Pixlriffs – Linking Portals on the Nether Roof! ▫ The Minecraft Survival Guide (Tutorial Let’s Play) [Part 294]

Hello everyone my name is pixel riffs and welcome back to the Minecraft Survival Guide I hope you guys are having a good day look at the progress we have made we are probably 2/3 of the way I would estimate through the mountain building project which once again is happening more frequently on my

Twitch channel if you want to head over to twitch.tv slash pixel rifts and check that out I’m streaming Tuesdays Thursdays and Sundays getting the rest of this thing built and I’m trying to work in at little sections here and there where we can have some flatter terrain some slopes and things like that

That we’re eventually going to turn into all of these ski runs for this project but Wow it is taking a while it’s taking a lot of resources and my cobblestone generators are going pretty much constantly but thankfully that’s providing us with enough stone to get the job done and our dwarf ruin down

There still needs a little bit more work done on it a little bit more progress done on it but of course the mountains here are taking priority right now and as they take shape we can start to think about the other stuff we’re gonna do

Around here but I need to head out and repair my Electra because the Electra is looking a little bit broken and for that I’m actually going to turn to the subject for today’s episode because in a recent update in minecraft 115 point two I believe it was possible for nether

Portals to link to the top of the nether again and not just linked the top of the nether in the sense that you could go from the nether to the overworld but also linking back to the nether ceiling and that has changed a kind of long-running precedent within minecraft

That you cannot get to the nether ceiling by any means other than breaking bedrock now it isn’t possible to generate a portal that appears on the nether ceiling originally but if you create a nether portal of your own on the nether ceiling it is now possible to

Get back to it reliably and so today I think we’re gonna take a look at the theory of connecting nether portals to the nether roof because the nether portal to this area which is actually just around here on this hill leads me out into a kind of inconvenient location

Which is right here on the edge of this lava lake and in fact I had to bridge over this initially where the tunnel that I have never quite finished this path actually goes all the way from here to mine huh but more or less it kind of links up

With the path that I took out to the ocean monument base originally the kind of Guardian temple that I converted into a guardian farm and as you can see I’ve made a couple of attempts in the past to link this up at various heights and we

Have a dead nether portal up there that I disabled so that I could make this one down here at the level where I could just take an ice boat Road out here but unfortunately that has kind of fallen by the wayside I didn’t pick up enough blue ice in

Order to get out here and it to be honest I think a diagonal road would be much more efficient than traveling on a straight one that kind of bends halfway through not to mention the fact that if you traverse this on a boat aside from the fact that the path isn’t fully

Complete right now you also have the problem of having to turn a corner slipping off the side of it and you kind of get turned around a little bit in that and I have mainly just been flying from here back to the gold farm that I

Have on the nether roof in order to repair my tools so the gold farm up here is probably my most reliable source of XP right now and also one of the most useful because the pig men here are going to be giving me gold by the bucketload not to mention a fair amount

Of rotten flesh that I can trade with the two clerics I brought up here several episodes ago these folks give me a rotten flesh trades not the best of course because I haven’t d’zan by fide and cured them too much but it’s kind of nice to have them available for trading

And in one or two of these chests yet we have a fair amount of gold ingots not to mention in a couple of them we get gold nuggets and here we smelt all of the gold swords down into Nuggets as well unfortunately I haven’t really refueled these in a while they are originally

Filled with sticks I think I might bring some blaze rods to top these things up so that we can have fuel for those that for the foreseeable future but at the top here of course is my gold farm and this is a really great place to get XP

When the mine carts aren’t making such a horrendous noise anyway I’ve actually turned them all the way off at this point but I make so much XP at this farm that the XP even lingers for a while and if I come back here without any of my gear equipped I could potentially repair

Whatever is left things like my pickaxe my electra all of that stuff anytime i want to repair it i come back here and so with this being on the nether roof it made me think what if we end up making a connection to the ski resort on

The nether roof as well where the portal set up on the nether roof all I would need to do would be to fly from my ski resort back here repair my tools and fly back again and I could connect directly to the nether roof without having to

Worry about going through the main body of the nether and most of the time the nether is plain sailing but just on occasion I might need to have to come back here with my Electra still broken which I mean I wouldn’t be able to fly through the nether and even though I

Have backup pairs it’s kind of nice to not have to worry about using those so I’m thinking today we do the work necessary to establish a nether portal connection to the nether roof and this is actually a lot more simple than it at first sounds the first thing we’re gonna do is come

Back to our portal location here and yes despite the fact that we decorated it with banners a few episodes ago we are going to be taking down both the portals both this one here at the top level and this one down here at the bottom level making sure that we don’t have any

Active nether portals elsewhere in this area as well because I’m gonna explain the maths for this a little bit later but any other nether portals within a certain radius of this might potentially connect to the portal in the overworld once we’ve removed this one but the idea

Is we’re going to make the one on the nether roof the nearest available portal for the overworld portal to link to and it will actually prefer to link to the nether reef as opposed to another portal further out in the nether for the last step here we are going to take the

Coordinates of the former location of the portal which I’m pretty sure was about here yes there we go negative 687 negative 674 we’re going to take those coordinates to the roof of the nether and there we’re going to build a portal and there we go we’re looking at about

Here effectively so all we need to do is set up another nether portal here and we got a little bit more obsidian this time around so we could set up a slightly larger one if we wanted to let’s build this up four blocks do a four by three

Portal right here and then we will need something to light it with which I don’t think I brought with me in the end yeah didn’t bring a flint and steel with me so I’m gonna have to head back to the overworld and get one but that does actually lend me an interesting

Opportunity to explain why this portal when I go through it and come out at the iron farm does not then reconnect me to the nether roof when I travel back through it instead it connects me to the central nether portal that I established in my nether hub quite a while ago and

That is because of the relative coordinates of the nether portals in respect to their counterparts in the overworld right here I have a portal that is basically set up around sea level in the nether around Y 64 or near enough right here at Y 79 where a few

Blocks above it so roughly speaking this portal is at about where sea level would be in the y coordinate of the overworld and that means that it is the closest thing to most of the portals in that area because it’s searching for a portal within 128 blocks radius in all directions that’s radius

Not diameter it’s not just a 64 block radius it’s a hundred and twenty-eight blocks and that will typically try and find a portal within the area from the bottom of the nether where the bedrock generates around y equals one all the way to the roof of the nether at y

Equals 127 because most portals within that range are going to be within the body of the nether itself and when you first create a portal in the overworld minecraft tries to create one at a similar height and will not create one on the roof of the nether furthermore

When linking a portal from the roof of the nether to the overworld minecraft will still check on your way back through that portal in the overworld whether there is a more suitable closer nether portal in terms of the coordinates in the nether and if there

Is it won’t teleport you to the one on the nether roof so in order to make sure that we get teleported to the nether roof we have to remove any eligible nether portals from within a 128 block area and then make sure that the relative coordinates for the ones on the

Nether roof are as exact as possible using the standard maths of dividing the overworld coordinates by 8 so if we now head out I think in this direction we need to be open oh we need to be heading north west ok so basically the opposite direction to where I thought we needed

To be there we go there’s our portal as I was saying if we now head out to these coordinates and like this portal I am fairly confident that I have placed no other portals within 128 block radius over this portal in the nether there are no portals down below the surface of the

Nether sealing that are within 128 blocks of this portal and thanks to that it should be possible now to go through this and reconnect to the portal I’ve already made in the overworld at the ski lodge there we go as you can see we made

It through to this one we are by the ski lodge we are not in the sky or anything we haven’t been generated 128 blocks up in the overworld because of course there is already a portal here for the one in the nether to link to and now if I go

Back through this portal fingers crossed we end up on the nether roof and there it is nice and simple like that because there are no closer portals for the portal in the overworld to find this becomes a little more complicated when you are trying to

Link up a bunch of portals in a nearby area say I wanted a couple of portals that ended up linking me to various landmarks around founders Forge basically every portal I could make in that area would have to be on the roof of the nether for them all to

Consistently link back to the roof of the nether if I left a single portal below the nether sealing chances are that 128 block radius would find that nether portal before it found one on the nether roof mathematically speaking of course there are going to be some

Exceptions where this is not going to be the case for example take this portal here which I built around y72 here in the overworld if I was trying to build two portals in the nether one above the nether roof at Y 128 and one at bedrock level in the nether as low

Down as I could get which would probably be about y4 or y3 the one on the nether roof is actually going to be closer to this one by virtue of the fact that it’s only about 50 blocks away compared to the one at y4 probably being closer to

70 blocks away so in some cases if there is just a vertical travel involved then it’s going to be possible to link portals to the nether roof and also have a portal lower down that could connect to one inside the main bounding box of the nether itself but that is going to

Require a little bit more precise mathematics and making sure that any portal you want to link to the nether roof is higher up in the world where possible if it is below Y 64 chances are it’s going to link to a portal lower down in the nether and of course if it

Can reach out in any of the other directions and grab one in the body of the nether because it’s closer on the x or z axis it’s going to try and do that also now back here in the nether I should point out that we’ve actually

Been able to link a portal to the nether roof before this was possible in versions before minecraft 1.15 point two in fact we did it a long time ago in a completely separate episode and I can’t believe I managed to find this again but by a little bit of flying

Around I did this right here is the portal that actually leads out towards the woodland mansion from which we gathered all of our Vindicator x’ earlier in the series if I hop underneath here here we are back at that woodland mansion and we used this technique before where we removed a

Couple of blocks of bedrock and buried the portal in the bedrock ceiling in order to get the indicators up to the nether ceiling and transport them via minecart however now thanks to the fact that nether portal coordinate calculations have been revised slightly it would be possible for us to link this portal to

The nether roof without ever having broken bedrock in the first place we needed to the first time around we don’t need to this time and I could actually move this entire portal up to be flush with the bedrock ceiling if I wanted to and so at this point you might

Be wondering why are we bothering with this in the first place why link to the roof of the nether ceiling with a nether portal like this the answer to that is really for transport because the nether roof as you can see is a wide flat open space unimpeded by things like lava falls

Gusts and other unfriendly mobs it’s actually a lot smoother getting from here to the center of our world where the gold farm is in order to repair my tools and even head down the scaffolding down there to visit my main base and so in addition to the nether hub that we’re

Building inside the main body of the nether which is something I do plan to complete and decorate even further once the nether update comes out we’re actually going to be building a bit of a nether hub on the roof of the nether as well not to mention the fact that we

Have a large flat open space between us and the central portals which means it’s ideal for building a piston bolt track our piston bolts are already kind of associated with this project as down here in the depths of the earth a while ago I started building a piston bolt

That I figured would be a really great way of getting back to my spawn area the tunnel I have here actually extends probably about 600 blocks in that direction although the piston bolt section here actually does not go all that far the main problem with this of

Course is the sheer length of this track it’s 5,000 blocks on both axes which actually diagonally calculates to a fair bit more because of the way you know Pythagoras theorem works so I think the problem here is just the sheer enormity the scale the size of this

Whole thing it’s going to be a lot easier to build something like this on the nether where we have a one-eighth of the distance to travel because of the way the nether coordinates correlate with the ones in the overworld and we also have a flat section of the nether

Roof to build on without having to worry about digging out all of these caves and worrying about creepers appearing to explode all of our hard work we are however going to have to put carpets on a lot of the solid blocks in this contraption because otherwise gusts could potentially spawn on anywhere we

Create a solid block platform they cannot however spawn on bedrock which means the rest of the nether roof is safe from gust incursions and you know what I think we’re probably going to take some of the supplies we were using to build this piston bolt and now put

Them to use on the roof of the nether instead if you can’t remember how to build a piston bolt we covered this in a previous episode but I’ll recap it here they are surprisingly simple to make once you get the pattern down because working from this pattern here all we

Need to do is come out with a bunch of diagonal blocks at heading in this direction between each section of this we’re going to make a pattern of three rails in a curve like that remove the two straight rails and just leave the curve there and that’s the one

That the minecart is gonna sit on later making sure that you do not accidentally place any rails there for example because then it’ll be really difficult to reset those rails and you’ll find yourself going further and further back each time placing a rail there and then

Having to fix that one by placing a rail there and the entire pattern kind of gets destroyed very quickly so you could have watch out and make sure you don’t accidentally spawn a gust or anything like that that’s going to destroy the rails because then you basically have to

Start building the entire thing again there are automatic rail curving machines that exist out there though and I’m pretty sure I’ll mango has a design for those if you need one could make your life a lot easier if you just place a rail on every block diagonally like

That and then build an automatic rail cover that will help each of these get turned into that position anyway once you’ve got all of those rails in place you can start placing some sticky pistons that are going to be pushing each of these blocks inwards effectively forcing the minecarts to be pushed on

To the next section of rail in very quick succession basically pushing it all the way down to the end of the track wherever that happens to be behind each of these Pistons we’re going to place another full block in this case I’m using a lot of dark oak wood because I

Have a great deal of it and then alternating behind each of these dark oak planks are gonna place a redstone dust and a repeater a redstone dust and a repeater a redstone dust and a repeater in that order all the way down the track making sure that everything is

Facing inwards towards the blocks that are going to be powering these Pistons we’ll do the same on the opposite side here and then fill in these backing blocks which are going to be transferring the power into each new section of redstone dust and repeaters along the site so we’ll put the same on

This side as well and now all we should need is a minecart and we can give this thing a test but if I press this button now you’ll see that everything kind of encloses and then parts again in very quick succession but I think I may already know somewhere on the roof of

The nether here where we can find some minecarts this is a little bit embarrassing but during the creation of the gold farm all the way over there to the south I had a bit of an accident and I ended up releasing a lot of the minecarts that were stacking up

Colliding with each other and providing entity cramming for other zombie pigmen as they made their way towards the center where I was standing and as a result I have like seven mine carts out here and there are probably some in a few other directions that just rolled

Out here under their own momentum and collision I can’t believe they managed to make it 675 blocks north but they did and thankfully for me that means I can start a little stockpile of mine carts over here at my piston bolt because it’s worth bearing in mind that the piston

Bolt will only work in one direction so if we need to take the piston bolt back to the ski-resort we are gonna have to build another one as I mentioned before it is gonna be necessary to spawn proof any solid blocks in this contraption including unfortunately the ones that

Are going to be moving which means we probably won’t be able to put carpet over the top of these blocks what we’re gonna do instead is probably bring in some glass or something like that and that will line this in its entirety making sure that no gusts will spawn in

The meantime but I think this should be okay for now if I hop into this minecart and press the button yep as you can see that managed to propel me all the way along to the end of the track and everything retracts back into place afterwards now we just

Need to repeat this for I guess about another 600 blocks in both axes and we should be a little bit closer to the gold farm than we were when we started well folks I’ve been at work on this for some time now and I’m fairly certain it’s not gonna be finished for today’s

Episode but welcome to the Rainbow Road I like this thing a lot and I did actually figure out that yes you can put carpets on all of the moving parts when I press this button as you can see the carpets will stay in place probably due

To the fact that pistons are a little bit more consistent with stuff being attached to them now they will still pop off any redstone components that are attached to them like repeaters I think will still pop off and buttons attached to them of course will as well but those

Piston heads pushing out will still keep the carpet on top of them and I just wanted to make this whole thing a lot more colorful a little bit more vibrant here for the roof of the nether so that’s what we’re going with and it only manages to cover about I’d

Say one-sixth of the distance I think we get to around like five hundred blocks out or so but that is certainly a lot further than I get in the overworld so let’s give this a try yeah zooming along on that piston bolts with the carpets

Either side of us I like that a lot I think that’s pretty cool obviously it kind of closes up at the end there and we are still a long way out yeah I think that’s probably about a hundred blocks at worth of travel from the portal over

There to this area here and this is just gonna be a nice chill project to work on over the next couple of days while I attempt to have a little bit more of a calm experience here in Minecraft and I kind of like the change of pace doing

This here on top of the nether roof compared to working on mountains or even worse at working down there with those gusts that you can hear in the background it’s nice being up here and not having to worry about other mobs I’ve had some Pigman spawning on these blocks occasionally but nothing more

Dangerous than that and they D spawn pretty quickly once you get down the other end anyway so I’m probably gonna wrap this up here but I hope you guys have enjoyed this look at what we’re gonna be doing up here on the nether roof and now you know how to link your

Portals up here more permanently don’t forget to leave a like on this episode if you enjoyed it subscribe if you want to see more and I’ll see you guys soon take care bye for now You