not but i have found it does seem to happen that either north or south from the nether fortress there’ll be more of them that generate so they’ll sort of generate in a line so if you find a fortress and want to raid another one maybe to get

Some more loot or just to find a better looking fortress try going north or south from it and you could very likely find one in another three to four hundred blocks now if you’re going on a seed finder or just exploring around something i would say you should

Probably be looking for is another fortress that is in the seoul sand valley the reason why is that because of the way that mobs spawn in minecraft the soul sand valley will give you way more hostile mobs in your nether fortress so for instance things like getting a bunch

Of blaze rods or a bunch of wither skeletons it’ll be much easier to do in the soul sand valley fortress as i found they give you about three times more mobs and basically the reason why is that not many mobs can generate in the soul sand valley so most of the mob cap

Is concentrated in the fortress itself and this gives you a much larger number of mobs that can generate here but when you are looking for one something that is good to remember is that they can spawn in any single biome not just the soul sand valley so it could be like in

The soul sand valley right here but it could also be in maybe that nether wastes there or it could be in a basalt delta a crimson forest really just any biome you can find them in now i wouldn’t generally recommend going to another fortress with no items on you

So what items should you bring to another fortress to make sure that raiding it does not turn into death as unfortunately one of the most common deaths in minecraft comes from the first time you raid the nether fortress two items you can get very easily from trading with piglens that i would

Definitely suggest having is a splash potion of fire resistance as well as a respawn anchor because the respawn anchor is made out of crying obsidian and glowstone the first thing you’re going to want to do is get that respawn anchor you traded for charge it up with glowstone right click again and have

Your respawn point set this isn’t necessary but it can definitely be useful as dying at the nether fortress is pretty common the next thing you want to have is a shield some armor now iron armor will work but of course the better the armor the safer it’ll be you also of course

Want to have your main tools you want to have a lot of food that’s something i actually can’t stress enough is a lot of times i’ll go to the nether fortress with maybe eight or ten pork chops or eight or ten of some piece of food and

I’ll run out and i’ll end up dying of starvation in another as of course you can’t always get access to the mushroom soup as much fire resistance as you can get if you can get a bunch from the piglens good but if you can’t try and

Get at least one splash potion of fire resistance for emergencies also a stack of torches a couple stacks of building blocks and some arrows as well as a bow are incredibly useful so what loot and potion ingredients do you actually get from the nether fortress well the first

Thing is you get fortress chests which can have really good loot this one doesn’t but they can have things like diamonds diamond horse armor saddles gold and obsidian they’re actually one of the best chests in the game just because there’s a very high chance of getting diamonds in them as well as that

These chests are rather common making it not be rare to see two of them right next to each other in a hallway and the next thing you get in the nether fortress is netherwort now these sort of have a little farm next to the stairway where you can find them and they can

Also spawn in the chests here so whichever way you find another wart in the fortress this is actually the only place to get netherwort in the game although there is one in four type sebastians that has a very very small netherwart farm at it ideally the best

Place to get it will always be at the nether fortress and of course once you have some you can just grow it on the soul sand blaze rods are something really important that you get from the nether fortress and they’re also the only place to get the blaze rod in the

Game although there are a couple places where you can find brewing stands to get the actual blaze rod of course used to make the brewing stand but also used for the blaze powder to power the brewing stands blaze rods are an essential piece of loot that you have to get when you go

To the nether fortress as well as the blaze rod there’s another mob drop which is vital loot in the fortress and that is the weather skeleton skull this drop is actually so rare that when you get it you get the advancement spooky scary skeleton which is of course a reference

To a popular internet meme and this is how you get the withers later on in the game and other things that you find at the nether fortress which is pretty decent loot is you can get magma cubes that spawn here that’ll give you magma creams you can also get mushrooms for

Fermented spider eyes and you can get glowstone that’ll occasionally generate around which can give you glowstone dust which is also useful for brewing now completely independent of what biome the nether fortress is in there are certain mobs which can generate here they are the blaze like those two right there they

Are the wither skeleton the standard skeleton the magma cube as well as the zombified piglen these five mobs can all be quite deadly and so i’ll show you how to deal with each one of them first we have the blaze now this is definitely not the most efficient way of killing

Them but something you can do for fun if you want to is kill them with snowballs snowballs will kill the blazes if you can hit them successfully seven times as you can see right there we just killed that blaze with a snowball but it definitely is not very fast and can be a

Good way of dying the problem with them is that you could think well you could just spam right click on them to kill them really instantly but because of an invulnerability timer between shots basically meaning you can’t just spam click to kill them it’s not super easy

To kill them very quickly with that still a fun method though realistically you want to have a bow and a shield now a bow can fully block the fireballs as you can see right there and an arrow will give you the capabilities to kill these now of course

The only thing to worry about is sometimes the blaze rods will drop down into lava so you want to be careful and note the position of the blaze when you kill it but for instance right here you can see it successfully dropped that one

And we can go over there and grab it as well as pick up our extra arrows now there are two places where blazes can spawn they can just spawn anywhere in the fortress but there’s also dedicated blaze spawners which sometimes generate to disable one of these which is sort of

Like a way of defeating the blaze place a light block on top of it then about two blocks away from that place another light block on the ground and do that for every single corner even placing one in this direction from it so the first one goes on top and these

Other four go two blocks away from it at the exact same height that it’s at and to fully disable the spawner put a piece of glowstone in every single edge and there’s the final one and we’ve more or less made a grid here with two blocks in

Between each piece of glowstone all of them are at the exact same height except for of course the one on top of the spawner and you can always break these later on when you want to and kill the blazes you can also just spam torches

Around here but i do think it looks a little bit nicer to have the exact set out with the glowstone blocks and the blaze from the spawn are the exact same as any other blaze however they are more common here so if you’re trying to farm

Those blaze rods for the eyes of ender or for brewing then probably the best idea is to do that at a blaze spawner so that is how you defeat the blaze now for wither skeletons what’s the best way of dealing with them well if you happen upon a wither skeleton in the inside

Part of the fortress they have the same thing as an enderman does where they’re three blocks tall so because of that if you put blocks in the air like this they can’t get through it but also in this one part of the fortress here next to the netherworth they also can’t get

Through here so if you can run through there in time you can successfully avoid the weather skeleton but in any other area just put the dirt blocks up here or anything else you want and that wither skeleton will be stuck and you can easily get rid of it from there you

Could always bring a milk bucket if you get hit by the wither skeleton as they will give you the wither effect if they do happen to hit you so that can be definitely a good way of avoiding this very deadly effect it also makes it very

Hard to see how much health you actually have which can lead to an even worse chance of death because you’re not sure if you can take risks or not now if you’re trying to get the wither skeleton skulls make sure to use a sword with

Looting 3 on it as that will provide you a much higher chance and of course just like with the blazes if you can use a bow and arrow that can often be safer as the more range you have from a target the better just be aware you can’t

Really use looting with the bow so with the blaze and with the wither skeletons it’s not going to give you as many drops what about the zombified piglen well i have one piece of advice for that and that is just do not punch them now of course the zombified piglens aren’t

Actually hostile mobs but often times when reading a fortress you’ll accidentally hit one of them which can be quite deadly although on their own there’s no danger to them but an arrow firing in another mob by accidentally hitting the zombie pigman will mean all of them in the entire radius that that

Is rendered in will try and get you from every direction which will 99 of the time prove fatal as they will not become passive until they’ve killed you and that can definitely lead into a death spiral where skeletons i would just say make sure to use a shield and when they

Get close to you once they’ve hit you once come up to them and hit them because of course once they’ve fired an arrow there’s a small cooldown where they can’t hit you and so you can use that to dodge the arrow so for instance they hit right here and now we can

Safely hit it with having our shield down and i mean shields even work for things like wither skeletons if you want to use it for that just a bit riskier and also fighting skeletons with bows and arrows can be good now for the last mob that specifically spawns in another

Fortress and that is the magma cube this mob is oftentimes a lot more dangerous than you would think because of the way it works there’s no cool down timer of how much damage it can give you meaning they can actually lead into a very very quick death if you’re touching it or if

It lands on you like you saw right there it just took three hits of damage in very quick succession much quicker than you could with maybe let’s say wither skeleton or a blaze the idea with these then is to use distance so things like knock back swords punch bows and just

Simply using a bow and arrow to kill them is always great once they have become smaller magma cubes the ideal thing to do is to just kill them with a sword a sweeping edge sword or even just a standard sword will kill multiple of the babies at once and unlike the slimes

The babies can still hurt you so be aware of that that you still do have to deal with them so how do you actually raid and loot the fortress without getting lost and not getting all the treasure the first trick is use those torches you brought with you to spawn

Proof as you go this will make sure you don’t have to deal with hostile mobs around you but as well as that you’ll have a marker knowing which areas you’ve been to now let’s say you come to an area where it just leads to a dead end

What i would suggest doing is when you get to the crossroads where you can go to one place or the other simply place a piece of dirt or some other marker at the edge of that so you realize anything this way leads to a dead end it doesn’t

Block you from going there but it does inform you that there’s really nothing past that area now when you find one of the chests what i would suggest doing is breaking the chest or at least visibly marking that it’s been rated so maybe something like putting some dirt on top

Of it now the reason why you would do this even though it seems a bit silly is because if you don’t you will often forget which chests have been raided and which ones haven’t been and because another fortress looks so similar you might come to a chest think you haven’t

Raided it look in it there’s nothing and this can stop a lot of going in circles and so every time you find a chest you’ll know if it’s new if it’s still there but if you don’t have the inventory space for something you could always just put a block on top or make

Some sort of a marking now as i did say earlier one of the most common deaths in minecraft is at the nether fortress the first time and bringing blocks is going to really help you not die so for instance let’s say we go over here and try and deal with displays if

We can put some blocks up we can stop those flames from being able to hit us whereas let’s say we didn’t do that they might be able to get us and using building to your advantage in minecraft is always a good idea but the other big

Danger you can often run into is falling so on certain parts of the nether fortress it is incredibly common to just have an area where you can fall off straight into lava or to a fatal drop and some of the things you can do to avoid this is when falling down to place

A block on the side that you can land on like that something you can also do is with your splash potion of fire resistance if you’re falling throw it down and when you do land in the lava you will eventually be hit by that potion of fire resistance letting you be

In the lava and live not dying of the fire damage and this is of course really important as if you die in the lava with all your items you’re going to lose the entire reason why you even went to the nether fortress in the first place as

Well as probably some of your good gear because you needed that and i would say if you die in lava at the nether fortress this can be one of the best ways of really stopping a minecraft world in its tracks because you can lose almost all your progress that way now

Something that is very interesting is that there are two distinct sections of another fortress there is the outside part with these massive walkways and the pillars that go down from them into lava and there is the second part which is the interior portion however all of these are linked together by one room

Which is the lava well room so you can see here we are in the outside walkways but if you go to the lava well room usually over here would be the interior part of the fortress however in this fortress it had the very rare chance of not having an interior portion which

Happens if one of the walkways will generate in front of it like it did right here so you will never find any interior portions of this fortress there are no chests at this nether fortress and there are no netherwort because both of those things only spawn in the inside

So it’s kind of a cool thing to know when you find the lava well room that you have found the bridge between the inside and outside of the fortress now i’m sure you think you know nether bricks very well an extremely common block that you probably don’t think too

Much about but there are two nether brick recipes that almost no players know about the first one is put nether bricks in a furnace the second one is take nether bricks and put it in the stone cutter you can get chiseled nether bricks the chiseled nether bricks have a

Super cool texture of a wither skeleton skull on them like you can see right there these are really nice decorative block especially since the skeleton’s skull is on every single side of the block unlike let’s say maybe the chiseled sandstone when it’s not this is a truly cool block that the majority of

Players have no idea is even in the game but it’s really easy to obtain and great for all kinds of decoration the other block that we are getting by smelting it is the cracked nether bricks these are a very interesting texture honestly not horribly different from the

Standard nether bricks but the cracks on them are different from really any other cracked texture almost looking a little bit partially broken by like a pickaxe or something and i really like this texture as well so maybe consider using the crack nether brick or the chisel

Nether brick in your next build as you probably didn’t know was in the game and both of these were added in another update but speaking of updates the nether fortress is one of the oldest structures in the entire game being added to the nether in the betas of the

Game initially not even having chests and also not having wither skeletons blazes were the only unique mob that spawned there although zombie pigmen did spawn there as well the nether fortresses haven’t actually changed much at all since then as they’re basically the same thing as we’ve had for over 10

Years if i failed after you’ve watched this video you’ll probably never want to go into the nether again but anyway i’ll see you later and hope you enjoyed goodbye You