Making a NETHER GATEWAY in Minecraft 1.16!

The nether update snapshots are here and with that comes a full dose of inspiration that has just hit me straight in the head for nether based things my my brain is filled to the brim with nether builds i don’t have anything other than the nether in my head right

Now which i think that could be a bit of a problem i’m not sure anyway the first thing that came to my mind was to build some form of ridiculous nether portal type temple type thing i i honestly don’t really know how to describe this but i’ve got a really really cool idea

In my head of how this thing is going to look and how it’s going to work the first thing i have to do is actually find a place to build it now normally this wouldn’t be a problem in the nether because the nether pretty much looks the same everywhere whereas now i actually

Have to make decisions on which biome to put it in and where i should put it within these biomes i mean i definitely i really do like the look of these ones the warped forests i i do i like the colors so i feel like it should be in one of

These i just need to find a good spot for it after a decent amount of searching this spot right here looks pretty perfect i would say it’s going to need quite a lot of deforestation that is one thing but once it’s all cleared up this is going to be the perfect spot

For the build now we probably should explain a little bit more about the actual build itself the idea is is that this is going to be just the most magnificent entrance to another portal ever okay it is going to look totally totally ridiculous it is going to be

Over the top the nether water is going to be ridiculous the whole process of activating the never portal is going to be ridiculous it’s just going to be an all-round ridiculous build in general i can’t wait for it so this is the spot that we’ve got i would say first things

First i should probably start work on actually building the nether portal framework which sounds simple but the way that i’m doing it isn’t actually that simple i’ve got a little bit of design work to do here and a couple seconds later boom look at this this is looking very menacing indeed i

Also added a little bit of this netherright around the edge i do understand that that is probably the most expensive border for another portal ever created but i do think it looks pretty good in fact this might just be one of the first rare blocks in minecraft that actually has a wicked

Texture that i wish i could use all the time i’ve come up with an extra idea for another portal system trust me this will all start making sense when i start adding in all of the redstone i think we can all agree that this looks like it means business

All right now it is time to actually start adding in the redstone systems that are going to activate and deactivate this thing um i haven’t really thought that far ahead to be honest with you i do know that i want it to happen in sequence so all of

These ones are going to activate in a spiral and then that one’s going to activate that one’s going to activate and then eventually the main portal is going to activate and that’s like our mega nether portal the only thing is is that i’m trying to work out how we’re actually going to activate

This thing now i reckon if we do something like that but have it pointing downwards that could actually activate the nether portal and it will mean that we only need one dispenser on the inside because having two dispensers will look quite ugly yes yes actually it works this system actually functions nice

All right okay that’s good so we want that to happen on on one of the edges and then we need it to deactivate on the other one this is perfect you have no idea how long i spent trying to work all of this out but check it out we now have a working

Nether portal activation and deactivation system with only one visible dispenser not bad right now i have to do it for every single one of these nether portals that’s actually quite a lot and i’ve also had to make some pretty serious tweaks to the design to make it so they

Actually stack on top of one another so now everything does fit in place i’m quite proud of these with that being said it is taking quite a long time to build all of them i am not even halfway done eventually though i did manage to make it all the way around the outside

So now i’m in the process of connecting each one of them up now at the minute i have it set up to be three ticks between each one of the portals so this one will activate then this one then this one then this one then this one and this one

Then this one you get the picture three ticks after one another hopefully that’s a good amount of speed it’s been built back homes have been made for some reason let’s give it a go three two one go this looks this is totally bonkers what a ridiculous system this is already

And this is only the first bit this is like a tiny detail i just thought would be interesting wasn’t it expecting it to look quite so dramatic though this looks fantastic i can’t wait to see the full process we have so much left to build as well this

Project is going to be enormous i mean look at the redstone already it already looks bonkers and there’s so much left to do ladies and gentlemen i just want to inform you that this looks fantastic okay i just tested it i’m very happy are you ready so we’ve got the standard spiral that

Does its thing which i still i’m still a big fan of but then check this out So there is there is the mega portal all right okay so the actual portal itself is now all completed it’s all done it’s all working it’s all looking really really cool obviously we can deactivate it as well uh but there are a ton of different details that i want to add

Into this thing that actually lead up to this point where it gets activated uh the first one is kind of like a goblet that is the way that i’m actually going to activate this so it’s going to be a goblet that we almost have a goblet of fire or

A goblet of lava so we actually we set fire to this goblet and then that sends a signal through to the portal which actually starts activating it i’m fairly certain that made sense it might not have made sense but i think it made sense now before we build anything like

That i feel like we should actually add some extra decorational bits to this structure here so i mean as you can see i’ve made use of netherright once again this is probably the most expensive build i’ve ever done in my entire life uh so we’ve got we’ve got all of that in place

Now i’m trying to think what other i mean what other blocks are there so there is there’s all of the is it the basalt yeah this is this is quite a nice looking block especially used in combination with the netherright i mean this build does look quite evil

Doesn’t it to put into perspective how dark this build is look how bright stone bricks look they stand out more than anything else right i would say this looks fairly impressive i mean imagine turning up to someone’s base okay and this is the portal that gets you through into it

I’d be terri i’d turn around and leave and i would leave the server there on as well they clearly mean business so i have spent around about two or three hours okay developing this redstone system right here it doesn’t like much but the idea is is that it is a system

That deploys fire along a line one block by one block so the idea was was that i would i would light up this goblet this in the middle and then we’d watch the fire travel along go into the nether portals and then eventually ignite all the nether portals spent ages

Designing it i ran into all sorts of problems there’s also game mechanics that no longer work anymore that i used to use to make this function so i’ve had to redesign all of it and look is there something that you know it’s in these fires are meant to be blue

After all that the fires aren’t blue they’re meant to be blue but instead they go orange in a way that’s quite cool hold up if they start blue and then the system turned some orange i’m actually kind of a fan of that that yeah that was that was cool i didn’t

Think of that okay didn’t think of that my time has not been wasted this is fantastic this is amazing all right okay i’ll get back into the world however i have now run into another issue with the system so it turns out just by chance i used wooden slabs the reason that that

System works is because they are flammable all right so the the fire charge kind of catches the edge of the flammable blocks and then sits on top of the sole soil and that kind of limits us for what blocks that we can use because these slabs look really really ugly in

This area here and to be honest with you i mean i can’t really think of any flammable blocks that will actually look good in this area so new plan of action first off okay flint and steel from a dispenser and she creates a blue flame that’s fantastic so what i thought we

Would do is instead of having my system which i spent ages on we’re going to ditch that and we’re going to go for something else we’re going to have an underfloor system where we’re going to watch the blue flames travel in these branches right here and all sorts of

Different branches running up into the nether portal i still think it’s going to actually look quite impressive right here goes my first proper test of this full system so as you can see i’ve got one of the arms in place when i flick this lever here that actually looks pretty cool and then

I also can actually remove all of the flames too so this is a toggleable system which is pretty interesting you know what i think that might actually be better than my one i think that might be better than the alternative that i had before that is sweet

It’s been ages since i played around with fire lighting it’s very cool and now that i’ve got both of these strips in place it looks really really cool but i’m also very very glad that i didn’t decide to basically fill in this entire area with these blue flame things mainly because

It would take ages to build i mean you know this this build is huge and everything repeats itself multiple times and all of it is actually relatively complicated but gradually bit by bit we are piecing things together and it is it’s looking every single thing i had makes this

Thing even cooler uh the next thing i need to do is actually create the activation system for this so i actually need to work out how i’m going to build this goblet that i light up i’m honestly not sure how i’m going to do that and after scratching my head for the best

Part of half an hour and going through various different options this is incredibly satisfying i honestly think i could do this all day long i mean there’s just something so fun about it it’s such a silly idea for a redstone contraption but it’s just it makes me happy watching it work but

There is still there is still more that i need to do i need to be able to get into that mega nether portal which means that we need to have some form of pop-up staircase or something and i actually think i’ve come up with an idea that could work really really nicely and

Should be entirely possible which is always it’s always a positive so here is my plan of action you can see i’ve got some pistons lined up and we also have some double extenders and single extenders and things to put in place here but this will allow us to

Walk up to our mega mega nether portal which is going to be generating in right there because that is actually the nether portal that we’re meant to be using all the other ones are just purely for decoration i am struggling so much with this system i think it’s the many

Hours of minecraft that i’ve played today i am i’m really having a heck of a time trying to get this thing to function i don’t know what’s going wrong with me all right having made up the triple piston eastenders and managed to get those systems working now i’m actually

Really struggling with the double piston extenders that go out the front of this staircase here everything is just kind of all piled into one really tiny space it’s making it challenging also the fan that is three blocks wide means that i can’t really wire into the sides i have

To wire into the back and look it’s just pistons and things everywhere but after a further hour of development and we finally finally got there and you know what i couldn’t be happier i really couldn’t be happier if we chuck in this lava here look at this all right is this not

The greatest nether portal ever created i personally think it is i really do personally think it is it’s just wicked isn’t it look fire goes away the nether portals begin to break the staircase gets retracted back down into the floor i mean i i just absolutely love this thing it

Was such a silly idea for a build but it’s just it’s awesome i so want to build something like this on the hermitcraft server i really really do you know i really feel i have like a measly little nether portal on the hermitcraft server i feel like i need something like this

I mean how ridiculous is that amazing absolutely amazing well i really do hope that you enjoyed this redstone video it’s been a fun one to create thanks for watching and i’ll catch you in the next one see ya blimey you know sometimes these redstone builds can feel

Like marathons because you know you get like 25 miles in you’re almost to the finish line but then the last little bit feels like an eternity you know and that was the case with this one i struggled so much with that staircase i struggled so much

So i’m so happy that it’s finally built and looking amazing