Highlights
- A creative Minecraft player has built a redstone-powered portal to The Nether, showcasing their talent and adding dramatic flair to the game.
- The Nether is a twisted, fiery dimension in Minecraft filled with flame-resistant mobs and takes inspiration from classical depictions of the underworld.
- The impressive portal design received positive feedback on the Minecraft subreddit, with users praising the creative use of redstone and the unnecessary complexity of the design.
Wanting to add a bit of dramatic flair to their gateway to the game’s dark dimension, one creative Minecraft player has put together an impressive redstone-powered portal to The Nether, sharing a video of the infernal creation online. The fiery realm is just one of many areas that Mojang could potentially focus on as part of the huge Minecraft update rumored to be coming to the popular sandbox title in the coming months.
First appearing in Minecraft as part of the Halloween Update in October 2010, The Nether is a twisted version of the game’s traditional Overworld. Filled with a wide variety of flame-resistant mobs that call its fiery depths home, The Nether takes its design cues from classical depictions of the underworld. In order to access the dark realm players must build a nether portal using obsidian before lighting a fire inside the frame. Originally consisting of only a single biome, the Nether Update for Minecraft in 2020 brought additional biomes to the Nether along with new mobs, a new structure, and more.
In a prime example of just how creative some players can get when constructing their personal portal to Minecraft’s underworld, one talented gamer shared a video of their impressive, redstone-activated nether portal. Although players have put together plenty of redstone-powered creations in Minecraft over the years, Reddit user jay19167’s use of the versatile blocks to create something that looks like a scene from a horror film is undeniably impressive. Activated by stepping on a switch, the portal pulls open a wall in front of the player to reveal a squared nether portal ringed by glowing lava blocks.
Responses to the impressive post on the Minecraft subreddit were overwhelmingly positive, with several Reddit users complimenting an ingenious design feature that moves a lava block out of the way to clear a path to the portal. In reply to a post inquiring how they keep from being trapped behind the retractable wall after venturing into its gloomy depths, jay19167 said that the wall concealing the portal will remain open until they exit The Nether and step on the activation plate again. Another Minecraft fan chimed in to state that they loved the impressively over-engineered nether portal simply for the fact that it was so unnecessary.
Even if this gateway to the underworld might not be quite as large as the massive recreation of World of Warcraft’s Dark Portal built in Minecraft by another talented player recently, it’s still remarkably impressive in its own right. And with the elaborate device looking like something ripped straight from a horror game, it should get players in a suitably spooky mindset for their next trip to The Nether.
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